No, it isn’t April 1, so I think this is really true. Boxee just made my iPad 2 even more exciting. Now, I can enjoy Boxee goodness without that huge clunky old laptop. All the Boxee features I love appear to be here. I can watch the videos my friends post and other internet videos. Really cool is I can stream local video from my Boxee enabled computers to my iPad. They’re even experimenting with implementing AirPlay. Wow, I don’t have to jailbreak my iPad to make this work, either. Hurray!

So, what’s not to love? We’re still saddled with the Boxee editors’ recommended videos. I didn’t want to see that on my TV and I don’t want to see that on my iPad. Please Avner, give me an option to remove “Featured” videos.

Way to go team Boxee! If you’re thinking what I’m thinking, you’re ready to click over and download that app. See ya.

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filebot is a great little utility that has helped me not to miss theRenamer as much I was missing it, when I first got my MacBook Pro. Giving our files consistent names in a format easily used by metadata scrapers is part of managing our media libraries. filebot can help you keep your TV shows properly named. The video above will show you how.

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I admit that I am a borderline Google fanboy.  I am quite interested in the upcoming Google TV and read today’s post from Google with great interest.  Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand, YouTube?  Check.  Check.  Check.  Yes, they also have blip.tv and Pandora.

My question is how are they going to compete with my Boxee experience.  Boxee on my PC doesn’t support Amazon VoD but it beautifully integrates the TV shows I stream with those I record locally.  (The Boxee Box will have Amazon VoD.)  The Boxee clicker app makes it easy to search for shows.  I get video feeds from my Facebook friends and can easily send videos I see on my computer to Boxee for viewing on the TV.

The user interface isn’t as slick as XBMC or iTunes or Windows Media Center but the functionality seems to be all there.  It would seem like the only way Google TV could compete with Boxee would be to make the user interface better and, let’s face it, that has never been Google’s strength has it?  So, I’m looking forward to seeing what Google TV has in store for us, but, so far, I remain skeptical.  See what Google has to say for itself and let me know your expectations in the comments.