I love going in there to screw with that setting, and watch as it drives my wife crazy. It usually ends with a stream of her swearing in Spanish, and complaining about the "stupid remote". I always do it on Thursday evenings, just before she watches the Greys Anatomy and Scandal estrogenfest, and I retreat to my…

My first DVR was the Dish Network's Microsoft Ultimate TV. It was introduced in Oct 2000, and I had mine installed on Oct 26th, 2000. The sad thing is that I still miss that DVR. I still have it in a box somewhere.
But it had one feature, commercial skip, that I have not had on any DVR since. It was so simple, and such…

2TB FireWire 800 or USB 3.0 WD MyBook for $109 + Free Shipping
**This is less than $5 more than the 1TB model, and has been on sale for days. I already received mine, and the FireWire 800 is wicked fast.
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It has been my experience that the people on the help lines are always more knowledgeable about plans and the various options, and seem to have the authority to waive fees, and almost always seem to be very agreeable to doing so to keep a customer happy, where the people in the stores do not seem to have a clue about…

It is amazing that any idiot who forwards a pissy email they received to one of the Gawker sites ends up getting it published and labeled as "Epic", as long as it involves New Yorkers or Ivy Leage schools. Landlords send worse letters than this every day. Anyone who knowingly rents a house in the Hamptons to a large…