Welcome to Silverwolf's Auditorium
Fri, 02/15/2008 - 21:04 — the1silverwolfWelcome, and thanks for visiting us!
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Hide the Wall Street Journal from google news
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 05:21 — the1silverwolfI use iGoogle as my home page, and I love it. It let's me keep up with all my news, blogs, weather, and current events all in one place. The only problem I have is that my Technology Widget includes stories from the Wall Street Journal, none of which you can read beyond the first paragraph or two.
When you click on them you are taken to a landing page that contains a lot of advertising and only the first paragraph or two of the story. You can't read the rest unless you are a subscriber.
As far as I'm concerned if they won't let me read the entire article then I don't have any reason to visit their site and increase their advertising revenue.
If they want to keep their content locked up that's just fine with me, there are lots of other places to get the same (or better) information from and as far as I'm concerned I don't care if anyone anywhere ever reads their crap. It can sit collecting dust in their database until they go bankrupt for all I care.
But, I can't for the life of me figure out any way to keep my Technology Feed and just remove the WSJ from it. Every time I accidentally click on an article from WSJ I have to click back, then click on the link for "Related Stories" and get the info I need from another source. It's a huge pain, I would much rather block all WSJ articles from showing up at all.
Please google, put the Wall Street Journal out of it's misery and block it completely from google news and iGoogle news feeds!!!!!
Or at the very least give me a way to block it from mine.
Chronicles of Spellborn on Windows 7
Tue, 02/23/2010 - 01:35 — the1silverwolfThis short article details how I managed to get the Chronicles of Spellborn working on windows 7.
Harold Thomas is a greedy bastard
Wed, 01/27/2010 - 00:01 — the1silverwolfIn response to : Google Doodle for Australia Day
Harold Thomas,
Force an 11 year old to change her contest winning artwork design because you wanna get paid ?
Take your lame flag design and go home you greedy fuck. Her artwork was way better than yours anyway.
Here's hoping you get run over by a bus real soon.
iPhone TV Remote ?
Wed, 01/13/2010 - 14:47 — the1silverwolfI was reading an article at Dvice by Peter Pachal and decided to post my comments about the viability of using an iPhone as a TV remote control.
Here's his article (click to read the complete article with photos):
The Re Remote is a small accessory for your iPhone that turns it into a remote control for your home theater. The $70 dongle pairs with a special (free) app that lets you set up your phone just like a normal universal remote, with activities, macros, learning ability, customizable buttons — the whole bit. The dongle communicates via infrared, so it's perfectly compatible with most gear, and yes, it will work with the iPod Touch, too.
That's all well and good, but is the fundamental premise of the product — using your phone as a remote control — really sound? Strangely, I'm leaning towards no, mainly because I remember some surprisingly serious arguments over the remote control in my household growing up. I really wouldn't want that happening with my iPhone. Sure, you could just use the Re/iPhone combo as a secondary remote, but then why have it at all? Anyone dying to have this? If so, it should be out by spring.
And, here's my thoughts :
Pete,
I think your comments regarding the viability of using your iPhone as a remote control are dead-on.
I have toyed with the concept already and found the following points:
- Feel - to me it's important to be able to feel the buttons on a TV or Media Center remote in a dark room. Having to look at the remote (and wait for your eyes to adjust) to locate a button is a much larger annoyance in practice then one would think. This point also applies to some of the high end universal remotes that are touch screens as well.
- Convenience - at first glance it would seem that having an extra remote built into your phone would be very convenient, but is it really ? You have to carry around that little adapter to plug into the phone whenever you want to use it as a remote. (you might as well just be carrying around a regular universal remote). Plus with the phone going to sleep every 5 minutes you would have to unlock it every-time you wanted to use it.
- Use Scenario - Consider this, if you are watching TV and the phone rings, what's the first thing you do ? Answer; you mute or pause the TV so that you can answer the phone. You wouldn't be able to do that with this setup because the remote display on the iPhone would have already been replaced with the incoming call notification.
- Cost - $70 for a plug in IR transmitter and Receiver ? Really ??? This thing should cost $15.99 tops, at that price you could just get it as a novelty, in this economy $70 isn't an amount people can just throw away. Furthermore, you can get a very nice dedicated universal remote that would offer more value, convenience, better feel and performance than this application for a lot less than $70.
It sounds like a nice idea in theory, but given the above, who can justify buying this thing ? If you just have money burning a hole in your pocket, then go ahead and get it. I guarantee it'll be either lost in the house somewhere or collecting dust on a shelf in 30 days.
