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It used to be easy to find a movie to watch. You would trek down to your local Blockbuster, peruse the aisles, return home with a VHS tape and perhaps a box of Junior Mints. Today, I am paralyzed by choice, and I haven't enjoyed a Junior Mint in more than a decade. I should also note that I have two young children, who have severely decreased my capability to carve out two hours to view and also stay awake for a feature-length film.

So, when the stars align and I have the time and energy to watch a … Read more

Finding a good Netflix streaming title to watch can be a frustrating experience. We showed you how to browse streaming titles more efficiently with Instantwatcher.com, but now there's another Web service that allows you to browse Netflix streaming titles based on their Rotten Tomatoes ratings.

A Better Queue is a very simple service that allows you to filter Netflix streaming titles, based on genre, release date, and their Rotten Tomatoes rating (Tomatometer). Once you find a title you like, just click on it and you'll be redirected to the listing on Netflix. You can then choose to … Read more

After initially launching for only a select few devices (five to be exact), the Netflix Android app is now supported by most phones and tablets running OS versions 2.2 and up. This means a lot more people get to partake of Netflix's instant-streaming fun.

After downloading the app, getting set up is simple. Just enter your log-in information and your account will sync with your device. Your viewing history, recommendations, and instant queue will all be intact.

Along the top of the screen are four main navigation tabs: Home, Genres, Search, and Queue. The Home tab displays your … Read more

A few OS X users who have upgraded to Lion may find that certain printers they have installed may pause when print jobs are sent to them. The printers are still installed as they were before upgrading, and print jobs will spool to the printer queues, but once in the queue, the job pauses.

Some people have found this to happen with certain networked Xerox printers, but it may happen to others as well.

It turns out in some instances the OS upgrade process may reconfigure printers to use a different connection protocol than the one that was designated before … Read more

Netflix has triggered a slew of customer complaints after revealing that it's taking away the ability to add titles to the DVD queue from streaming devices.

Announced in a blog post yesterday by Jamie Odell, director of product management, the move would mean that people will no longer be able to use the "Add to DVD Queue" feature from their smartphones, set-top boxes, game consoles, and other devices that stream Netflix content. Users will be able to add physical discs to their queue only by going directly to the Netflix Web site on a PC or presumably … Read more

Netflix has revolutionized the video rental industry, and many people put a lot of thought into managing their queues, whether they're trying to stay caught up on the latest releases or working their way through the classics. Netflix Queue is an add-on for Google Chrome that lets you view your queue with the click of a button. For those who find themselves logging into their Netflix accounts all the time, this extension will prove to be a very convenient addition.

Netflix Queue appears as an icon to the right of Chrome's address bar, and clicking on it opens … Read more

MacFixIt Answers is a feature in which we answer questions e-mailed from our readers. This week, we have questions about old e-mail addresses still being used in Mail's address auto-completion, battery calibration behavior in MacBook Pro systems, printer queue accidentally removed from the Dock, and a commend on another useful utility that tracks file system changes.

Question: Old e-mail addresses still being used in Mail's address auto-completion

MacFixIt reader "Charles" asks:

I have a problem with Mail/Address Book. When my friends change their e-mail address, the old address remains in my system. When I send … Read more

If you've ever wondered how much you're costing Netflix when you go on those month-long movie binges, you should give Feedflix a go. It takes any one of your personal Netflix RSS feeds and figures out how many movies you're watching per month and what the cost comes out to for each DVD. It also breaks down your biggest return days and how long you tend to keep titles.

Ultimately, most of this information is useless, as with some simple math a Netflix membership tends to end up costing less per-rental after just four DVDs based on … Read more

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