Archive for October, 2008
Netflix Streaming Coming to Tivo
Netflix and Tivo are teaming up to bring you Netflix streaming. Netflix is going to every set top box manufacture to dish out it’s content. The beta will be available by the end of the year. It didn’t say anything about HD streaming like on the Xbox 360 but I’m guessing on the Tivo HD [...]
HD Netflix Streaming on Xbox 360
Netflix HD streaming is coming to your Xbox 360 soon. Engadget has the details with a November 19th release date for the new dash board. They say that there is only about 300 titles in HD available. Other companies will have to figure out what to do to compete. The other good news is that [...]
Windows Media Center in Windows 7
Charlie Owen has some great screen shots of the new Media Center in Windows 7. The screen shots look great. There had been talk of Media Center being under developed by Microsoft. I think that was true for Vista Media Center but you can tell they are putting effort into it for Windows 7. From [...]
Netflix “Watch Now” Comes to Mac
Netflix announced Mac streaming for it’s “Watch Now” feature. They are going to use Microsoft Silverlight to do this. It is only available to a small percentage of users right now, I’m not one of them. They plan on having it available to all by the end of the year. This is just another step [...]
Mac Virus Video
It’s close enough to Halloween to share a scary Mac video. I didn’t think you could get a virus on a Mac.
(via Crunch Gear)
Use the Nokia Internet Tablet into a Wireless Mouse and Keyboard
BlueMaemo is a beta application that runs on the Nokia N800 and N810. It uses bluetooth to interface with your computer. The application looks very cool even as a beta. It turns the touchscreen of the Nokia into a trackpad for the computer. I haven’t installed it yet but I’m interested to see how it [...]
Drobo Just Got A Lot Better With DroboApps
DroboApps has been released for your Drobo. That means that your really expensive backup solution just got a whole lot better. I’m not saying that the Drobo wasn’t great before, out of my price range, but now you can really put all those stored files to good use. There are already a lot of applications [...]
Hulu and Netflix on Your Popcorn Hour
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Watching Hulu and Netflix on your Popcorn Hour is pretty simple with a program called Play On by The Media Mall.
MediaMall’s PlayOn software is a DLNA/UPnP media server and browser that pulls RSS feeds from content providers, and presents them to DLNA-compliant [...]
Hulu Now on Boxee
quick intro to boxee from boxee on Vimeo.
Boxee now has Hulu streaming as part of it’s media center application. Well it’s not just Hulu, you can stream CBS and Comedy Central too. Another feature that they added was you can manually add RSS feeds to boxee. Don’t forget that Boxee and can installed on the [...]
Ecobee Smart Thermostat
Ecobee has a new thermostat coming out that has some smart features. It is a programable thermostat that has a wizard to help set it up to work with your schedule. It can be programed to turn on before you wake up and will set at a lower/higher temperature when your not at home. One [...]
