I got my 360 back from repair on Monday. Once again the repair center forgot to transfer over my licenses, and the 12-month limit on the transfer tool prevented me from fixing it myself this time. I guess writing a note in big letters that says “Please don’t forget to transfer my licenses. You guys…
Author: Brett
Echostar’s TR-50 just got a new name, price, and release date. The TR-50 is now the “DTVPal DVR“, and it could be the one device that frees you from paying monthly fees to a cable or satellite provider forever! To my knowledge it’s the only standalone ATSC tuner-equipped HD DVR on the market…basically just an…
Well it happened again. I just dropped my 360 off for another trip to the repair center. I returned it May for the same problem and got a whopping six months of life out of it. I’m beginning to think Xbox 360s are like Blade Runner replicants – they all have a self-destruct clock inside…
This American Life is my favorite show on radio. It’s full of short stories, and…well pretty much just short stories. The best episodes feature real stories told by real people. Whenever David Sedaris writes a dumb story about a talking cat and a chipmunk they throw that in to appease the hipster NPR hoi-polloi, but…
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Today I did a good deed. This morning I was filling up my tires and checking my tire pressure at the gas station. A lady drove up and asked if I could help her do the same thing. So I did it for her. She offered to pay me, but I refused. I am a…
I was watching Heroes last night and I realized that all of those Pinehearst business cards that Daphne’s been handing out have a toll-free number on them. It’s not a one of those fake 555 numbers either. It’s real! 877-309-7463 They have a website too.
For more than a year Mac users have had access to TVShows, an automated TV show torrent downloader. It’s a handy utility, but it left Windows users out in the cold. I just found out about Ted and it does basically the same thing as TVShows, but it works on Macs and PCs alike through…
It started with a trickle this year. Christmas Creep. I’m not talking about the Grinch. I’m not talking about retailers putting Christmas decorations out in September. I’m talking about the vinyl sharity sites that rip and share old Christmas albums. They’ve started slipping new albums into the ether and already my compulsive nature has me…
January 16th That’s the day that Battlestar Galactica returns to TV. Confirmed by SciFi.