http://www.toddstauffer.com Mac guy, tech author and alt-weekly publisher Todd Stauffer. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:19:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can't tell you how impressed I was this week when I received an e-mail from Cellular South (our Mississippi-based cell provider for most of the phones in our office) touting an upcoming service -- NetBooks. Pictured is what looks to be a 10-inch Dell Inspiron Mini, configured with a ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2009/06/cellular-south-readies-netbook-deal/ If you're spending as much time on Netflix Watch Instantly as I am (thank you Roku!), you'll really appreciate this site: InstantWatcher.com. This very clever mash-up takes content from the Netflix API and marries it up with the YouTube API in order to show clips; it also uses the NYTimes' ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2009/06/instantwatchercom-tv-guide-for-watch-instantly/ Something I've wanted since the holidays is what I've wistfully referred to as "the Box" -- the Roku Netflix Player, which is designed, essentially, to connect your TV to your broadband cable connection so that you can view Netflix's Watch Instantly movies and TV shows without cabling your computer to ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2009/05/roku-rocks/ Yes, I've given up on my iPhone for now (that's another, longer story) but for those of you still clinging to yours in locales better served by AT&T, check this out. UStream is planning a special iPhone application that will enable you to watch the Inauguration of Barack Obama live ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2009/01/ustreams-iphone-app-for-inauguration/ Apple announced today that Steve Jobs would not keynote the San Francisco Macworld Expo in January 2009, suggesting (a.) that there isn't anything cool enough for Jobs to personally go public with and (b.) that Apple feels the tradeshow has runs its course in terms of usefulness to the company. ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2008/12/ends-of-an-era-macworld/ This is a big deal...Netflix is moving from a DVD-based service to a streaming based service, and the lack of Mac support up until now has been a stumbling block. Now, though, there's a beta of the Netflix player for Mac! This could be big -- if Netflix can figure ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2008/11/netflix-player-in-beta-for-mac/ On Wednesday, Apple reported one of its best quarters in its history, including the incredibly revelation that they'd sold more iPhone 3Gs in one quarter than they'd sold iPhones since their introduction. Apple posted revenue of $7.9 billion and a profit of $1.14 billion, compared to $6.22 billion and net ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2008/10/apple-posts-huge-numbers/ If you're up and running with your "Web 2.0" blog and looking for some interesting widgets and other tools to add another dimension to your blogging, AdaptiveBlue is worth a look. The widgets are fun -- you can show your NetFlix queue, NYTimes best sellers, Rolling Stone movie reviews -- ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2008/09/adaptiveblue-worth-a-look/ Just a quick note that this guy is doing some really fun work with WordPress templates, creating some exciting magazine and "conversation" driven templates. One of his templates, Arthemia, I intend to use for BOOM Jackson magazine; another is Platformate, which is a really interesting layout for a site that ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2008/08/great-wordpress-templates/ I just came across BuddyPress, which is (or will be) a collection of plug-ins for WordPress MU (multiuser), that makes turns MU from what it is -- a blogging platform for multiple users -- into what it could be -- a full social network. The plug-ins allow you to create ... http://www.toddstauffer.com/2008/08/buddypress-very-interesting/