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Twitter maintenance alert - is this still necessary?

Posted by Adam on June 28th, 2008

Would it surprise anyone to find the service down?

Vista: Don’t worry, we have Blue Screens too

Posted by Adam on June 22nd, 2008

Well, just had my first “Blue Screen of Death” with Vista. Only had Firefox open, but it didn’t like something I was doing. I was creating a new Widgetbox widget and suddenly everything went blue. The machine quickly restarted by itself and when it came back to the […]

Download record: FAIL

Posted by Adam on June 17th, 2008

What happens when you ask the whole world to download your software at the same time? They do.
Better be ready.

YouTube - our friend in helping catch stupid criminals

Posted by Adam on June 13th, 2008

I know some people who may not be quite as hip to the whole Internet generation seem to think that YouTube and similar sites are to blame for people taping themselves doing stupid things and then posting them to the sites. But I’m actually thankful to have sites like YouTube. Without them people would […]

One more reason to love TiVo

Posted by Adam on June 11th, 2008

Sweet! Just got a good deal from TiVo. As I mentioned earlier, one of my TiVo units broke so I was going to replace it with a newer DT unit. So I looked on TiVo’s website and found the one I wanted - $99. Not bad.
But off to the side of the order […]

I can’t live with only one TiVo!

Posted by Adam on June 11th, 2008

I came home from traveling a few days to find that the TiVo unit in the bedroom has suddenly given up the ghost on me. It was paused on a show that I know I wasn’t watching when I left the house and was stuck. I unplugged the unit, plugged it back in and […]

Which makes news - Twitter down or Twitter actually up?

Posted by Adam on June 2nd, 2008

Ugh, again?

Twitter’s down again?!!!
How long before the community moves to a new platform?
I’m ready to go when you guys are.

Thanks, but what we really want is full on-demand viewing

Posted by Adam on May 30th, 2008

So, I just got my new Netflix Player box a few days ago and I really like it. Works great, free content from Netflix whenever I want, and couldn’t be easier to use.
Then today I’m reading one story about The Daily Show being streamed online followed by another about how great it would […]

Apple’s newest product: the iRack

Posted by Adam on July 5th, 2007

New Google Maps features

Posted by Adam on June 30th, 2007