I May Have to Download Firefox After All

ESPN 360 doesn't work with Flock so I may have to download Firefox after all.

The problem is the browser plug-in required by ESPN 360. The Move Media Player plug-in web site showed me this (I'm in Windows 7):

So like I said, I'm on Windows 7 which comes with Internet Explorer 8. I like Flock and I don't know if I want to download Firefox just to watch ESPN 360. I will wait for now, hopefully a version of Move Media Player for IE 8 is released soon. Here's the Install Move Player web page.

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How to remove the DiggBar

A while ago Digg added the DiggBar to all user accounts. It's not a browser toolbar but a window frame that has handy links to all sorts of Digg features. I don't like the DiggBar at all. Here's how I got rid of it.

Log-in to your Digg Profile > Settings > Viewing Preferences (right-hand column)

The top portion under the Settings tab should then look like this:



Simply use the drop-down menu to select Never show DiggBar for external links and then click Save Changes (in the Comment Preferences section) and that's it, no more DiggBar!

When you're done then check out my Digg Profile.

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Can I Trade Rosie for Emeril?

Later this month celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse (pictured) is joining Sirius XM Radio but he won't be on XM Radio. Can I trade Rosie O’Donnell for Emeril?

A few weeks ago Rosie Radio started on Sirius Stars Too which is available on XM Radio. I subscribe to XM Radio (without the 'Best of Sirius') and I read a few reviews of it that said Rosie Radio was 'good radio' so I gave it a try. I listened to her for a few days but I don't think she is entertaining. No offense Rosie fans, but she's just not for me.

Now comes word that Emeril Lagasse will host a radio show on Sirius XM Radio but it turns out that you need Sirius Radio or XM Radio with the Best of Sirius to listen to him. He will be on Martha Stewart Living Radio (Sirius 112, XM 157)  twice a week with a one hour show.

I would probably like Emeril's radio show but not enough to add the Best of Sirius package to my XM Radio subscription. So Emeril may kick up radio a notch or two but I won't be listening.

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Best Buy is ready for Black Friday

Last night I went to my local Best Buy in Plymouth Meeting, PA for their special Sunday night members-only sale and the shelves and aisles were all stocked and ready for the holiday shopping season.

Best Buy seems to think that HDTVs will continue to be big sellers and Blu-ray disc players were also prevalent. Next to to Best Buy's Insignia brand stacked prominently in the middle of the store was a Samsung player that also had wifi for Netflix and Pandora.

In all of this plenty I noticed a few things that were absent or scarce. There were no Palm PDAs. Months ago I was keeping an eye out for a sale on them as I knew they were going to be discontinued. Well, I guess I forgot all about the Palm and missed any sale Best Buy might of had.

Scarce were eMusic cards. Last holiday season there were many more of them. last night there were very few of them and the $50 cards outnumbered the $30 cards. I'm guessing eMusic is on the way out of Best Buy stores.

Also there were very few slotRadio cards. Those are the micro SD cards with 1,000 songs on them. A few music genres were sold out and the few they had had only a few units available. SlotRadio like eMusic cards are probably on their way out of Best Buy stores as well.

Best Buy put XM Radio in the corner. The satellite radios used to have a more prominent place in the store with an end-cap and displays standing in aisles but no more. It's back in a corner for satrad. Best Buy did have the Pioneer XMP3 portable unit, the XpressRC and the new Onyx. However I didn't see home docks for the XpressRC or Onyx.

The HP netbooks looked nice as did the small point-and-shoot Nikon Coolpix S220 digital cameras. My Nikon camera is getting old and I don't think Windows 7 supports it so I may be getting a new one this holiday season.

This concludes my little scouting mission to Best Buy, I didn't stay long as I was depressed by the Eagles loss just minutes prior to my arrival.

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