Tagged: Television program

Anyone else having problems with Netflix streaming?

Image representing Microsoft Silverlight as de...
Image via CrunchBase

I have used 3 laptops and all of them have had streaming issues with Netflix. My friend and I both have MacBook with 2GB of ram, and an older Dell Latitude.

I have done the normal troubleshooting steps. I have rebooted the computer, tried it with being minimized or maximized and experimented with different browsers. The worst browser on Mac seems to be Safari, then Firefox. The least problematic seems to be Chrome. Having the screen maximized seems to cause the most problem. Buffering it doesn’t seem to help. The Silverlight preferences don’t offer any help and I am using the newest version.

Has anyone else noticed this problem?

Share

Has Facebook Jumped the Shark? (via )

Image representing Facebook as depicted in Cru...
Image via CrunchBase

I’m no Facebook defender but it seems that people like variety more than anything else. Perhaps too many clone applications like Farmville have bored people so they are starting to look elsewhere.

Has Facebook Jumped the Shark? Over the last year I have been saying that it feels as though Facebook has jumped the shark. I know the enrollment numbers to continue to climb, and they have over 650 million users world-wide, but it seems like most of the people I know use it far less than they did a year ago. The white-hot excitement about the social networking site seems to be, well… flat. I thought it was just me, but the folks over at Ars Technica have a poll running that … Read More

via

Share