The cult sensation of the summer: Geeks on a Podcast! Listen as Carl and Colin discuss the scale of Amazon’s digital movie store, the hiss-tory of hacking the MacBook, and Tivo tries to constrict Echostar. In gaming news, Eagle’s inventory slithers its way into Funagain, and free poker strikes at the Xbox Live marketplace. In Boston news, AOL goes after cold-blooded spammer, and Colin sheds dignity and plugs his own weekly article at Bostonist.
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Show Notes:
- Screenshots of Amazon Video Store
- Macbook hack analysis
- Echostar gets stay of injunction
- Funagain acquires Eagle Games inventory
- Free poker on Xbox Live
- AOL digs for spammer’s gold
- Review of Band in Boston podcast
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Actually its a three bedroom, two bath but those two rooms were such as mess I left them off the tour.
Hey guys,
Thanks for the PodCamp mention!
See you there…
–Steve
Wits and Wagers is the game you talk about. (The gambling/trivia game.) Published by Eagle Games and North Star Games.
Very fun game for the sorts of situations you describe.
–mike
Nice podcast!
Fun, perverse AND educational.
Keep makin’ em!
Ahhh… Wits and Wagers. Now I have enough information to part with my hard earned cash.
The Dish DVR software isn’t very good — I have it, so I should know. I’d love to report that it’s awesome, and having two tuners is nice, but the software quality, quite frankly, is not there yet (it feels like a beta product at times).
I’m thinking about switching to an MCE box, but I’m not sure if can handle a dual-tuner Dish receiver. Carl, do you happen to know if that’s the case? Is there any peripheral I could use to control a radio-based tuner using an MCE box?
Do you have DishNetwork? I don’t know why I thought you had DirecTV. I will want to check it out next time I am there.
I know that my Dish receiver has dual tuners. but having one tuner controlled via IR and the other UHF poses a problem. Homebrew PVRs only have the ability to control via IR (or serial) as far as I know. If it were IR, MCE or something like BeyondTV should have no problem.
Aw, crap. You see, I wrote “Dish” like three times there, but of course, I have DirecTV, not Dish.
So yeah.
s/Dish DVR/DirecTV DVR/g
s/Dish receiver/DirecTV receiver/g
Fixed!
Crap. I was really hoping to get a look at the UI for the DishNetwork DVR.
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I was curious if anyone has tried this Sports Handicapping Service? I saw his video on Youtube and it turns out the service is sold through clickbank which means it comes with a 60 day money back guarantee. Was inquiring what peoples thoughts were.