GBTV #520 | Apple TV Update, Safari 4
Posted on: February 25, 2009
Posted in: Video
Posted by: Cali Lewis
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The latest Apple TV update (2.3.1) breaks Boxee again. Sales of the Apple TV surged in the last quarter of 2008, and my guess is that Boxee was a factor. Boxee is a killer app for Apple TV and I would love to see Apple open up the platform. If you already have Boxee installed, you can update Apple TV and just use the patchstick to re-install. It’s inconvienient, but not the end of the world.
My “Leave Boxee Alone” segment is a parody of Chris Crocker’s “Leave Britney Alone” YouTube video. It’s a good idea to watch it if you don’t get the joke.
Safari 4 was released yesterday and it has 150 new features, some of which are almost as innovative as tabs. It’s in beta, and worth a download, but like any beta download you should proceed at your own risk. Alex Lindsay is reporting system wide crashes due to Safari 4. Cnet UK did some benchmarking and found that it renders JavaScript 42 times faster than IE7.
We have video from Geekologie.com of what might be the new Mac Mini. If it’s real, it’s unfortunate that neither of the two display ports are HDMI.
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February 25th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Bad week for Boxee – Hulu and Apple :(
nice Trash80 reference :)
February 25th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Good show, but the Boxee clip was un-watchable.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
LOL, Cali! Loved your parody of the Britney video. You captured the whiny quality of the original PEFECTLY!!! The rest of the blog about Apple & Boxee was dead-on-target, too!!!
February 25th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Safari 4 really needs to be compared to FF 3.1 (assuming they don’t drop trace monkey) and Chrome and the latest Opera, especially w/ JS. These are the browsers that have the new JS engines.
The mac mini video is disappointing if it’s true. Apple has a killer product, but they don’t want to entertain the possibility of expanding the “low end.” Not that this fits my bill either, but I could use it as a media box (Apple TV isn’t enough for me, unless they open it up w/o hacking). Unfortunately, it’s back to windows for me… hard to turn away a $900 8GB/quad core system.
The crocker spoof may have been a taad too long ;)
February 25th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I’m sure you had a lot of fun with the parody, but word is that Boxee is not broken, and just needs to be reinstalled (http://twitter.com/boxee/statuses/1249610454).
February 26th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Some things just shouldn’t be imitated. Your killing me.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:25 am
A new GBTV is up: GBTV #520 | Apple TV Update, Safari 4 http://tinyurl.com/czw55k
February 26th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Ha ha! Needed even more crying though.
February 26th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Geekbrief: GBTV #520 | Apple TV Update, Safari 4: Shownotes:
The latest Apple TV update (2.3.1) breaks.. http://tinyurl.com/czw55k
February 26th, 2009 at 4:22 am
WARNING!
If you are using Mail and have Growl installed, DO NOT INSTALL THE SAFARI 4 BETA!
Safari 4 works fine, but the installation is incompatible with Growl and will cause the GrowlMail plug-in to crash your Mail every time it tries to download mail from the server. I’ve been on the phone with Apple Care for 3 hours and we could not get the problem fixed. I have to restore my system from Time Machine and see if that helps. So beware. Safari 4 Beta is great, but it will cause the Growl app to mess up your Mail.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Now that was just annoying…
February 26th, 2009 at 9:40 am
My kids kept asking who the crazy person was under the sheet??
Another warning about Safari 4, if you are a RapidWeaver user, Safari 4 will not work with RW 4.2.1, but does with 4.2.2 beta 3
Just a heads up!
February 26th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Never do this again! that was awful! please…
February 26th, 2009 at 11:34 am
For some reason i cant see this video :(
February 26th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
The crocker imitation just might have been… yes, it was too much.
February 26th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Whoa! And I thought I liked Apple! http://bit.ly/BRR3m this is insane!
February 26th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Wow, female whiny noises make me want to rip off my ears.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
@CaliLewis you rock! hilarious! http://tinyurl.com/czw55k thanks for the love
February 26th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Uhhh…. That was weird…
February 26th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
yes..tabs and safari 4 will both go down in history as milestones in browsing history. What the hell?
You really need to get out of this Apple fog.
I’m also sick of browsers claiming to be x number of times faster, and then always dropping “while rendering javascript” as if that fact is unimportant.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
GeekBreif.TV: Leave Boxee Alone! http://tinyurl.com/czw55k http://post.ly/4hH
February 27th, 2009 at 12:09 am
@natelanxon your epic graph on Safari 4 benchmark is featured on GeekBrief.tv! 520 http://is.gd/l2cj
February 27th, 2009 at 1:18 am
must see from @CaliLewis http://tinyurl.com/czw55k
February 27th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Cute vid from GeekBrief TV on Apple breaking Boxee on AppleTV: http://tinyurl.com/czw55k
February 27th, 2009 at 1:49 am
@CaliLewis True Shiz http://tinyurl.com/czw55k
February 27th, 2009 at 1:58 am
This is the way of the big company Cali. They dominate markets by squeezing out the competition.
My company makes USB devices and everytimes theres a windows update release something goes wrong. So instead of working on developing new products you constantly have to stop for a week to fix an emergency caused by updates. Now you have to pay microsoft owned companies to prove your legitimate, just to write a .inf file to install one of microsofts own drivers! I mean…how can you compromise a PC by running a microsoft own driver?!!!
So whats the answer…open standards! Well no
Our web control product uses javascript in a standard browser, the idea is you can control anything across the internet using a local javascript page. BUT the new wave of web browsers don’t allow a webpage from one domain to get data from another, so when you try to download the status of the IO ports from our product it now does nothing…no error..no pop up warning…just nothing! No workaround with IE.
IE7 had an option to allow data across domains…then in came an automatic update and it stopped working again, regardless of whether the option was checked. This is the same problem that stops you running web pages locally from your hard disk.
Basically you need to be a big company with a dedicated team chasing microsoft updates to keep your customer supported.
I mean..really…can it really be that hard to restrict javascript to runing within a browser? Is Vista really so poor that if you run a web page with javascript from your local harddrive it gets priviledges to write all over the rest of your drive?
Its all a nightmare.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:01 am
Cali, please, no more close ups. I fell down from my chair. :-)
February 27th, 2009 at 5:52 am
That was hilarious!
February 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Hey Cali, the thing with the white blanket was really cute. You look pretty with it…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Why, oh why, does Apple hate the hdmi.
It’s the only thing that has kept me from buying a new MBP or a mini. I just want to connect it to my huge new lcd tv with audio and video in one cable.
It’s not even funny how fast my checking account would empty if the new mac mini will have and hdmi. Sadly it’s not looking good.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Best outtakes ever !
February 27th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I’m a software girl too! :) Ahh.. the fabulous Netscape/HTML days. Loved the BOXEE expression at the end! :D
February 27th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Cosmicly good.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
So she decided to do something a little different on this brief, what’s up with all the harsh criticism? (although it did go a tad long, though)
February 27th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I think this may have been freakier than the original.
February 28th, 2009 at 5:15 am
The leave Boxee alone in episode 520 was it. I am no longer subscribing to geekbrief. Ever.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:16 am
And now comes an interesting substitute for the Boxee/Apple dilemna:
http://www.deviceguru.com/the-boxeebox-cookbook/
February 28th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Actually, you CAN output HDMI from the Mac Mini. Yes, you could use a standard DVI-HDMI cable, but then you’re stuck with analog stereo audio–what fun is that?
Enter the Apogee HDMICVDVI (http://www.apogeeinc.net/products/item.aspx?item=2745), yours for $60. Throw in a DVD-D dual link cable ($15), an HDMI cable ($9), and a Toslink-to-Toslink Mini cable ($9), and you’ve got HDMI with digital audio coming out of your Mac Mini for $93–which happens to be less than Best Buy will charge you for a DVI or HDMI cable alone. :-)
Cheers
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I guess not everyone is as geeky thou and moi, but I liked your rant on Boxee and Apple. Apple has become quite prim about hacks of its hardware since iPhone and AppleTV came. I guess it’s a sign of the times. Hopefully the boffins at Boxee will stay ahead of Apple engineers, and keeps us Boxee fans happy. Stay cool Cali!
April 15th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Nice post! GA is also my biggest earning. However, it’s not a much.:)