Oct 08
I have really been bothered by having to watch ABC shows online through a tunnel, which as of my most recent discovery was pointless. The problem isn’t with comcast filtering, there is some sort of problem with the ad system they have setup. Some of the ABC affiliates don’t work correctly and cause the shows to never start playing resulting in either a black screen or the waiting cursor circling round and round.
Assumming you have no other problems, open a new browser window or tab and enter the following URL.
http://fep.abc.go.com/fep/player?src=abccomjs&aff=kjif
That’s it, you should now be able to watch all the ABC.com online shows. The only difference is the &aff=kjif at the end. Enjoy.
PS: ABC please fix your affiliate system, kthx.
Sep 10
I have been playing around with the new iTunes 8 Genius features and so far I like it. With it being referred to as Genius singularly, I got a little confused in the beginning. Genius playlist and genius recommendations are two different things, kinda.
Genius Playlist
As you’ve probably read on apple’s site and others, genius playlist recommends songs, from your library, that would go together with a single song selection to makeup a genius playlist. I know I said they are two different things and they are, I just wanted to point out that it only generates the playlist from your library.
Genius Sidebar
Now the sidebar has a few features but I am only here for the recommendations which show up on the bottom. In the genius sidebar there are 15 song suggestions, but I am picky and I don’t like the genius bar layout. I want it to look as if I am browsing through a genius playlist or my library in list view, except with all the fresh tunes from the iTunes store. This is easily fixed by highlighting the song you want to find recommendations for, then in the genius sidebar left click the Recommendations link in the panel or the right arrow.
Genius Sidebar
Now you have a list of one hundred song recommendations from the iTunes store instead of your stale library.
Genius Recommendations List
For a more complete list of iTune’s features visit Apple’s website. Enjoy.
