I'm assuming it means it's the same as the Chromecast, i.e. it isn't powered from the HDMI port.

Chromecast is typically powered by the USB port on the TV, not the wall. I'm not going to buy this if I need to plug it into the wall.

> Chromecast is typically powered by the USB port on the TV, not the wall.

Chromecast is powered by USB, whether that comes from the TV or the wall depends on whether the TV has a free USB port (which requires having a USB port to start with.) I suspect lots of Chromecasts are used with older, pre-USB TVs (the popularity of TV USB ports largely coincides with Smart TVs, and Chromecast adds more to a TV that isn't already a Smart TV.)

If you're concerned about this sort of thing (which I think we all should be) you can use something like boxcryptor.

I thought it was just me that felt like this...

Ironsocket. They provide VPN (support OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP), http/socks5 proxies all over the place and a DNS proxy - in the one package. Can't fault them.

It's such an epic security risk, I can't understand why you'd want to risk using XP?

Its firewalled and scanned regularly, browse with Chrome, careful with emails and downloads, so far so good? I don't do anything anything critical on it anyways. It will be retired soon though.

Maybe not 'lightweight', but I'll throw it out there: how about the MS Express editions (all free)?

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-st...

More details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb308754.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/default.aspx

That's a possibility, but can you use it to build programs that can be posted on a web page? I really wish there was something that felt like writing C# in Visual Studio Express, but produced JavaScript apps.

(He has a Mac, so we'd more likely wind up with Eclipse... not as polished, but similar idea.)

How about Aptana Studio? http://www.aptana.com/

Thanks -- I'll check it out.

past tense of 'rise up'

I understood the meaning. Perhaps I am wrong, as english is not my first tongue, but is there anywhere to rise that is not up?

I don't see why you're asking these questions, if english is not your native language and you really wonder what "rose up" means, search around first. Your second question is equally pointless.

PS: Read about "phrasal verbs" and you may stop plaguing actually useful submissions with pointless comments.

My 2c:

Divide and conquer

Learning this stuff can get overwhelming pretty quickly if you try to do it all at once. Especially when the new tech you want to learn has dependencies on a million other things that you also discover need learning.

Start with a high level overview of what you need to learn to get the picture in your head, think 'shallow but wide'.

Then pick out the main concepts (eg MVC) and learn about that, so you have an idea of the reasons for the way things are being done how they are.

Next pick the specific framework - start with the basics for the -dependencies- for it; there's no point in working through a tutorial if you don't have the assumed knowledge. And then move on to progressing through learning the actual framework.

Don't forget Stackoverflow - you'll be able to find answers there. Any most of all, good luck!

They only know that data because you put it there in the first place. If you don't want it available - dont put it on the Internet.... is this really such a hard concept to grasp?

You could try Cloudflare?

http://avgjoegeek.net/cloudflare-review/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/02/29/how-clo...

(I'm not affiliated in any way with these guys, and I'm aware they just had an outage while updating the server code to defend against a DDOS attack, but they seem good! )