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By Grant on Oct 16, 2009 in Blog, Featured, Gadgets, Hardware, Reviews, Software | 1 Comment
Palm Pre an iPhone killer? Hardly! Sprint needs to step up their customer service game a bit too!
Category: HardwareBy Grant on Oct 16, 2009 in Blog, Featured, Gadgets, Hardware, Reviews, Software | 1 Comment
Palm Pre an iPhone killer? Hardly! Sprint needs to step up their customer service game a bit too!
By Chris on Mar 25, 2009 in Hacks/Mods, Hardware, How to | 3 Comments
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 [...]
By Grant on Mar 17, 2009 in Blog, Featured, Hardware, Internet, News, Reviews | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Grant on May 6, 2008 in Featured, Gadgets, HDTV, Hardware, Linux, News, Reviews, Software | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Grant on Apr 28, 2008 in Hacks/Mods, Hardware, Internet, Linux, Software | 1 Comment
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 [...]
By Grant on Apr 25, 2008 in Featured, Gadgets, Hacks/Mods, Hardware, How to, Linux, Reviews, Software | 2 Comments
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 [...]
By Grant on Apr 24, 2008 in Hardware, News, Software, Video Games/Systems | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Mike on Apr 23, 2008 in Hardware, News | 1 Comment
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. [...]
By Mike on Apr 22, 2008 in Hardware, News | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Chris on Apr 21, 2008 in Hardware, Reviews | 0 Comments
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 [...]