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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!

How to Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive »

In order to create a bootable USB Flash Drive, you will need some knowledge of computers.  I will attempt to make these directions as simple as possible, but even I can be a bit obtuse at times.  (Who said that?)   Also note that there are other ways to do this, but I am going [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]