For those of you creating or wanting to create your own TiVo-like devices, Freevo which has just released version 1.5, has been a popular choice amongst the tech savvy.
New features include better DVB support, big speed enhancements, new plugins, unicode support, skin enhancements and the usual bug fixes and cleanup.
Check it out here.
Google has added some pretty typical features to its trendy GMail, free 1GB email service. Some of the new features, from the GMail website, include:
Import Contacts
You’ve made a list. You’ve checked it twice. Now you never have to check it again. Move all your contacts from Yahoo! Mail, Outlook, and others to Gmail in […]
A little reminder of what the RIAA & DMCA are all about.
Bay Area Free Wi-Fi has created a list of free WiFi hotspots which can be viewed on the iPod.
The San Francisco Bay Area is full of free wi-fi locations so why pay for them? Skip Starbucks and other paid access locations and support local businesses and your community for free. Stop into your local free […]
Toshiba plans to roll-out what it calls, MyConnect, a WiFi service which promises roaming laptop users access to 20,000 hotspots across the USA. This should create an interesting confusion amongst consumers, as Toshiba will not be providing the wireless service. MyConnect will instead, enable subscribers to log-on to most of the access points […]
AnyDVD allows you to decrypt CSS encrypted DVDs on the fly. Insert your CSS- (Content Scrambling System) and RPC (Region Code Protected) - protected DVD into your DVD drive. It will detect it and automatically remove the protection. It only takes a few seconds. Even if your drive is not region-free, immediately you’ll get a […]
CDRinfo puts Sony’s first dual layer DVD drive, the DRU-700A, under the microscope for an in-depth review. The part we find most interesting, the reading and writing tests, copying ‘protected’ discs:
To create the image of the various protected titles to the hard disk, we used Alcohol 120% software and the appropriate settings, according to […]
Seems like some major movie companies are gearing up to release movies in an unconventional (non-DVD) form:
Eight major high-technology companies, consumer electronics makers and movie studios announced a system on Wednesday for licensing and distributing movies and other content in the United States that has been produced with the latest digital media technology.
The collaboration among […]
The D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player is as close to perfect as it gets when it comes to stand alone media players - which we define as ‘devices which play video and/or audio from a networked computer to a television or through a stero stereo.’
We ordered our DSM-320 with the expectation that we would end […]
One of our favorite blog/rss search engines, Feedster, have ended their stint as Beta and have gone live with Feedster 2.0. What’s new in Feedster 2.0?
1. Damn close to everything is different. So hold on. Curious? Go do a search and click on Steve’s head.
2. Better […]
