Episode number Twenty-One of Angry Birds Toons titled “Hypno Pigs” is now playing at Angry Birds App nearest you.
Stay Tooned for next week episode.
Amazon.com Honors Chromecast-Netflix Promotion
Amazon Customer Service scores another point. One satisfied customer reports that Amazon.com sent him the Chromecast-Netflix Promotional code even after his order was canceled.
The customer was originally told by that his Chromecast order was not eligible for the Netflix promotional code because it was placed after 5:31 p.m. PST on July 24, 2013. Subsequently the order was canceled after contacting Amazon.com Customer Service and getting no resolutions. The customer citing that at the time the order was placed, Amazon.com and Google promised that the order was eligible for the promotional offer. In addition to that, Google Play stated that orders of Chromecast placed before 1PM PT on 7/25 will receive their promotion code once their order ships; 18 hours and 29 minutes later than Amazon.com cut-off time.
A few days later the customer received an email from Amazon.com:
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
Thank you for your recent Chromecast purchase. Your purchase has qualified you to receive a 3-month Netflix gift code. Your code will be emailed to you 5 days after your Chromecast ships.
Apparently Amazon.com had changed the cut-off time to 5:31 p.m. PST on July 25, 2013; 24 hours later than its original cut-off time.
The customer contacted Amazon.com Customer Service asking if his order could be re-instated; Amazon.com replied:
Unfortunately, we don’t have any more stock of ‘Google Chromecast HDMI Streaming Media Player’ right now, and we’re not sure when we’ll be able to get more.
Despite all of that, the customer also received an email from Amazon.com that said:
Hello,
As your order is eligible for this promotion, here is Netflix promotional code: XXXXXXXXXXXX
Follow the instructions below to redeem your code:
1) Go to netflix.com/chromecast.
2) Enter the Netflix code from your email and click ‘Continue’.
3) If you are a new member, you will be asked to create a Netflix account. No billing information is required.
4) If you are an existing Netflix member, login into your Netflix account and your subscription will be credited for 3 month’s worth of streaming services.
Yes, Amazon.com gave the customer the Netflix promotional code even though they could not fulfill the order. Anecdotal story like this really shows how much Amazon.com cares about their customers.
If only I had ordered a Chromecast from Amazon.com.
By the way, Google is to blame for botching the Chromecast launch.
Snowden
Suddenly a lot of people paying attention to this street.
WordPress 3.6 is Released
WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” is released.
The latest and greatest WordPress, version 3.6, is now live to the world and includes a beautiful new blog-centric theme, bullet-proof autosave and post locking, a revamped revision browser, native support for audio and video embeds, and improved integrations with Spotify, Rdio, and SoundCloud.
User Features
- The new Twenty Thirteen theme inspired by modern art puts focus on your content with a colorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging.
- Revamped Revisions save every change and the new interface allows you to scroll easily through changes to see line-by-line who changed what and when.
- Post Locking and Augmented Autosave will especially be a boon to sites where more than a single author is working on a post. Each author now has their own autosave stream, which stores things locally as well as on the server (so much harder to lose something) and there’s an interface for taking over editing of a post, as demonstrated beautifully by our bearded buddies in the video above.
- Built-in HTML5 media player for native audio and video embeds with no reliance on external services.
- The Menu Editor is now much easier to understand and use.
It is highly recommended to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.
Android 4.3 Update for Nexus 7
My Nexus 7 finally got the Android 4.3 update, just about one week after Google said it was released.
From AnandTech:
One of the common complaints late in the life of the original Nexus 7 was slow storage I/O performance, leading to an inconsistent user experience. After a fresh flash, the Nexus 7 was speedy and performant, but after months of installing applications and using the tablet, things began slowing down. This was a friction point that many hoped would be fixed in the new Nexus 7 (2013) model, which it was. There’s even more to the story though, it turns out Google has fixed that storage I/O aging problem on all Nexus devices with the Android 4.3 update.
You dont’ have to read between the lines that prior to Android 4.3 Nexus 7 had a serious flaw.
Futurama: Assie Come Home
New Futurama titled “Assie Come Home” has hit the tubes, all kind of tubes and LCD, LED, OLED screens, and others.
Previews:
Starbucks Team Up With Google For Wi-Fi Hotspot
It is official, Starbucks team up with Google to provide Wi-Fi hotspot.
The good news is that Google should be able to provide better Wi-Fi hotspot, especially in cities where Google Fiber are available; that’s Kansas City for now, Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah are next.
The other good news is that Google gets to collect more info on the users.
