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Posts on ‘March 20th, 2007’

CNET reviews the Xploder PS2 HDTV player

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Were you thinking that you could put off purchasing one of the spiffy HD DVD or Blu-ray players by recycling your old PS2 player with Xploder’s PS2 HDTV player? Think again. According to [...]

Samsung forsees more LCD TV price drops

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Samsung, one of the biggest and baddest LCD makers anywhere, is stating that LCD TVs should continue their downward price trend for sometime. It wasn’t that long ago that 32-inch panels could easily cost you more then two grand but now even Radio Shack sells ‘em for less [...]

Mac Pilot half-off at MacZOT today only

Filed under: OS, Retail, Software
We’ve mentioned Mac Pilot - a powerful Mac OS X tweaking and optimizing utility - before, as it’s a great piece of software for bending nearly every aspect of the OS to your bidding. While Koingo Software typically offers a 15 day trial for Mac Pilot with a license going for [...]

Use an Apple Remote with older hardware

Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Odds and ends
Iyaz Akhtar over at theappleblog points to a nifty little device from Twisted Melon called the Manta TR1, which enabled the Apple IR remote on any older Mac via USB. Just plug in the Manta to a free USB port and your old G4, etc. can rock with an [...]

PC Perspective attempts to review the OnAir GT USB HDTV tuner

Filed under: Reviews, Tuners
USB-powered HDTV tuners are commonplace these days so how do you choose one? Well, most people turn to reviews in order to select the right one for them. But how do you select a review? The first quality in our book is that the reviewer knows what he is talking about. Take [...]

Black Ink 1.0

Filed under: Gaming, Software
Now, I’m not a big puzzler myself, but I do know lots of people out there enjoy the thrill of completing a tough crossword puzzle. Red Sweater Software has just announced the release of Black Ink 1.0 (formerly MacXword, Red Sweater Software has been on an acquisition tear as of late). Black [...]

Optimus Keyboard

Filed under: Gadgets

The Optimus Keyboard is a revolutionary piece of hardware - at least, it is for those whose top priority is making sure their computer peripherals will outshine everyone else’s. Each of the key’s on the 114-key keyboard has a 32×32 pixels full-color OLED display screen. The screens will display the QWERTY letters during [...]

Optimus Keyboard

Filed under: Gadgets

The Optimus Keyboard is a revolutionary piece of hardware - at least, it is for those whose top priority is making sure their computer peripherals will outshine everyone else’s. Each of the key’s on the 114-key keyboard has a 32×32 pixels full-color OLED display screen. The screens will display the QWERTY letters during [...]

Uncle Walt gives Apple TV a thumbs-up

Filed under: Apple TV
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Our favorite ‘dead tree media’ technology columnist, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, has a review out today (available free at ptech.wsj.com or with subscription at the mothership) of the Apple TV — the 6-min video above includes most of the high points. Mr. Mossberg praises the unit [...]

Amazon selling Samsung’s Blu-ray player on the cheap

Filed under: Blu-ray, Players
Pssst. Hey you. Yeah you buddy. Wanna cheap Blu-ray player? Amazon is selling Samsung’s BD-P1000 for a mere $499. While we still don’t know what side is going to walk away from this whole war thing, less then five hundard dollars seems a bit easier on the pocketbook to enjoy movies on [...]