The New York Daily News is reporting an a curious gadget designed to filter out the Fox News Channel. The little device screws in-line between your incoming TV signal and the RF input on your television (standard cable only) and blocks Fox News. Pretty damn funny.
Behind the Bugs during Bill G.’s CES Keynote
For those of you who hadn’t heard, Bill Gates CES keynote was marred by three crash/errors last Wednesday. Now, Sean Alexander, product manager for Windows Media Center edition, has posted his behind the scenes post-mortem on what actually happened on his blog, Addicted to Digital Media. Interesting read, for sure. If it had been my call, I would never have tried to run both Sean’s demo as well as the Conan/Bill demo off a single machine far across the stage. Nobody expects real-world in these demos, so the notion that it would be best to play off a single machine with all kinds of enhancements like a USB booster just doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anyway, Sean is a great guy (I know him from some dev work I’ve done with MCE), so kudos to him for his open report on the incident.
Technorati Awards
Technorati has announced the winners of their annual developers contest. PersonalDemocracy.com, where my friend Hart Hooton is general manager, gets a nod in this well-respected competition. Woo-hoo!
Here’s the description of why PD was selected:
The URL speaks for itself. This website let’s you stay on top of all things political. Specifically, it uses Technorati to show which politicians are rising and falling in the blogosphere-a phenomenon that has become increasingly relevant with politics and journalism.
More on this at BoingBoing and Technorati.
Holy iHome, Batman!
This set of very suspect snaps showed up on someone’s iDisk yesterday – could this be a very crafty mockup, or is it in fact the headless Mac we’ve been hearing so much about? This seems like it might be one of those typical pre-MacWorld hoaxes. But hey, who cares. It’s kinda fun to look at. I’m suspicious in that we don’t see a video port on these photos of the ‘iHome Media Centre’. And why has Apple gone all ‘UK-style’ on us?. Or perhaps there is no VGA/DVI port for this baby – it’s gonna be an s-video out or some kind of wacky outboard composite connector or something. Or maybe it’s truly meant as a media server, no head, only connected to via a remote PC or Mac. I dunno, but it’s fun to speculate wildly, isn’t it?