Today was spent primarily on cleanup work. Most of the time was creating the lircrc file for MythTV to use, which maps the remote control button codes to commands within an application. Luckily for me I had a backup of the lircrc files that I had been using before the upgrade. The only problem is that all of the button […]
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Spotify has always had a strong social media bent that has only become more pervasive as Spotify has intensified its relationship with Facebook, however most of the attention has been on sharing your music listening activities with the wider world. Spotify is looking inward with their latest Spotify client. Rather than just sharing your activities out to Facebook, the Spotify […]
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We recently reviewed the Griffin Beacon Universal Remote device, which leverages the capabilities of an iPhone to be used to control your television and stereo components. Peel is a lesser known brand hoping to achieve similar success with their Peel Smart Remote device. Enclosed in a uniquely pear shaped unit and powered by a single C battery, the Peel shares […]
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Lian Li makes a variety of Mini-ITX cases. The PC-TU200 is geared toward LAN party gamers with its sturdy build and handle, but with a 5.25 inch optical drive bay and room for 4 hot-swappable hard drives, the PC-TU200 might find a place in the heart of anyone looking to build a petite but powerful media server. The front-mounted 140mm […]
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Lenovo, the world’s second largest computer manufacturer, has been getting our attention with HTPCs and HTPC remotes lately. Like many other computer manufacturers, Lenovo has been gradually moving into other markets with products such as LePhone and LePad. Coming up next will be LeTV. The LeTV, or the IdeaTV as it is expected be called in North America, should be […]
Read moreSo today I was doing a bit of stress testing of the frontend system to make sure that it was ready for me to put back into use. It turns out there were still a couple of bugs to work out. You may recall from this blog post that I ended up using Fedora 15 with KDE as the desktop […]
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Take three very different media streamers head-to-head-to-head and you are bound to find at least one that might meet your needs. The Apple TV, the Roku family of streamers, and the Sony BDP-S580 Blu-Ray Player represent a disparate collection of media streamers I would not normally expect to see pitted against each other, particularly the inclusion of a Blu-Ray player. […]
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Hightech Information System Limited (HIS) is claiming a first with the release of the Multi-View+Sound, a USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter. It promises HDCP-compliance and 1080p support, and even DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 support for gaming. It does pipe out 2.1 and 5.1 sound, but it’s not going to provide bitstreaming for your DTS-MA and TrueHD soundtracks. The best […]
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About a week ago we pointed out an article about Matcha.com, a new content aggregation site that is looking to make its mark by building a social media-infused recommendation engine around its linked content. At the time we noted that Matcha.com’s interface and layout would serve it well for the inevitable transition to mobile app deployment. In the meantime, there […]
Read moreWell, it turns out that I’m a moron. Apparently everything was pretty much working for me already. I had all of the pieces, I just didn’t put them together correctly. After days of work I finally have LIRC recognizing my remote inputs properly. Basically what happened is that I configured the startup script for LIRC to load the correct driver […]
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