Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” to Finally Work on Macs with Silverlight

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Update: http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin is the link to sign up for the Mac Beta, right now. It's about time. Crunch Gear says Netflix will enable its "Watch Instantly" feature for Intel Macs by year's end by utilizing Silverlight.  Looks like Netflix will still use DRM, but at least those Netflix subscribers with ...

Twitter Spam Arrives

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

If spammers can spam it, they are going to spam it.  So it goes with Twitter.  I'm sure many already deal with this, but today is the first I've seen of it as three or four nonsensical Twitter accounts have started to "follow" me, thus resulting in an email notification. ...

Follow Cost: How annoying will it be to follow that certain someone on Twitter

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Considering following someone on The Twitter?  Check out Follow Cost.  This snappy tool asks: "How annoying will it be to follow blank on Twitter?"  Blank is where you type in who you are pondering to follow on The Twitter and Follow Cost will then spit out the average updates ...

Seth MacFarlane

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Seth MacFarlane is the creator of Family Guy, but you most likely know that.  He's also doing short online animations called Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (as embedded above).  Also, the season premier of Family Guy is below.

The Election on Twitter

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Damn you Twitter.  You are always coming up with blog worthy stuff.  This time it is some spiffy election page.  It basically a big filter to show only election related tweets, you know, tweets with the candidates and/or VP candidates names in them.  And the interface is slick because it ...

Twitter Failure? Surely Not

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

What do you know, Twitter issues. When I try going to twitter it says: Authorization Required This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.

Mediacom’s New Default Search Page

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Click to Enlarge Mediacom Communications, my ISP at home, recently decided to pull a fast one by redirecting all typos and searches in the address bar to a search results page of their own making.  This unwanted act is supposedly to "help" customers "find what they are looking for".  Don't ...

Chromium for Mac is here but is very unstable

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Chromium   Slashdot has word of Chromium, a port of the Google Chrome browser for Linux and Mac from Codeweavers. I'm using it on my Mac as I type this post.  Chromium let me insert images via the "Add media" feature in WordPress, which is more than what Firefox and Safari let me ...