Comcast HD Lineup

Thank you HD!

Here's my HD line up using ATSC tuning:

• 70.2    CNN HD
• 71.1    A&E HD
• 71.2    History HD
• 72.1    HGTV HD
• 72.2    Food HD
• 73.1    National Geographic HD
• 73.2    USA HD
• 88.5    ESPN HD
• 91.4    Universal HD
• 92.3    MHD
• 114.3   ESPN2 HD

Plus the local HD OTA (over the air) broadcast channels. As you can see here, the channels have decimals meaning they are 'direct' broadcast digital channels. You need to auto tune your ATSC tuner to get this channels. Your mileage may vary and this is not permanent programming meaning comcast can change the line up anytime. You may need to rescan the channels to find out more. I am not sure if they are uncompressed or not, but its is on HD.

Enjoy!

Maxtor 300GB HDD Storage, Grab it on sale now!

This is one deal to beat. At 16 cents per gigabyte, this one is a steal.

I am talking about the Maxtor 300GB hardisk drive. This has the older IDE (pata) interface which is compatible with the old systems. It spins at 7,200 rpm with a buffer memory of 16 MB, see the specs on the OD ad link below.

See the complete ad here:

PS: I am not endorsing the seller nor promoting the product, I am only saying that this is a good deal.

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A Reason to like iPhone...

If you don't like apple's iPhone, take a look at this.

I am not a fan of iPhone nor the apple products, but coming across this article, gives me a reason to like it. For one, it is going to be integrated to the new Land Rover LRX.

Although it is in early stage, perhaps this trim is only an option or the plan may still change.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Blogging to be made ILLEGAL!

I started the morning as usual. A little warm up around the house, a cup of java and a glimpse of the news.

Then my favorite part, check emails. Then I was stumped in this article.

Its a little extreme that "thinking thoughts against the war on Iraq could be considered a criminal act." - from that article.

So much for the free speech (and thoughts) for "the land of the free..."

Nice to have - Nokia N95

This item is one on my nice to have list, but keeping on mind that 'buy what you need and not what you want' fact and no budget for that mentality, I can still live with my Motorola RAZR that can still serve its purpose.

I am just putting this item on my gadget line up. It is currently twice the price of Apple iPhone for reasons that I am not so much aware of. Although there are already reviews and direct comparison, I am a fan of Symbian OS and familiar with its 'user friendly' menus. That is why my preference is still with Nokia. Another reason is the 5 Megapixel photos and the built in GPS. Yes, the Apple iPhone has a very good screen size and resolution but I am not fond of listening to portable movies and music.

Besides the main function of these gadget is to make and recieve calls, in that aspect Nokia has the edge since it is a quad band enabled meaning you can roam to other countries without a problem. Youll never get lost too, since you have a GPS, just need to use a little common sense, a sense that is not common to all!

So that's it, Im sticking to N95! (at least for now...)
Chao!

Get your Yahoo emails from outlook and outlook express

Yes you can retrieve your emails using outlook and outlook express. And not only that, it can support even other email client programs listed here. Outlook express is the email client program that comes with microsoft windows.

Heres how:

1. Download the ypops program. This is the program that communicate with your yahoo account from the internet. Think of it as your email carrier. It fetches your new emails from your mailbox and delivers your outgoing emails.

2. Install ypops. Set it and forget it. It even looks for a newer version. Read more on the instructions on how to install ypops.

3. Set your email account in outlook/outlook express.

I am more comfortable in using the email client than accessing the webmail, but thats me. Your preference maybe different, anyway thatnks for reading my blog.

Thats it! I hope this contribute something to make your life easier.

Free Pay Pay Per View

Do you have a HDTV set?
Do you live in Katy,TX area?
Do you have Comcast cable service?

Well if you answer yes to all that items, you can try to 'surf'  ATSC (digital) channels from 71.1 to 84.10.

Actually what I thought of this is that some of my neighbor has rented a pay-per-view programs and I was able to see it. So the completion of the program is at the hands of the renter. Meaning if they pause, stop, FF, REW what is being shown, you can see the same action too. Also, you  do not have the exact time of when the show starts. If you happen to caught the beginning of the show and the renter finishes it. You are in luck, if not, it is otherwise. If you dont like it, just go watch sesame street at PBS. Or you can buy your own PPV.

I do not know how it is done, I just watch. There are different shows that are being watched so all you have to do is catch them.

A little note beside, if you have little kids, be careful in channel surfing because you know what are the'shows' that are being shown in PPV. It may be a little early for them to watch. ;P

Thats it!

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Gigabit Switch for US$3.00 AR

Well how about that!?!

I am talking about this, Airlink AGIGA8SW-B. Just got one and all I can say is it is good for the price, After rebate that is. Actually the whole cost is about 50 bucks including S&H. But after the rebate the cost drops down to about 10 bucks. The shipping and handling is not free though that why it is not 'exactly' 3 bucks.

I am not promoting in any way this product or seller, I am just sharing this info for other people to save some green.

This switch performs as it should and no driver to be installed. All you got to have is an extra ethernet cable since it is not included in the deal.

Pros:

• Supports jumbo frame


• quiet operation


• cheap (You have to get the rebate though)


• good LED indications

Cons:

• gets a little warm


• bulky power adaptor


• not that elegant looking (who's going to stare anyway, mine is inside the closet)

Other info you can find here.

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All in one email client

How many email accounts do you have?
Two, three, four maybe more and from different popular free internet email providers.

How do you access each of them?
Surf the different websites then login, one account after another...

I have an easier way of doing it. It just takes a little bit of reading the FAQ and help files on setting and configuring it up.

In the scale of difficulty in doing it, I say three with five as the hardest.

So here it goes =====

Have you read about "Thunderbird"?
This is an email client software and the good news is it is FREE. Thanks to the guys in Mozilla for their hardwork in developing this. All you got to do is download the software and install it. Then register your POP accounts and voila! You can read your email in one client.

Now, I said that this is all in one. What I meant by that is that you can read email and news, not to mention RSS as well. Now, to get email from non POP email providers like Yahoo and Hotmail and other web based emails, you need to load this Webmail add-on. Also download the specific provider add-on.

With the case of Gmail and AOL related service, you dont need the add-on. Thunderbird can fetch your emails right from its configuration settings. Same as true with Netscape email.

You need to load the extension for Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to fetch your email.

Heres the steps I did:
1. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird.
2. Download the Webmail add-on.
3. Download your specific email provider add-on.
4. open thunderbird and load the Webmail add-on by selecting tools > add-ons
5. Click install, select the saved webmail file.
6. Restart thunderbird
7. Load your email provider extension by selecting tools > add-ons > install
8. Restart thunderbird, repeat procedure for each different email provider listed.
9 Configure you email account, refer to your email account and server settings.
10 Make sure the webmail service add-on is running and you account is properly defined.

Some limitations are there like if your email service provider is not (yet)supported, for corporate emails as an example. I do not have corporate email account so I cant comment on that aspect.

I compared Thunderbird with Outlook in terms of memory usage. Thunderbird uses smaller memory resource, 65 MB as compared to the latters > 100MB. Thats a few chunks spare for use of other programs/services.

Thats it! You can read all (if not, most) of your emails from the free popular internet email providers around.

PS I may have missed some more specific item, all you need to do is read the help file or the FAQs.

Have fun and safe computing!

Mga awitin

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