http://www.enusbaum.com/blog My little nerded out corner of the Internets! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:12:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the Revolution! This week Microsoft rolled out Netflix instant streaming support with the new XBox 360 Dashboard (which they're calling the "New Xbox Experience") while TiVo is also rolling out Netflix support this week in their latest beta firmware update. Netflix streaming allows people who subscribe to the (currently) $8.99 ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/11/20/netflix-comes-to-the-xbox-and-tivo/ Not that anyone who finds my blog will actually CARE what I'm up to, but it's my blog and I run this dog & pony show! :) My projects as of late have mostly been electronic in nature. I've actually had three projects on the burner: Replacement of the capacitors on my ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/10/26/what-ive-been-up-to/ I figured I should say something on the topic of the recent "Keating Five scandal" that's been sweeping across the blog-o-sphere and what people are saying about it. To be outright honest, I'm a Democrat and I'll be voting for Obama/Biden this November. I've known about the "Keating Five scandal" for a ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/10/07/not-to-bring-politics-into-my-blog/ I finally took the time last night to setup the Genius Playlist option for my iPhone. Basically the Genius playlist option now lets Apple generate a playlist with songs in the same fashion that Pandora does for it's Internet Radio streams. For example, I selected the new Ben Folds song Hiroshima ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/10/03/apple-genius-playlist-its-like-pandora-for-your-ipod-tunes/ I finally got off my butt and purchased an actual web hosting account! :) I felt bad that I kept mooching off my friends bandwidth and had to keep asking them for help in setting up my services and whatnot. This way is going to be much better! Also, I thought I'd ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/09/15/good-news-everyone/ I mean seriously! There is no simpler a solution than a DVD player that outputs the 480i signal decoded from the DVD to an HDMI output. There's no processing, no deinterlacing, no scaling. Just decode it and output it. Bam! Done! My current home theater is based around a Denon AVR-2308CI Receiver ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/09/15/does-a-dvd-player-that-outputs-480i-over-hdmi-really-need-to-be-more-than-100/ I've been on a minimalist kick recently regarding my home theater upgrading my receiver to an upscaling Denon AVR-2308CI receiver and then removing all components I never really use. Part of this process was eliminating a DVD player when my XBox 360 is (or at least should be!) capable of ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/09/03/xbox-360-freezing-while-watching-a-dvd-movie-sad-panda/ Hey Folks! Sorry about he exended downtime of my website. My buddy who was hosting the site had a major hardware failure on the box so I had to ask another friend who's in the same datacenter to host my little corner of the internets on his machine for the time ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/09/03/back-online/ So, I'm diving into the pool! I recently purchased a MacBook Pro for the sole purpose of developing software for the Mac/iPhone platform. It's completely unknown to me and currently the XCode IDE looks nothing if not completely confusing compared to the friently intuitive interface of Microsoft Visual Studio that I'm ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/08/06/lets-take-a-dive-into-xcode-and-objective-c/ UPDATED: Fixed the download link! Sorry I had the wrong URL in there :) Well, as promised on this fantastic 4th of July weekend I'm delivering everyone a great new version of WWWinamp :) Mostly a bug fixer with some improvements to make it easier for people creating their own scripts! There ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2008/07/06/wwwinamp-v42-build-3109/