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Monday, March 26, 2007

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Isn't It Embarassing?

TV commercials that use the same song! Didn't their agencies check who else is using the same song? Energizer Pampers training pants Hotels.com Ford more... (sorted by song) "Just What I Needed" - The Cars (Circuit City) "Lust For Life"- Iggy Pop (Carnival Cruiselines) "U Can't Touch This"- MC Hammer (Purrell) "Picture Book"- The Kinks (Hewlett Packard)

"Weight"- The Band (Cingular) "Let My Love Open the Door"- Pete Townshend (JC Penneys) "It's Over"- Roy Orbison (Blockbuster) "Have Love, Will Travel"- The Sonics (Land Rover)

"Run Away"- Real McCoy (Lexus) "Should I Stay or Should I Go"- The Clash (Pontiac) "I Want to Break Free"- Queen (Coke) "Rock 'N' Roll"- Led Zeppelin (Cadillac)

"Got To Be Real"- Cheryl Lynn (Clairol) "Rock 'n Me"- Steve Miller Band (Wrangler) "What's new Pussycat"- Tom Jones (Special K) "I Feel Good"- James Brown (Ameriquest)

"Dream On"- Aerosmith (Buick) "Comon' Get Happy"- The Partridge Family (PA Lottery) "Rescue Me"- Aretha Franklin (Pledge) "Magic Carpet Ride"- Steppenwolf (Chevy)

"Too Hot Ta Trot"- The Commodores (Special K) "All Right Now"- Free (Tweeter) "Give it to Me, Baby"- Rick James (Papa John's) "I Can See For Miles"- The Who (Silverstar)

"Happy Together"- The Turtles (Clinique) "I Melt With You"- Modern English (Ritz) "Dream Weaver"- Gary Wright (Macy*s) "Push It"- Salt-n-Pepa (Nextel)

"She's a Lady"- Tom Jones (Commerce Bank) "Complicated"- The Rolling Stones (Lexmark) "Love Hurts"- Nazareth (Norelco) "Rebel Yell"- Billy Idol (Blockbuster)

"I've Got the Power"- Snap (Hotels.com, Pampers, Ford) "You Sexy Thing"- Hot Chocolate (Applebees) "Over Under Sideways Down"- The Yardbirds (Chevy) "Let's Get it On"- Nazareth (Chevy Mailibu)

Apple TV OS loosed into the wilds

Apple TV will succeed like Palm and Wii because intentionally or unintentionally it is allowing the user base (their fans) to make mods and make it better.

Posted Mar 26th 2007 6:36AM by Thomas Ricker Filed under: Home Entertainment, Media PCs

It was just a matter of time until the immanently hackable Apple TV OS was released into the wild. Afterall, the OS and internal disk drives have already been ripped from the svelte chassis, mixed in with higher density disks, and burned back into Apple's set top box. Of course, the 200MB Apple TV OS image is likely locked to Apple TV hardware and runs on Intel procs only, but these are just minor annoyances as we've seen before. Given its mach kernel and BSD origins, it won't be long before Apple TV becomes the homebrew happy-hacking platform of choice. Hear that team XMBC, there's a new sheriff in town. Now please, somebody enable that goofy USB port for something a bit more useful than "service," mkay?