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Popcorn Hour is a box that plays videos , music, pictures ... PLUS Hulu and Netflix .. to your TV. Share information about the popcorn hour, your experiences with popcorn hour and tips and tricks ... or just check out all the details!

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What kind of geek are you?: Gadget - video - techno - twit - usenet - geeky - bodacious - computer - windows - pc - friendly - hyper - coffee - software -hardware - beta - open source - coupon - shopping - sneaky - techie - popcorn hour - hulu - netflix - eva8000 - twitter - friendfeed - photoshop - maryland - dell - newegg - windows weekly - helpful - honest - well behaved - polite - patient - old - podcast - treo - tomtom - replay tv - bluetooth - firewire - draft n - gigabit - terabyte - hdmi - HD - divx - xvid - newsgroups - digital - news - sling - ambermac - leoville - calacanis -mahalo - chrome - firefox - blogger - flickr - picassa - windows live - deals - movies

Why do you consider yourself a geek?: I live alone and have 6 networked pc's and a home server.

How did you find out about our Geek community?: twitter

What are your "geeky equipment" specs?: Roku box, tomtom go 720, treo 755p, Netgear Digital Entertainer HD eva8000, Popcorn hour a110, dlink n router,4 replay TV 5040's, 4 bluetooth mice, Windows home server with 2+ terabytes, 2 dell 27" ultra sharp monitors..(others are 24") 2 five drawer dressers full of PC parts and gadgets ... smallest drive in use is 500gb.

What do you want to be when you grow up?: Content!

What makes you laugh?: People that pay retail.

What is the thing in life you treasure most?: I commute 3 hours daily and listen to podcasts on the tomtom thru the car stereo - the commute would be brutal otherwise.

What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?: formatted dvd movies on the PC to upload them to the replaytv's over the network.

What do you do to entertain yourself?: You're looking at it!

Favorite music, movies, books, shows, artists, games, people, events, hobbies, etc.?: Music - Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Elton John , Rod Stewart, Cat Stevens

Movies - The Postman, The Usual Suspects, Braveheart, Pleasantville, all the Bourne movies, all the Transporter movies, Mumford, EdTV, Almost Famous, Nottinghill, Sin City, Desparado

Books - read - every Stephen King, every John Grisham, every Anne Rice, Dominick Dunne, L Ron Hubbard 10 book series "Mission Earth" ...

Artist - Jack Vettriano

Shows - Burn Notice, Monk

Games- Not much ... been trying SPORE lately.

Events - Naps are nice!

People - These folks are interesting ... the rest I can take em or leave em:

Paul Thurrott, Amber Macarthur, Leo Laporte, Molly Wood, Tom Merritt, Jason Howell, Jason Calacanis, Chris Pirillo, Patrick Norton, Veronica Belmont, Kevin Rose, Rafe Needleman, Todd Cochrane, Kali Lewis, Will Pate, John Dvorak (when he's not being a comcast fanboy), Bill O'reilly.

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Dishonesty, Deception, Trickery ... it's the way of doing Business in America

Why has America accepted these practices with an "Oh well!" attitude.

Why aren't we outraged when Monster Cables sells an HDMI cable for $79.99 that they imply works better than a standard cable when video expert (Scott Wilkinson) will tell you the $5.99 HDMI cable works the same. Dishonesty is everywhere. Companies will go to any length to increase their bottom line ... ethics… Continue

Posted on January 12, 2009 at 1:26pm — 7 Comments

Windows 7 Beta Release ... Huge Failure - Back up on Saturday ... Apology on Monday

Update: Saturday January 10th 1:00 PM eastern time.

Site is back up .. Key acquired ... all is right with the world.

Update 2: Monday January 12th 9:00 AM. Microsoft Apologizes - 2.5 million key limit removed!

"I know many of you had issues with the Windows 7 beta site of the last 24 hours," Brandon LeBlanc, a Windows communications manager, wrote in a blog… Continue

Posted on January 10, 2009 at 12:30am — 6 Comments

Black Friday - The Shopping Spree Online - All Week - and then Cyber Monday Sucked!

For those of you who didn't notice last week had some pretty nice discounts ... You didn't have to go to Walmart or BestBuy at 5am to get the deals either.

In fact you didn't have to wait until Friday to start shopping either because most of the online stores had deals going all week that were usually better than the stuff in the advertising circulars where… Continue

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Got Windows 7 ? ... find out how to unlock the special features.

This was discussed last week on Leo Laportes TWIT podcast featuring Paul Thurrott and Within Windows blogger Rafael Rivera ... discussing Microsoft PDC and Windows 7.

Rafael stumbled upon the unlock while looking thru the mounds of stuff provided at PDC and posted the how to on his blog. Way to go Rafael 2 points for you!

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At 6:56pm on June 16, 2009, Cookenstein said…: Hi Friend, what is your most used Geek toy these days ?

At 4:43pm on May 24, 2009, Cookenstein said…: How are you? Hope you are enjoying this Memorial day weekend!

At 7:28pm on April 25, 2009, Cookenstein said…: Just passing through. Hope you have a great weekend! What are you up to?

At 8:01am on December 31, 2008, Jeanette McDermott said…: HAPPY NEW YEAR, MY FRIEND!

At 7:27am on October 30, 2008, Jeanette McDermott said…: Just dropped in to say hi. I hadn't been to your home (page) in a while and was cruising the 'hood so popped in. I just re-read your profile and see that you have six (6!!!!!) networked PCs at home. Wow, you really are a geek! Sending you a smile. It's Thankful Thursday at ecopaparazzi and I want you to know that I'm thankful for your friendship. Blessings to you, Todd!

At 1:37pm on October 9, 2008, Jeff said…: The drive is a WD5000AAJB, $75 from newegg.com. About all I really checked was that it had decent noise characteristics (had to go poke around the western digital site to get the actual spec sheet for it). Its a 3.5" drive, but I haven't had any heat problems with it. You can hear it spin up, but after it gets moving its quite quiet.

PlayOn worked once for me, then I had to restart the service to get the Popcorn hour to be able to browse any content again. After restarting th uPnP service things seemed to be back to normal. Also notice that PlayOn likes to eat memory on the host box. I know its doing a heavy load of transcoding and buffering, but my laptop wasn't good for much else while I was watching a show. Granted its not as speedy as a desktop...

At 12:02pm on October 8, 2008, Jeff said…: I got mine about a month ago. Slapped a 500gb drive in it and have been happy ever since. I found reference to this group and the PlayOn software the other day. PlayOn, if it becomes stable, may be the perfect complement to the popcorn hour.

At 12:36pm on October 7, 2008, Jeanette McDermott said…: While you're at ecopaparazzi.ning.com later on today can you do me a favor and review it from an aesthetic point of view? I'd like to know if you think it's too hard to read the white text against the black background, and if the green header is too faint against the photo. Monitors are all so different and on mine the site looks really nice, but I'm afraid all monitors are not created equal, so I'd like your feedback. I'd like to hear about anything that strikes you as out of place, if you don't mind. Thanks for your support and solidarity.

At 3:42am on October 7, 2008, toddlorensinclair said…: Jeanette ... great I'l check out http://ecopaparazzi.ning.com/ tonight after work. Cheers!

At 3:28am on October 7, 2008, Jeanette McDermott said…: Well, I've just launched a new social network site called EcoPaparazzi, for environmental media activists. I'm still tweaking it but would like to invite you to come on over and check it out and post a few blurbs to help get the ball rolling. Let me know how I can improve the site, too, OK? I'm still learning all this stuff. Here's the URL: http://ecopaparazzi.ning.com/