What Cool Tech Gift did you get for the Holiday?

[Jeff Kershner]

Late for the holidays but had to turn in the ancient Mitsubishi T.V. for a Samsung 650.

1080p w/ 120Hz refresh. Trying to get the RSS reader to display stats from my CRM. May have to redirect the DNS from USA today to show "news" from my custom RSS feed.

Does the Samsung have a build in RSS reader? That would be decent.

 

[Jarrett]

Yes, it has the built in RSS reader for pre-defined URL's. If i want to subscribe to feeds other than USA Today I will have to do some DNS magic. The TV runs a linux kernal and is GPL open source, I am just not sure if I want to reflash my new TV yet.

Stay tuend for DealerRefresh RSS feed displayed on the Samsung 650 via infoLink

 

[Jeff Kershner]

Yes, it has the built in RSS reader for pre-defined URL's. If i want to subscribe to feeds other than USA Today I will have to do some DNS magic. The TV runs a linux kernal and is GPL open source, I am just not sure if I want to reflash my new TV yet.

Stay tuend for DealerRefresh RSS feed displayed on the Samsung 650 via infoLink

I need to see a photo of that!

 

[Jarrett]

Boom - check this out...

Jeff Kreshner's face on my Samsung... I had to customize the rss feed, it doesn't appear that it can take very complicated tag structure. It is limited to the following tag structure.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <item>
      <title>Check out the Forum at DealerRefresh.com</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://forum.dealerrefresh.com/avatars/jeff-kershner.gif?dateline=1257703144" width="79" height="80" /> <p> Originally Posted by Jarrett View Post
Yes, it has the built in RSS reader for pre-defined URL's. If i want to subscribe to feeds other than USA Today I will have to do some DNS magic. The TV runs a linux kernal and is GPL open source, I am just not sure if I want to reflash my new TV yet.

Stay tuend for DealerRefresh RSS feed displayed on the Samsung 650 via infoLink
I need to see a photo of that! </p> <p>photo credit: By Some one with a camera</p>]]></description>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

 

[Jeff Kershner]

That's tight..I like it!! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Matt DoCampo]

I picked up a Quad Core 27" iMac. It's been brilliant so far. I don't think I will ever go back to a PC.

 

[Alex Snyder]

I picked up a Quad Core 27" iMac. It's been brilliant so far. I don't think I will ever go back to a PC.

Yeah :thumbup:

I want to see more people in the Auto Biz get on Macs so that our technology vendors will code for them.

 

[Jarrett]

Our Dealer only uses a Mac. That was a consideration while choosing Salesforce as our CRM. We figure if the main man is using it that would encourage the rest, from the top down.

 

[Matt DoCampo]

Yeah :thumbup:

I want to see more people in the Auto Biz get on Macs so that our technology vendors will code for them.

One of our higher ups is a beta tester for Mac. His office is tricked out with Mac stuff. 30" Cinema display, MBP, iPhone.

Despite this, we still run IE6 company wide and my attempt to expense an iMac for my desk continues to be denied.

 

[Alex Snyder]

^How do I get on that program?