Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know...

walkonby wrote:
i like people . . . they're sometimes neat.

I'm going to open a store in the mall called 'Let Me Order That on the Internet For You'

walkonby wrote:
they're sometimes neat.

other times, they're smackie.  do you really want to risk it?

hey smackie - did you know that amazon gives away one android app for free every day?
http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=at055-20 - today's is kinda lame, check back tomorrow for a new offering.

got this from http://www.dailytech.com/Quick+Note+Amazon+Gives+Away+OnePaid+Android+App+Per+Day+For+Free/article22834.htm

sweetcell wrote:
hey smackie - did you know that amazon gives away one android app for free every day?

Yes, Kosmo and I were talking about it back in March.  Back then I wasn't sold on it, but now I TOTALLY am.  I have well over 60 free apps from them…

  What you really need is this the Amazon App Store Reminder.  Seems dumb to pay for something that is free, BUT at 7AM every morning I get a notification that tells me what the Free App of the day is with a link to DL it.  Pays for itself in no time….

vansmack wrote:
This is the next Google phone, deets next week:

Google moved their event to the end of October.  No reason given other than 'now is not the right time to release a new product' leading to speculation that it was out of respect to Jobs.

oh yeah?  and what about the living?  some of us have NEEDS, dammit.  my decision of which new phone to get can't wait forever, ya know.

sweetcell wrote:
oh yeah?  and what about the living?  some of us have NEEDS, dammit.  my decision of which new phone to get can't wait forever, ya know.

Believe me, no one is more upset about this than me. I took a moderately attractive girl who works for Google to dinner last night just to get details on this bad boy.

Truthfully, instead of an announcement next week that it will be available on Oct 27, the announcement will be available now (on the Verizon network).

verizon only?

godsshoeshine wrote:
verizon only?

For one to three months, it seems. Google has a history of this, giving a US carrier a brief exclusive before making it available to multiple carriers.

All speculation at this point, of course, but I'm putting it at 75% certain that Verizon will have it for the month of November by itself, 50% certain for December as well.

T-Mobile in January and maybe at&t too. Sprint sometime in the spring…

vansmack wrote:
I took a moderately attractive girl who works for Google to dinner last night just to get details on this bad boy.

the things you'll do for your art…

vansmack wrote:

vansmack wrote:
At 11:15 a.m. PT, Netflix's stock was trading at about $169 a share, down $39 or 18 percent.

$112.58

Good time to buy?

hope you bought, 'cause looks like this ship just might be turning around:

Netflix abandons plan for Qwikster DVD service
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/10/technology/netflix_qwikster/

"Basically, these guys are desperate, and this confirms it," said Tony Wible, analyst at Janney Capital Markets. "While this move doesn't solve the company's long-term issues, in the interim, at least it can try to accelerate some positive catalysts for customers and its stock price."

Shares of Netflix (NFLX) rose 7% following the news.

sweetcell wrote:
hope you bought, 'cause looks like this ship just might be turning around:

Shares of Netflix (NFLX) rose 7% following the news.

I did, but not for any short term gain.  They are a complete disaster right now.  I've dated women who are more stable than Netflix right now. 

I guess this means the Amazon merger is off….

The Ewok Line hypothesis makes my Pooh versus Potter theory look pedestrian at best.

http://cliqueclack.com/tv/2011/10/10/himym-field-trip-review/

I really can't tell which company is being managed worse right now.  Sprint or Netflix?

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse thought it was premature to discuss the iPhone during the company?s strategy day last week. Oops.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/sprint-to-talk-finally-iphone-4s-financials-as-if-it-has-a-choice/60540?tag=nl.e550

laymen don't understand anyway . . . so does it matter?

vansmack wrote:

Believe me, no one is more upset about this than me. I took a moderately attractive girl who works for Google to dinner last night just to get details on this bad boy.

Wait a minute!  Weren't you married?  Wasn't there a "Smack-ette" at some point?  Who am I thinking of?  I'm SO confused.

Brian

About 18 pages ago….

vansmack wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
smackie might come across as a playah, but underneath it all he's a very loyal and pro-mono kind of guy.  srsly.

This was true when I was married or in a relationship.  Right now I'd hide your daughters…

I knew someone had an -ette they referred to.  Sweetcellette didn't sound right.

Brian

Figured this was as good a place to ask as any…

We're in the final stages of booting cable permanently, especially since most of our TVs are either connected to devices for streaming (Wii, Xbox) and have pretty easy connects for HDMI to stream anything else from our laptop. 

We do have one last TV, though, that doesn't have any easy hook-up.  Are there any devices out there that can be hooked to a TV that give basic web browsing capabilities?  I'm not even sure where to look.

I can't justify having another laptop JUST for that purpose (especially since it's our least watched TV) or another gaming unit.  I'd scrap it all together, but this is the TV we use in the rare cases that we let the kid watch PBS or whatever.

Any ideas? 

nkotb wrote:
We do have one last TV, though, that doesn't have any easy hook-up.  Are there any devices out there that can be hooked to a TV that give basic web browsing capabilities?  I'm not even sure where to look.

What are the hookups on the back?  Is there HDMI or am I looking for a Composite only device?