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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 […]

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Full MythTv Frontend on the N810 »

Yes folks, we have all dreamed of it and it may soon be reality.  There is a semi-functional Mythtv Frontend, in alpha, built for the Nokia Internet Tablet.  With MythTv moving towards QT4 someone has ported the front end over to OS 2008.  It is not completely functional as of now but, it looks to […]

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MythTv Remote on your N800/N810 »

Lirc being a pain?  Does your favorite universal remote NOT work with your new myth box. Mythetomer is a remote control application for your N800 or N810 to control your MythTv.  Mythetomer uses your WLAN or Bluetooth to make a connection to your Myth Frontend for full control.  No cables, no hours of configuring key […]

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XBOX 360 Rockband gets unplugged »

Finally its here, Harmonix has released a wireless guitar for Rockband.  I don’t know about you but one of the nice things about the XBOX 360 is the wireless controllers.  No cable mess, girlfriends complaining about you leaving your toys all over the family room and changing the devices that are plugged into your xbox […]

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DIY SSD hard dive. »

There is a new Century Compact Flash to SATA adatper coming out May 1st. We have all seen these before but, what makes this one unqiue, is its support for three CF cards. That’s up to 96GB of RAID 0/5 love for half of what the current crop of 64 GB drives are going for. […]

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Intel announces price cut of up to 50% on desktop parts. »

Intel has tweaked its processor price list, cutting up to 50 per cent off what it charges for desktop CPUs.
The big reduction came to the 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q6700, which now costs $266, down from $530. The 2.4GHz Q6600 is also cheaper now: down 16 per cent to $224. For those of you not […]

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Fastest hard drive… Western Digital’s VelociRaptor. »

Well, fastest hard drive that isn’t SCSI anyway. Western Digital has taken their Raptor hard drive which is a 10,000 RPM drive and cleaned out the cob webs and added some synthetic turning fluid. Now called the VelociRaptor, with a maximum capacity of 300 gigabytes, the drive is smaller, weighing in at 2.5 […]

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IBM’s new racetrack memory, makes old RAM seem like another elderly driver. »

IBM has come out with RAM that has data running along a path no larger than a human hair. The result is very very fast RAM. IBM researchers are suggesting that this technology could be available in around a decade and could enable users to store substantially more data at a lower cost. […]

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Look Out PS3 Xbox360 is breaking down your Door »

We all know that Xbox360 sales have always been superior to Sony’s PS3 but Sony did have one slight advantage. Sony, since the release of the PS3, has been on the right side of the Blu-ray HD-DVD war, till now. Rumors say Microsoft will now produce 360 units with a built in Blu-ray […]

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Cheap embedded or nearly embedded Linux servers. »

For awhile now I have been searching around for a cheap and low power replacement for an old P4 3.0 GHz server that I use as a dedicated Linux/NAS. During the middle of last year I picked up a used Mac Mini off of eBay, loaded Ubuntu on it, and have been using that as […]

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