I have been able to successfully download approx 20 of the latest movies for my ipod. The quality (ipod version) is fine as long as you only plan to watch on ipod classic size screen max (quite grainy on ipod touch).

I had no problems downloading on my imac except for Stardust (no obvious reason why, eventually successfully downloaded on PC).

When I went to top-up my account I was asked for my credit card details (again) and my home address. I this point I decided not to add anymore credit as I was a bit worried this was all “too good to be true”. I would be fascinated to know if anyone has had any problems with their credit card.

Until then I look forward to my own in-flight entertainment on my bargain airline flight to Greece rather than be forced to watch “Step up 2”!!!!

PS I downloaded ‘There Will be Blood’ first

1) Use POP server, and collect/send all mail through gmail

2) Use CompanionLink to sync Google Calendars and Notes

3) Ask team PA to paper over the cracks.

So 3 movie downloads cost me $40, which is totally unacceptable. I wouldnt reccomend this site to anyone.

I dont mind paying for downloads, but I do mind being ripped off!!!

Mal

The application I used is ConvertXtoDVD 3. This application is very easy to use and allows you to build your own custom menu system for the resulting movie. I ‘found’ a crack on the net to give me full access so that I don’t get the trial watermark on the movies, and I tested the resulting disc this morning - presto! It worked. ConvertXtoDVD even burned the DVD files to a DVD disc for me.

Because of the ease of using this conversion software, I would now have to say that using MovieFiesta.com is enjoyable for me. The movie quality is perfect and I can have a movie chosen-downloaded-converted-burned to disc in one evening….not bad. It’s just too bad this information isn’t provided on MovieFiesta.com.

Btw, the first movie I burned to disc and will be watching this evening: American History X

I’ve been using OmniFocus & iGTD for my Todos. Will switch to Remember the Milk for a while and see if that’s any better.

The setup is similar and signing up IS free, but you need to buy ‘credits’ to be able to download. Movies formatted for mibile devices (Ipod, PSP etc.) are 1.99 US, movies formatted for PC (*.avi format) are 2.99 and full resolution files for DVD/TV are 3.99 (this isn’t advertized on the splash screen).

Download of the files is really fast. I used a download manager (GetRight with acceleration turned on) and an 800mb movie downloaded in about 20 minutes for me. The files are encoded with all of the audio streams intact which causes a problem for Windows Media Player - it can’t process this so when I open the AVI file on my PC, I get great picture, but no sound. This is discussed on the site but getting around it isn’t easy. You need to download a video CODEC that is provided on the site, and a different video player. That is what’s required if you want to watch the movie on your PC. Once I did that, I was able to watch crystal clear movies with perfect audio….BUT!

I cannot burn the movies to DVD to watch on my TV DVD player. Nero won’t process them because it says that it cannot handle this video format to create a Video-DVD.

There is no clear contact info on the MovieFiesta.com website but there is a Support link. That gives an online form that can be filled out. I filled out the form 2 days ago and still haven’t recieved a response. If I figure out a way to get them onto disc or get a response, I will update this comment.

For now, I would have to say ’sign-up with caution’. Like I said, you can watch them on PC relatively easily (after downloading a few extra files) but so far, getting them onto disc is not working for me.

Btw, the first movie I downloaded and watched from this site was Cloverfield. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Very interesting point. I think the employees posting is a bit of a curveball, and it will be interesting to see in the years that come how companies deal with the increasing public transparency of their employees.

Rather than policing directly, it may lie somewhere in the same solution I’d suggest to dealing with brand haters. Basically, if people are likely to talk negatively about your brand in any public space, short of the ideal solution of fixing why they are talking negatively about you in the first place, the next best solution is to try and contribute something positive yourself to the mix to help balance things out.

This is not to say brands should be spamming social spaces, as that’s obviously adding fuel to the fire. But as an easy example, GM proactively mobilizing their Flickr audience to post photos of cars and tag them, and GM doing this themselves via the photostream, helps ensure that searches for GM are going to result in mostly a lot of cool car photos.

Want a tough challenge though and a good example of a brand with an image problem on Flickr? Try searching for “Microsoft”:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=microsoft&w=all

Notes was designed to help colleagues in large companies with lots of offices to work together. Then email came along.

For those of us who live at the other end of the curve, it’s a gross imposition on the way we work and think.

Incidentally, my favourite bit in Notes is where Command-N brings up a new database, rather than a new document, “memo”, calendar event, or whatever-the-hell-you-wanted. Because, you know, we really need those databases.

Real life experience, however, suggests it’s as few as 2.

Well spotted - fancy a hard copy? Drop me an address and I’ll stick one in the post for you!

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