It doesn’t happen often, but I don’t currently have any Nvidia GPUs in my house and so I haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing the problem of WMC throwing a black screen during playback. If you have been experiencing black screen issues during playback on your Nvidia equipped HTPC, it might be a good idea to download Nvidia’s 285.79 drivers. […]
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Grooveshark has undertaken a major overhaul of their website and service to bring social elements to the forefront. The company says their first goal is to facilitate the creation of connections between music fans with increased social interactions. The next step will be to connect artists to fans. The revamped site includes artist pages that provide links to upcoming events […]
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Google has a digital music locker in beta, but rumors have been swirling for a while that Google has been working to put together a music service to compete with iTunes. It looks like Google is prepared to finally reveal their efforts. Google has sent out an invitation for November 16 referencing the Spinal Tap joke about loudspeakers that turn […]
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Over the last couple of years, as I have striven to build smaller and quieter HTPCs, I have come to appreciate the size and acoustic advantages of 2.5″ laptop hard drives. The smaller drive platters result in better performance at lower spindle speeds. The only thing you give up to a desktop drive is storage capacity, and even that advantage […]
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Spotify just can’t keep its social media sharing music service to itself. Earlier this week Spotify launched their Windows Phone 7 app. Spotify was announced for the platform at MIX11 back in April. Obviously after such a long wait you would hope it turned out pretty good. If you are a Spotify subscriber and Windows Phone 7 user, it sounds like […]
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As we all know at this point, Amazon announced their first proper tablet, the Kindle Fire, at the end of September. Based on Android and built to tie into the collection of services that Amazon has built, there was a lot to like about it, especially its $199 price tag. Much was made of it as an iPad competitor, but […]
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I listen to a lot of podcasts. Too many, in fact. One podcast I used to listen to that has fallen off my playlist is The Home Server Show. It’s too bad I haven’t been listening as I evidently missed a challenge issued on a recent episode to the WHS community to develop an add-in for managing an attached Drobo. Turns […]
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Comcast is in the process of developing a new UI for their set top cable boxes. Known as Xcalibur, Comcast has been approaching the development of the UI with an eye to what consumers are becoming accustomed to on other devices. The goal is a UI that supports apps that tie into online services while displaying richer content information in […]
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Before Windows Home Server came along, I used to drool over the ReadyNAS boxes. They were compact and ReadyNAS had already established themselves as being particularly friendly to plug-in development. That was before ReadyNAS got bought up by Netgear. Fortunately, it sounds like Netgear is continuing to support the development of a NAS device that combines professional performance with consumer pricing. It […]
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The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has been a study in technological baby steps. Even as the world is rapidly running out of IPv4 addresses, ISPs are very slowly working out how to move their customers to IPv6. Comcast has stepped up and become the first major ISP to deploy IPv6 to home customers, albeit only to customers in one town […]
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