A Review of Tuneup
I had never really used the Itunes’ album view, not because I don’t like the concept, but because when I did it with my library there were far too many album showing the blue note indicating there was no album cover.…
Comcast DVR vs TiVo
I have both a Comcast DVR and a TiVo HD. I was having difficulty one day getting my Comcast DVR to do what I wanted it to do, so I decided to do a comparison between it and the TiVo,…
NBC Now Belongs to Service Provider Comcast
Today, Comcast is expected to close the deal on a 51% stake in NBC Universal. Comcast is the cable service provider in 25% of the homes in the United States. For NBC, the oldest broadcaster of record, this is the…
Apple, What Are You Up To?
Word comes today that Apple has applied for a patent for an “enforcement routine” that will force viewers to see commercials on various devices. And when I say force, I truly mean force. The patent application indicates that the forced-advertisement…
Will online media become a monthly subscription?
Rumors are circling that Apple is proposing an online TV media subscription model. For just $30/month you could possibly have access to the archive of syndicated shows and the new shows as they come. Later in the day I read…
Social Media Past and Future
We, humans are social animals, we communicate with each other by any means possible, originally it would have been by voice, or drum or smoke, what ever worked. Let’s face it though those methods are not very reliable and the…
The value of what was written before!
When I launched this blog I made a commitment that even years down the road that I would go to great lengths to preserve the data that has been written here. This blog is not run by a big multi-national…