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I went over the the new NCG theater in Acworth today to watch a movie. It seems like a typical theater, definitely on the smaller side when compared to the huge mega theaters we have on Barrett Parkway. The movie I watched was digitally projected, which meant it was nice and clear. Not sure if they are fully digital or not.

I liked that they sold tickets and concessions from the same counter. They also offer free refills on popcorn and drinks. It is nice if you pay $4 for a coke that you can at least get a free refill.

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This weekend I started having trouble with my Blackberry 8830 getting my email. After Ron helped me check all the Blackberry server stuff on our side, I noticed that the network indicator that normally says 1XEV in uppercase was instead showing as 1xev in lowercase.

After spending a little time in Google, I ran across a message board where I found out that the lowercase actually tells you something. It means that the phone is connected to the network, but not connected properly to the carriers Blackberry provisioning servers.

The fix was to power off, remove the battery, wait a few seconds, put battery back in and power up. After rebooting my email automatically started coming in again.

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A few years ago for Christmas my wife got me a Logitech Harmony Remote (I think it is the 880). It is far an away one of the best universal remotes I have ever seen! I was reminded of this today as I wanted to make some changes to it.

A few months ago I finally broke down and bought an XBox 360. I decided to make it the DVD player in my home theater setup. Now with the addition of Netflix streaming directly to the XBox this proved to be a good decision. For the last few months I haven’t had my Harmony remote programmed to run the XBox. I have been having to use the Xbox controller to play movies. Today I set out to program the Xbox.

You program the remote using software from Logitech on your computer. It is a really easy to use and intuitive piece of software (and I don’t say that about much software, I’m pretty picky). Since I don’t have the computer I originally set the remote up on, I had to get the software. I expected to be told at Logitech’s site that the software was only for Windows. To my delight they had a Mac version of the software.

I installed the software, plugged the remote in via USB. It downloaded all my current settings (Awesome! I don’t have to start from scratch). I added the Xbox 360 device and updated my “Activities” to use the Xbox instead of the old DVD player. Activities is the way the remote arranges the things you want to do with your entertainment system, Watch DVD, Watch TV, etc. I update the remote, pointed it at my devices and clicked the “Watch DVD” activity. Everything just worked!

Harmony Remotes from Logitech are the “Mac” of the Universal Remote world. They are a little more expensive than generic universal remotes, but worth the extra money. They are a great gift idea because the person is reminded how awesome you are every time time they use their TV!

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I found another plugin for sharing a blog post on Facebook. It’s called “Add To Facebook“.

I know there are a number of plugins like ShareThis that you can add to your site that allow you to share on multiple social network sites. But I have found that these can be overwhelming to deal. I might have an account on 3 of 15 or more sites listed. So I decided to go a slightly simpler path, only have a small number of sharing options.

I guess this makes me a “Mac”, limiting your options, but they are probably the ones that 85% of people would use.

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I’m trying out a new wordpress plugin called “Tweet This” on both of my blogs. The idea is that it makes it easier for people to tweet your blog posts by setting up the tweet for them automatically.

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This weekend I setup a new DirectTV DVR for my in-laws. After spending some time with it, I think the Dish Network DVR (which I have) is much easier to use and more intuitive. The one thing on DirectTV that I was impressed with was how easy it was to setup the remote to control the TV. It was all done with onscreen menu and instructions.

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