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 [...]
GarageBand on iPhone is impressive. They managed to make it support everything the iPad version does, but intelligently hid a lot of things in menus so there is room on the screen.
The piano keyboard is small (tiny!) but the drums may actually be a little easier to play for me than they are on iPad.
The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I just installed Nikon Camera Control Pro 2 on an HP Mini 1000 running Windows 7 RC (installed via “run as administrator”) and it appeared to install but did not recognize my Nikon D200 when I plugged it in.
So I downloaded and installed Camera Control version 2.5 (again via “run as administrator”) and [...]
at&t’s Mercury USB 3G Modem will not work on Windows 7 RC1 using the software that installs from the USB drive but after the installation, you can hit Windows Update and there will be 2 Sierra Wireless driver updates that will solve the problem. After installing those and rebooting, I was able to use [...]