Apple has updated their AppleTV software and I feel this makes it a far more viable product to have.

I have been down on the AppleTV because it wasn’t a true DVR.  It still isn’t, as it can’t record video, but at the time it was little more than a media extender.  I never found much use for media extenders, unless they could be had ultra cheap.  But the new software, dubbed Take Two, makes the AppleTV a much better product, full of more useful features.

I have been using my AppleTV for several months now, and I bought it shortly before …

Over the course of my geek life, I have collected and used many gadgets.  Some have been good and some have been bad.  To shed light on what makes a gadget good in the eyes of a geek, I give you “The 10 Commandments of Geek Gadgetry.”

I. Thou shalt use a standard plug (preferably USB).  I cannot tell you how convenient it is to have gadgets that use standard plugs for power and to interface with a PC or other piece of hardware.  It just makes life so much better when something fails or if you have to, God forbid, …

For those of you who saw my post on TV On The Go and then followed or participated in the comments, here’s the latest.

For years, I have been pulling recorded TV manually (because of a bug in DVArchive that doesn’t allow it to run reliably forever, at least on my PC) from my ReplayTV to a PC and then running a semi-complex series of scripts to convert the quasi-proprietary MPEG-2 streams to divx so that I can take the shows on the road on my Archos 504.

I decided to try a piece of software called iPodifier.  This is a nifty …