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Boxee, XBMC and AppleTV 3.0 »

Did you loose your menu options for Boxee and XBMC when your AppleTV updated to the pointless 3.0 version. No worries! The patchstick you made awhile back will still work.

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 [...]

GTA IV First impressions. »

Well GTA IV is a hit!
Better graphics, a much improved navigation system, and a lot more vulgar language.
The graphics.
You probably already got a good taste of the graphics from all the pre-release screenshots released all over the web but, let me tell you, they live up to the hype. This version of Grand Theft Auto [...]

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 [...]

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Available Today »

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is available today for mass consumption.  Fire up your favorite bit torrent client and get to work.  What are you waiting for.
Get It Now

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 [...]

307 days until end of Analog Broadcast »

D-day is approaching rapidly. No, not that D-day, that already happened, this one is Digital Day. At the time of this article being written, there are 307 days left until analog TV broadcasts cease and the only thing left is digital over-the-air broadcasts. So you have an old 19 inch tube analog television [...]

DID YOU FILE YOUR TAXES!!! »

This has noting to do with anything but is just a friendly reminder to our readers. Today is the day that Uncle Sam rapes us for more money or, in some cases, gives that short term loan back. On the up side, a lot of us will be getting something back in a [...]