In this hungry hungry episode of the hellyeah! show, we discuss mechanical keyboards, Skyrim, Alan’s MacBook Pro repair, a failed attempt to temporarily replace a laptop with an iPad, DNSCrypt and secure DNS, the impending duel between Apple and Microsoft over the living room, and PlayStation 4 rumors.
Check out the show notes after the break…
Emory’s stuff
- loud keyboard best keyboard
- Sirius “demo/trial”
- Skyrim is pretty cool but the intro is too long
Alan’s stuff
- Apple repaired my black-screening, almost-two-year-old MacBook Pro
- I can’t survive on an iPad alone
- Switching Off Lion
- Cobook is incredible
DNSCrypt for OS X
- encrypt your DNS traffic
- Emory: why this helps
- http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41072/dnscrypt
Apple vs. Microsoft on the Big Screen
- Apple has Apple TV, rumored to be releasing a TV set later this year
- Microsoft has Xbox 360 and Kinect
- key elements are:
- integrating content from multiple services
- voice search and voice control
- http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/xbox_live_tv_why_microsoft_not_apple_will_dominate_television_streaming_.html
PlayStation 4 (“Orbis”)
- 2013 release (developers getting debug models toward end of 2012)
- will not support PS3 games
- restrictions on used games
- you can download new games via PSN
- you can also buy Blu-ray discs of games and attach those discs to your PSN account
- http://kotaku.com/5896996/the-next-playstation-is-called-orbis-sources-say-here-are-the-details/
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