Bad news. There currently appears to be no sign of the Fred Meyer 24/7 online store which sold CDs, DVDs, and video games online. This means I won't be doing my online shopping with Fred Meyer anytime soon since that was their main online store.
If anyone knows if or when Kroger or Fred Meyer will try online retailing again, please let us know!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
My review of the I/OMagic Model IDVD8PB External DVD-RW Drive is now on YouTube
I have recently uploaded another video review to YouTube. This time it is a video review of the I/OMagic Model Number IDVD8PB USB 2.0 Portable 8X DVD-RW External Drive. I purchased this external DVD Burner as a second DVD drive under my Windows Operating System environment to burn DVD discs in. Even though I purchased it to burn DVD discs, this drive can also be used to play various DVD and CD formats such as DVD Video, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, CD-R, and CD-RW discs. There are a few DVD formats such as LightScribe DVD discs and DVD-RAM discs that this drive doesn't support though.
Please feel free to leave comments and/or suggestions. And please rate my videos on YouTube if you are able to.
To see this video, please --> CLICK HERE!! <--
Please feel free to leave comments and/or suggestions. And please rate my videos on YouTube if you are able to.
To see this video, please --> CLICK HERE!! <--
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Review of the OSN Digital DK2000 Kit has been uploaded to my YouTube channel
I have recently uploaded onto my YouTube NATHANROADINWA Channel my video review of the OSN Digital DK2000 LCD Universal Screen Protector Kit, which also happens to be the 22nd edition of my Honest Video Review series.
I bought this to protect various electronic screens such as the types found on small electronics such as cameras, cell phones, tablets, MP3 Players, etc. I bought this on clearance at a Fred Meyer retail store, and I do not know exactly where one can buy this item now. But I thought I would still do a video review of this product since I felt it would be still informative to people who want to protect their device's screens from being scratched or damaged.
In the video I show how to size the clear protector film to different devices such as a Sylvania SMPK2083 MP3 Player, an Archos 32 Internet Tablet, and a Samsung P3 Player.
So -->click here<-- to go to my YouTube Channel page and watch this video.
And please leave comments and rate the video while you are there. The more ratings I get, the more helpful the search results will be in YouTube.
I bought this to protect various electronic screens such as the types found on small electronics such as cameras, cell phones, tablets, MP3 Players, etc. I bought this on clearance at a Fred Meyer retail store, and I do not know exactly where one can buy this item now. But I thought I would still do a video review of this product since I felt it would be still informative to people who want to protect their device's screens from being scratched or damaged.
In the video I show how to size the clear protector film to different devices such as a Sylvania SMPK2083 MP3 Player, an Archos 32 Internet Tablet, and a Samsung P3 Player.
So -->click here<-- to go to my YouTube Channel page and watch this video.
And please leave comments and rate the video while you are there. The more ratings I get, the more helpful the search results will be in YouTube.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
NATHANROADINWA YouTube Channel videos hits 20,000 Views Milestone
Just want to let my followers of my blog and YouTube channel know that when you combine the views from all of my videos that I have made so far and have uploaded to my NATHANROADINWA YouTube Channel, that they total over 20,000 views now. It was only like 4 months ago when I reached around 10,000 views. And I now have a half dozen videos with over 1,000 views each.
I am now only one month away from my first anniversary on YouTube. Thank you to all of you who have viewed and contributed comments, suggestions, or ratings over these past 11 months. And please continue to post comments, questions, suggestions, criticisms, etc. about my videos. It might just help my videos be better in the future, and you might be helping out other viewers who have similar problems or questions in the process.
I am now only one month away from my first anniversary on YouTube. Thank you to all of you who have viewed and contributed comments, suggestions, or ratings over these past 11 months. And please continue to post comments, questions, suggestions, criticisms, etc. about my videos. It might just help my videos be better in the future, and you might be helping out other viewers who have similar problems or questions in the process.
Friday, June 10, 2011
My Video Review of the Memorex CD & DVD LabelMaker Essentials Kit is currently on YouTube
It has been quite a while since I have posted anything in this blog. This is mostly because I have been busy visiting with family members and working outdoors.
I have yet to mention in this blog about my latest YouTube video review which I uploaded last month. It is a video review of the Memorex CD & DVD LabelMaker Essentials Kit.
This product is a label applicator kit that I recently purchased in order to make labels to put on some of my CD and DVD discs.
Please rate and let me know what you think about this review and look for the other reviews and videos I have uploaded onto my NATHANROADINWA YouTube channel.
And if you are going to rate the videos, please watch the video all the way through. The reason I am bringing this up is that I have had a lot of comments about the intro music being horrible. I don't want people to give a thumbs down only after watching the intro part of my video just because they don't like the intro music as an example. If you like the video, but you do not the intro music please leave a comment instead. That way I can more accurately tell which videos are helpful and which ones are not at least until YouTube can allow users to rate individual parts of the video such as the music separately. If anyone at YouTube is reading this, being able to rate separate parts of the video such as music would be very helpful in the future.
To see my latest videos such as the LabelMaker one mentioned above, --> click here <--
I have yet to mention in this blog about my latest YouTube video review which I uploaded last month. It is a video review of the Memorex CD & DVD LabelMaker Essentials Kit.
This product is a label applicator kit that I recently purchased in order to make labels to put on some of my CD and DVD discs.
Please rate and let me know what you think about this review and look for the other reviews and videos I have uploaded onto my NATHANROADINWA YouTube channel.
And if you are going to rate the videos, please watch the video all the way through. The reason I am bringing this up is that I have had a lot of comments about the intro music being horrible. I don't want people to give a thumbs down only after watching the intro part of my video just because they don't like the intro music as an example. If you like the video, but you do not the intro music please leave a comment instead. That way I can more accurately tell which videos are helpful and which ones are not at least until YouTube can allow users to rate individual parts of the video such as the music separately. If anyone at YouTube is reading this, being able to rate separate parts of the video such as music would be very helpful in the future.
To see my latest videos such as the LabelMaker one mentioned above, --> click here <--
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Thoughts on ABC, The Biggest Loser, and American Idol Finale Week
It has been a while since I have talked about TV since I have been rather involved with other things as of late. So I want to talk about TV today.
Well after ABC recently announced that they are ending 2 of their 3 long running soap operas, now ABC is about to drop their entire current Saturday morning lineup. The interesting thing about this is that most if not all of their current Saturday Kids lineup are Disney shows and Disney owns ABC. Apparently Disney can't even get kids to watch Saturday morning TV shows anymore. If they can't, the question is who can?
Since ABC still has to have a few hours of children's programming because of FCC requirements, they are going to introduce a new children's programming block to replace their current Disney themed one. I have mixed feelings on this. The good news is that the new block will be new shows in high definition and will probably have more educational value than the current Disney themed ones. The bad news is that the ratings will likely be down with the new kids format, ABC is once again giving up on a long tradition of Saturday animated shows just like they are planning on doing with their soaps, and kids (especially teenagers) will likely pursue other forms of entertainment such as browsing the Internet or playing video games on Saturday mornings which is much more subject to controversial material than broadcast TV. Usually the worst things on Saturday morning children's TV are just ad spots aimed at kids to get their parents to buy sugary cereals or the latest toys. With Internet browsing, you don't know what kinds of people or advertising your kids may be approached with.
I watched the Biggest Loser Season Finale. I was glad that it was finally over. It went on way too long this past season. I didn't like the usual "feel-good" mentality of the final episode. The Biggest Loser people constantly try to convince the viewer that they are changing lives. The answer to that is yes AND no! The no part was what they didn't show. Rulon Gardner, the Olympian from this past season, was a no-show at the finals. It would have been nice if we would have gotten an update on his weight loss journey. Moses and his daughter have actually GAINED weight when they returned to the finale from the time they were eliminated from the show. Meanwhile Dan and Don, the police officer twin brothers, who were eliminated early on after throwing their weigh-ins managed to lose more weight than many of the contestants who stayed a lot longer on the show and didn't try to throw weigh-ins. So the key thing to remember is that the Biggest Loser show works, but only for SOME people and NOT for MANY people apparently.
Finally, I have to mention this season's top 2 on American Idol. This is a season where I don't care who wins because there were other singers who would have made a better top 2 than Lauren and Scotty. I thought Lauren was quite a bit better than Scotty. But I think the show's producers were trying to imply too much that Lauren was the underdog and that Scotty was the frontrunner. I think this effort of making Lauren look like the underdog will backfire and Scotty will still win. I think Lauren and Scotty are in the finals only because their fans stuck with them the entire season while James and Casey and Pia's fans were so upset over the shocking results that many of them quit watching the show as voters and only watched to see who was left in the competition instead of voting for the remaining pop singers. That is my theory why we got 2 young country singers over the more talented singers that were in the other genres this season.
The only good news is that we are almost 100% guaranteed we will have a better top 2 matchup next year on Idol.
Well after ABC recently announced that they are ending 2 of their 3 long running soap operas, now ABC is about to drop their entire current Saturday morning lineup. The interesting thing about this is that most if not all of their current Saturday Kids lineup are Disney shows and Disney owns ABC. Apparently Disney can't even get kids to watch Saturday morning TV shows anymore. If they can't, the question is who can?
Since ABC still has to have a few hours of children's programming because of FCC requirements, they are going to introduce a new children's programming block to replace their current Disney themed one. I have mixed feelings on this. The good news is that the new block will be new shows in high definition and will probably have more educational value than the current Disney themed ones. The bad news is that the ratings will likely be down with the new kids format, ABC is once again giving up on a long tradition of Saturday animated shows just like they are planning on doing with their soaps, and kids (especially teenagers) will likely pursue other forms of entertainment such as browsing the Internet or playing video games on Saturday mornings which is much more subject to controversial material than broadcast TV. Usually the worst things on Saturday morning children's TV are just ad spots aimed at kids to get their parents to buy sugary cereals or the latest toys. With Internet browsing, you don't know what kinds of people or advertising your kids may be approached with.
I watched the Biggest Loser Season Finale. I was glad that it was finally over. It went on way too long this past season. I didn't like the usual "feel-good" mentality of the final episode. The Biggest Loser people constantly try to convince the viewer that they are changing lives. The answer to that is yes AND no! The no part was what they didn't show. Rulon Gardner, the Olympian from this past season, was a no-show at the finals. It would have been nice if we would have gotten an update on his weight loss journey. Moses and his daughter have actually GAINED weight when they returned to the finale from the time they were eliminated from the show. Meanwhile Dan and Don, the police officer twin brothers, who were eliminated early on after throwing their weigh-ins managed to lose more weight than many of the contestants who stayed a lot longer on the show and didn't try to throw weigh-ins. So the key thing to remember is that the Biggest Loser show works, but only for SOME people and NOT for MANY people apparently.
Finally, I have to mention this season's top 2 on American Idol. This is a season where I don't care who wins because there were other singers who would have made a better top 2 than Lauren and Scotty. I thought Lauren was quite a bit better than Scotty. But I think the show's producers were trying to imply too much that Lauren was the underdog and that Scotty was the frontrunner. I think this effort of making Lauren look like the underdog will backfire and Scotty will still win. I think Lauren and Scotty are in the finals only because their fans stuck with them the entire season while James and Casey and Pia's fans were so upset over the shocking results that many of them quit watching the show as voters and only watched to see who was left in the competition instead of voting for the remaining pop singers. That is my theory why we got 2 young country singers over the more talented singers that were in the other genres this season.
The only good news is that we are almost 100% guaranteed we will have a better top 2 matchup next year on Idol.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Another WDTV Live Plus Update
Since Western Digital just updated the WDTV Live Plus Firmware the other day, it is time for me to give an update on the WDTV Live Plus.
First, I will mention the good news about the latest firmware update to the WDTV Live Plus. Text which was messed up or nearly unreadable in the previous firmware appear to be back to normal. And the arrow keyboard keys seem to work in most of the WDTV's Internet applications now.
But those problems mentioned in the above paragraph were problems that you shouldn't expect to have in the first place. They were the result of shoddy beta testing. Hopefully Western Digital will take more preventive steps to keep those kinds of problems from reoccurring in the future.
Now the bad news: Western Digital did little in the new firmware to increase the machine's functionality. There is the ability now to use hard drives that are greater than 2TB with the WDTV, but that is about it in terms of new features. There is no support for any other types of USB devices this time around.
Even worse is the lack of any new Internet applications, which means you still have only the 13 that Western Digital has included while Sony and Roku's media players have so many more to choose from.
Hulu Plus is already announced as coming to the WDTV, but not until "later this year" which means it might be Christmas before we ever see Hulu Plus added to the WDTV machines. That is way, way too long in a rapidly changing market. Also a problem with the WDTV right now is that some media outlets are quitting their existing services. Examples include CBS pulling content from the Flingo app and ABC News eliminating a couple of their shows from the Mediafly app. How many other organizations will pull content from the only 13 WDTV Internet apps before Western Digital actually adds some more useful Internet apps to the WDTV?
The bottom line is that Western Digital needs to start adding some more free Internet apps to the WDTV series, and they need to add them very soon (like within the next few weeks) or the WDTV machines will likely go the way of the Flip cameras in my opinion.
First, I will mention the good news about the latest firmware update to the WDTV Live Plus. Text which was messed up or nearly unreadable in the previous firmware appear to be back to normal. And the arrow keyboard keys seem to work in most of the WDTV's Internet applications now.
But those problems mentioned in the above paragraph were problems that you shouldn't expect to have in the first place. They were the result of shoddy beta testing. Hopefully Western Digital will take more preventive steps to keep those kinds of problems from reoccurring in the future.
Now the bad news: Western Digital did little in the new firmware to increase the machine's functionality. There is the ability now to use hard drives that are greater than 2TB with the WDTV, but that is about it in terms of new features. There is no support for any other types of USB devices this time around.
Even worse is the lack of any new Internet applications, which means you still have only the 13 that Western Digital has included while Sony and Roku's media players have so many more to choose from.
Hulu Plus is already announced as coming to the WDTV, but not until "later this year" which means it might be Christmas before we ever see Hulu Plus added to the WDTV machines. That is way, way too long in a rapidly changing market. Also a problem with the WDTV right now is that some media outlets are quitting their existing services. Examples include CBS pulling content from the Flingo app and ABC News eliminating a couple of their shows from the Mediafly app. How many other organizations will pull content from the only 13 WDTV Internet apps before Western Digital actually adds some more useful Internet apps to the WDTV?
The bottom line is that Western Digital needs to start adding some more free Internet apps to the WDTV series, and they need to add them very soon (like within the next few weeks) or the WDTV machines will likely go the way of the Flip cameras in my opinion.
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