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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Frustrating ... Still No HDHomeRun Prime with Roku

Ok, back to figuring out the HDHomeRun Prime using Plex issue.  I have a Plex Client on Roku and I was hoping to be able to flow the TV stations to my Roku from the Plex Media Server running on my Mac Mini.  To repeat, I can watch TV from the HDHomeRun Prime from my Windows 7 Laptop Plex Client connection and from my Mac Mini Client connection.  I cannot get the feed via either the Roku Client or the iOS Client.  In addition, I have only been able to set up about 30 channels so far.  I am really stuck on this one.  I am able to play videos and other plug in outputs using the Roku and iOS clients but not the output from the HDHomeRun Prime plugin.  I will do some more experiments to see if there is a way to accomplish this.

Friday, May 11, 2012

I Need a Decent Journal - Time Keeping App

Do you have a Status Report that you have to deliver to several different customers during the week, each status being delivered on separate days?  It seems like all of the Apps available for iOS either allow you to collect time, collect journal information, but not both at the same time.  I need an App that does the time clock thing, but allows me to enter journal information on what I have been working on (sort of like GTD sub-projects) during that time period and then click on a different task and start timing for it.  When I want to generate a report to turn in for status purposes, I need to gather the information based on a time period with time collected and journaling information embeded.  I can't seem to find something to meet that need.  Maybe I will have to roll my own.

Updates over the air

Ok, I finally bit the bullet and allowed my iPhone 3GS and iPad 2 to update to iOS 5.1.1 over iCloud.  What is interesting is that the way Apple has engineered the experience is that you first see a Medalion over the Settings App.  So, out of curiosity you open the Settings App and discover that the General Settings has the number one next to the name.  Upon clicking on General you will see a number one next to the "Software Update" line.  Clicking on this will bring you to the Software Update page and a button that says Update Now.  You will also notice that the update has already been downloaded and the size is displayed.  When you click on the Update Now button, the system will go through the normal process of checking the download, unpacking the download, and then installing the download.  A few minutes later and it is ready to go.  Both devices went without a hitch.

You might be wondering why I haven't tried this before.  It's because I have always been afraid of loosing connection while the download is happening and not being able to recover.  That is why I have always done the iTunes route, which by the way I do not feel is intrusive.  I will still use the Mac Mini to run iTunes as a backup plan.  I don't plan on using iCloud to do my backups as my devices all have different loads of music, apps, etc.  In fact, my iPhone is 16GB and my iPad is 64GB.  The iPad would definately not fit on the iPhone.  I am waiting for the iPhone "5" or whatever they are going to call it to come out and then I will upgrade.  I have the old grandfathered unlimited data and I refuse to give that up.  Yep, I still use ATandT for cell phone service.  It's not as good as Cingular was but I have had the account for many years and some good bennies to boot.