As with Daredevil, Marvel is bringing Jessica Jones to Netflix. This one is a bit of a curiosity to me. I liked the story line, but I liked Luke Cage’s story much better. Either way, we get both in one. I’ll be interested to see if they strike into a New Avengers kind of line, like they did in the comics. My guess is that while I’ll enjoy it, I don’t think the series is likely to last long enough to need to jump the shark like they did in the comics…
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
If you haven’t seen Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. then you’re in for a treat (if you’re me). No TV so I didn’t get to see it untill it showed up on Netflix. Then I binge watched it. A very joyous occasion.
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Running SSH on 1st Revision AppleTVs
Sometimes it can be really useful to have an SSH connection into your AppleTV. If I need to explain why then you probably won’t want to do it. Unless of course, you’re just after getting something like Boxee running, which we’ll look at as well. Before we get into doing anything to your AppleTV, when we’re done I do not know how Apple will feel about your warranty moving forward, so do this stuff at your own risk (but that’s pretty much true for many articles on this site)… So first up, let’s install SSH. To get started, plug in a jump drive you don’t mind reformatting. Then run the…
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NetFlix and the Mac
So I was a tad bit offended when NetFlix started to support the Xbox before supporting the Mac. But it’s all OK. You can now watch bad movies while on the road. Just log into NetFlix, find a movie that has a Play button and click on it. If you don’t already have the Silverlight Plug-in installed it will ask you to do so and you’ll be ready to rock and roll. Enjoy.
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Mono 2.0
Mono 2.0 allows .Net developers to use Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X. Mono comes with MeMA, a tool that allows for automated .Net to Linux migrations away from .Net. A lot is being made these days about Silverlight. Look at what our friends from NetFlix have done for Mac users with it. Well, the Mono framework was leveraged to write a Mono-based plugin compatible with Silverlight that they are calling Moonlight. This is pretty cool because it allows Silverlight developers to convert their code into Moonlight and then publish it as an actual desktop application rather than a more web-oriented widget. The open source community has provided a really…
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iPhone Application: Charles' NetFlix
Before you write an application, check and make sure it hasn’t already been written by someone who’s a better programmer. 😉 Either way, here’s my second go at writing an iPhone app. Still waiting for approval to get that account…
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NetFlix Now Online
OK, so NetFlix was always online, but did you know that you can watch movies online too. Not all, but chances are, if you have enough movies in your queue that you’ll have at least one that is able to be watched online. The technology that allows all of this is Microsoft’s Silverlight. Because Silverlight is not yet available for the Mac you can’t watch NetFlix online from a Mac just yet. Rumor has it that Silverlight will be available soon though, so just be patient and it’ll get there… Another aspect of NetFlix that is often overlooked is social networking. You can rate movies and then share your queue…