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Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

StevenHodson — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:19:01 -0000

I remember BBS's quite well .. ran a couple of them myself in my younger years. Still dread the idea of text config files because of it :)

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

teqjack — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:12:32 -0000

"As for being able to hook up a computer to a TV well Duh!"

Er, I have been doing this for decades (DOS [not Windows, DOS} 4). I used to chuckle at the tech guy who bragged about his 20" monitor, I was using a 42" rear-projection screen. I used it mostly for connecting to the mainframe at work to do maintenance and troubleshooting (I was software/tech support), and BBS (anyone else remember those) - the big screen made it a LOT easier for this near-sighted old man to work.

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

pB — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:18:21 -0000

About time the Mac weenies caught up.

http://www.archive.org/deta...

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

Arni — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:05:52 -0000

Actually, any relatively new PC will be able to output to ANY TV with the correct cable. :)

I've been using my computer with a TV connected to it since 1997, using it for slideshows among other things, so I don't really see the "innovation" behind this whole issue :D

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

Randomwalk — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:57:42 -0000

I installed it just to see what it did and it played havoc with my computer, freezing applications and forcing me to shut down via the power button. I've since uninstalled.

I suspect it might interact badly with NoScript on Firefox but NoScript didn't display any warning...

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

vanderleun — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:01:16 -0000

Me neither. I installed it, booted it, and uninstalled it. Snoresville. Slow news week in the Winer brain I guess.

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Louis Gray — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:52:03 -0000

As for being "Gray"... I was here first. :-)

Scoble may like Qik now, but I bet it won't last. He has a short attention span. Is Kyte.tv over and done? What about Facebook and Twitter?

I listened because it was Dave Winer, and he has a good track record. But this isn't a revolutionary service in its current incarnation. Forget A-List. I respect the guy because he's accomplished real innovation, as opposed to talked about others who have (pick your A-list and B-List to fill in that void)

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

StevenHodson — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:17:17 -0000

I haven't even taken a look at Qik and don't have any intention in doing so. Chances are next week it will be something else just as a couple of weeks ago it was Kyte.tv .. or however it is spelled - who knows anymore.

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

StevenHodson — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:12:20 -0000

it maybe a geekier approach for Mac but Windows has had web based slide show screensavers for a very long time - WebShots comes to mind. The fact that you can use a Flickr stream doesn't strike me as being all that forward thinking.

I'll give ya the "gushy" .. might have been a tad over on that :)

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

Dave Gray — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:08:03 -0000

That is the irony imho - you don't need a Mac to do this! Any PC can do it with the right telly and the right cable. So where is the buzz in that?

I agree Dave is usually on the ball but, this is just another app for a Mac and not a great one. That is how much buzz it deserves, not the total flip everyone has done on it.

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

Dave Gray — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:04:50 -0000

Not only am I the second "Gray" to post a comment and that comment is straight after that one (that is just freekin weird :P ) I am also here to say that I totally agree Steve.

Not only that I have to laugh at the fact that Scoble has found another useless medium to broadcast crap from in Qik! Geeze.

To me this is not that new in so much as you can ook up any decent LCD tv to a computer via the DVI slot... now you can treat it like a monitor - even show a slideshow! So I just don't get it at this point and time - or is it because Dave Winer came up with it that we are supposed to prick our ears and listen... please the days of the A-lister are done. NEXT!

Re: You to can have a $600 slide show maker

Louis Gray — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:42:16 -0000

Define "gushy". :-)

I expect this to be step one. Dave's got a pretty good track record of taking development tools and creating a foundation for something bigger. I personally don't have a Mac Mini (or any Mac) attached to a TV, and this screensaver doesn't yet trump some of those I've found elsewhere, but as was pointed out elsewhere, it's certainly a geekier approach!