{"id":1324,"date":"2008-07-11T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2008-07-11T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:49:07","slug":"i-hate-people-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2008\/07\/11\/i-hate-people-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate people like me"},"content":{"rendered":"

And by that, I mean I hate people like my friend Ben, who sneakily slide their gorgeous iPhones out of their pockets when I’m not looking. Then, before I know it, I’m staring at this gleaming piece of hardware laid out on some bar table somewhere, and my technolust washes over me like a sepsis-induced fever. But now I have this iTouch, and it simply wouldn’t be like me to take the high road and pretend like I’m not smitten with this thing. (WARNING: Technobabble<\/a> ahead)
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\nSo I updated my AppleTV <\/a>yesterday. Only Greg knows what a big deal this is for me (and any owner of a hacked ATV has an inkling). I went from a hacked unit, back to factory settings, then to the latest firmware (2.1). The last couple times I messed with the ATV, there was plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth at our house, all from me. So why would I upgrade now? Well, two reasons. 1) The iTunes Remote app<\/a>, which is now available for FREE<\/del> may someday be available on the iPod Touch<\/a>. If it’s not immediately apparent to you why this is a big deal, you’ll either have an epiphany after clicking the link above, or you’ll never get it. Don’t feel bad.<\/p>\n

Reason 2) Flickr integration<\/a>. To appropriate an antiquated streetism from the now-legit Ice T, this is DOPE. You simply have <\/em>to come by the house and see my “Plants<\/a>” photo set streaming over the 37″ LCD with Bill Evans playing along in the background. And in the unlikely event I ever get sick of looking at my own pictures, I can point the ATV at any of my contacts and view their <\/em>public shots as well. It’s a lot of fun. The one gripe I have is that I can’t authenticate and view my private shots; all of my pictures of Ava are private, so this is an issue. Maybe someday.<\/p>\n

So things are going well, so far. Last time I tried this, the ATV just sat there, forever, trying to connect to the iTunes library on my Mini. This time, though, there was only a short delay before everything showed right up. I’m busy adding and renaming movies and TV shows. I also have a couple dozen .avi files that I need to change the file type on<\/a> so they’ll play on the ATV. Otherwise, all systems go. Now if the iTunes store will just come online so I can upgrade the iTouch….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And by that, I mean I hate people like my friend Ben, who sneakily slide their gorgeous iPhones out of their pockets when I’m not looking. Then, before I know it, I’m staring at this gleaming piece of hardware laid out on some bar table somewhere, and my technolust washes over me like a sepsis-induced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,4,6,10,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-entertainment","category-mac","category-misc","category-music","category-photography","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-lm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}