It’s all over the news today that 117 Best Buy stores are taking part in the largest national e-waste recycling effort ever. It’s a pilot program, so it’s limited to three large areas. But, Best Buy markets are a bit deceptive. For example, the San Francisco region includes Sacramento… a good 90 minutes away. Thankfully, […]
For some reason, Apple doesn’t post all their TV ads in HD… still. Confusing yes, but there is a quick way to get the HD version. See, Apple’s web team makes the ads in HD, they just forget to link to them. Let’s take the latest Coldplay iTunes ad as an example. It only plays […]
No offense to Mr. Eddings, his email box is full today… with junk press requests trying to confirm .Mac’s transition to Me.com. As MacRumors has picked apart, Me.com appears to be the new site for Apple’s .Mac service, and Kenneth Eddings over at Apple is listed in the SOA record as the technical contact… confirming […]
These ads have been on for quite awhile… I actually haven’t blogged on them simply thinking they would go away. Instead, they’ve been “refreshed” with the same cruddy content… but with new people pitching the same, well, crud. I have nothing against DeVry, or online universities. I actually think that schools which chose to avoid […]
Engadget claims Toshiba has no shame, I say Engadget has no brain. Toshiba today touched on plans to move forward with adding HD into the standard DVD spec, something which I blogged about in-depth previously. Good for them, the more competition, the lower the retail price… the better for consumers.
This one really has me aggravated as a consumer advocate. So, Comcast decided that the FCC regulations only require them to give one CableCARD per household for free. And, thus, they tacked on a $1.79/month fee for the second CableCARD. This is actually sneaky tactic to bump up the cost of TiVo HD service to […]
If you have Flash Player 10 Beta installed on your Mac, Mac OS X 10.5.3 will erase it. This was done to ensure that everyone else got the latest security update, unfortunately the update package doesn’t run a version check to see if you have a Flash Player version newer than the one 10.5.3 includes. […]
A reader let me know that people already using Live Mesh can quickly invite a few other people to sign on to the program… First few people that post a comment, will get an invite. Be sure to use your Live ID as your email address when posting the comment.
It’s been awhile since the Xbox team did something stupid. Fortunately, this week they did something stupid… with gusto! In a nutshell, in case you haven’t heard, Microsoft has announced that they have tenative plans to stop selling certain Xbox Live Arcade games which both have low review scores, and have a low “conversion rate” […]
LinuxDevices.com said over two years ago “The day when WiFi cards “just work” under Linux may be fast approaching.” Sorry, hasn’t happened yet. This is one of those things that hardcore Linux users scoff at, and everyone else says “exactly!” I have never been able to make a secure Wi-Fi connection (WPA or WPA2) on […]