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A New Chapter In My Professional Life
For the last 5 years, I’ve basically worked for the same company. My group was part of a sale about 5 months ago and I went along for the ride. Unfortunately all good things must come to an end and this chapter in my professional life has closed.
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The end of DST?
Twice a year we go through the process of changing clocks either forward or back when daylight saving time rolls around or comes to a crashing end. Yesterday I had to change the time on 5 devices and luckily a bunch more automatically changed. While this process is a little bit of a pain and losing the hour of sleep wreaks havoc on our schedules for awhile, I like daylight saving time as the extra hour of daylight is most welcome.
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EyeTV and AppleTV Integration
When the second generation AppleTV was released, I was intrigued by it, but even the low $99 price tag didn't get me to bite as I couldn't quite justify it. Now that we're trying out Netflix (our viewing will increase this summer when most shows are in re-runs), the AppleTV became more interesting and then the enhanced AirPlay on the iPad pretty much sealed the deal for me getting one. I almost ordered one, but hesitated and then MacMall had an eBay special for $80 for one (+$6 California sales tax), so I bit.
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Enhancing my TV Viewing Experience
In my last post about TV viewing, I wrote that I've switched to MythTV with a few custom scripts to export to Plex. This setup has been working well and I'm quite pleased with Plex on the AppleTV. One of the features of the AppleTV 4 is the ability to ask Siri things including "What did he say?" where the video rewinds a few seconds and turns on subtitles. This is an extremely useful feature that we've used a number of times watching shows on Netflix. However, since I have my own system for recording/watching shows, I didn't have the ability to do this.