Did you know that you have the ability download all the content you have uploaded to Facebook? I didn’t realize they had such an option until I was looking around Facebook this morning (trying to find little hidden gems that aren’t always advertised). For those of you who would like to know how to do it, here goes – I have listed the steps below with pictures to walk you through as best I can (although it’s pretty straightforward):
I just got the Asus O!Play today, hooked it up, and on first impressions, I have to say that it seems to be much better than the Patriot Box Office I picked up last week. The menu is much slicker, the remote has the shuffle option for MP3 (lacking on the PBO), and the lights on the front are much more appealing – they don’t blink like crazy when media is loading from the network.
I have seen a lot of information on the Internet about hacking the PBO, and I really plan to do it once I move into the new house, but I have to say, as far as out-of-the-box performance and looks, the winner is definitely the O!Play.
Stay tuned for the full review coming in the next couple of weeks!
I just picked up a Patriot Box Office so that I could stream content to our TV’s. I will have one upstairs, and one downstairs in the new house. I plan on picking up an Asus O!Play as well, because there is certain functionality I like in both, and since we are not really TV watchers – we like movies, I thought it would be a great idea to stream my movies to each TV, rather than buying a new DVD/Blu-Ray player (much cheaper).
I have tried out some of the functionality of the PBO, and it works great, but I can’t wait to get my hands on the O!Play, so I can post a review of each, side by side. I have seen a lot of independent reviews on each, but no one seems to have both. Once I try them both out, I will come up with something, and post it here.
I just picked up a MagicJack – $20/year for unlimited long distance in Canada and the US. Since I am a huge cell phone user, I figured this was just about the best thing I could get to save a ton of money on my long distance bills. My parents live in the US, my brothers out of province, and even the nearest Wal-Mart is long distance (not that I call them – but you see where I am going with this).
My wife and I are buying a house, and have decided that we don’t really want a home phone service, since we rarely talk on the phone, but when we do, it tends to be long distance. Rates are just too high for our cell phones, so I thought we would give it a try.
I’ll post a few times to let you know how things are going, and if I find any cool hacks for it – I mean, why buy technology that you can’t mess with, right? So far though, it looks to save me some serious cash – fantastic!
Fiddler is a simply wonderful tool when it comes to debugging your Silverlight applications. It really gives you a great idea as to what data is being passed to and from your Silverlight apps, and arms you with the tools necessary to find those small glitches that plague programmers.
I recently started using WCF RIA Services in Silverlight to build applications, and noticed that I was not able to read the data from my WCF service (I wanted to find out if I was getting too many records back from a database query).
I did some searching, and found that Samuel Jack has developed a plugin for Fiddler which allows you to view this data. Installation was easy – download the ZIP file, copy the .dll into the Fiddler > Inspectors directory, and away you go!
To ensure that the plugin allows you to get the data from your localhost server, just make sure to add a “.” after the word localhost when trying to capture the data in Fiddler:
http://locahost:25/Default.aspx#/PageToGetDataInFiddler
BECOMES
http://locahost.:25/Default.aspx#/PageToGetDataInFiddler
Thanks Samuel! You hard work is much appreciated.
