It’s basically just like Sezmi, except it works with DVRs and STBs from any TV provider, not just OTA. Oh, and no monthly fee either (I’m guessing.)
I had Sezmi free for a few months during the LA pilot program and was so unimpressed with the hardware and implementation that I returned the whole kit at the end of the program. I hope Google can get it right.
I’ve never seen a device that wasn’t an A/V receiver or switch that included HDMI passthru ports. In fact I thought that DRM restrictions prevented that from working in most situations…but Logitech’s GoogleTV box includes it and indeed all GoogleTV STBs will.
I’ve started drinking my martinis with a slice of cucumber, rather than green olives. It’s delicious. You should try it. I was inspired by the already-cucumbery Hendricks Gin.
The amount of time, energy, and money spent on the graphics, set design, and costuming for an Internet video that’s just 3 minutes and 48 seconds long is impressive. The Onion must be rolling in dough.
Found at Dartman’s World of Wonder, this album is a post-Lucy recording of Bill Frawley’s pre-Lucy vaudeville hits.
It’s not particularly good, but it’s not horrible either. Just close your eyes and imagine Fred Mertz serenading you “By The Light of the Silvery Moon” and you’ve got the idea.
If you thought browser support for web standards was tough, try getting HTML email to look the same in every mail client. You can’t. Not even close. The best you can hope for is to have your design degrade gracefully in less-able clients.
You can’t just save and hit F5 to reload and view your changes, either. You have to click over to your mail client, compose a new message to three or four different addresses that you’ve got set up with different mail clients, and then wait and see what each one shows you.
I’ve had a bible and a wizard by my side to help speed things along, but it’s slow going – mostly because Outlook uses Word’s HTML rendering engine. I discovered that Word treats “border: 0px” as 1px, so I’ve been using that to my advantage to help provide basic formatting to Outlook 2007 users.
Composing HTML email is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I would not recommend attempting it if you’re on any kind of deadline.
I have unlimited data, 200 text messages, and 450 minutes of talkin’ with AT&T. That costs me $80 a month and I’ve always considered it to be highway robbery…especially since I don’t send very many texts and I only use about 200 minutes a month.
Sprint (under their Virgin Mobile brand) is about to unveil something wonderful. $25 a month will get you unlimited texts, unlimited data, and 300 minutes of talk time. $40 gets you 1200 minutes, and $60 gets you unlimited talk time. All plans are contract-free.
If you don’t mind switching to CDMA then this is super great news. If you hate the iPhone keyboard as much as I do and/or AT&T’s spotty service and were just looking for a reason to jump ship, this might be your chance to take the Palm Pre or Pixi for a test drive.
I just hope they don’t try to limit which devices you can use on the network, because spoofing a device ID with CDMA Workshop is not exactly a user-friendly process.
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