Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
DoubleTwist Beta for Mac Offers Easy Media Browsing and Sharing
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
wow
video is very patronizing, it sounds like an ad for kids pullups or something...
"boring" and "geeky" are insulting... geeky should be "complicated" or "confusing" which they are to some people... but she says it like "geeky" is "gross" and "who would want to be a geek" with both the wording and tone of voice.
you email their support and it says "one of our jedi's will get back to you" now THATS geeky... these guys need to get their ducks in a row and hire a marketing company and a new voice.
video is very patronizing, it sounds like an ad for kids pullups or something...
"boring" and "geeky" are insulting... geeky should be "complicated" or "confusing" which they are to some people... but she says it like "geeky" is "gross" and "who would want to be a geek" with both the wording and tone of voice.
you email their support and it says "one of our jedi's will get back to you" now THATS geeky... these guys need to get their ducks in a row and hire a marketing company and a new voice.
That's interesting since my main gripe here is the lack of PPC support. I use an older PPC machine as a music/movie/photo server (via iTunes + 2 AppleTV units) because that is precisely what the machine is great for. I mean why would I want to use my brand new MBP as a server, keeping it on 24/7 and using up valuable CPU cycles I could be using for video editing (for example) when I can use an old upgraded PowerMac for that purpose? I realize new software is less likely to support PPC over time, but as long as iTunes continues to support PPC (I've been using Tiger, but have Leopard available as well so the OS support isn't the big issue) I can keep using this system to stream my media around the house.
The other issue I see with this software is that it currently doesn't support Apple TV. They indicate iPhone/iPod support is coming soon for the Mac (apparently the PC version already has it) so that's great, but until this thing can support AppleTV (and do it better than Apple?) and Airport Express AirTunes, it has exactly ZERO value for me. How can it replace iTunes if it doesn't support the whole house devices people use? I don't see any support for PS3 or Xbox 360, for example. I would imagine that those would be prime targets to support as an alternative to iTunes + AppleTV for a whole house solution. Of course, to maximize the experience, they would really need to support their software RUNNING on those devices (like XBMC is doing for Apple TV, the Xbox, PC, Mac, Linux, etc.) In other words, XBMC seems to be the best software at the moment for doing what this software seems to eventually want to do. If someone can point out where it betters XBMC, please do so as I'm always looking for new useful software, but I'm afraid without official PPC or AppleTV support it won't be replacing iTunes any time soon. I realize the support for more formats than Apple will support is helpful, but XBMC does that already as well. XBMC is also in beta, but it seems to be a lot further along and it DOES [edit: NOT support PPC] suport Tiger as well and will run directly on a hacked Apple TV.
Edit:
Ok, I spoke too soon. I just tried XBMC on my PPC running Tiger and it reports the system is unsupported. There does appear to be some 3rd party interest in porting it but as of right now it's not available. I guess iTunes will continue to be my server/player of choice.
Ditto. This may work great with my Nokia 5800 Tube (once Nokia's XpressMusic mobiles are added to the list).
yep. highlight a photo from your library or device and clck on the flickr icon. authenticate to your flickr account and it's uploaded before you can blink. couldn't be easier.
open up a youtube video and drag the URL over to your media library and the clip will be downloaded automatically and quickly. it's uncanny.