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Archive | May, 2007
Onkyo DS-A2 iPod Dock Review
    I recently purchased the Onkyo DS-A2 as an iPod dock for my existing Onkyo HT-R940 Receiver that I got as part of the Onkyo HT-S990THX home-theater-in-a-box setup. The idea being that we could hook our iPods up to the dock and listen to them throughout the house without needing head phones. The [...]
Continue reading...Prince of Persia Classic
30. May 2007
Talk about a complete (and nice looking) face-lift to the Prince of Persia original side-scroller. Prince of Persia Classic is going to be an XBox Live exclusive release:
Continue reading...BioShock Looks Awesome
30. May 2007
BioShock is starting to look like a cross between Deus Ex meets Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay… games I loved. The visceral feel of “wrenching” someone in the face looks very fluid and satisfying… not like a robot hitting a pinata. Take a look:
Continue reading...Uwe Boll Can’t Sell Roll in Far Cry Movie
28. May 2007
Kotaku scooped that Uwe Boll, famed “movies so bad, can’t figure out how he keeps getting money” director, actually tried to auction off a roll in his upcoming live-action adaption of the Far Cry game and was unable to get anyone to cough up $3k for the part.
Continue reading...Applications on the Run: PortableApps.com
28. May 2007
Robert Heron sent along this super-slick link to PortableApps.com. For those of you in the know, it’s basically versions of your favorite open-source/free apps in a form that can be downloaded onto a USB drive (or other portable device like iPod) and immediately run from it. For the folks not in the know, a quick introduction: Not [...]
Continue reading...Finding a Good Hosting Company
27. May 2007
I was checking out N. Design Studio’s blog to see what’s going on with his theme designs (Note: He designed this theme) and noticed he had blog entry up about finding a new host. Surprisingly enough he’s already on MediaTemple and has outages frequently or problems with his dedicated-VPS. As you know this blog is [...]
Continue reading...SmugMug Rolls Out “Islands” Feature
27. May 2007
Laurence Hartje sends word that SmugMug has rolled out a major new feature months in the making: Islands: and then the different settings available here (sorry too wide to inline): The idea of “Islands” came about starting with this 28-page-thread in the SmugMug forums discussing the need for a way to stop making images stored in SmugMug [...]
Continue reading...Infrant ReadyNAS + TwonkyVision
23. May 2007
Note: For those confused by the names below. ReadyNAS is a line of NASs from Infrant that are very popular. TwonkyVision’s TwonkyMedia is a popular addon to the ReadyNAS NV/+ series that allow it to fully support UPnP A/V and stream pictures, music and media off the device to compliant devices [...]
Continue reading...PS3 1.80 Firmware Update - AWESOME
23. May 2007
Ted Regulski just dropped this gem in my inbox about the PS3 1.80 Firmware update due tommorow! Upscaling Playstation, Playstation 2 and DVDs to 1080p Ability to stream Images, Music, Movies from a DLNA3-enabled (UPnP A/V) device Remote Play on PSP over the Internet (Basically allows you to play anything from PS3, using PSP, from anywhere with a [...]
Continue reading...Beautiful Guitar Playing
21. May 2007
For someone that can’t play the guitar I sure love how it sounds. Somewhat on par with a piano to me, both instruments I love to listen to. This gentleman (Andy McKee) plays with a style that I’m seeing more and more on YouTube, no idea what it’s called but it sounds great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn1d5DmdMqY You can check [...]
Continue reading...Guys Wins Lottery Twice
21. May 2007
This is awesome. Here’s what happened: Guy wins the lottery, buys a car. Local news station asks him to reenact it while they record so they can tell his story. So he buys another ticket and scratches it off… and wins $250,000 more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeAHzKrrYUI
Continue reading...Java “Consumer JRE” is Awesome
19. May 2007
Wow, I was over on Chet Haase’s blog reading about the Consumer JRE… something that up until now I thought just some marketing idea for a JSR that would be filed and possibly make it into Java in 7.0 or later… it seems not only is that not the case, but it will be rolled [...]
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