Microsoft has announced that it plans to cut prices for its truly crappy Windows Vista OS in order to push consumers to upgrade to the latest OS. (Chirp chirp chirp). OH YEA, lets all rush out and buy it. It will go great with that discounted Gateway PC I bought a few [...]

Install OSX and the Mythtv frontend on a clean system.
For Christmas this year I got an awesome gift of a Mac Mini core solo to use as a Mythtv frontend on my bedroom entertainment center. My brother had recently bought two of them and said they worked great. He configured the Mac [...]

Do you own an Xbox 360? Have you ever seen the RED RING OF DEATH? (My brother has). Team Xecuter supposedly has a do it yourself kit to fix the red ring of death. I couldn’t find any details on how the kit actually works but they are boasting that the kit worked [...]

Now since BestBuy and Netflix have announced that they will support Blu-ray as the High Def DVD format, Walmart has jumped on the bandwagon and announced they will no longer stock HD-DVD players in its stores. “Its a one two punch too the head, Blu-ray is beating the thin metallic coating off of HD-DVD. [...]

Best buy announced it has chosen to go the way of Blu-Ray. Best Buy will now recommend to its consumers the Blu-Ray format opposed to the HD-DVD products. The best buy chain of stores will continue to carry both formats but believe that Sonys format will emerge the victor in the war. [...]

Lets start this post out with a big SIGH. OK, now that’s out of the way, Microsoft has now bought Danger Inc. who manufactures the wildly popular Sidekick mobile phone sold by T-mobile. I have to say that a few years ago I bought a sidekick and thought it was a really cool [...]

Here’s one that the whole family can enjoy. Some twisted Lego engineer (bless his soul) designed and produced a prototype “Lego Electric Chair” . Take your little beloved lego figures with their funny shaped bodies and little snap on heads and crank 10 KiloVolts through their plastic little bodies. Watch as they [...]

So I walked into my bedroom the other night, looked at my nightstand and it looked like an octopus standing on its head trying to get a hold of my TV remote. The rats nest of cords from chargers for my multiple mobile devices was out of control. I don’t know about you [...]

Here is one to file away in you upcoming cool gadgets file. TvCompass has introduced a Wifi enabled Home Theater Remote control. The Windows CE based device boasts a color screen, wifi capability, built in browser and can control about two dozen devices simultaneously.
The days of entering multiple device codes into your universal [...]

Speculation and a leak from Microsoft just a couple weeks ago pointed towards a new M$ operating system to be released sometime in 2009. The new OS currently named Windows 7 has been in the planning stages since the release of Vista. What does this say to the people who unwisely went scurrying to the [...]