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Netflix Hits It Out Of The Park With Xbox360 HD Streaming October 29, 2008

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Netflix HD on Xbox360

Netflix HD on Xbox360

Netflix has apparently hit a home run with it’s new (yet to be released-Nov. 19th) High-Definition movie streaming application for Xbox360’s.  HD streaming is clearly the future of media and Netflix is the first one to deliver this long awaited  feature.  I’ve been using the regular Netflix service for years now and have nothing but great things to say about it, but this is a game changer.  Kudus to Microsoft for realizing that this will drive Xbox360 sales perhaps at some cost to their own over-priced movie downloads.  Once this hits the Xbox360 will be on a lot of christmas lists, and not just kids either.  Netflix has priced this right (free!) with your existing traditonal Netflix movie account and your Xbox360 gold membership.  To be fair there is only a limited selection of HD movies (and TV shows) available, but expect this to increase as studios begin to realize revenues from streaming.  Netflix pays the studios a very small amount every time you stream their movies, and while Netflix is currently absorbing those costs to drive membership this cannot last.  Expect that there will be fees in the future, but for now this is the media delivery system that consumers want.

Yahoo craps on itself! July 14, 2008

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This company is incompetent.  They literally owned the Internet, they had huge market share, and through complete lack of innovation, they gave it to Google.  Today Yahoo! took the one last good thing they had (My Yahoo) and FORCED users to switch to some new 2.0 version, which to put it mildly, sucks ass.  Why wouldn’t they give users a choice?  Can’t afford the disk space?  Really?  They had a product I was mostly happy with and ruined it.  Nice going dipshits.  Do these guys own google stock or what?  How is it it possible that one of the biggest companies in the valley hasn’t made any significant changes to their core site in years (other then ruin the few things that worked well?  They have hundreds of employees and millions of dollars of market cap, what do these people do all day?  I know it’s not customer service, you would know that too if you ever tried to get any out of them.  They hide their phone numbers, and don’t even have email support.  They make you fill in forms which are auto-handled (incorrectly) and ignored.  Yahoo had to go out and buy innovation (Flickr), and even then they didn’t always do a good job.  So by switching me to your lame my yahoo 2.0 you are dead to me now Yahoo.  I thought it was My Yahoo, apparently not.

AtomFilms – Animator vs. Animation II November 19, 2006

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This is brilliant, and very entertaining, a must watch:

AtomFilms – Animator vs. Animation II

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HBO SPECIAL Hacking Democracy – Google Video November 6, 2006

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HBO SPECIAL Hacking Democracy – Google Video

Bravo again HBO for another brilliant documentary. HBO has been firing on all cylinders recently. I have to ask myself however how come I’m not watching this on CNN or NBC? Has investigative journalism moved from the news to the entertainment division? How, as a people, did we let that happen? This is a truly frightening look at the corporate insidiousness that has taken over our country. They bought the fourth estate, and if you pay attention, you may begin to wonder, as I am, what else.

Right on HBO

JungleDisk – Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3™ October 4, 2006

Posted by weare1 in Internet, OS X, frugality, gadgets, geek, software.
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jdisk.jpgHard disks fail. It’s only a matter of time. Backups are a pain in the ass. Finally I’ve found a great solution for this common computing problem. JungleDisk is a cross-platform application to backup your data off-site on Amazon’s S3 storage server cloud. This thing is fantastic, and the economics of the S3 backup service are good. Having your data off-site is essential because any catastrophe could take out your original data as well as your on-site backups. Even RAID is not a good solution because of the locality of the data.

While JungleDisk isn’t perfect, it’s a great start. It has built-in encryption to protect your data, you can backup and access your data as a drive letter disk. This tool is going to help me sleep better at night, and that’s a good thing. I heartily recommend this application and service.

JungleDisk – Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3™

I digg sleeping better at night

Yahoo! Easter Egg August 18, 2006

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yahoo-logo-767054.gifYahoo easter egg discovered. Click on the exclamation point in the Yahoo! logo and you hear the “yahoooooo” yell.

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You Say You Want A Revolution? August 13, 2006

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police_squad_1.jpgWhy Does Windows Still Suck? / Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn’t everyone on a Mac?

Expensive Bits August 12, 2006

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CameraI’m about to get a new fancy digital camera. I’d like to get a nice photo editing package to go with it. (OS X) Most Experts recommend Photoshop CS2. However at $695 this is actually more then the computer it’s going to run on. $695 is too much. I agree it’s the best product on the market, but that really is ridiculous when you consider their marginal cost on these is like $10-20. Too bad piccasa is Windows only. Gimp is too makeshifty. I heard good things about the new iPhoto, but I only have the old one with osx 10.3.9.