June, 2009

Apple / Boxee / Talk & Rantings — No Comments
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Jun 09

Latest Boxee Build: Jump in the right direction

You can read about it here but I just wanted to throw out madd props to the Boxee Dev team for all their hard work on their latest release that coincided with a meetup in San Francisco. This latest version includes many enhancements, bug fixes, and just all around good stuff that lets us know that the development of this (currently) free piece of awesome software is very much alive in development.

Back a few months ago when I bought an Apple TV to be able to play with this little app that needed to be hacked onto the Apple TV, I didn’t even know that I would enjoy it so much. Since then, its cut my TV watching in half, and well, we don’t even subscribe to Cable services anymore. If this is a glimpse at what is coming in the future for the television industry, I like it.

If I were to give any advice to the big TV networks – i’d say that they should jump on the bandwagon and find a way to work with these people, because THIS is where television is going. I’d hate to make this parallel, but I’ve got a feeling that this whole TV On demand thing could potentially be the next Napster/Mp3 revolution. Lets learn from past mistakes, and take the right steps.

Thanks again to the Boxee team!!

Talk & Rantings / Technology / iPhone — No Comments
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Jun 09

Beejive + Push = A Happy Mikey

So, after a long while, and trying out a bunch of different IM clients for the iPhone, I finally settled on the BeeJive software (only during a special price promotion they were offering). It was a long time coming, and I was being relatively stubborn about putting out the extra money for this type of program, hoping that one of the free ones would be able to cover all the features I wanted.

One feature that NONE of them covered was Push – until last night – when BeeJive’s most recent iPhone app update was released. It was music to my ears when I saw on Twitter my friend Cristina posted that the update was available.

I updated almost instantaneously – and have not been disappointed. This app is fantastic and I highly suggest you purchase it if you’re looking for a solid IM app for the iPhone, that has push support.

Click here to buy.

Band/Music / Music / Talk & Rantings — No Comments
18
Jun 09

NXNE Hasn’t Even Started, and i’m already exhausted

NXNE hasn’t even officially started (I know the opening party was last night but as you’ll read in this post, I didn’t get to go) and i’m already exhausted… Something about music festivals tires me out. When I went down to SXSW all it was every day was drink drink drink. NXNE is proving to be different this year.

I’ve agreed to help out my drummers other band (The Hots) with their show on Saturday night, since their regular guitar player will be out of town the night of the gig. This means learning  7 new songs with minimal rehearsals, and a pretty tight timeline (I only learned the 7th song last night). Last night I spent 2hrs rehearsing with the Birds of Wales, and then another 2hrs and a bit rehearsing with The Hots in the singer’s living room.

I don’t have a problem with rehearsing a lot, its just really freekin’ tiring focusing for that long (mind you, I only ate a bag of chips, and a bag of pretzels for dinner- so i’m sure that didn’t help).

Either way, i’m already exhausted, and have another 3 days of music to be playing – tonight is the first show, at the Kool Haus in Toronto. I’ll try and get some photo’s of the event – should be a good one!

Talk & Rantings — 2 Comments
16
Jun 09

Hey Everyone, Come See How Good I Look!

Photo 40I’ve been growing my hair out for some time now… probably close to 2 years. Its been a long time, seriously. I’ve threatened numerous times to just chop it off and go bald – but i’ve resisted.

Last week though, I cut it off… well most of it…
And last night, I even shaved off the beard! I’m now baby bum smooth.

Development / Talk & Rantings / Technology — 2 Comments
11
Jun 09

Wordpress 2.8 is here!

It hasn’t been that long since 2.7.1 came out, but still, these guys are cookin’ along!

Wordpress 2.8 was released late last night, and has a couple new features, bug fixes, and improvements over the previous versions. Most notably its much faster. It just seems ’snappier’ (hate when people say that about new software).

Download it at: http://wordpress.org/

Or Upgrade directly from your own Wordpress blog’s dashboard (there should be a link at the top).

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