Announcements archive
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
New Blog In Town: Frillas - Frills for the Home and your Lifestyle
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
My wife has always wanted her own blog (www.frillas.com) and I’ve been too lazy busy to get one setup for her — so she found out about Blogger.com and setup one up by herself! If you have interests in great home decor and designs, you definitely need to check out Frillas — “Frills for the ...Read
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Mavromatic Video Reviews Now On iTunes Podcasts
Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
You can now subscribe to Mavromatic’s Video Reviews via iTunes. Just click here and you will be automatically subscribed to the podcast. See me make a fool of myself right when I publish the videos live!P.S. I’m still trying to figure out how to fix the “Podcast Description”.Read
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Mavromatic Video Reviews Now On Blip.tv
Posted: Tuesday, January 8, 2008
I’ve decided to use blip.tv instead of YouTube for my video reviews since the quality and encoding/viewing options are better. Now you can subscribe via iTunes and view my videos on pretty much any device! I’ll still be posting on YouTube as well. More video reviews are in the works so stay tuned…Read
Thursday, December 13, 2007
UPDATES: Spam Cleaned and Captcha Added
Posted: Thursday, December 13, 2007
Just a quick update. I finally got around to cleaning up all the comment spam — it was really starting to take over the site! I think I got it all cleaned up, however, I might have even accidentally removed valid comments, so please repost if that is the case. You will also notice that ...Read
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
New Disney.com Site Launches
Posted: Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Point your browser to the completely redesigned, all Flash, Disney.com website. The last few weeks of my life (hence the lack of posts) has been devoted to helping bring this site to launch. I’m beat. Have fun exploring the site and watching all the videos.Update: The redesigned site is only accessible from within the USA ...Read
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Back From CES
Posted: Thursday, January 11, 2007
I just got back from Las Vegas. I’ll be posting the products I found to be “Best of Show” shortly — need to take a nap first.Read
Friday, January 5, 2007
Heading to CES
Posted: Friday, January 5, 2007
Be sure to check out my CES coverage starting Monday, January 8th. I’ll be on the search for the latest and greatest in Home Automation and Entertainment.Read
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
We’ve Got Power!
Posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
After 6 days, numerous calls to Puget Sound Engery (PSE), complaints to Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (1-800-562-6150), we got our power restored. How? I told my dad that if he saw a PSE repair truck to call me. So this morning, he saw two waiting on the side of the road a few blocks ...Read
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Power Still Out…
Posted: Sunday, December 17, 2006
It’s very interesting to see how reliant we have become on electricity. Everything I blog about needs it and without it, they are worthless chunks of plastic and metal. A powerful windstorm hit Seattle Thursday night and our power went out around 1:00am Friday morning. It was restored for about 30 minutes this morning (Sunday, ...Read
Monday, December 11, 2006
Danny meets Emmy.
Posted: Monday, December 11, 2006
We had our Company Christmas Party over the weekend and when I got in today there was a CD of photos waiting at my desk. I thought it was going to contain compromising/incriminating photographs of co-workers from the party, but instead it contained some pretty great shots of Miss Emmy. Technical specification of the Emmy ...Read
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Upgrade Completed, Comments Enabled.
Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006
I just upgraded to MT 3.33 and I cleaned up all the comment spam from the site. I still need to fix a few UI elements, like if you try to comment, it will now go to an approval page which looks like crap — I’ll work on that this weekend. If you notice any ...Read
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
System Updates & Comments Temporarily Disabled
Posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
It’s been a couple years now since Mavromatic launched and it’s time for an update. First thing in the works is upgrading the system to the latest version of MT or WordPress. This comment spam is killing me… I’ve had to disable it since it was causing performance issues due to the constant scripts hitting ...Read
Monday, August 7, 2006
Comment spam, an Emmy and other updates
Posted: Monday, August 7, 2006
Mavromatic was hit with a mega dose of comment spam over the last few weeks. I do have plans on upgrading to the lastest version of Moveable Type which will hopefully combat this spam problem. Unfortunately, while cleaning up the spam comments, I may have deleted legit, non-spam comments, if that is the case, ...Read
Monday, January 30, 2006
Starbucks Mint Brownie, The Best!
Posted: Monday, January 30, 2006
I’m addicted to these things! Anyone that knows me, knows that I’ve got a real sweet tooth, so when the three o’clock hour comes around I don’t get the mocha, instead I go downstairs to Starbucks and pick up a dessert. Lately, I’ve been on this mint brownie binge. I have even bought two, with ...Read
Friday, December 30, 2005
Happy New Year!
Posted: Friday, December 30, 2005
Ok, so we ended with year with some crazy offbeat entry… oh well, I just wanted to say thank you to all the Mavromatic readers out there for another successful year. You’ve all made it a very enjoyable one… we talked home theaters and automation. I posted over 250 entries and received over a million ...Read
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Yahoo! Advertisements In RSS
Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
UPDATE: RSS AD’s removed… I didn’t like the way they looked.Just a little heads up, I’m giving Yahoo!’s sponsored RSS feed ads a try, why? To better serve all you Mavromatic subscribers (and to earn me some extra Christmas money, to buy more gadgets to review of course!). If you find them too pervasive or ...Read
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
The Late Show with David Letterman in HD - Part 2
Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2005
“We’ve never been broadcasting in High Definition before, this is our first show ever, and we did research, did some focus groups and it turns out that 1 American in like 500,000 has high definition TV… so for you couple of folks watching tonight…”Well Dave, I must be that one in my neighborhood and you ...Read
Monday, August 29, 2005
The Late Show with David Letterman in HD!
Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005
Well folks, the time has finally come… in less than a few minutes (EST) or 3 hours (PST), we will have The Late Show with David Letterman broadcasted in crystal clear high definition video! I’m planning on having a few comparison frame grabs of the HD feed versus the old skool SD feed for us ...Read
Thursday, November 4, 2004
Upgrades And Updates
Posted: Thursday, November 4, 2004
Sorry for not posting much lately, I’ve been busy signing up to become a dealer for some very cool products I think you all will love and at prices that we all can afford. I’m also going to try to post a bunch of new entries about some cool things I have seen over the ...Read
Friday, August 6, 2004
Seinfeld Is Coming To DVD
Posted: Friday, August 6, 2004
Folks, the wait is over, Seinfeld is coming to DVD on November 23, 2004. Columbia will be releasing episodes from the first three seasons on two four-DVD volumes as well as combined in a boxed gift set. Each volume will include about 12 hours of extra content and will list for $49.95. The gift set ...Read
Friday, July 30, 2004
Mavromatic Now Has Future Proof URLs
Posted: Friday, July 30, 2004
It seems like the latest trend in blogging is to use future proof URLs. Well, I spent some time talking to Mike Davidson and a few other co-workers as to why I should actually make the change. It turns out that there isn’t a good reason to have file extensions. You will now notice that ...Read
Friday, June 18, 2004
User Ratings Added To Mavromatic
Posted: Friday, June 18, 2004
I didn’t think it was fair to only have my ratings for a product… so in addition to the “Mavromatic Rating”, I have added the ability for all you to rate the product or entry as well. This feature is still in “BETA”, since I don’t know how it will scale. All you need to ...Read
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
New Rating System At Mavromatic
Posted: Wednesday, June 16, 2004
A lot of other technology or gadget weblogs try to post as many things in one day as possible, many times they post about the exact same product or device without adding any commentary. What use is that? I’ve decided to add a “Mavromatic Rating” system that you can use to gauge how cool or ...Read
Monday, May 10, 2004
Send To A Friend and More…
Posted: Monday, May 10, 2004
I tend to shy away from posting announcements about MAVROMATIC, I’m more interested in talking about cool devices than updates to a site… but I couldn’t resist posting just this one. It has been almost two months since the first post and I’m proud to say that this has been a fun experience for me. ...Read
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Redesigned mavromatic
Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2004
I’m pretty new to this whole blogging stuff, I hope you like the new look and feel of mavromatic. The first version was a direct rip-off of engadget… they were my inspiration to start this site and felt that I probably shouldn’t copy their site design exactly. Enjoy.
Welcome to mavromatic! My goal is to bring to your attention the latest DIY projects, the greatest home automation and home theater products. As well as, the occasional offbeat entry, to spice things up a bit. 
