My father (soon 84 years of age) just bougth an TV to complement the big Samsung flat screen TV he has had for some months now. He has said that to make the flat screen usable he must be able to move his pictures from his computer to the TV wireless. At first I did not think this would be such a hit, but now after installing it for him I have changed my mind a bit. Well to see his photos of all the stuff he does in the workshop/garage in the daytime at the big 42 inc flat screen was nice, also the screen saving feature where the pictures floats around in 3d is quit impressing.



Also the fact that here in Sweden we don't have that much content to buy from iTunes Music Store made me doubt that the TV would be any hit. But I have change my mind. Even if we cant buy TV shows and movies here like in the States there is something called Podcasts that lights our screens. After been downloading and subscribing content from the swedish broadcasting company SVT both me and my father was happy to see that this little flat box is certainly making itself useful. ow my father can work in his workshop and still be able to watch new, weather and nature programs even if he is not in front of the tube when they go live.

The setup was easier than even most Apple stuff and way ahead of anything coming from the shops that sells TV,video, phones. Choose language and airport and you are running. Nice.

I think that when there is an TV with DVD/BlueRay disc burner I will buy one.

Tags: Apple TV

Some days ago I tried to show a friend RapidWeaver by visiting Realmacs homepage. But it was down for maintenance so I came back the day after to see what was happening. RapidWeaver came in a new version 3.6. Wow, since I like the program I instantly wanted to upgrade. Since my son was interested in building a website for our new company Digimotion, I bought an upgrade from a single user version to a family pack for 4 machines. I had trouble to get a serialnumber since eSellerate didn't know about my first version, I bought it in the MacHeist bundle. So it took some mails before I got a new working serialnumber. I dont really like how Realmac has handled this but its working now anyway.
The upgrade was not a big thing for my simple site but maybe I can use some of the new features later. It was a cheap upgrade anyway. I'm still in love with this program so you who read this and have not tried it out please do. iWeb Apples try to do something alike is way behind.

Tags: Web, CMS

Well it isn't 64000 processors, but I couldn't resist to buy the new Mac Pro with 8 cores. I don't think it will be that much faster than the one with 4 cores but what the heck, Im a processor freak. I'll have to try out some code that I have that uses a lots of threads and clock it. I hope that MacOSX handles multiprocessors nice.

Update: As I thought the difference is not twice the performance of a 4 core machine. I found a good test at Barefeets.

Since a long time ago I have been having a dream to operate/own a Mac with 64000 processors. I cant see any solutions to many problems without one. I now only hope that I will see this in my lifetime. Mac Pro had 1 processor at first then 2, now it has 4, and the latest rumors says that 8 is not far away, well after that comes 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, and then 65536. That counts to approximately 13 update to Mac Pro. If Apple releases 1 major upgrade to Mac Pro every 1,5 years (I guess that processors in computers follows Moore's law) then it could be true in 20+ years. I may be able to see that if I have health and luck. I think I'll have to start now to build those apps I was thinking about.

Since Steve started to talk about "the digital hub" all media files has been centered around iTunes. iTunes keeps, plays, organize, syncs more and more types of media like music, pod-casts, video, films, photos and games. Ok it is wonderful to know that I have only one place/app to look/learn to manage it all. But since my main computer is an MacBook Pro all the storage I have to put all this is on is the internal hard-drive that keeps 92.84 GB. That is not much if you have put in your music-library some pod-casts and your photos, don't even think about movies. So what is the strategy. Even Steve must have more media-files than that.

iTunes is becoming more and more complex, soon we don't need to use Finder we can do all things in iTunes. Kidding. But is it only me that lack some strategy to save things. I have long waited for some extra slot on my MacBook Pro to put in another hard-drive but I have not found any that fits into the pc-express slot. So what to do? Anybody have solved this?

All I can think of is to store all my media on a fileserver, but I don't think iTunes like that. And if it had done that it would surely been a loot more like Finder. Hey Apple please think on something before you release Leopard.

Update:
It doesn't seems like I'm the only guy in town with this problem.. Her is an article from MacSlash named 'Managing iTunes Movies Apart From Music?'.