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Posts on ‘January 13th, 2007’

LG’s BH100 hybrid Blu-ray / HD DVD player unable to be sold sans HDi?

If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Just when every patient, fence-sitting individual finally rejoiced that a single unit was being introduced to solve the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray dilemma, we had a hunch things wouldn’t be perfectly peachy. [...]

TI booth tour

Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: CES, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Texas instruments once again this year had a prominent booth at CES displaying all the TVs with DLP chips in them. Among them was the Slim TV and a few projectors marketed towards gamers.

TI booth tour

 
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ZOMG, Zune runs teh Linux!

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

A tip like “omg its true. mys videl was really workin on teh zune linux.” doesn’t really inspire confidence — in the story, or in the future of mankind — but if this YouTube video is to be believed, it seems as if some foolio named “MysVidel,” who can’t [...]

Did Apple swipe “Visual Voicemail,” too?

Filed under: Cellphones
We’re guessing not, but El Reg has a piece up squarely accusing Apple of another swipe, this time of the term “Visual Voicemail” to describe the iPhone’s voicemail UI. Visual Voicemail, which is owned by Citrix and originally developed by Net6, has been around for years and may (or may not) be what’s [...]

Personalized Roses

Geek Public Service Announcement

Valentine’s Day is ONLY a month away. You think you’re off the hook because you and your significant other have decided to do nothing because Valentine’s Day is a made up Hallmark holiday… don’t fall into that trap! It will end badly, trust me.

If you want "extra points" and to [...]

Video of LG’s KE850: it’s no poser

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Sure, LG’s KE850 might have some of those sexy iPhone looks and a strikingly similar interface, but the beauty’s just skin deep, right? Not so fast, buckaroo. It looks like LG has been putting a lot more work into this thing than they’ve let on — to be honest, [...]

New Xbox 360 due for late ‘07 to handle IPTV?

Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment

According to a pre-CES briefing that Windows expert Paul Thurrott received from his Microsoft pals, the big M will be coming out with a new version of the Xbox 360 (Zephyer?) at the end of 2007, which will feature a larger HDD and some new hardware to enable that IPTV [...]

f00 f00’s iPod runs Doom, controlled by NES controller

Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio

What has yours done today? Yeah, maybe you’ve fiddled around with Linux on your ‘Pod, or even got that version of Doom up and running way back when, but you’ve just got nothing on this hack by f00 f00, which turns an old NES controller into an iPod dock and provides [...]

Casio electronic dictionary / translator talks back, recognizes handwriting

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds
While we English speaking folk may prefer our pocket translators to start in English and convert to some other foreign tongue, Casio’s latest rendition helps those fluent in Japanese order tickets to the Space Needle, haggle at the Chevrolet dealership, and of course, pick up the correct ingredients for warm apple [...]

HACK - Changing Your MAC Address In Window XP/Vista, Linux And Mac OS X

Remember we found a MAC Address HACK for Windows the other day?
Well, here’s more ways for hacking your MAC Address that includes Windows XP, Vista, Linux, AND MAC OSX!
I think these are simpler than the ones before.
BSD
1) Bring down the interface: “ifconfig xl0 down”
2) Enter new MAC address: “ifconfig xl0 link 00:00:00:AA:AA:AA”
3) Bring up the [...]