I preordered my Nest thermostat on Day 0. It arrived on my doorstep today. I don’t think anyone has been excited about a thermostat in the last 10 years (except for the guy who finally figured out how to program his after a couple years of not bothering) and I feel a little silly about [...]
Signed up at work but don’t have any music there so that didn’t do me any good for testing purposes.
At home, I turned it on at 6:45pm Tuesday.
Step 1 – Gathering information about your iTunes Library – took until 7:10 or so.
Step 2 – Matching your music with songs in the iTunes Store – said [...]
So I played with the Fire longer last night. I think I can actually recommend this thing as a $200 device. No, it is not even close to an iPad, but it’s also 1/3 the cost. If you just want to read books, RSS feeds, and play a few simple games then it is fine.
One [...]
Best new feature: long song/album titles now scroll in the music app (there is no iPod app now, there is a Music app and a Video app).
Worst new feature: Playlist order is broken again.
Other things I’ve noticed:
Location-based reminders are apparently only on iPhone 4S. I can set a reminder for a time but not a [...]
I am going to be camped out on my sofa for most of next week so I gave up my title of Last American Geek Without Netflix in order to have a ton of entertainment that won’t require moving from the couch.
After joining, the first 4 movies they suggested:
Howard the Duck.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Short [...]
I’m not sure why Google released “buzz” with a name far too similar to a similar product from Yahoo! without bothering to think it through a little better than they did. “Half Baked” is about the nicest way I can think of to describe it. Usually when Google releases a product that is far [...]
Dear HTML5 Video Element,
Wake me when you support fullscreen. Thanks.
These notes were taken as I started having trouble with Acronis True Image Home 2009 (and later ATI 2010). They were taken as the problems happened and solutions were tried, so it isn’t formatted as a nice and pretty story. It also doesn’t include new problems, like “why doesn’t consolidation actually consolidate the backups?”. I [...]
At some point around 2000/2001 I finally bought my personal domain name sirshannon.com and started playing around on it. I was already working as a web developer but was mostly working locally and on other people’s domains. Sirshannon.com has been through many incarnations but I realized early on that I would need a [...]
There were blatantly stolen from whomever wrote the DMU2 bookmarklets I use. Use them to vote Keep or Ditch on photos in The Gutter™ on Flickr. Just drag them to a spot on your browser’s toolbar, visit an image in the pool, leave a remark, then click the appropriate link. The bookmarklet [...]