The Seeker wrote:Alright, I am adding you now. Wow, I came home last night and my Wii was glowing a blue colour, I think there is something creepy and demonic about that....
Yeah, that screwed me up the first time too. I thought it was like the red lights of death on the Xbox 360 and was trying to figure out what the heck was wrong :-) It's meant to signify that there's either an update or a message from someone on your list, but it's still pretty weird.
Another thing I find kind of neat is the fact that you can send emails to normal email addresses. But it's a little cumbersome. I set it up with my email address to try it out. You get an email from an address that looks like
wxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@wii.com (the x's are your Wii console number) but it has no subject line or anything. It's just a form email from Nintendo saying "this Wii would like to establish contact, if you want to, reply". I can understand the whole idea behind requiring the other side to approve before you can send messages, but at least give them a chance to figure out where it's coming from. At least let us put a message in there for the other person to read so they don't just delete the message.
I can't wait for them to get the browser up and running properly, in particular the plug-ins. The flash player doesn't play everything (from my experiences on YouTube) and there isn't even a Quicktime plug-in, so I can't watch trailers on Apple's website. Thankfully there's a Macromedia plug-in. Also, I like the idea of the intelligent zoom and it generally works very well, but they need to give you the option of zooming in yourself for those rare occasions when the site isn't set up properly and the zoom doesnt' work.
BTW, for everyone surfing with the Wii, if you surf through Warppipe (
www.warppipe.com), it apparently speeds it up a bit. Check out the article at Slashdot for more details.