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Posts on ‘April 10th, 2007’

First Look Studios announces their first HD DVD title

If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: HD DVD
Take this Blu-ray. First Look Studios is throwing their support to the HD DVD camp and will release their first title on July 24 - day and date with the standard DVD release. [...]

AVerMedia intros AVerTV Hybrid USB analog / digital HD tuner

Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Tuners, Others, OTA

AVerMedia’s no stranger to taking brave new steps in the TV tuning arena, and this time around its delving into high-definition with the AVerTV Hybrid Ultra USB. This USB-based breakout tuner handles both analog (NTSC) and digital (ATSC) HD OTA broadcasts, is compatible with Windows XP, XP [...]

Apple TV and HD quality: It’s not the hardware

Filed under: Media streamers, Internet, Apple
We quickly realized that the Apple TV wasn’t going to be a HD powerhouse and our tests have indicated as much — we have also discovered that the problem is not the hardware. The Apple TV will not sync many videos and Apple has yet to provide any HD via [...]

Übercaster ships

Filed under: Audio, Multimedia, Software, Podcasting
We last mentioned Übercaster several months ago, and now the German-made all-in-one podcast producing tool is finally shipping. Übercaster is designed to replace a variety of different applications, allowing you to produce, record, and edit your podcast all in one interface. You’re able to set up a variety of clips [...]

PictureSync 2 screenshots posted

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools

The crew at Holocore have seen it fit to begin teasing users of PictureSync, a slick app for both Mac and PC that makes it easy to upload pictures and videos to various social media sites, with screenshots of a forthcoming update to version 2.0. The app has clearly taken [...]

DLPs selling just fine

Filed under: Industry, Displays, DLP
Plasmas may not be doing so well but DLPs are becoming more popular then ever. A one-year market time frame, ending in the ‘06 holiday season, DLP sales grew a whopping 63%. Most of these sales are in the 50-inch and larger market; in a range that most flat-screens, being [...]

How To: Stikkit Plugin for Quicksilver

Filed under: Features, How-tos, Productivity, Freeware, Internet Tools
A while back we posted on a nice AppleScript and service for the online organizational service Stikkit, usable with Quicksilver. However, according to the Stikkit blog, Merlin Mann has now talked Alcor, the author of Quicksilver, into writing an official plugin for Stikkits. This plugin not only allows [...]

Plasma TV sales not doing so good

Filed under: Displays, LCD, Plasma
Ah, the plasma TV. Remember way back a few years ago, everyone used to hate on plasmas so much. Screen-burn this, fragile screen that - rubbish these days but back then, they had some truth. Looks like all the bad talk finally caught up to the technology though as they just [...]

Ask TUAW: GPS, Hamachi, student questions, and more

Filed under: Features, How-tos, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW
Wednesday is Ask TUAW time! This week we tackle questions on GPS solutions on the Mac, zero-configuration VPN with Hamachi, dealing with a slow starting Mac, as well as a couple of student questions on taking notes and using the Summarize Service, As always, please leave your own comments, [...]

Exclusive Screenshots: Spock’s New People Engine

It’s not often we hear about a startup’s venture financing before we see the product, but that is the case with yet-to-launch Spock, located in Silicon Valley. Rumors about their $7 million Series A round of financing from Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures circulated last December, months before the beta service was planned [...]