I agree with your post… but my comment is completely off-topic. The contact link on the Afloat download page didn’t work… so I’ll post here:

I’d like to report a small bug in Afloat!
Adium’s chat window loses its “afloat” status when a new tab is opened. Transparency and multi-space state remains consistent, but it becomes a regular window again.
I’m guessing this is because Adium has a customised Window menu on the menu bar. Rather than a “Chats” window, it shows as a list of the specific tabs within the window.

I don’t know if you would consider this a legitimate bug, but Adium is the app I use Afloat for most often… so it would be awesome if it could be made compatible.

Cheers

Hooray, Crunchyroll!

I have a love-hate relationship with tee vee. If I’m watching some after work it means:

* my brain is dead and i need to chill out
* i’m not writing or practicing my instrument, etc

But you need to chill out sometimes, you do. I’m not sure we can really expect a kind of Genius or personalized aggregator to do it for us. I’m thinking that’s why people love their Tivo so much (but not Crunchyroll there) and why so many other people just watch whatever show they like directly on the network websites.

Maybe your ultimate media center is a kind of RSS aggregator for visual media, and you just tell it what “channels” to watch, and maybe they can be from “anywhere” with a wide variety of codec support. I’m actually a little surprised there isn’t such a thing now.

As a side note, I think this is why Al3x Payne has it all wrong about feed readers being the “wrong” way to aggregate the Stuff You Like (aside from the fact that Twitter sees RSS as the devil). As you come across video feeds, add them to your list. When you sit down at night, have the media center play video from them, allow you to thumb through the feeds with your remote.

Take revision 3.
I like a lot of their shows, but I can’t download each and every one of them in iTunes, expecially when they can be conveniently streamed.
But sometimes I don’t want to choose, and pick, and set, and tweak….I just want CONTENT THROWN AT ME. Let me pick my shows beforehand and let me just chose the genre I’m interested in. Then I can lose my apple remote in the couch, as I normally do.

I think instead of it working like smart playlists, it should be even lazier and work like genius and start to learn what kinda of tv you like. Also this would be better for advertisers because they can send more effective ads.