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New Focus Theme from StudioPress
March 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’ve upgraded to the new Focus theme from StudioPress for The Next Windows. Focus uses the Genesis Theme Framework, which can be purchased separately. I chose to buy the ProPack, which gives me all of StudioPress’ themes, including new ones as they’re released, plus support via their web forums. Genesis has been a great change [...]
iPhone Tethering Finally
August 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
AT&T finally made iPhone tethering available for subscribers to it’s wireless service, once Apple’s iPhone operating system iOS4 was released. What’s tethering? That’s hooking your iPhone (or other wireless device) to your notebook computer so you can use the iPhone’s data service as a wireless modem for your computer. One “problem” – previous iPhone users [...]
iPhone Tethering — Waiting on AT&T
November 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I sure could have used “tethering” on my iPhone last Wednesday eveninng. I rushed home from the office so I could watch LSU play Texas in the College World Series final game. As soon as I parked, my neigbor popped out of her house to warn me that the power was off. We’ve had no [...]
Digital Video Recorder or Home Theater PC?
July 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Subscriber Bill DePierri wrote recently to ask about using a PC to record television. I’m already doing that with my home theater pc, which Bill has seen: Terry: We recently got a Cox DVR. It is pretty clunky with little flexibility. This got me to thinking about your comments about your PC-based DVR’s, especially since [...]
HTPC Software
May 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Rather than focus on the standard features of SageTV, which have been covered in many reviews and on the SageTV site, I’ll show some of the modifications I like. One features I really like about SageTV is the ability to use different menu layouts and even additional functions. Don’t get me wrong, the SageTV program [...]
Home Theater PC – the hardware
March 10, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Simply, it’s standard PC, including an AMD Athlon XP 2500+, an Abit AN-7 motherboard, a cheap video card with S-Video Out, hard drives, DVD drive and three Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 TV encoding cards and one PVR-150.. My HTPC case case is a standard Antec tower case. This is not designed for the HTPC service. Tired [...]
Home Theater PC
March 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment
After running multiple video cassette recorders for years, drooling over the TiVo® advertisements, and hearing the praise heaped on TiVo by relatives, I decided to build my own version — a Home Theater PC (HTPC). Why, you might ask? Well, it goes like this: The Fun of building an HTPC. The Challenge. Flexibility. Storage space. [...]
Casino Royale Review
November 25, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Sean Connery personified James Bond, until he stretched Bond into late middle age. Timothy Dalton, well, the less said, the better. Roger Moore was a shot back to the old Bond, but just seemed to rely too much on contrivance, gadgets and visual jokes. Pierce Brosnan was a marvel in the classic Bond style, until [...]
The Hummingbird, part 3
November 7, 2006 By 3 Comments
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