After much delay (sorry!) we finally have another contest to announce! To help remind everyone how fun it is to post user submitted news to the site, we are going to give away the ASUS AT3N7A-I Mini-ITX Motherboard we reviewed recently! See below for the rules. 1. The contest ends at 9:00 pm pacific time on Sunday, October 25th. 2. […]
Read moreWe’ve heard some news about brite-View’s new extender device, and TweakTown has a video review of it in action posted. Decent device, but like most it has it’s flaws. TweakTown It’s not all bad, though, the folks at brite-View managed to spice things up a bit by including a bit torrent downloading application inside the device, as well as YouTube […]
Read moreI find this quote rather interesting, given it’s the main selling point of Slingbox which has done pretty good over its time. Maybe this is like the Roomba Robot Vacuum–cool idea that everyone wants, but not all that useful for most? eHomeUpgrade The Hollywood Reporter and Broadband TV News are reporting that Stuart Collingwood, VP EMEA of Sling Media, has […]
Read moreLooks like this last Tuesday (10/7) Hulu released their desktop application for Linux. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet but I will probably take it for a spin one of these days. We Linux users have finally caught up to you Windows people. 🙂 There appear to be 32- and 64-bit versions built on Fedora 11 and […]
Read moreNow here’s a nifty little mod, but sure looks like it was a ton of work. I’m not sure exactly how seemless this would fit into anyone’s current home theaters, but have to appreciate the nostalgia. Throw some MAME software on it with all your old favorite NES games and you have a party starter! Netbooked Drumboog over at YouTube […]
Read moreI doubt anyone is really surprised here given the quick popularity which the original chipset has gained in the past year, so good to see them not resting on their laurels. I’d expect bitstreaming to be in the next rev, what do you guys think? Fudzilla The next generation Ion platform does support different Pentium 4 compatible processors, including VIA […]
Read moreThis is pretty significant news–any time one of the biggest players in a set category of products changes its ways, it makes you wonder all sorts of things. Not sure exactly how this one will pan out, you can’t believe that Nvidia would abandon the PC industry which made it the giant it is today. PCMag "We have said that […]
Read moreHere’s the roundup of Podcasts for this week (and a few from over last weekend). Enjoy! Entertainment 2.0-Episode 48: First Fireside Chat of the Season This week, as Adam warms himself by the fire, he and Josh get a chance to cover all of the great emails and comments we’ve received in the last two weeks. You guys make our […]
Read moreWoohoo!! Justin.tv is a super popular website for finding all sorts of streams of content…while it started primarily and there still are a lot of webcams there, the real juice is in its offerings of sports not on in your region. Um…I’ve heard friends use the site to watch Real Madrid futbol matches….now "they" can use Boxee to do so. […]
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Ok, I understand what a noble idea this is from Hitachi to conserve a bit of energy, but I can’t get those "Enemy of the State" movies out of my head where the government will tap into these cameras to spy on you. Maybe that won’t ever happen, but still with people watching their pennies these days, are people really […]
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