Why I love Plex and How It Just Got Better

I found out about Plex on April 28th, 2010 and have been using it daily since then. Those of you who know me personally, I have made you download the application. Plex allows you to not only download and watch apps such as Netflix, CNN, Youtube, MLB, NatGeo, and many others, it allows you to watch all your personal movie files as well, including your .mkv files.

There are other apps that allowed you to do this as well, but most of those froze when trying to play an 11.1gb 1080p .mkv file of Dark Night. Plex allowed me not only play, pause, fast forward and rewind movies of this size, but it also allowed me to do it using my iMac and apple remote, turning my computer into a full entertainment system.

Plex also lets you access other programs on your computer as well, such as the dvd player, or hulu desktop. From across the room, using only the five button apple remote I am able to access pretty much any tv show, movie, or movie file I want.

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The new iPhone / iPod / iPad app now allows you to control Plex from your mac device. So you iPod has now become a multi media controller. Also, the new version of Plex, for mac, has a better interface and more apps so you can watch Comedy Central, MTV, NBC, Netflix, plus a lot more.

Plex version 9 has recently come out and is available for free download now at www.plexapp.com. If you have a mac and like watching movies, I advise you download this app immediately.


Sources: [CrunchGear] [TechCrunch] [Plex]

Mac Technology: Draw on your Track Pad

This application is perfect for traveling sales men who need to take peoples signatures, as well as graphic designers who need to draw in a specific graphic.

Source: Engadget + Gizmodo + Inklet

TV on your iPhone

TOP Ways to Watch TV on your iPhone


1. Sling iPhone Application

The major problem with the Sling iPhone app is that you need to also purchase a Sling box and have it hooked up to a cable box that no one else is using. If this is something that you would not mind, then the Sling iPhone application is perfect for you.

2. Mophie TV Pack

The FLO TV Mophie iPhone, application and encasing allows you to watch HD basic TV from your iPhone while on the go. The encasing makes the iPhone 2mm thicker and much heavier, but still lets you watch broadcast TV.


Source: Engadget, Sling Media, and FLO TV

The Future of Newspapers

As people move away from reading printed newspapers to the internet and television news, newspapers are becoming more and more extinct. But the New York Times, whose website is already a popular news source, has turned to the computer application.

Now instead of subscribing to the New York Times newspaper and having it delivered to your home every morning, you can download the free TimesReader 2.0 application for all operating systems. This application allows you to read the newspaper every morning from your computer, creating the feel of a newspaper with the technological advances of the internet.

Though a full subscription of the TimesReader cost $3.45 a week, but the free version works perfectly and updates me on the news I want to read. Digital newspapers are the clear future of

printed ad, and the creation of the newspaper application was a smart move by the NYTimes.

The future business applications of this product are endless. Once OE Technology released its 6 mainstream technology products next year, TimesReader is almost positively going to be part of the automobile entertainment system. Imagine calling a cab, getting in the back seat and being able to flip through the digital newspaper on the OE Technology touchscreen entertainment system, all while on your way to work.

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Skype: The Future of Home and Business Communication

Skype has expanded its video chatting market by placing their technology in the comforts of everyones home. Now large family's can video chat globally for free.

The Skype service on a TV will work much as it does on a PC, but with some limitations. A TV program will stop playing once a Skype call is made or answered; TV processors are not yet powerful enough to allow people to chat while they watch a show, the companies say.

Panasonic, based in Japan, and LG, based in South Korea, will sell specially designed Web cameras for their Skype-enabled sets, which should cost $100 to $200. These cameras, unlike typical webcams, are customized for the technically challenging environment of the living room, where there can be a wide range of distances between the TV and viewers.

New York Times

Skype TV's will be a cheaper business communication method than the current global video communication software and hardware offered by Cisco. The Skype enabled TV is perfect for business conference rooms.

For businesses looking to use cheap video chatting technologies to accomplish business tasks should also look into using the gmail business function, which allows companies to control chats, email, and video conferencing all from an email web browser.

Best Free Mac Apps of 2009

Alice

Create 3D models and learn programming with an easy drag-and-drop method designed for students.

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Avery DesignPro

Design and print labels, business cards, dividers, T-shirt transfers, greeting cards and more, using templates and stock art. Merge data from Address Book, Mail, iPhoto and iTunes.

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Celtx

Celtx specializes in story development and script writing for film, TV, theatre and new media. Features include a project schedule, media rich breakdowns, production reports, and collaboration. Amazing that you get all this free.

- Free Download -

Dream Diary

Keep track of your dreams — or any other notes — by date and subject.

- Free Download -

Fluid

Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps.

- Free Download -

Freedom

If you cannot help but surf the internet instead of doing business or school work on your mac, Freedom is perfect as it shuts off and locks your internet access for the time you set it for. The only way to access the internet while freedom is active is to restart your computer.

- Free Download -

Gimp

Want to edit pictures but don't have photoshop. Download this program for free to edit and create digital media.

- Free Download -

Hugin

Assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

- Free Download -

Nvu

Don't want to use Front Page or Dreamweaver, Nvu is a free html editor great for creating blog entries on the go and editing webpage html.

- Free Download -

Open Office

Microsoft Office alternative for Mac, completely free and works amazingly.

- Free Downloads -

Pando

Send and receive files and folders up to 1GB with your existing email account. It bypasses email attachment limits and accelerates downloads of huge files and folders.

- Free Download -

Site Sucker

Download an entire website so you can view it from your hard drive.

- Free Download -

Sweet Home 3D

Interior design app helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. Choose from a variety of rooms and objects to put in them.

- Free Download -

Vienna

Its better than getting the newspaper in the morning. Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts. Imagine reading six or seven newspapers every morning.

- Free Download -

Source: ThriftMac

Google Catching Apple in the Browser Game

Its official, Chrome has passed Safari in internet browser market share.

source: The Apple Blog

Safari Beta was no match for the Google Chrome and development of more and more web-based netbooks, especially now that Chrome Beta has been released for Mac's.

Try them both our for FREE:

• Chrome [mac] [pc] [linux]
• Safari [mac] [pc]