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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

» Firefox Download Day

Today Mozilla released Firefox version 3.0. They’ve also dubbed it “Downlaod Day” as they’re attempting to break a Guinness World Record for the most downloads of a single piece of software in one day by trying to break 1 million downloads.

Their servers have been hammered all morning, and when I finally got through, it was trying to feed me Firefox version 2.0.0.14. Fortunately for me, I’m proficient in address bar hacking and was able to replace the “2.0.0.14” with “3.0” to get the new download.

Link posted about 3 months ago

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Animoto just added the option for DVD quality videos for $5 a video. That price will get you videos at a resolution of 864 x 480, rendered at 24 frames-per-second instead of the standard resolution of 432 x 240, rendered at 15 frames-per-second. The download options for the $5 upgrade are either .ISO or .MP4. (The .ISO can be burned directly to a DVD.) Or you can have Animoto create and ship you a DVD of your video for $20.

Animoto just added the option for DVD quality videos for $5 a video. That price will get you videos at a resolution of 864 x 480, rendered at 24 frames-per-second instead of the standard resolution of 432 x 240, rendered at 15 frames-per-second. The download options for the $5 upgrade are either .ISO or .MP4. (The .ISO can be burned directly to a DVD.)

Or you can have Animoto create and ship you a DVD of your video for $20.

Photo posted about 3 months ago

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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Adobe has entered the online office space with Acrobat.com. It’s not a full office suite by any means, but it does offer document creation (text docs only, no spreadsheets), web meetings and screen sharing, pdf creation (5 free), file sharing (instead of emailing large attachments), and 5gb of online storage.

Adobe has entered the online office space with Acrobat.com. It’s not a full office suite by any means, but it does offer document creation (text docs only, no spreadsheets), web meetings and screen sharing, pdf creation (5 free), file sharing (instead of emailing large attachments), and 5gb of online storage.

Photo posted about 4 months ago

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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Want to stream Netflix Watch Now title directly to your TV? Here’s the Netflix Player by Roku.

  • $100 price tag
  • Unlimited viewing (with $8.95 or higher Netflix plan)
  • PC-free movie watching
  • Built-in ethernet
  • Built-in 802.11g Wi-Fi
  • Works with all TVs
  • Upgradable firmware
  • Almost all output types available (except coaxial)

Video posted about 4 months ago

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

» Digsby Updated (Build 29)

Here are some of the more notable changes:

  • Major overhaul for MSN Conversations to fix bugs that caused messages to not be delivered sometimes
  • Fixed a bug that caused the CPU to spike to 100% if an MSN file transfer fails
  • Added a backup auto-update system in case Amazon S3 has issues again like it did last time
  • Added support for unicode and extended ascii passwords

Link posted about 4 months ago

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Monday, May 12th, 2008

After the terrible experience I had with ProFlowers at Valentine’s Day, I set out to find another online retailer for flowers. While looking for a specific flower for my wife on Mother’s Day, I stumbled across a site called deLaFlowers. Their website was professional looking and they had a decent price on the flower I was looking for. (Especially with the 15% off coupon I found at Retail Me Not.) A few days before the flowers were to be delivered I got a call from deLaFlowers that they could not locate a florist locally that could get ahold of the flowers that I wanted. They asked me if they could substitute some lillies instead. After I explained that I ordered those specifically because my wife had asked for them, the woman on the phone told me that they would try harder and give me a call back in the morning to let me know their progress. As you can tell from the picture above, they were successful in locating the flowers I had ordered and were able to have them delivered by a florist from a nearby town. This is a company that has gotten customer service right. I commend them for going out of their way to make me, the customer, happy. The next time that you order flowers online, give them a try. I hope that your experience will turn out as good as mine did.

After the terrible experience I had with ProFlowers at Valentine’s Day, I set out to find another online retailer for flowers. While looking for a specific flower for my wife on Mother’s Day, I stumbled across a site called deLaFlowers. Their website was professional looking and they had a decent price on the flower I was looking for. (Especially with the 15% off coupon I found at Retail Me Not.)

A few days before the flowers were to be delivered I got a call from deLaFlowers that they could not locate a florist locally that could get ahold of the flowers that I wanted. They asked me if they could substitute some lillies instead. After I explained that I ordered those specifically because my wife had asked for them, the woman on the phone told me that they would try harder and give me a call back in the morning to let me know their progress.

As you can tell from the picture above, they were successful in locating the flowers I had ordered and were able to have them delivered by a florist from a nearby town. This is a company that has gotten customer service right. I commend them for going out of their way to make me, the customer, happy. The next time that you order flowers online, give them a try. I hope that your experience will turn out as good as mine did.

Photo posted about 4 months ago

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Thursday, May 8th, 2008

» OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta is ready for testing

The biggest change that you will probably notice is the new “Start Center” which gives you a nice visual menu to create new documents.

Link posted about 5 months ago

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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Site Move

I decided to move the site to Tumblr, which means that all of my past posts are gone. Except for the Wii Compatible Sites post since it still gets plenty of hits a day.

On the bright side, I hope that this will lead to more frequent posts on my part.

P.S. - If you subscribed to the RSS feed before the move, you’ll most likely need to update it because the feed address has changed. 

Text posted about 5 months ago

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Wii Compatible Sites

I decided to throw together a list of all the Wii Internet Channel compatible sites that I know of. Here they are:
  • Finetune - Type an artist’s name, we create a playlist of related songs for you to listen to.
  • SofaTube - SofaTube is a specially designed web application that lets you browse and watch videos from YouTube and Revver in your living room.
  • Wii Media Center X (Must be installed on your computer) - Wii Media Center X is a free multimedia server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to stream certain types of pictures, music, videos and files from your computer (where the server running) to your Nintendo Wii. It runs on most major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
  • Orb (Must be installed on your computer) - In short, Orb provides the ability to MyCast. MyCasting gives the user instant access to photos, music, videos, live television, and other digital content on their home PC at anytime and from any internet-connected device, such as a mobile phone, PDA, laptop, or Wii.
  • SWiiTSPOT - The SWiiTSPOT is a user-driven social bookmarking site aimed at users of the Nintendo Wii console.
  • WiiCade.com - Flash-based arcade games that can be played on the Wii.
  • WiiFii - A lunchpad for various Wii compatible flash games. (thanks tim 4rd)
  • WiiAim - WiiAim will allow you to use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) to instant message people on your Wii using the new browser. It is currently under development.
  • WiiToob - A Wii friendly interface for watching videos on YouTube.
  • Candystand - Wii compatible games from Wrigley. (thanks Billy)
  • Stumble Video - Stumble Video automatically finds and plays videos that match your interests.
  • WiiHear - A Directory of Internet Radio Stations for Wii Listeners.
  • WiiTube - A social site for Wii owners to share tip and tricks via YouTube.
  • WiiWasHere - Nintendo wifi codes. (thanks Linkish)
  • Wiidirect - A launchpad for wii specific sites. (thanks hexpunK)
  • WiiPlayable - Flash games playable from the Wii browser. (thanks hexpunK)

If you know of any that I didn’t list, let me know in the comments and I’ll add it to the list.

Text posted about 5 months ago

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