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Archive for August, 2009
US Bank allowing check deposits over iPhone app
02 years ago
Now if this isn’t the way of the future, I don’t know what is! US bank is now updating their iPhone application to feature check deposit via the phones camera!! The check never has to enter the bank at all. After you take the photo of the front and back, the pictures zoom their way to the clearing department, and you get your money. You can either trash the check, or dispose of it via a shredder, but you have now saved yourself a trip to the bank! How cool is that???
GM goes eBay!
02 years ago
by RustyG
in Technology
So now that GM is now owned by AT&T, it looks like there are more ideas flowing around in the idea room. Gm is now partnering with auction giant eBay to sell some of their cars to the state of California. This allows buyers that may have never set foot in a showroom, a chance to either “Buy it Now” or even negotiate a price via the auction style. This is a first time test, and if it proves to be successful, it may spread across the United States. We shall see!
Full Story at the [GM FastLane Blog]
No Title – Episode 2
0here is episode 2 for your enjoyment:
No Name, No title – Episode #2 from Rusty on Vimeo.
Welcome back, this is episode #2, this week we talk mostly about HD products, from the EEE PC, to the Zune HD to the Samsung i8910 and more! check it out! (We need a title)
Comcast upgrades Nashville
22 years ago
by RustyG
in Technology
So today I got in the mail a few surprises, and one in particular that I was very happy to receive. It was a mailer from Comcast, in which I normally would have thrown away, because it’s just ads for their service.. but this one was different:
So I was very intrigued to see exactly what this was, as Comcast has done speed upgrades before when they went from 3 to 6 Mbps and then 6 to 8Mbps. They always claim even more with the “PowerBoost” that only lasts for the first 10MB or 5MB or whatever it was, but wasn’t really that much speed…. so let’s flip it over…
Wow, this is starting to sound like and Apple ad for the 3G iPhone, when it first came out (by the way, I am waiting for the 4G, or 3G2). So as you scan down the page, you can begin to see my excitement!!! Let’s take a closer look:
That’s right, the old 6Mbps is now the new 12, and the old 8 is now 16!!!!!! The “PowerBoost” does make it look good with the 20/4 on the new one, but you will only have that for a short time. The thing that caught my attention was this little gem:
WHAT??!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS??? We are finally catching up to the Asians and Europeans?? Why has this taken so long??? So I called, and asked to be upgraded. Prices first. The smaller of the two is $69.95/month. Which isn’t much compared to what I pay already, which is $67.95, so why not??? I asked for the price of the larger, and it is $99.95/month! I would have gladly paid the price, BUT I just gave up a $132 bill from Comcast for having HSI and HD cable.
So I was foaming at the mouth, I told the rep that I wanted the 22/5. She began to tell me that I couldn’t get it in my area, that it was currently in rollout stages, and has not come to my neighborhood. BOOO!!!! Don’t send me a flier, then tell me I can’t get it. That’s like telling sending me all the specs and pictures of next year’s model of the iPhone, and telling me I can’t tell anyone! AHHHHH! She did tell me however that it should be out at the end of the month in my neighborhood, so I am looking foward to that. While I was waiting, I read this little snippet:
All I had to do to double my speed (to the 16Mbs), was unplug and plug back in. You don’t think I didn’t do that right away!!! Here is a few speed tests that I ran off off DSLreports.com
Not bad for a first test run, but I need more, so wait I shall!!!
New Video Post (33min)
3if you have absolutely nothing to do, and are bored, and need a laugh… well here is my first attempt @ a podcast. This was very impromptu, and not even scripted. I had a few stories lined up, a little bit of an intro to who we are, and then on to the stories…
No Name, No Title Yet – Episode #001 from Rusty on Vimeo.
this is a first try for a video podcast, very diggnation’ish, but I call it an om-age to diggnation.
