Links for 2006-03-03
- HiddenPassageway.com will bring you the technology you need to fill your house with dumb secret passages My parents house has this awesome little cellar under the stairs and I keep thinking I could replace the door with a bookcase and no one would think there was a room down there. Mmm. Secret things.
- The Twelve Olympians on Flickr This is a nice piece of work - the twelve Olympian gods of Greek mythology - as represented in Lego...
- Media Central is a slightly less elegant (but much more powerful) free version of FrontRow for the Mac I can't rave about this enough - it seems more responsive than VLC, has iTunes and iPhoto integration and plays .avi / DivX files without the slightest protest...
Comments
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I've played around with MediaCentral a bit this afternoon, and I personally am less than impressed - menu navigation is really slow, and divx playback stutters (in comparison to QuickTime and VLC) on my Powerbook.
→ Posted by: eric at March 3, 2006 3:10 AM
I just noticed this, too - it's not smart enough to stop iTunes playback when beginning a movie or DVD. Which is really sort of a no-brainer.
→ Posted by: eric at March 3, 2006 3:11 AM
Seems unusably slow on my 1GHz iBook, and what's more it didn't like showing anything on my second monitor. I highly recommend you check out XBMC (XBox Media Center), it does everything it promises flawlessly, and over the network.
→ Posted by: quis at March 3, 2006 11:04 AM
It's fun to see how everyone has different priorities. Almost as great as seeing Zeldman pushing "great design" when it's really just personal style preferences. But not nearly as fab as watching people ranting software at BetaNews. It's good to see we're all retarded. I almost felt lonely once, stupid me. Great weblog anyway, Tom. I'm sure you knew..
→ Posted by: anonymous? at March 3, 2006 7:23 PM