Archive for December, 2009

The Roku Player

My brother bought a Roku HD Player for my parents this christmas. It’s easy enough for my parents to use. The quality wasn’t great, but I’m chalking that up to the wireless coverage in the living room being spotty.
I’ve been looking for a neat Netflix streaming set top box for a bit. Been toying with [...]

Posted on December 26, 2009 at 12:29 pm by mlutter · Permalink · Comments Closed
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The Apple Tablet

I am excited about the rumors of the Apple Tablet / iSlate.
I’ve talked about what I want in The Perfect Hardware Device and, clearly, this is not exactly what I described. I want an open device. We don’t know much about this tablet, but if wild speculation can be trusted, this will be another walled [...]

Posted on December 26, 2009 at 11:58 am by mlutter · Permalink · Comments Closed
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WebApp Developer Call to Arms. The Romans are Coming!

Just got done reading an interesting article over on TechCrunch entitled Google, Rome, and Empire. It was a very interesting post in an analogy-stretched-too-far kind of way. But the more I’ve been thinking about it, the more the analogy fits.
The analogy is thus(here slightly modified): Google is building an infrastructure on the web that rivals [...]

Posted on December 24, 2009 at 4:20 pm by mlutter · Permalink · Comments Closed
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