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A long time ago, I tried out Orb right when it came out, and it was cool, seemed buggy. Yesterday I installed Orb 2.0, flashy new Ajaxy type site now, and a few more features. Still doesn’t work well over mobile data. I have to turn on Wi-Fi on my phone to get any good speeds/buffering. [...]

So last night I decided to try Amazon Unbox Movie downloads. I read about it over at Fransen’s blog, where is using the Tivo feature. I tried “A Scanner Darkly“.
What is cool is, I use my Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender (I’m running Vista Ultimate). The Unbox video (even though DRM’d) played through the [...]

I really like Windows Media Player for the music library features, organizing, rating, etc. In Vista, the Photo Gallery takes care of pictures well, and videos too (tagging) - gotta love it, the photo gallery handles the videos. But the Video organization in Windows Media Player is, lacking.
When you are in music, you can organize [...]

Well, I usually watch videos from channel9 or other tech videos online. I usually download them and try to watch them on my machine when I have time. Tonight, I had an idea.
Get the video in my Public/Video folder on Vista Ultimate. Watch it through my TV using Xbox 360 as the extender.
Right now I’m [...]

So, I signed up for Netflix this week. Started off with the 3rd season of 24. I really like the rating and social features of the site.
If you have a Netflix account and want to be my friend, here is the link
http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PjsorfqHmzu5xXFVQK5I

Ahh, finally it’s back. 24. Probably the best show on TV. And there are two hours tonight. I usually watch TV as background noise, or I really don’t care if I miss or see a show, but 24 is different. Change the IM’s to away, block out everything else - 24 is on. One hour [...]

Well, I happened upon a slingbox…hooked it up tonight. Pretty cool, I want to see how XM through DirectTV will perfom if I try it from work. The mobile client is choppy, I cant get more than 15 fps. I think for sure I will use it in my office in the basement to watch [...]

I have around 70 DVD’s, and I want to just watch them from my computer. I first thought about just ripping to avi/divx, which is good, but you lose metadata. Also, with Media Center Edition 2005, there is the My DVDs area which you dont get to use with avi’s. I decided to use DVDShrik [...]

If you dont want to get tied down to DRM with videos with Google/Yahoo/Itunes video (like with music - MSN Music, Napster, Itunes, etc) - check out this site. 4Flix is DRM less video!! I downloaded a free movie just to test it, and it works, I think this is my new allofmp3, but for [...]

If you don’t mind other people knowing what you listen to, then check this out. www.last.fm - builds a music profile for you from things you listen to. Pretty cool, I just signed up. Once I get some more songs played I will probably add the little widget to my site :)
last.fm
My last.fm profile