So want to watch Netflix on your Evo after you have upgraded to 4.24.651.1? And find that Netflix still tells you there is an updated version that it can’t find?

Here is the fix I stumbled across:

1. Launch Netflix
2. It prompts you about the upgrade, tap cancel.
3. Tell it to stream your option.
4. The streaming starts.

Do keep in mind it will constantly prompt you to install the new version which doesn’t seem to exist yet.

Can’t promise this will work for you, but it did for me.

So today Rockstar Games released L.A. Noire on PS3 and on the XBOX 360. While I haven’t finished the game yet, thought I would give you my review so far of it.

This game takes place in Los Angeles shortly after World War 2, during what is called Hollywood’s Golden Age. If you have seen the movie Changeling with Angelina Jolie , then you know what LA was like at the time.

As the game starts you are Cole Phelps, a beat cop. After a few successful cases where you show that you know how to think on your own you get promoted to Detective.

In many ways this game is like Hard Rain, however most of your choices is deciding if a witness or suspect is telling you the truth or not. This game does also have racial slurs that fit the time period, gun battles, F-Bombs, and several other things which tells you this is how it really was.

After I finish the game I’ll give a full review, but this is just a snippet of what I see so far.

So about a year ago I gave a new national internet provider a try, one called Clear Wireless. I figured they had to be good if they provide the 4G support that Sprint who happens to be my cell phone carrier is using.

Unfortunately once they “officially” launched in Houston service dropped like a stone to my apartment who after a year is still barely in their service range. However if I take my laptop to the nearest Starbucks which is only a mile away by car (so even less as the crow flies) I get a really good speed, using their mobile internet device.

So starting this Tuesday I will be trying the cable provider that seems to do at least quite a bit of the apartments here in Houston, its a company called Wavevision. Hopefully it will be much better, I don’t think it could be any worse. As of this writing my speed is 1.62 Mbps down and .57 Mbps up according to Speedtest.net.

Of course your probably wondering why I didn’t ask about these slow speeds? Well I did repeatably, in fact that is pretty much all I ever called them about during the last year, and it always boiled down to “you’re not really in our service area.” And after a year, there is still no plans on their site at least to put up another antenna that would serve me better.

So this past Friday I bought a PlayStation 3 160 GB and a used copy of Heavy Rain.

My first thoughts of Heavy Rain is that its very much like Interactive Fiction, which is traditionally a text based game such as Zork.  This has been fully upgraded and with the exception of having to use your fingers to play Twister around the controller its a very fun game.

About to start playing it again, this time however i hope for a much better ending. My first time through if I didn’t the worst possible finish it was mighty close.

Lately Foursquare has gotten some competition as you may have heard, so far I have to admit as to not trying any of them.

However having used the Android client for a while now one thing I wish it was capable of doing was auto punch ins, so I don’t have to remember to let them know where I’m at currently.

Of course this could lead to potential issues, such as not knowing where your at, as Foursquare rarely knows exactly where I’m at it usually thinks I’m hundreds of feet away from my location.

So another part of my idea is the phone would just monitor where you have been, and then when you get back to your computer you can verify which locations you were at through out the day. Because the phone was with you it would know when you were at locations and the like.

This could also potentially be used to keep track of your kids general areas with out needing to pay any extra fees your carrier may charge to keep track of your child’s location.

So a few days ago I was listening to Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing podcast episode 185 in which she interviewed Lou Anders of Pyr. Some of the books they discussed as being recently released sounded like something I would like to read, so I decided to buy them.

These included Cowboy Angels and The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne in) along with its sequel The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man: (Burton & Swinburne In). Normally I wouldn’t buy a sequel before reading the first book, but I have been burned a couple of times by the sequel no longer being out when I was ready to go hunting for it, so decided this time I was not going to take that chance, and hope I enjoy the first book enough to read the second.

Soon I will have reviews for those of which I finish!

So recently I got an HTC Evo to replace my HTC Hero.
I really wish that I could say there was no learning curve, however that is not the case. Things such as streaming off the 3g network like I did on my Hero doesn’t work as well with many apps.
More later

The beginning of the year always has me thinking about where I’ve been, and where I’m going. And currently I must admit that it seems I’m largely going no where. On every scale I can think of there isn’t much I can say I have accomplished that would be considered good.

Only positive thing I can say is currently it looks like I’ll be at the same job for 2 years in a row soon, its been a while since I have been able to say that. However not entirely sure this can be considered a good thing.

So recently I finished reading the Kindle version of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. If you haven’t heard of this book yet, its a historical fiction novel written by Seth Grahame-Smith. In this novel vampires are real, though most people do not know of them. It takes historical events that are known for a fact to have happened to Lincoln and put a slight twist on most of them.

Many events from Lincoln’s life is presented here, from the death of his mother to the Civil War and then to his Assassination by John Wilkes Booth, however instead of just being humans most of the adverse people were vampires. Gives a very different light on to what caused the Civil war.

You can tell that the author spent a long time making sure that the book is plausible as far as it goes.

The only complaint I have for this book is sometimes you have to wonder why doesn’t anything happen when the vampires die? Shouldn’t the turn to dust or something?

Recently Tim Burton has started the process of directing this as a film, this should be interesting to see!

Overall its worth the read, I’d recommend you get it!

This book is available in the following formats: Kindle, Hardcover & Illustrated, Paperback

As you may know I recently got a Zoom H1 Hand Held Recorder. I don’t have a full indepth review of it yet, but I have prepared a few things for those who are interested.

First was the YouTube Video I did here:

First View of Zoom’s H1.

And then while walking to work, I decided to give the thing a test in recording.  Here is the unedited Wave form according to Audacity:

I must admit I was pleasantly surprised as to how good of a job it did with out having to touch any of the controls but record, and stop. Attached to this post is also the MP3 version of the WAV file I made. Nothing really interesting is discussed (or I don’t think so) but it was a test mainly.