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Best Buy suckering people

I went to Best Buy today to walk around and get out of the house. While I was there I walked past their little Mac section of the store. There was a man there looking and playing with a MacBook Pro. A Best Buy person came over and asked him if he needed any help. So the man proceeded to ask the Best Buy person how he would transfer his files from his PC to the Mac if he bought it. What I heard next just made me mad… She told him that in order to transfer the files to the new Mac he would need some expensive software or he could bring the PC in to Best Buy and they would transfer all his files over for a charge. Why is it stores like this try to get any amount of money they can out of people who are computer un-savy?

People it is really easy to move stuff between PC and Mac. Apple even has a small 2:30 minute video on how to do it.. Don’t let the Big Box stores charge you for something that is easy and any one can do it.

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more on demand stuff on comcast

Woke up this morning to find that there were a ton of OnDemand channels now:
HBO ondemand (299),
Adult Virtual Channel (339),
HD OnDemand (487),
Free HD Movies on Demand (488),
HD Premium On Demand (490),
HD Music On Demand (491),
FearNet On Demand (510),
Searchlight Shopping (887),
Searchlight (888),
Searchlight Automotive (889),
Vote (890),
IAD23 (not sure what it is yet, 891),
IAD24 (892),
IAD25 (893),
ON_d (900),
Starz OnDemand (901),
Encore OnDemand (902),
TMC OnDemand(904),
HBO OnDemand (906),
Cinamax OnDemand (907),
Howard TV On Demand (908),
HD OnDemand (909),
Employee On Demand (910),
PlayBoy OnDemand(912),
WWE OnDemand (913),
Espanol OnDemand (914),
Bollywood OnDemand (915),
NBA Video OnDemand (916)

Not sure how many of these are included with what I am paying, some of them say I need to subscribe to them. Others are pay per show/movie..

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Ralphie May coming to town

One of my favorite comics Ralphie May is coming to town for a Feb 18th show.. Just hope I am around to see it. I have seen him once before live, and I never laughed so hard as I did that night. My cheek bones were hurting for a couple of hours after that show. His then girlfriend (now wife Lahna Turner) opened for him and she was pretty darn funny as well.

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FMOD part 2

So I tried the SA 3100 receiver last night… It just set there on the “Please wait….” screen. So I figured a good old three finger salute would do the trick. I turned the receiver off and unplugged it. Left it unplugged for about a minute or so and then plugged it back in. Took forever to actually boot up, but now I can get the Free Movies on Demand on that box too.

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Free movies on demand finally

It seems that Comcast has finally fixed their FMOD (free movies on demand) in morgantown. I was playing around with the receiver tonight and decided to turn to the channel and the stuff actually comes in now. Although the selection is not that “good” there are a lot on there, and there is also free HD movies on there as well. Just wish I had an HD tv now to watch them. Now if comcast would only get Boomerang on the local line up, I would be happy. Now I wonder if it only works on the DVR receiver or if it works on the others as well. Will have to try it and see.