Category: Cool Links
Short version : wait until next month and get a D-link Boxee Box for $199.
Long version with more info :
Boxee Box – this is THE one to get, if you can wait until November. They’re available for preorder from Amazon now and definitely worth the money by a HUGE margin since not only will it play your media off your hard drive, but you can get almost anything off the Internet as well. All those internet channels like revision 3, you tube, Netflix, Pandora, last.fm, and lots more are all available and are very easy to find and use via a really nice remote control. $199 for the same software I run at home after trying almost everything available it’s the one I like the best. I’ll be buying one for every TV in the house that doesn’t already have a PC hooked up to it.
Logitech is also partnered with Google TV for something similar, but they’re only just announcing it tomorrow. I’m not sure what the release date will be, but the hardware itself is going to be amazing from what I’ve seen. Unknown price, but more info will be available tomorrow.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/1005/7099?WT.ac=ps|7159|hp
You can buy an apple TV for $99, but you have to mess with it to make it work with your own (non apple) media, so I wouldn’t recommend this one unless you want to root it and install Boxee for a less than optimal Boxee experience or you’ve bought all your media through iTunes and plan to do that until you die.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/apple_tv?mco=MTkxNTgwMjU
If you can’t wait the western digital box is about $120 and plays almost everything. I don’t have personal experience with this unit, but people online like it. This one has a slight disadvantage since it doesn’t play Internet content, which I think will be more and more valuable over the next year or two especially with the launch of Google’s TV product. You can get it here
You can also stream media from your PC to a PS3 or Xbox 360 if you’ve already got a gaming console. Look into PS3 Media Server for the PS3 or Tversity for the 360. They both work great!
This is really, really, cool. Its going to mean big things, I hope!!
http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2010/08/19/introducing-jitb/
I’m competing in Rails Rumble 2008 this year with my PBG peeps and Nate Ostgard. Its a 48 hour competition to write a web application using Ruby on Rails! Check out our live blog here, and the final product once it is done! To get an idea of what we’re working on, check out some preliminary text from our about page (first draft hehe)
iheartgames is a new way to schedule console games with your friends and family. If you’re tired of playing with strangers, or not having enough people online to get a great multiplayer experience, then iheartgames has you covered.
iheartgames lets you add your list of games on any console from our complete and updated database of games from metacritic.com. It also manages a fully featured friends list with tons of contact methods, so you know your friends will always know when you want to play.
You, or any of your friends, can schedule game times for any game in your list. Notifications (twitter, SMS, etc.) will go out automatically to any of your friends owning the game. They will then be able to reserve their spot in your game until all available spots are filled. With iheartgames, you are guaranteed a full house with people that you trust across all platforms. Pickup games are a thing of the past with iheartgames.
Please check out my new RSS feed at http://feedproxy.google.com/DbaWill if you like RSS!
This will help me to see who is reading my blog, if anyone is at all. I would appreciate it if you could update your RSS if you’re using my feed.
If anyone needs help setting up RSS, let me know in the comments.
If you live in Las Vegas, you owe it to yourself to check out House Seats Las Vegas. I have included my referral link, but you can just go to houseseatslv.com if you like!
http://www.houseseats.com/join/?referer=wharrislv@gmail.com
$80 per year, and you get free tickets to tons of shows that aren’t selling well. Everything from concerts to comedy shows. All free, and you can get more than one ticket. Totally worth it even if you only see 1-2 concerts a year for free.
A guy at work turned me on to this, and he goes to see 5 or 6 shows a week. This week he got me a ticket for one of my favorite musicians for free. They opened up on Thursday. He says most shows don’t show up until 2-3 days before the actual show, but many are available for weeks at a time. Many popular shows aren’t available until that evening, but he’s seen some of those crazy $200 a ticket shows for free by checking the night of the concert.
Let me know if you sign up, we’ll go see some concerts together.