Electronic House We all know the “right” way to run cables. Do it before the walls go up, and run every conceivable type of wire from each room to a central location. However, what if you have an older house, and can’t afford to have professionals fish wires through you home? Well, wireless can solve some of your problems, but […]
Read moreI found this list while surfing at listanity. It’s not really news, but could be useful to the users here. It lists 22 websites that affer free music. Most of it is legal free music, some of it is a little questionable. TinyDad 5) Free Albums Galore Free Albums Galore is a full-album “mp3 blog” for listeners of eclectic music. […]
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Niveus Media has designed a new Weather application for the lucky few rich folks who own one of their Media Servers. It’s currently in beta but available via their software labs for free only on Niveus machines. Niveus Media Real-time updates on your local 5-day forecast, including the Niveus Proprietary "Weather Strip", which incorporates weather updates from an unlimited number […]
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The BeyondTV camp is certainly getting after it these days. They are currently public beta testing a new build with the following features. If you are interested in signing up, head on over to this link. Much faster library and scheduler Scrollable Couchville-style program guide in the web interface (see screenshot below) Lots of web interface improvements Update DivX and […]
Read moreThe folks (folk?) over at Amplio Audio just posted part two of a great write-up covering various topics relating to audio quality in both XP and Vista. If you’re not familiar with Amplio, they’re developing external firewire soundcards with integrated amplifiers targeted at people who care about quality audio (aka audiophiles…). Amplio Audio In the original Part 1 article I mentioned comments I read in […]
Read moreInside HW …" From the very beginning of computer epoch, opinion was that parallelization and everything connected to computers needs to be scaled to the second power, although it doesn’t matter if you have 1, 2 or even 73 cores. In any case, everything will work properly, unless we are talking about some old version of synthetic benchmark programs that […]
Read moreJust browsed over to the NIN site looking for pre-sale dates for tickets to their upcoming Oakland show and came across this. Wow, I must have been living under a rock for the past few weeks as it looks like the album was posted on 5/5… I hope this is new news to some! Nine Inch Nails (thank you for […]
Read moreSometimes some products fail to meet with the expectations their advertised claims purport. How can a consumer be sure that their purchase lives up to the manufacturer’s/retailer’s hype? Well you do a little research, of course. In this case hardwaresecrets.com has reviewed a commonly available PSU that some folks might have considered for their next project. This is by no […]
Read morePrice, availability, and noise not yet known but there are pictures so this is apparently more than just vaporware. expreview Some HTPC users just don’t want to use a crappy 8400GS or HD 2400 in their highly polished rigs, so here is a chance: Galaxy showed us a low profile 9600GT.
Read moreIf you are having problems with your CableCards recently, please post in this GreenButton thread. Microsoft is currently investigating why everyone seems to be getting restricted content errors every 24 hours. More information about the problem and potenial workarounds can be found in this mr.com post and in the comments.
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