Au revoir, Apple TV. The new Netflix Player by Roku ($100) lets you watch movies and TV shows from your Netflix queue, right on your TV, without ever going to the mail box. The streaming set-top box provides instant access to more than 10,000 movies and TV shows (currently about 10% of the Netflix library). Surprisingly compact (approximately 5″ x 5″ x 2″), the Netflix Player features Wired Ethernet and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g), HDMI and Component Video, and comes with a simple remote that lets you make selections, rate movies, and fast-forward or rewind video streams. The best part is that there’s no extra costs in all of this. You just have to buy the box and have a Netflix subscription. Awesome.
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Update: There was a decent review of the Roku on DL.TV this week. It only makes me want one even more.
Okay, so now that isnoop.net’s gmail invite spooler has been shut down, I’ve found a new vehicle to give out my invites. It’s at bytetest.com. So if you need 2GB+ of email space, Lord knows we all do, go to bytetest.com and sign up already. Gmail r0×0rs!
I was donating my gmail invites to isnoop.net for a long while, but gmail shut it down. I still get about 50 invites every couple of days, so if you need one please ask. They are here for you.
Instead of giving out Gmail invites to individuals, I donated all my invites to isnoop.net gmail invite spooler.
From their website at time of writing:
Currently, we have 701,045 invites available to share. Thanks to the generosity of folks like you, we’ve distributed 673,361 invites since this page went up on Sep 13, 2004.
Gmail has recently more than doubled my storage capacity from 1GB to over 2GB (and still climbing). If it wouldn’t be such an administration nightmare, I would move all my users at work over to Gmail. 
Get your free Gmail account today!
I’ve got 50 Gmail invitations to give away. Get ‘em here!
The first Thunderbird 1.0 Release Candidate is now available for testing. 1.0RC1 includes lots of bug fixes and improvements for features like saved search folders, the RSS reader, mail migration, and message grouping. The default themes have both been updated with new improved artwork as well.
Continue reading ‘Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 Release Candidate 1 Available’
SpamAssassin 3.0.1 was announced on October 22, 2004. It can be downloaded here. A list of changes is here.
SpamAssassin 3.0 was announced today on Slashdot.
Its use of SURBL along with Bayes auto learning make it seem like this solution is the one to beat. It looks like they’ve introduced a new logo as well.
