Archive for the ‘MechaWorks’ Category

I’ll be speaking at Google on Monday next week, talking about iConsole and home theater options. It’s free and open to the public. I know it’s short notice, but click over to the MechaWorks blog post to see the details. I’ll be sure to post notated slides afterwords at least, and possibly video if we [...]

About nine months after we tipped our hat on what we were working on, iConsole Alpha 1 is now available. We’ve met with countless developers, engineers, and company partners (both announced and waiting-in-the-wings). It’s been an amazing nine months, juggling everything from corporate filings, to actually writing the code to piece iConsole together. Today is [...]

I didn’t expect to have that take over a month. My personal apologizes for my absence. Worst of all, I can’t gripe or point blame at the reason for the delay… two things I’m commonly known for being very good at. So, I’ll blame the lawyers for not letting me say why. As soon as [...]

Starting Sunday, I will be falling off the face of the web. I will be generally unavailable as I spend every waking moment preparing to ship iConsole Alpha 1. What I’ll be doing is adding the final bits of code to the release, beginning the testing, and making final server arrangements with the web team [...]

About a week ago, someone asked me if iConsole would support VPN. I paused and answered flatly that yes, it would in an upcoming release… but the pause wasn’t to come up with an answer. The real question that came to my mind wasn’t “will iConsole support VPN?” Instead, I read that question as “how [...]

It seems like a good year since we unveiled Project Full Circle… back in September. Since then, a lot has happened, but today marks the first day that you can sign up to tap into all that R&D that we’ve been brewing up over the past couple of years. So, without further ado, head on [...]

I’ve been in Silicon Valley for the past six months, and, well, it’s been a bumpy ride. From apathy to a lot of companies ready and willing to zap our cash at MechaWorks… yeah, the economy is still pretty bad out here. And, with that, we’ve started looking at other options. One of those, is [...]

Yes, I have been tweeting quite a bit, and some of the content of that has slipped through the blog. I’ll try to keep that more in-balance going forward. But, to avoid any more slipping up, I’ve added a Twitter widget to the right side of the site, right below the link to my contact [...]

We’re going to begin the rebrand to Newsroom Network this week, in-line with our plan to have it completed by year’s end. CheapenGadget.com will be the first site to get rebranded, with an all-new name as well. What’s the new name? Well, you’ll have to wait until later this week to find out. Since it’s [...]

Well, two weeks without a blog post usually requires an explanation… I don’t want people to think I’m getting out of touch. We’ve been hard at work with Full Circle, taking some great feedback in. Probably the best feedback we’ve gotten is on how to avoid being considered yet another Phantom console (something I’ve coined [...]