Monthly Archives: February 2010

Solved Direct TV error code 0704 iPhone application – technical difficulties

February 12, 2010 – 9:38 pm

We thought we’d found a real Gigawidget here.  The DirectTV iphone app looked promising and easy to use.  So I downloaded the DirectTV iphone application and get the common 0704 error when the application runs.   The error states technical difficulties.   Great!  It goes on to say “No local zip code was found for this account.”  [...]

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3 Reasons Gigawidget Inc. fired Comcast today

February 10, 2010 – 8:48 am

First I’ll say that this decision was based entirely on customer service.  What made the decision to fire Comcast a little more difficult is that I had little complaint on the actual service. Strike 1 – Comcast billed for work not done When the service was first installed the TV service, the Comcast technician decided [...]

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Portable DVD Player converted to xbox preview monitor

February 1, 2010 – 9:25 am

Over the weekend, I decided to see what could be done with an old, non working portable DVD player made by Polaroid.  I’ve been needing a preview monitor for viewing content and playlist via my networked xbox. The teardown went pretty smoothly.  Once disassembled, I removed the dvd drive, com board, power cables, audio system [...]

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