GBTV #567 | Vista SP2, Jorge Columbo’s iPhone Art, Nokia Ovi Store, Panasonic DMP-BD15, Boxee Dev Challenge
Posted on: May 26, 2009
Posted in: Video
Posted by: Cali Lewis
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Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is available for download. You can get the 32-bit version here, or the 64-bit version here.
Jorge Colombo has begun creating iSketches using an iPhone app called Brushes. Instead of setting up an easel in the middle of the street, he “paints” on his iPhone, and sells archival prints. The June 2009 cover of New Yorker Magazine is one of his iSketches.
Nokia phone owners have access to the Ovi Store as of today, where they can get a variety of apps.
Panasonic’s 9-Inch Portable Blu-Ray Player supports Amazon Movie downloads and has Viera Cast so you can watch YouTube videos, view photos stored on Picasa and get weather information. You can pre-order it from Amazon now.
I’ll be one of the judges for the Boxee Dev Challenge, along with Veronica Belmont, Chris Pirillo and Avner Ronen. If you’re interested in learning more, click here for contest details.
see you at Mezzanine! – we were able to book Mezzanine in San Francisco as the venue for the event on June 23rd. following our meetup in Webster Hall in NYC, we thought we should find a similar place in San Francisco.
how to build a boxee app – there are now two examples of boxee apps that could serve as a good starting point for building your own app. the first one is ThruYou and the second is songza. if you have any question about the API or the development process you can check out the boxee dev forum, or connect with idan on twitter.
Drobo + 4TB – our friends at Seagate are sponsoring 4TB of Barracuda drives for each of the 3 Drobos we are giving away at the event. Drobo + 4TB is my personal setup at home, connected to my Mac Mini over the network and serving all my videos, music and pictures. it is excellent!
ideas for boxee apps – want to build an app, but don’t have a specific idea? you can look at what people are asking for on getsatisfaction, search on twitter, look at services with open APIs, or just think of what you’d love to see on boxee and is not already there. fred wilson will be happy to see someone build a La Blogoteque app.
working on a boxee app? let us know http://bit.ly/boxeedevchallenge
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May 27th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Finally somthing about the most used mobile os system on the market: symbian.what i don’t agree with is that it’s not true that since iphone came out no other os has been takien into account, the biggest marcket share of smartphones is still symbian.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:35 am
It looks like you scooped CNET for the story of Jorge Colombo by about one or two full days. I found the CNET article in my RSS feed-catcher last night. Well done, Cali! :-)