David Allen of Getting Things Done was interviewed on CNET about Getting Things Done.
He was interviewed at the Under the Radar conference in Silicon Valley.
Take a look at the interview…
Bloggers and Online Users Need to Play Nice
There has been a lot of discussion and posts lately on threats and bad references on the blogs. Particularly threatening were posts and comments to one blogger that she can canceled a presentation.
This has got to stuff. When someone who posts something that threatens someone else, it is not protected speech. Treating people like that is stupid and wrong.
I don’t know if we need to have a code of conduct, but we need to treat others on the Internet with respect. We don’t need to be threatening other people.
If people insist on doing this, they need to be delink and not taken seriously in the blogging world. People should feel safe to blog and surf the Interent.
I had some problems when I first launched this blog. I was complaining about the service I was getting from UPS and some idiot was trying to threaten me down for stuff that he didn’t know. People like that need to go away and get a life. He was such a coward that he wouldn’t give his email or his real name.
You can’t threaten people to get what you want. It only emboldens them more to talk about the issues.
Use your words to defend or state your position, don’t use your words to threaten people.
New Tips and Security Clips for Bose TriPort In-Ear Headphone
For those of you who have the Bose TriPort In-Ear Headphone, you may know of the problem that the new gel pieces don’t really stay in your ear. They kinda fall-out and off of the headphone.
I even had some of the plastic pieces fall off and was unable to find it in my hotel room.
Well, Bose has listened and they have updated the gel pieces and are providing them to free to people who have previously purchased them. And in June, they will also ship free to you a clip to put on your cable and a lanyard if you want to use that.
This is good of Bose and I am looking forward to the new gel pieces and clip.
To sign-up for this, visit http://www.bose.com/enhance.
You can read more in the New York Times.
Apple TV is Incredible!
Well I went out over the first weekend and bought Apple TV. I had been looking at this for something to help get my content from my computer to my TV.
I do not like the idea of media center and the other products in the category were just too complicated. Since I use iTunes and have an iPod I found that it would be best to go with Apple TV.
Well it was simple. I opened the box and found the Apple TV and a power cord. Also enclosed was some documentation.
Set up couldn’t have been easier. I hooked up the component and audio cables to my HDTV and hooked up a Ethernet cable to my home network.
I turned on the TV and tuned it to the input for the Apple TV and there it was. I choose English as the language, set the resolution to 720p and up popped a 5 digit number.
It was then off to iTunes on my computer to sync with the Apple TV. Already iTunes had picked it up and I just authenticated it to the device and it automatically began syncing all my TV shows, Movies, podcasts, and music.
Once I got everthing to the device and started playing content, it was amazing. I updated all my video podcasts from the iPod version to the H.264 version and the resolution was a great improvement. The quality is like watching a DVD on my 1080i TV. Remember, the video quality out is as good as what goes in. So if you have a lower resolution input, there will be a lower resolution output.
The only thing that I have a complaint about is a couple of my things won’t copy over to the the Apple TV and it gives me a warning each time that it syncs that it can’t copy that over. It would be nice that it would allow me to turn that off, but I can’t find anything right now.
Other than that, I am truly impressed with Apple TV. When Apple does something, it does it right. It looks nice, it is a simple set-up, and I am now watching video on my TV from my computer.
It does not get any better than this.
Other Reviews:
Evernote
Well I just downloaded Evernote and I am going to see how this will help me keep up with things.
For work, I have been trying paper copies of notes, but I don’t have time to capture them and synthisize them so I can search and capture them. Paper is not really working.
So I am going to give it a try and see how it works. Try back here later to see how I am doing.
Bum Rush the Charts
Remember today is Bum Rush the Charts. Got to iTunes music store and buy Black Lab’s “Mine Again”.
Let’s show the music companies that independent music is here and that music is more than the pop hits that they manufacture through payouts and promotions to radio stations.
Bum Rush Now at http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/bumrush/
What is all the buzz about Twitter?
Twitter has seemed to taken off in the last couple of months.
From listening to MacBreak’s discuss Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld and Twitter working its way into the conversation to recent podcasts and news discussing it today, including the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Podcast.
From what I understand about the product, it is a place where people can text what they are doing right now. But why does that appeal to people?
To me, it is just a way for people to be exhibitionists and voyeurs at one time.
I don’t know if I will use it or not. I will keep a watch on it and see if it has worth to me. Right now, I don’t see it.
To get a good understanding of what Twitter is to people, Chris Pirillo posted a podcast about it, “Instant SMS Friend Updates via Twitter.com“
Linksys Router BEFSR41 Problems
Well I have a Linksys Router BEFSR41 and I have been having nothing but problems with it over the last couple of months.
I had one for several years and had no problems. I would say almost 9 years of working and no problem. But it apparently died a couple of months ago.
I went with a new one and it was a little crazy getting set up. Linksys’ automatic install is worthless, especially when you have another Linksys wireless router on the network.
Well this one did the same thing after about a month. It just completely died. I couldn’t access the admin screen, I couldn’t get to the Internet, nothing. I would cycle it, nothing. Well I hooked up my wireless Linksys router and everything worked fine. So I took it back and exchanged it for another one.
Well this one worked a week and it did the same thing. I figured out there is something else going on so I did some deep searching on the Internet and found a solution on the Linksys site. Apparently there have been some changes on the Comcast cable modems lately and they are putting out a bunch of noise and this overwhelms routers and causes them to constantly reset themselves.
But it can be fixed by changing Filter Multicast to Enabled. If you do this, the noise gets filtered and it works fine.
That is it and I am not having any problems now. Yeah!
Now, Comcast service is another matter….
Viacom Is Barking Up the Wrong Tree
I think that Viacom is barking up the wrong tree. YouTube and Google have done nothing wrong in how the operate.
They operate under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act where they remove infringing material when requested by the copyright holder. In fact, Viacom screwed up and screwed some posters when they requested a bunch of infringing material be removed and they requested that YouTube remove material that had nothing to do with Viacom.
The issue is that people are posting shows from various Viacom properties. In the suit, has Viacom been damaged from this posting by people who love these shows? I doubt it. In fact, I bet that Viacom is seeing an increase in their viewership because more people are watching their shows because they saw them on YouTube.
I hope this ends quickly in a settlement like YouTube has entered into agreements with other media companies, but I don’t think that is going to happen. YouTube/Google is ready to go to battle and in this copyright case they have a good chance of winning.
Read More:
- Copyright quagmire for Google and YouTube (CNET)
- How Strong is Viacom’s $1 bn Claim Against Google’s YouTube? (Seeking Alpha)
- [Google] The $1 Billion Viacom Lawsuit (The Geeky Guide to Nearly Everything)
What is up with Comcast
I am wondering why everyone is having problems with the change to an earlier daylight savings time. This change was solidified a couple of years ago with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Well Comcast seems to be having problems. I have a HD DVR through Comcast and all of the scheduled recordings are recording an hour earlier. So instead of CBS Sunday Morning, I got some kids cartoon.
Give me a break Comcast. You have had two years to get this fixed and you still couldn’t do it. You may have sent out patches, but if they don’t make it to everyones DVR or they don’t work, then you have a problem and you failed.
As of now I have had no other problems and everything is working fine, including my computers. It is amazing in 2007 that we are still having these problems.
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