What mattered to me the most are:

1. It finally fixed the flash uploader annoyance caused by Flash 10 Player update.
2. Automatic WordPress update, no more need to FTP!
3. Customizable User Interface.  Good looking and nice!

I did have one problem during the installation.  I had Kimili Flash Embed plugin installed, and it broke my visual editor.  I had to do some experiment to track down the cause.  Appearantly they are aware of the problem and will do an update soon, but for now just deactivate it to fix the problems.  Good luck!

P.S. It seems like the email notification is still not working right, at least for me.

I would say that I have been pretty careful with my info, but still, I got @#%^&*@$!…  So, be careful people.

First order of business, our home phone. Before FiOS, I had DSL. And since you can’t get DSL without a phone line, I had to pay $18 a month just to get basic phone service, add that together with $30 a month for DSL, I was paying $48 a month for my 786kb/128kb internet service. Now with FiOS, Verizon is moving your home phone lines to VoIP using this fiber interface box (transparent for end users) and they still charge you the same, but you don’t need a phone line to get internet service anymore (sweet!). So now we are paying $40 a month for 5Mb/2Mb!!! And since they are connecting your phone line to the fiber box, it’s super easy to rig up your house phone with your VoIP service provider of your choice (a much much better deal, trust me). Check here, you see the phone jack that your house phone line goes into. I simply pull the 2 wires out, cut the phone line that comes out of my Vonage box (that normally goes to a phone), and twist them together with the little yellow wire-twister thinging, and bam, all the phone jacks within the house are now connected to Vonage. Awesome! (And it worked with my DishDVR box. Double Awesome!)

Naturally the first thing I did when the FiOS was installed was to test out the speed, and I was unpleasantly surprised when I checked it out. The download speed was horrible, worse than my DSL (~100kbs). But why? Maybe my wireless connection wasn’t good? Well, after some trial and error, it’s the poor performance of the Verizon wireless router. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since generally when they give you stuff, especially if it’s something multi-functional, it usually can’t do any of the single functions that well. So I disabled the wireless router function on the Verizon box, and added my own D-Link router, and BAM, it’s all good now (~630kbs). So just a word of advice, if you are getting FiOS and going all wireless with your network, get your own decent router otherwise you are getting ripped off (bandwidth-wise!).

This concludes our tales of our FiOS installation. I will update some more once we get to use it some more, but so far, so good. Here’s a look at the final setup. It’s kinda messy with lots wires, but hey, that’s why it’s in the garage.

Dual timezone, altimeter, thermometer, barometer, compass, chronometer, tachymeter, and water-resistant.

Usefulness (to me) – 2, since I’ll probably just use it as a regular time displaying equipment.
Coolness – 10.  It’s crazy.  Looks like you need 6 eyeballs to read this watch.

via technabob.

Well what do you know? I checked the FiOS website today and it says that it’s available at our address now! The earliest installation date was next Monday, but I don’t really want to take a day off for it, so had to schedule it next Sunday. The appointment time? 8am to 5pm… LOLz… I guess that’s the norm these days. I am expecting the worse – showing up late, installation problems, wiring problems, etc… I’ve learned that if you put your expectations low on these things, you’ll be less irritated when things don’t go as planned.

Still, hoping there won’t be any big problems.

If you are having the same problem, here are the 2 places that I checked:

Not Receiving Email Notification of New Comments
$phpmailer->Sender line prevents comment notifications from being received

Well, that didn’t really fix it for me.  What I had to do was the following:

1.  Create an email account with my host.  i.e. wordpress@jacknjeannie.com
2.  Install the WordPress Plugin – Comments Notifier

I guess the 2.3 upgrade broke something, so if you are having the same problem, good luck to you.

Like it in general so far. Things that I wish were different:

1. This thing would be like 10x more useful if it can just act as a regular USB drive. I don’t know what their reasoning is to disable that. Pretty lame.
2. Can’t delete items from the Zune… Why?
3. Can’t edit the ID Tags… Again, Why?

Hopefully they will add these functions in the future firmware/software, but so far, I am liking it.