The new Apple TV 3.0 software features a redesigned main menu that makes navigating your favorite content simpler and faster, and makes enjoying the largest selection of on-demand HD movie rentals and purchases, HD TV shows, music and podcasts from the iTunes Store even better on your TV. You can now enjoy iTunes Extras and [...]
Archive > October 2009
Updating iTunes Extras and LP Content for Your Apple TV
You have to wait for updated versions of existing iTunes LP and Extras content before they’ll work on Apple TV 3.0.
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Apple TV 3.0 Software Update
New UI and adds support for the iTunes Extras (movies) and iTunes LP (music) formats. Screenshots of the new UI are here. Looks good to me — especially how they’ve moved “My Movies”, “My TV Shows”, etc. to the top of the menu lists. (And they’ve switched the system font from Lucida Grande to Helvetica.)
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One-Handed Computing With the iPhone
Nice observation from Jason Kottke:
The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone is not one of its
obvious selling points but is one of those little features that
grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A portable
networked computing and gaming device that can be easily operated
with one hand can be [...]
iTunes 9.0.2 Breaks WebOS Syncing Again
At this point, it’d be news if a new version of iTunes didn’t break Palm’s WebOS syncing hack.
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Wired: ‘An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All’
Splendid feature in Wired by Amy Wallace on the movement to skip childhood vaccinations:
The rejection of hard-won knowledge is by no means a new
phenomenon. In 1905, French mathematician and scientist Henri
Poincaré said that the willingness to embrace pseudo-science
flourished because people “know how cruel the truth often is,
and [...]
How Critics Reviewed the Original Macintosh in 1984
Somehow I missed this vintage 25-year claim chowder collection from Philip Elmer-DeWitt back in January. Here’s John C. Dvorak’s take on the Mac:
The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood
by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple
makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows [...]
Phillies Hope to End 364-Day World Series Drought
The Onion:
“The bottom line is we’re a pretty inexperienced team, and for
many of these young players, this will be the first time they’ve
been to the World Series in a year.” Manuel said. “A lot has
changed in that time. If you would have told me last October that
this [...]
JSON vs. Plist for Sending Web Service Data to iPhone Apps
Sam Soffes:
What I found was very surprising. TouchJSON actually beat
plists. It was slightly faster in every test I ran. This is
awesome because plists have a much larger file size. They are
usually about twice as big as JSON files due to all of the
extra markup.
Count me in with [...]
