Apple TV forces its users to do self upgrade
Your computer is the center of your digital life. Your TV is the center of your entertainment life. But what if you want to watch movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts, and photos from your computer on your TV? At $299, Apple TV brings iTunes to the big screen.
http://www.apple.com/appletv/
Apple TVs are now delivered to the users. But, many of the users are not satisfied with what Apple gives them, at least in term of technical specifications.
Apple TV is equipped with 1GHz Intel Processor and 40GB hard disk, which might be better if it is delivered with 80GB or 120GB. Besides, Apple TV supports only iTunes and MPEG-4 videos. If you want to play other format, you must first convert the files into Apple TV format. But, some hacks can be done to make your Apple TV to play other video formats, such as Xvid, Divx and WMV. I don’t have any idea of limiting the supported video formats. If Apple could think of it…
And for Mac Mini users, you can change your Mac Mini to Apple TV too!
To get more hacks for Apple TV, you can surf to Apple TV hacks.
For those in Europe, Apple TV might not be a favourable choice, since there is no video content available on iTunes in Europe. Hmm, what is behind this? Asking users to experience the home videos, but no video is available?
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Malware issues – Windows still can’t beat Mac OS X
According to McAfee Avert Labs blog, from over 236,000 malicious malware items, most of them are meant for Microsoft Windows OS and only 700 for Unix/Linux. Mac OS X has not surprising number 7, which can be a proof that it is almost safe from any malware.
According to the article in ZDNet blog, this low number of malwares in MacOS X platform might due to the difficult architecture of Mac OS X. Besides, it is also because the hackers don’t have interest to crack the Mac as only 5% from home users use Mac. Windows users are the bigger target group for them. If you have big interest on this issue, you can follow the talk back of this article. I’ve managed to read only 30 from 389 opinions. Many terms of computer, that I don’t understand diminished my interest.
By the way, I personally also want to have a Mac. After comparing the price, it seems that MacBook is not too expensive compared to Dell Inspiron 9400 with almost same specifications. Most Mac users are satisfied with the performance of Mac, and the cost for maintenance is almost zero. Nah, I must start saving money now and participate in all contests, which offer MacBook as the price.
GMX Freemail gives me spams after registration
GMX (Global Message eXchange) is a popular free email provider in Germany. I’ve made my account with GMX, because the domain name looks cool and simple for me, yourname@gmx.de. And the dot DE is the most attractive part (Since I am in Germany, I want to have a dot DE email. WTF!) But, the worst part of this free service is that my mailbox got spammed after few hours I registered with them. What the heck?!! If my Gmail account got spammed, it is not a surprise to me because it is used to contact many people and I got many forwarded message via that email address (If you want to forward message to many people, use the BCC function, please).
I don’t know what is wrong with GMX. Maybe the username was used by someone else before. By the way, I am also annoyed with the ads from the company. Every week I get “GMX Best prices” promotions. That is the price I have to pay for free service. Now I am considering to buy a dot DE domain.
