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Our mascot, the notorious mutt puppy BB has turned 2 years old somewhere between now and then. You might have seen the post I wrote a couple years ago. Poor puppy. Her heritage is still an ancient Chinese secret, but I didn’t tell her. She’s a good pooch. The guy in the middle is a [...]
Mostly for my own use, I compiled a list of free books from Amazon for the Kindle Fire or the normal Kindle reader. You can “buy” these from Amazon and read them on your PC, Android device or Kindle Fire. They are all free public domain works of classical literature by classic authors.
Wanna play a really good first person shooter for free? Play one of my 3 pure servers. Be nice.
TV VOID is a site I set up to play the subset of the movies that I can show to people worldwide. It’s also tablet (iPad, Android) compatible. Tablets use html5. So will Google Chrome, which is unique. The other browsers do html5 with flash. That more or less defeats the purpose. Using flash leaves [...]
It looks like Hulu has added some shows (like Quantum Leap) where you can get the first two seasons for free and have to buy Hulu plus to see the rest. It’s messed up my links to some of this stuff. Between that and the usual seasonal expiry of programs, it’s leaving me with one [...]
About using this site with other devices, phones, tablets and RSS Readers. Why did Retrovision send you here?
I mentioned region restrictions in the last post. There are also device restrictions. You can’t watch Hulu on an iphone. Androids flash player, both in Google TV and phones is still pretty twitchy. Iphones and Ipads don’t have a flash player. Trying to read the retrovision website on an Android phone is nearly impossible. Most [...]
Regional restrictions on internet content is bad. After I’d say 100 nasty notes, 50 of them from disgruntled Canadians, I decided to set my mind to making the web act nice to foreign visitors. I hate it when I run into something that I can’t see because of region restrictions. The BBC comes to mind. [...]