1. It is way easier to navigate than the Xbox to watch a Netflix movie.
2. It doesn’t cost a monthly fee to use.
3. It hasn’t dropped a connection once.

I would also like it to be our media center of sorts. I would like to get rid of our DVD’s, they take up a lot of space. Why can’t they just be like mp3′s, hidden. So awhile back I started to transfer my dvd’s onto my Windows XP computer. I left them as the full transfer until I found a good solution. I then converted one of the dvd’s using handbrake into the apple tv 2 selection and started to watch the video. Perfect solution for a media center for me. So I have converted all my DVD’s into said format.

Now, we wanted to watch something in the front room and I said hey. They Apple TV is so small, I can just unplug it and plug it into the front room tv. Boom, for some reasons there were issues with the WiFi. It just wouldn’t recognize the WiFi without switching to another WiFi and then switching back. This was extremely annoying issue. The wife kept saying, why don’t we just buy another one, over and over again. So I went out and bought a second Apple TV, because it’s so cheap and it is so easy to setup and leave there anyways.

Now with iCloud/iMatch the computer doesn’t need to be left on for us to play music. Even better. We were thinking of getting a TV for our second bedroom, and when/if that happens I will get an Apple TV for it also. You know for the guests.

Cadet: “There’s four of us and one of you”
Kirk: “Well, get some extra guys and then it’ll be a fair fight.”

I lost my music Hard Drive once in my life. It was extremely sad, I had some of the stuff on cd’s, but it wasn’t everything. So every once and awhile I will look for an album or an artist and they won’t be there, and it will make me sad. Well, I just go on iTunes and hope that they are on there and buy the CD.

So just now, I was thinking about the artist μ-Ziq, before today I had known nothing about him. Well either way thats not the point, I had some μ-Ziq in my iTunes, And I was very happy about that. Then I though, What is the oldest song in my iTunes library. Well thats what you see above. That is probably around the time that I lost my Hard Drive and was downloading music off of mp3 sites. The first four songs added to my iTunes were:
“Like Humans Do (radio edit)” By David Byrne, Added on 9/16/2006 5:20 PM
“Yours to Keep (Featuring Neneh Cherry)” By Teddybears, Added on 9/16/2006 5:21 PM
“She Can Do What She Wants” By Field Music, Added on 9/28/2006 11:22 AM
“Robo” By How I Became The Bomb, Added on 9/28/2006 11:22AM

Out of those four Bands, I only really listen to How I Became The Bomb. On 11/18/2006 is when I started to add music from my collection.

Update: “She Can Do What She Wants” By Field Music is actually “Kneel Before Zod” – How I Became The Bomb.

Instructions on how to remove ram. I mean thats the only reason why you would be flipping your iMac over anyways. Well 8 Gigs later upgrade.

So Shepard was telling me about this book today I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon), and we got talking about a great movie that I saw recently The Art of the Steal (2009), anyways blah blah blah. So, he tells me about this book and it sounds interesting, So im sold. I go to Amazon, see how much it is $17.96, not to bad, I need to get some other books anyways, so I will get free shipping with my order. Then I think, Well shit why don’t I get it from the Apple Store, $18.99! Really? Thats the cost it would be if i had to pay for shipping. And then Amazon has it the Kindle Edition for only $9.99, I ended up doing that.

Oh and also, the book cover looks awful. Why didn’t they use the real book cover.

From the waag days, look at that sweet setup!

Right when it comes out of the box.

Fits the iPad 3g perfectly.

I was afraid I would have to shave it down so the power cord would fit. But apparently this is version two of the DODO case.

Looks like a book, no idea that it is an iPad. Awesome, and it does a better job of protecting the iPad than the Apple iPad holder. This feels much more sturdier.

As I awoke I thought about how I didn’t want to wake up Erin and let her sleep a little bit. I thought about the ways that we could use an iPad in the house. I thought about how when it wasn’t in use it could be showing the latest pictures I had taken. Or just even a slideshow of pictures from flickr or facebook. I would love it if would just go through all the pictures that I have Favorited in flickr. I would build a frame for it, so it slides in and out easily and charges while in there.  It would have a fancy frame.

Or I was thinking that I would mount it into the kitchen, and use it as our primary to do list and Calendar. I asked Erin about this when she woke up and said, that would be great, I would look at the Calendar and see who’s birthday it was this week. And I responded, and yes you could add events to it from your NON iPhone, or while you are at work. And I could add events from my iPhone or while I am at work. You could even add events while looking at it. We could even have a dynamic to do list, or groceries list. Where we are out of something, you add it on the iPad and when we go grocery shopping, I could look up what we are missing on my iPhone.

Then I thought about how I always had my iPad at the bedside table and didn’t have to worry about getting up and grabbing it from the kitchen or in the front room. I know that there are probably cheaper solutions for this, but for this I know that I could write my own application or website to do the things that I want to do specifically. And that is what makes it more intriguing to me as a whole. For the price point to do what I want to, Know how to do, It is justified.

I already ordered my iPad 32gb 3g last week. I will wait to see how I use it in my life to make any more decisions.

So I had to make a new smart playlist for 2006 till 2010.  I did Date added is in the range 1/1/2006 to 12/31/2006 (since the first recorded song added was in November of 2006).

Added in 2006:  6256 items

Added in 2007:  1550 items

Added in 2008:  5965 items

Added in 2009: 9597 items

Added in 2010: 581 items

Written by a guy who has never used an iphone, probably never seen it our even touched it. So basically it was all speculation. What a guy.

http://www.redferret.net/?p=8843

My list of five things that suck about the iphone go like this:

1. I am not waking up at 830 to drive down to the apple store to wait in line to get an iphone.
2. OK, maybe i will tomorrow.
3. But I am going to have to really think about it.
4. Fine i will wait in line for it.
5. No Cut and Paste.

Don’t you wish that apple came out with this thing before the iphone? Or is that the natural progression of apple products? Computer, iPod, iTV, iPhone, then iTablet? You need the ones before for the itablet to come out i guess.

http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/07/unofficial-mactab-the-mac-tablet-that-we-really-really-want-to-see-released/

If you don’t know safari was just released for windows. Just go to apples website and go get it. But i have major qualms with it:

1. It is too pretty for windows. The text is so clean looking!
2. The close window button is on the right side! Ahhhh, I am used to it being on the left side like a mac program should be.
3. It is just to pretty looking for windows. It should not be so pretty. Look at it, it looks so nice.
4. It runs really nice on windows. If it ever crashes on me I will cry.
5. It doesn’t have firebug installed for it.

Ya, no real qualms. Just awesome, where is iphoto, where is imovie, where is mail?

I like using bbedit, transmit and notepad2.exe, Those are the programs that i use to do web design. Those programs are small, open up quick and i have no problems with them ever crashing. I am not saying that coda is a bloated fat program. I just don’t trust it right now. I like the simplicity of those programs.

Eh, im just an old fart.

There was a reason back in the days of Mac OS 9 that you needed stuffit. But now that OS X includes its own “archiving” program. There is no need for stuffit anymore. Zip is a valid way to archive things and mostly every computer will be able to open it.

If you don’t know how to zip something in Mac OS X here is a quick tutorial:
1. Find the file/folder that you want to zip.
2. Right click on the file/folder.
3. Select create archive of…
4. Done.

I know stuffit has a free program of its Stuffit Deluxe program, but i don’t understand why they are still in business.