NVIDIA Ion – Intel Atom Done Right?

I would still love to get my hands on one of these Nvidia ION platforms.  Here’s another article that covers the reference platform.  They run some benchmarks on it, play some games, then run some video clips, followed up with some power measurements.  All in all, not a bad review.   I downloaded and ran the 1080P trailer for the […]

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AMD Fusion Media Browser

I don’t think this would ever replace the main front end home theater apps such as SageTV, Media Portal, VMC, etc. but i would love to see it as a possible view option to navigate your media within those applications.   A scrollable 3D ribbon displays all a user’s local media, pulled directly from their hard drive, removable USB or […]

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Am I spoiled?

My family and I have been on vacation for the last week visiting my mother-in-law.  It’s been a great trip.  We got to see lots of scenery, have lots of experiences, and in general, expose our daughter to lots of stuff she hasn’t seen before.  Some of those things I could live without.  What am I talking about?  Commercials! After […]

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ATI Catalyst 9.4 Released

Do this frequent driver releases do anything for anyone? I guess there are a few fixes that are worth mentioning… Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System – Resolutions above 10 x 7 will now full screen properly for specific HDMI displays – VC-1 progressive disc playback no longer exhibits block corruption  Wow…impressive, I’m glad they fixed HDMI full […]

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$1500-$2000 Floorstanding Speaker Shootout

Continuing in the spirit of shootouts, we have another one from last week at Audioholics. They take a good look at a number of speakers that fall outside their ususal review brands. The shootout takes a look at Krix (little known Aussie company), Salk Sound, DALI, and Infinity. While many would balk at the price of these speakers there are […]

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Thermal Paste vs American Cheese

HardOCP has up a thermal paste shootout looking at many factors in usage and testing for ten different types of thermal paste and and also cheese…yes I said cheese… HardOCP We take 10 high profile thermal pastes used for mating heatsink surfaces to CPUs and other components and subject those to over 1200 hours of testing to find out which […]

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XBMC Updater for win32

XBMC Update Finally a way to easily upgrade your win32 build to the most current 3rd party SVN builds. There is a plan to integrate it into XBMC with a script, so it can all be triggered from within the XBMC UI. But it’s a good start.   [XBMCUpdate]  

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Logitech diNovo Mini

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  Logitech diNovo Mini Over the years, many have tried with little success to introduce a wireless keyboard into the living room home theater environment. Logitech has a number of wireless keyboards, but the diNovo Mini is the first introduced which brings about a small form factor along with a convenient array of hot media buttons to integrate seamlessly into […]

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