Comments on: GBTV #520 | Apple TV Update, Safari 4

By: Tvpc

Tvpc — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:01:15 +0000

Nice post! GA is also my biggest earning. However, it�s not a much.:)

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:16:11 +0000

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!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:38:35 +0000

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

By: James

James — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:16:44 +0000

And now comes an interesting substitute for the Boxee/Apple dilemna:

http://www.deviceguru.com/the-boxeebox-cookbook/

By: former viewer

former viewer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:15:17 +0000

The leave Boxee alone in episode 520 was it. I am no longer subscribing to geekbrief. Ever.

By: DaveFriedel

DaveFriedel — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:42:11 +0000

I think this may have been freakier than the original.

By: Nick Austad

Nick Austad — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:04:15 +0000

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)

By: Steven Bender

Steven Bender — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:37:26 +0000

Cosmicly good.

By: Daynah

Daynah — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:35:39 +0000

I’m a software girl too! :) Ahh.. the fabulous Netscape/HTML days. Loved the BOXEE expression at the end! :D

By: JAVO

JAVO — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:42:14 +0000

Best outtakes ever !

By: Cory

Cory — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:36:43 +0000

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.

By: Jash Sayani

Jash Sayani — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:54:44 +0000

Hey Cali, the thing with the white blanket was really cute. You look pretty with it…

By: taxbeats

taxbeats — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:52:02 +0000

That was hilarious!

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:01:27 +0000

Cali, please, no more close ups. I fell down from my chair. :-)

By: andy evan

andy evan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:58:09 +0000

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.

By: liq456 (liq456)

liq456 (liq456) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:49:40 +0000

@CaliLewis True Shiz http://tinyurl.com/czw55k

By: wa8dzp (Dewayne Hendricks)

wa8dzp (Dewayne Hendricks) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:48:52 +0000

Cute vid from GeekBrief TV on Apple breaking Boxee on AppleTV: http://tinyurl.com/czw55k

By: boxee (boxee)

boxee (boxee) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:18:59 +0000

must see from @CaliLewis http://tinyurl.com/czw55k

By: mikejaydavies (Michael Davies)

mikejaydavies (Michael Davies) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:09:15 +0000

@natelanxon your epic graph on Safari 4 benchmark is featured on GeekBrief.tv! 520 http://is.gd/l2cj

By: tranceparance (T 009)

tranceparance (T 009) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:25:49 +0000

GeekBreif.TV: Leave Boxee Alone! http://tinyurl.com/czw55k http://post.ly/4hH

By: John

John — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:06:17 +0000

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.

By: Tom in Plano, TX

Tom in Plano, TX — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:06:30 +0000

Uhhh…. That was weird…

By: boxee (boxee)

boxee (boxee) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:52:43 +0000

@CaliLewis you rock! hilarious! http://tinyurl.com/czw55k thanks for the love

By: CN

CN — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:18:24 +0000

Wow, female whiny noises make me want to rip off my ears.

By: phideltacity (ϕΔ)

phideltacity (ϕΔ) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:10:29 +0000

Whoa! And I thought I liked Apple! http://bit.ly/BRR3m this is insane!

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:29:25 +0000

The crocker imitation just might have been… yes, it was too much.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:34:42 +0000

For some reason i cant see this video :(

By: Stella

Stella — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:45:12 +0000

Never do this again! that was awful! please…

By: Robert Ziebol

Robert Ziebol — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:40:45 +0000

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!

By: Desmond Fuller

Desmond Fuller — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:27:19 +0000

Now that was just annoying…

By: Jan Babiuch-Hall

Jan Babiuch-Hall — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:22:10 +0000

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.

By: netvideo (Net Video)

netvideo (Net Video) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:19:58 +0000

Geekbrief: GBTV #520 | Apple TV Update, Safari 4: Shownotes:
The latest Apple TV update (2.3.1) breaks.. http://tinyurl.com/czw55k

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:11:06 +0000

Ha ha! Needed even more crying though.

By: geekbrief (GeekBrief.TV)

geekbrief (GeekBrief.TV) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:25:07 +0000

A new GBTV is up: GBTV #520 | Apple TV Update, Safari 4 http://tinyurl.com/czw55k

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:20:48 +0000

Some things just shouldn’t be imitated. Your killing me.

By: Tony Meyer

Tony Meyer — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:19:40 +0000

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).

By: Linh

Linh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:16:12 +0000

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 ;)

By: luke joseph chung

luke joseph chung — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:48:28 +0000

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!!!

By: Cal

Cal — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:48:01 +0000

Good show, but the Boxee clip was un-watchable.

By: Doug Chapin

Doug Chapin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:23:25 +0000

Bad week for Boxee – Hulu and Apple :(

nice Trash80 reference :)