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Palm Pre and Sprint Fail! »

Palm Pre an iPhone killer? Hardly! Sprint needs to step up their customer service game a bit too!

Boxee is BACK!!! With new HULU goodness!!! »

Well it didn’t take long for the Boxee team to come up with a new alpha release that includes more gooey goodness including a fix to the pesky Hulu.com issue.
Last night the folks at Boxee announced the release of a new Boxee alpha.  The top additions to this new alpha are the support for Pandora [...]

Where is Radio going next? »

On December 24th 1906, the world heard its first extended voice radio broadcast.  It was from Massachusetts and the broadcast was received by “sparks”, otherwise known as the communications officers on merchant ships in the Atlantic.  Since then it seems that radio has made a few technology advances in how we receive their product but since the [...]

Installing the HP Mini’s Mie interface on Ubuntu How to »

The following are instructions for installing the HP Mini’s Mie interface on Ubuntu.

Boxee. My new favorite Internet Media Player »

If you haven’t heard of boxee it is an open source application that puts a frontend over the media we stream over the internet. Think of it as your Tivo interface with the recorded programs folder replaced by the content offered by last.fm, and hulu. Another way to look at it would be what Apple [...]

Convert your Microsoft Word, Openoffice, and other documents into other formats. »

We all know Microsoft sucks when it comes to making things difficult, but I found a site that helps ease that suck.  If you don’t know already, you can’t open a 2007 word document with an older version of word.  Well here is a site that allows you to take any version of a word [...]

Hava Player Nokia N800/810 Beta »

The Beta release of the Hava Nokia N800/810 software is out and it is GOOD.  On May 8th, Monsoon released their TV streaming software for the N800/810 to a group of beta testers for further testing. The results from the group appear to be good.  I got my hands on this software as part of [...]

Hava Platinum HD »

Hava HD is a Ethernet device for streaming your TV signal across your network to your PC. Don’t have a TV in your kitchen,  drop your laptop on the counter and fire up your Hava Player.  The software gives you full motion video and audio along with a software based remote control to control your [...]

How to hack your Amazon Kindle to read all your ebooks and documents including .pdf, .doc, .xls, chm, .lit, etc.. »

What is a Kindle?
First off, the Kindle is Amazon’s entry into the ebook reader market.  It joins the Sony PRS-505 Reader which has been around for awhile but, it adds a lot of interesting features such as a free built-in wireless connection that allows you to tap into Amazon’s online bookstore from just about anywhere [...]

Driving school… is it for you? »

Turned the key to the on position and hit the button to start her up. As she breathed fire into my veins, the engine sounded like it was suffering while we waited in the pit stop. As the pace car led us down the stretch, she purred into motion. Slowly around the [...]