Beam Me Up
I finally got around to getting a slingbox…I have grand plans to write about the tricks of running it in Windows virtualized on my Mac half a world away…anyways no time. I can say in summary though it helps with the endless traveling to check out the occasional show from home.
Apple too is racing towards changing the home (and probably corporate) computing experience. Cringley’s latest column, Beam Me Up: Apple’s iTV strategy is iChat on steroids, covers it well.
Best line…
“The level of technical sophistication and application integration required to make this work is beyond Microsoft within the next year or five years from now.”