Year: 2008

A few readers emailed me regarding this screenshot on the Make Flickr pool. It’s an image of the free NewsGator application on the Media Center PC 2005 to view RSS feeds on your TV, all using a remote control and a “10 foot” interface. Here are a couple more shots. If you have a MCE sign up for the free account through the TV interface using the remote and then log in on the PC side of things to add feeds. It even ticks the headlines across the bottom. I like to pop on BBC, keep it playing in the lower left and have my feeds creep along for maximum info-consumption. Oh, for the podcasters- if there’s an enclosure NewsGator will play it (but won’t download ahead of time yet). I’ll soon have MythTV set up and I’ll be trying out some other TV-RSS readers as well. On a side note, I have iPodder running on the MCE, it grabs videos from Blogdigger as well as podcasts, music- and these all show up in my video and audio list on the TV. On my wish list, I’d like to see a Flickr browser and/or uploader from my TV- I hear that’s in the works. For now, there’s a MCE Flickr pool to show off your set ups, if you got’em post’em.

Many of the products that come out are sometimes from the hackers out there on the edge doing things. We all made Wi-Fi hot spots years before it became common place and a biz. So from where I’m sitting, I think those of us out here in tinker-land might be able to propose some new products. I’m going to call these types of posts “Make this”. Here it goes…

Yay, Friday is here. I grew up watching Ira Flatow on Newton’s Apple, the theme song has been in my head for decades it seems- I plan to find it and make it a ring tone. Anyway, each week on NPR, Science Friday hosted by Ira Flatow always has something I’m interested in and each week I record it, along with This American Life using the Griffin RadioShark– send to my shuffle and use it for weekend jogging.

Only 10 more days until ETech! Go and register for O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference March 14-17, 2005 in San Diego, CA.