Category: Geekdom

What Has Netflix Found For You?

One of the great things about Netflix (we’re subscribers, love it) is its ability to have it recommend shows and movies based on what you rated. We primarily watch a ton of TV shows from Netflix as we just find them more entertaining many times (and it’s easier to watch in shorter chunks of time). I was talking to Owen at Mug Revolution the other day about Netflix stuff, and made me wonder what Netflix is introducing to everybody else. So here are a few that Netflix said we’d like and we certainly have.

  • Spooks: Holy crap this is a brilliantly written show that needs to hurry up and get its tenth season up and going. If you want great spy action, suspense, etc.., this is a great show for you. Just don’t get too attached to any character in the show, as nobody’s safe from getting killed/removed is some awful way. Netflix doesn’t have all the seasons — you’ll have to find other ways to get those.
  • Hustle: We just started watching this one and have enjoyed it so far.
  • Foyle’s War is one of the greatest detective dramas I’ve ever seen. Great show, and glad they put out a seventh series (just finished watching it last night).
  • Chuck: Never watched this show on TV as it came on during a time where we were watching something else (usually House), but I’m really enjoying this show.
  • Hamish Macbeth was an entertaining show, though the last season got a bit weird.
  • Pushing Daises: That was obviously suggested to us because we five-starred Wonderfalls and we pretty much like most of what Bryan Fuller has done.
  • The Lost Room could have easily been a much longer mini-series, but it was still quite interesting.

That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. So what gems did you not know about had it not been for Netflix?

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Sometimes It’s Cheaper to Sneaker-net It

Is it cheaper to upload all your data to Amazon’s cloud storage service over the Internet or FedEx them the hard drives and let them do it? Amazon will figure out the cheapest way to do it.

I don’t mean a thing…

if it ain’t got that swing.

The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half.

Listening to Metallica and Guns and Roses tunes with a swing feel is frickin’ awesome.

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Sewell Minideck USB External Video Card Is A Handy Little Device — And You Can Win One

When Sewell contacted me, asking if I’d review their Sewell Minideck USB to DVI adapter, I honestly had no idea such a product existed. Basically, it’s an external video card that plugs into your USB port and gives you an additional monitor interface. Most laptops can support two monitors out of the box (via an external monitor port) and many desktops can easily do so with a cheap add-in card. But if you’re looking for a quick and easy way to add a secondary screen to a computer without monkeying with the innards of a computer, this thing works pretty dang well. Read on for the full review and a chance to win one for yourself…

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KTVZ Has An iPhone App?

Apparently so, and while it was having issues with content not updating with the change to their new site, it looks like they released a new version today that apparently fixes the problem according to the changelog.

For the rest of us that don’t have (and will probably never have) an iPhone, m.ktvz.com works fine for me. And don’t forget you can get this site and BendBlogs on their respective mobile sites (and those URLs apparently work well on an iPhone — but again, can’t test, so I don’t know).

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Boy That’s Big

Seagate is planning by year’s end to be selling 3TB (that’s 3000 gigabyte) hard drives. The problem? They won’t work properly with many operating systems.