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19th
JAN
Watch TV Online with Fancast
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Culture, TV, Video, Websites
Back on November 17th, I told you about watching network television over the internet through the various network television websites. Well now you can go to one location for not only network tv, but for cable tv as well.
Comcast Cable recently put Fancast beta online, not only for their subscribers, but for anyone browsing the internet. According to Comcast Interactive Media (CIM)
“Fancast is the first online destination that enables users to watch, manage and find entertainment content wherever it is available – on Fancast, on television, online on DVD or in theaters. On Fancast, users can view an expanding library of free full episodes and clips from top networks and movie partners, find the content they are looking for across multiple platforms and create a personalized entertainment experience.”
1st
DEC
Gallery2 Uploading for Vista
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Blogging, Gallery, Photos, Software, Technology, Vista, Websites
One of the nice features of Gallery2 is the ability to upload pictures directly to your online gallery from your hard drive by clicking the option publish this in the Explorer sidebar. However, in Vista you loose the publishing option in Explorer. But never fear! Where there is good software, there is a good programmer that finds a way to accomplish the task.
After scouring the gallery forums I found my answer. In the Gallery plugin experimental repository there is a upgrade to the WindowsXP Publish (v1.07) module called Publish XP (v1.07.1). Who knows why they didn’t just call it Windows Publish? After upgrading to the latest version of the module:
- Go to Add Items => WindowsXP => and download the registry file specifically labeled for Vista.
- After the registry file is successfully added, go into Windows Photo
Gallery and select the pictures that you want to upload to gallery.
Tags: Blogging, Gallery, Photos, Plugins, Software, Technology, Vista, Websites
21st
NOV
Best Deals from Black Friday
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Deals, Electronics, Technology
These are some of the best deals of the 2007 Black Friday weekend. The items are divided by store.
Circuit City - If you don’t want to wait in line most of the deals are available online starting at 12:01am on 11/22
- Acer 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor — $169
- SanDisk 2GB SD Memory Card –$6.99
- Sandisk 4GB High Capacity SD Memory Card w/ Free Reader — $27.99
- Element 7″ Digital Picture Frame — $49.99
- VisionTek ATI Radeon HD2400 PRO 256MB 16x PCIe Graphics Card –$49.99
- Seagate 500GB FreeAgent External Hard Drive –$79.99
- Wii Remote & Nunchuk Gloves –$2.99
- Wii Sports Set — $9.99
- SanDisk 2GB SD Memory Card — $2.99
- Seagate 320GB 3.5″ Internal SATA Hard Drive — $59.99
- Western Digital 500GB 3.5″ External Hard Drive — $99.99
Tags: Black, Black Friday, Consumer, Friday, Sales, Technology, Websites
17th
NOV
Net…(work) TV
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Culture, Websites
This September, Nikki and I started watching NBC’s “The Office” starting with season 1 which we rented from Netflix. We zipped through the first 3 seasons and were left wanting…. You see we don’t have a tv to watch the new episodes as they air. So all we had was the anticipation of season 4 on dvd in 1 year. However, the idea popped into my head that maybe in our new fangled age of the internet maybe they aired the episodes online. I was in luck. NBC Video Rewind allows fans watch most of their shows repeatedly online using a flash player. And without most of the annoying advertisements. They do typically advertise one product per episode during the regularly scheduled break. It’s typically 30 secs and can be muted. You can also resize the player inside your browser to normal, large or full screen. However, the full screen option typically locks up my entire system and forces me to close my browser and reload the page.
12th
NOV
Black Friday Preview
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Websites
Black Friday - Every year stores try to allure prospective shoppers with early bird specials, door-busters and incredible one-day-only deals in hopes of pushing their revenues into the black in their ledger books for the year. The local paper will be consumed by Thanksgiving Day advertisements, offering the consumer a one day peak at the deals spread-out before them. If you have ever attempted to go Black Friday shopping you know that the stores will be hectic and the lines will be long many hours before the sun even rises. Some avoid the day not wanting to have to wait in long lines and endure early hours to get the deals. Others will prepare for the early morning frost, wait in line and hope they made it early enough to get that door-buster special.
Tags: Black, Black Friday, Consumer, Friday, Sales, Technology, Websites
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- There is More to the Secret by Ed Gungor
- Making Your Money Count by Kenneth C. Ulmer
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Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications by D. A. Carson
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Lord, Teach Me to Study the Bible in 28 Days by Kay Arthur
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