This is awesome. It’s about 45 minutes long, but it’s definitely worth a look. It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day, and it’s directed by Joss Whedon.
I’ve been using the Sapphire plug-in for Front Row as a media centre application for a few months now. I like it because it creates virtual directories of TV shows for me. So, I just dump whatever I’ve downloaded into the TV directory, and Sapphire organizes it in a coherent way for me to navigate on my television.
It also gives me the ability to filter out the shows that I’ve already watched. This is a great feature because I have a lot of shows in that directory, and I don’t want to have to hunt for what I want to watch.
There is a drawback to the Sapphire plug-in though. Actually, it has to do with Front Row itself. Front Row will only use Quicktime to play video, so I have to use the Perian plug-in (which will play just about any format). Perian doesn’t like mkv files too much. They stutter at the beginning of the file, and jumping around inside the file is a nightmare.
So, I’ve been looking into Plex, which is an offshoot of the XBMC project. It uses mplayer for video, and mplayer doesn’t suffer from the same problems that Perian suffers from. There are a couple of drawbacks to Plex though.
Plex doesn’t have iTunes or iPhoto integration…yet. iPhoto, I can live with out, but I like being able to access my playlists in iTunes rather than navigating through directories.
I guess the ultimate solution for me would be to force Front Row to play video with mplayer or VLC. Anybody know how to do that?
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There was absolutely nothing wrong with the Nikon D60 that I got a couple of weeks ago, but at that time, I really didn’t even know what to look for in a digital SLR. After playing around with the D60, and talking to some friends I gradually got the feeling that I should have gotten the Nikon D80 instead.
I think one of the main reasons I chose to upgrade to the D80 was the focusing motor. The D60 can only auto-focus with AF-S lenses (those that have the built in focus motor), and those lenses are ridiculously expensive. Also, I’m thinking of getting a 50mm f1.8 lens, and there is no AF-S version of that as of yet, and when/if there is one, I doubt it’ll be $150.
Some other reasons I chose the D80 were
- Increased battery life
- Bracketing
- The larger body (My hand would cramp after a while with the D60’s smaller body)
Also, to offset the cost of the upgrade, I traded down from the Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm VR lens to a Nikkor AF-S 55-200mm VR lens. That trade paid for the upgrade and then some.
Now, how do I take pictures with this thing again?
