I came home around 7pm looking forward to getting the new Eye-Fi Explore that has Wi-Fi geotagging and wayport HotSpot access. As usual the cardboard box was put in front of the door and the box was crunched like this photo. And it was so light.
I was upset like "Oh shit someone unboxed this and stole the item. WTF" but the actualy the Eye-Fi card along with the recipt was inside, not stolen at all. I was now relieved but I feel a bit concerned who the hell did this. My apartment building is secured with the key fob thing and an access to the individual floor requires a key code in the elevator. So it should be someone in this apartment building or someone who tailgated. Bleh.
My room is just in front of the elevator and I've been ordering lots of things from Amazon which are usually shipped by UPS and they're always put in front-door. But this is the first time I've got this. UPS always comes around 6PM so maybe next time I'll try to be at home or put a note saying "Dear UPS: Call my cell or don't leave the item here" if the item is expensive. Hmm.
For those without Comcast subscription, or who wants to watch EURO 2008 games with crowds in San Francisco:
- Mad Dog in the Fog
- South Beach Cafe
- Zeke's Diamond Bar
- Johnny Foley's Irish Pub
- O'Neill's Irish Pub
- (add your comment if you know more...)
I've been using Cordless RumblePad 2 as a controller to manipulate my Mac mini from the couch by using GamePad Companion. It worked okay but the application apparently is not maintained anymore and there are some actions that I'd love to map but couldn't.
So anytime I need more actions like changing the system volume I either have to use Apple Remote or ThinkPad X40 over synergy. it sucks. I was about to buy the bluetooth clickpad Dinovo Mini but it's pricy ($150) and I have been waiting for its price to go down, which doesn't seem to happen.
But fortunately I just found a better app to solve all of these problems: ControllerMate. It basically allows you to program blocks of events and actions based on any HID device inputs. Its modifier functionality to map multiple actions to one key is a killer.
Its GUI is so developers oriented and might not be easy to figure out if you're not programmer type. But once you go through the tutorial, it's brilliantly easy and it took just half an hour for me to map all of functionalities I wanted.
Now I can use the left analog stick to move the cursor (which can be accelerated when pushed with L1), right analog stick as a scroll wheel, right buttons as a left/right click, R1/R2 as Expose/Dashboard, and then use the arrow keys as arrow keys and also a replacement of Apple Remote when pushed with L1 button (using RemoteBuddy's Virtual Remote functionality), etc. etc. I'm so happy to be able to ditch my Apple Remote from my living so I can just keep it only to use in conferences with Keynote ;)
The only problem is that RumblePad consumes a lot of battery and needs charging quite often, like once in 2 weeks. I have a charger and a spare set of batteries, but it's boring to do...
I want to watch EURO 2008 games in HD and the only choice I can do that at my apartment is to get subscribed to Comcast to watch ESPN2. Comcast website is just as retarded as they are and doesn't allow me to figure out which channel is available on which plan (they have a table and the plan names don't match with the actual plan. Lame) but it looks like the most basic Digital with HD option seems enough to watch ESPN 2.
I'm not really interested in any of the fancy cable channels and all I want to watch is OTA channels and ESPN 2 in HD, and probably Fox Soccer Channel, so it's like $45 for the first 6 months and $70 for ongoing.
Pretty damn pricy and yes I have a bad history with Comcast where they haven't yet refunded my $45 they overcharged with a stupid customer support by running my credit card three times. Hmm.
