Archive for February, 2009

Rhapsody Gets It Right

Friday, February 13th, 2009

at least this time =p

See, in iTunes, if you are listening to tracks on random, and see another track nearby the currently playing track, and double-click to play that song instead of the ‘random’ one, when you go to the next track, and want to replay the track you picked, hitting back takes you to the ‘randon’ track you skipped, not the last track that you actually played.

The rhapsody tivo player does it right, jumping back to the song that I picked last, not the last random picked track.

So, tivo doesn’t always suck.  When they get help from someone else I guess ;)

windows 7 beta day 2

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

So far, only 1 major complaints today.

WMP doesn’t seem to support the minimize to taskbar as buttons mode anymore.  I really liked that.  One of my many gripes with itunes is that I have to bring up the whole app, just to skip to the next track.  The WMP taskbar embedded mode was perfect.  It had only the buttons I’d want to press, no annoying other crap.  Oh well.

I was able to get WoW installed yesterday, and did a little playing this morning before I came into work.  It seemed nice a snappy, good graphic quality, though the entire box did hang for a few seconds once this morning.

Working on installing LOTRO next.

It is kind of annoying that they pulled the built in messenger client, but didn’t make any sort of obvious link to the live messenger replacement.  Maybe if I’d let them set my homepage to live.com.

Windows 7 Beta bugs so far

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

1.   Some sort of problem with the 1st-reboot virus scan between win7 and Avast Home, “interactive login failed”

2.  Sound system doesn’t turn off main speaker automatically, when headphones are plugged in.  It’s a multi-step manual process.

3.  Sounds only play when the window is in the foreground, at least for the WoW installer.

4.  The “Send Feedback” tool requires you to not just have a windows Live ID already set up, but for the LiveID to already be fully setup to give Win7 feedback (a BUNCH of non-obvious links to follow on the “connect” site), and won’t give you any feedback about why it’s failing to send your feedback, just keeps sending you to the username/password prompt.  I thought the network was broken or I’d forgotten my password at first.

The install process was very smooth.  It re-formatted the old C: no probs.  Of course, HP hasn’t put out any drivers that will install under 7, so none of the specialty buttons work, and I haven’t tried using the burner…I forget if win7 has built in dvd playback, or if I’ll still have to install a 3rd party app for that.  I saw the note on windows update about WMP killing mp3s, so I set all the local ones to read-only.

Don’t Fly Alaskan Airlines

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Not just because they are a terrible airline, but more so because, rather than try to fix their own faults, they are hoping for big-bad-government to get rid of their competition.

It’s frankly pathetic, and if you work for Alaskas Airlines, and lose your job over the next year, I tend to think you deserved it.