Well, I was all excited for the new Xbox Live Experiance that released today. So excited that I woke up a little earlier to get it running. Everything was running fine, got my little avatar setup and navigated around a little.
When I went to setup my Netflix Streaming it was going well until I was asked to go to www.netflix.com/activate and enter in the activation code that was presented to me. I happily grab my laptop type in the address, and FAIL!
“Device activation is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in 2 hours.”
So, thanks for wasting my time Netflix. I really hope this isn’t a sign of things to come with streaming movies possibly brining down your services as well.
Here’s for hoping.
I’m a recent adapter to the world of the Blackberry (or Crackberry as they are so honestly referred to). While friends and family have had them for a while, I was dead set on getting an iPhone. Well, without going into details, the network I choose was not AT&T, so I obviously didn’t get an iPhone.
I’ve found the Blackberry to be quite a unique tool. I’m using just standard Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) which seems to pretty much be push email with my Gmail account. I’m a Mac user and am left to use Boot Camp to do updates to the OS, but I do have a sync option in PocketMac. While this is great, it still means I have to connect my Curve to my Mac whenever I want to update my calendar. Then I remember, I have Gmail, which gives me Google Calendar. By simply adding the Google Sync app to my Blackberry, I now have, for all practical purposes, push email and a calendar that syncs with a server.
Before we get technical, I know, my contacts don’t sync, and I don’t have folder sync. I do, however, have an environment that resembles an Exchange environment, including sharing calendars since you can subscribe to another users calendar with Google.
Want to get on this boat? It’s simple, setup your Blackberry to use your Gmail account, then in your browser on the device, visit http://m.google.com/sync. That’s it, now enjoy your new environment, never having to connect your device to your computer unless it’s to do an OS update.
