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The future for Blu-Ray, Apple, and Media Devices? [DadsonTech post]

The future for Blu-Ray, Apple, and Media Devices? [DadsonTech post]

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by zevmo.

Your living room TV is under assault! I am not talking about your kids throwing Wii remotes at it, or spouses sabotaging your inputs just in time for Sunday football, or not having any juice left in your rechargeable Logitech Harmony Remote, or even those tiny little fingerprints on the screen that make you go [...]

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IOGEAR Solar Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by zevmo.

Solar-powered car bluetooth speakerphones were introduced last year.  Now IOGEAR gets into the class with the GBHFK231.  They are known for making some very good equipment, and this one looks fantastic.  You can pair two devices, has 11-13 hours of talk time, and it comes with the mounting bracket- all for under $70! Similar devices have had problems [...]

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Connecting a Mac to your HDTV with a simple HDMI adapter

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by zevmo.

For those of you who just can’t wait to grab that new Boxee Box, PopBox, or don’t currently have an AppleTV, and would like to use a single HDMI cable to connect your Mac with a Mini DisplayPort to your shiny HDTV, the people over at Monoprice have just the device for you. The Mini [...]

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Juniper EX 8208 unbox and install

Juniper EX 8208 unbox and install

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by zevmo.

It’s here!  Like Christmas morning, all over again… but for really expensive toys that I don’t own but just work on.  Oh, it’s the same thing. Heavy out of the box b/c it has the power units installed out of the box.  Really slick looking design.  Quite a design difference and departure from the Nortel [...]

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Question: Should I switch from the Cablevision Scientific Atlanta 8300HD to a Tivo DVR?

Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by zevmo.

I am one of the lucky few who is trapped into Cablevision‘s service plan.  Where I live in Northern NJ, we have lots of trees (Dish/DirecTV is out), and we are in a part of town that has no Verizon FiOS b/c of a crappy Englewood Central Office upgrade that has been taking forever.  Alas, [...]

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Apple CFO says DVR, CableCARD not coming to Apple TV

Posted on 08. Sep, 2009 by zevmo.

They say, never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.  This is Apple in a nutshell.  Why do they always do this?  THey said, “it didn’t mesh with Apple’s business”.  Yeah, I could see how controlling the Home Media interface with all of your sources could really be a bummer, Apple.  How about being able [...]

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Apple’s Data Center, Cablevision’s Optimum Online, and the Cloud

Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by zevmo.

Mac Rumors story on Apple’s North Carolina Data Center is a very exciting look into the future of Apple, and where Operating Systems are going to go.  One of my friends, long ago, said that all of computing will go full circle, back to dumb terminals.  He is totally right.  Eventually, you will buy VM [...]

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