Rant

According to the Hauppauge website, the Western Digital Live Hub works with the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q TV tuner. It does not. The Hauppauge app does the channel scan, but freezes when you try to change channels. In other words you have to reboot the WD Live box whenever you want to change channels. That doesn’t count as working in my books. Just sayin’… A bit of Googling has shown that 950Q hardware Rev B may have worked, but the version commonly available in stores is Rev E. [Read More]

When changing your password, please remember that it must be between 5 and 8 characters in length and should contain both letters and numbers. Special characters (e.g. #, &, @) must not be used as they will not be accepted by the system. Passwords consisting of all letters or all numbers are not recommended. Although TD Canada Trust does not require you to change your password, we recommend that for security purposes you change your password every 90 days. [Read More]

A few months ago I bought an HTC Desire from Telus. While I loved the phone, it had problems from the beginning. The keyboard would regularly freeze mid- email/sms and the only way to revive the device was to pull out the battery and restart the phone. It would often reboot when an incoming call was ringing. This is a major failure for a phone - at the very least it should be able to accept phone calls. [Read More]