Guess What: Macs Can Now Apply
December 4th, 2008Although it had been previously announced, I was quite pleased to wake up Thursday morning to find a welcome message in my Inbox from Netflix – the online video rental company — that “now you can watch movies (some new releases) instantly on your Mac.”
Most Netflix rental plans beyond entry-level offer the free service, and they have 12,000 movies in the library right now, some of them fairly current. The only downside, from an emotional point of view, is that you have to install Microsoft’s free Silverlight browser plug to enable this feature. But I regard this as a trivial issue, since it doesn’t seem to have any negative effects that I can see. Picture quality in my early tests seemed decent enough, with just a few motion artifacts for action-filled scenes.
Some months ago, one of our sponsors, Citrix Online, proudly announced a Mac version of GoToMeeting, the popular online presentation service. Up till then, Macs could connect to a conference, but they weren’t able to originate one. Their sister service, GoToMyPC, has yet to add full Mac support, but it does appear that they have good reason to move in that direction.
