Archive for June, 2008
Hulu Videos on Your Desktop
Want to bring Hulu off the web and onto your desktop? Paul Yanez has developed a desktop application for watching Hulu videos using Adobe AIR. The application is called MyMediaPlayer. Now there is no need to open your browser every time you want to catch up on some TV. I should mention you can watch [...]
AirRemote Turns iPhone into a Universal Remote
AirRemote is a iPhone application that will allow you to control your devices in your house. It works by sending IP commands to a thin client called Global Cache. The Global Cache then send the appropriate command to the right device. The software is going to be $99 and the Gobal Cache is going to [...]
Review: D-Link MediaLounge media extender
Ars Technica has a lengthy review of the D-Link DSM-750 Media Lounge. There is some good info in there but I didn’t really like some of the cons he came up with. He called the Media Center UI as Microsoft 1.0. Anybody that has been following Windows Media Center since the beginning will know that [...]
Video: HP TouchSmart
The new HP TouchSmart would be perfect in a kitchen to organize your family. You can use it to organize the family calendar, sync media players and settle family feuds by quickly accessing Google for the correct answer. The software that is on it looks really good. I have been really impressed lately with what [...]
Last.fm now on Squeezebox
You can now stream Last.fm through your Squeezebox. You can do artist, genre, and custom playlists. It works with Squeezebox Duet, Squeezebox Classic and the Transporter network music system. In a written statement Martin Stiksel, Last.fm Co-Founder, said, “It’s something of a milestone to be offering the Last.fm streaming music experience for the first time [...]
Good, Bad and Ugly of the Hauppauge HD-PVR
Brent Evans goes over the good, the bad and the ugly of the new Hauppauge HD-PVR. There are a lot of good things to the HD-PVR. The one thing that does worry me, and Brent mentions it, is that there seems to be a lot of defective units. Overall the Hauppauge HD-PVR seems like a [...]
