Comments for Mitch Cohen

Comment on Lame WWDC Survival Guide, 2009 by Mitch Cohen

Mitch Cohen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:06:35 +0000

The comment from Trevor borders on spam (advertising at least), but that’s fine. I know some people enjoy the parties. Personally I’d rather get back to the hotel and code, plus be refreshed for the morning sessions.

Good luck with the party and your products!

Comment on Lame WWDC Survival Guide, 2009 by Trevor Cape

Trevor Cape — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:24:41 +0000

Hahaha, very funny and creative post, I’ll be sure to keep you tips in mind! BUT….. you forgot one important piece of WWDC survival….

Don’t get caught not being at a WWDC after party! You must enjoy the night life.

Appcelerator WWDC Afterparty! Come check out Jillian’s in San Francisco on June 9th from 6pm to 9pm where Appcelerator is celebrating WWDC and some super SECRET stuff about the Appcelerator Titanium Beta Launch……it will rock your world, plus there will be free drinks, free appetizers, t-shirts for the first 250 people and a Wii and PS3 giveaway, for more information go to http://bit.ly/wv8LV, see you there!

Comment on Oxford 936 – RAID5 on the cheap coming soon by Greg

Greg — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:08:33 +0000

I saw that the price for the chip is around $50 and, somewhat in line with that, Addonics offers two flavors of a 1-to-4 SATA port multiplier based on this chip for $90.

Comment on Apple TV, what it could be by Michael Verruto

Michael Verruto — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:08:15 +0000

I agree- this is a VITAL piece of a plan Apple seems to be squandering. I also suggest A) an “AppleChannel” with all the crazy ads in playback, all the “how” to video”s and other presentation type formats” B) a “MyChannel” where I can screen share my desktop with the HDTV that I have – this could also be a VERY VERY VERY valuable business application as MANY hig end corporate conf. room no longer have “projectors – they bring in HDTV’s – C) MUCH better sycning back and forth and BETWEEN Applt TV’s… We have 11 on our 5 acre property and more distributed among other offices and homes and apartments and even MOM’s which brings me to D) accept special image mail from trusted sources…so say a niece or grandaughter can just email aunt so and so or grandma a picture right from her iPhone!!!! E) add it as a device capable of being managed by pro management tools like Apple Remote Desktop- would help me alot – to set global access protection and iTunes credit card pay per view credit info….AND EVEN BETTER bring us to E) if they DID do that they could work an Apple A Day program- use Apple TV’s in classrooms that can access all the INCREDIBLE APPLE-U programs that are INCREDIBLE…my 11 year old son and 25yr old Slacker nephew dragged me in to the living room to watch , not baywatch genre gals,but a podcasted TED talk by a leading brain researcher who was fully awake and aware during her OWN STROKE – studying the whole thing as it happened to HER- as the PATIENT – thus advancing Brain science in ways not even fully grasped yet. And they were so fully engaged in it , one would have been as stunned as I was. We spemt rest of the day discussing how to get into MIT, and how does someone really study a brain…”like wow” THis is without a question the tru rosetta stone between our childrens abilities to sythisize and our brain-trust’s abilities to deliver and lodge a cogent and potent kernel of knowlegeinto so many, many young minds in so many different, socio economic, geograohic and even technically saavy learning centers. I would be willing to work to see how it could be done. Meanwhile I am stuck at F) which is what happens when I try and now sync my apple tv with 20 purchased movies with my big server that has 60 movies already without losing ANY…. and G)) they need an app like they made for airport management to alt least look at multiple ATV’s. but hey that my 2Â¢ (oh yeah and play native dv files like FinalCut Pro iports…THAT is annoying.

Comment on Apple TV, what it could be by Mitch Cohen

Mitch Cohen — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:26:10 +0000

Gary: Yeah, I’m looking forward to trying Boxee. Next chance I get I’ll figure out the login issue.

WiFi can do weird things. Even on 802.11n the speed can throttle way down when too far away from the router or due to interference. But then again, if you’re streaming HD movies from your in-house computer via WiFi that’s probably moving data faster than your internet connection is even capable of.

When running into odd/questionable WiFi issues, I crack open the 100′ ethernet cable to see if hard-wiring is worthwhile. Monoprice.com has 100′ CAT-6 cable for $11 if you don’t have a preferred vendor.

Comment on Apple TV, what it could be by GaryD

GaryD — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:10:41 +0000

I just got my apple tv and set up boxee and xmbc on it right away. I enjoy the apple tv and boxee actually makes it even better because you can watch internet tv (hulu, etc.) The one issue I’m having is with internet video, the play back is skipping/dropping. I have it set up on our wireless network and am thinking about running an ethernet cable to it, but that won’t be easy.

Do you think that it would be worth the effort to run the cable, or find other solutions?

Comment on Apple TV, what it could be by Mitch Cohen

Mitch Cohen — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:53:50 +0000

I loaded Boxee and XMBC (via http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/) within minutes after unboxing the Apple TV.

I found XBMC a mess. Technically interesting, but not for the masses. I need my Apple TV to be easy to use for everyone in the house (well, everyone over two years old) and XBMC doesn’t cut it.

I’m eager to try Boxee. It’s installed, but you need an account to make it work. I finally got my invite but I’ve had trouble activating the account on the Apple TV. I’ll keep trying.

Comment on Apple TV, what it could be by Loren

Loren — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:42:28 +0000

I have loved my AppleTV since the day it came out. It works perfectly for my viewing habits, which is to say that I download just about everything I watch.

I haven’t tried it, but I have heard good things about the Boxee add on.

http://www.geektonic.com/2008/10/transform-your-appletv-with-boxee.html

Comment on Psystar, shmystar! by Mitch Cohen » Blog Archive » Psystar, Shmystar Redux

Mitch Cohen » Blog Archive » Psystar, Shmystar Redux — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:08:17 +0000

[...] few months back I predicted a quick death to Psystar. They instead chose to fight goliath in court, which is indeed interesting to [...]

Comment on ScreenFlow – a screen recording and editing application by Jame

Jame — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:56:02 +0000

No need for a new user account with this free app: http://www.johnhaney.com/backdrop/

Its cool, it just throws a background over (under) All of your windows.