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Friday, December 28th, 2007Testing the HP MediaSmart server on loan from HP, via their Canadian PR company Hill & Knowlton. Yeah when you get an e-mail asking if you’d like to test a home RAID server with backup and media serving tools-the answer is yes!
Before I get into the saga of getting this server working for me [...]
Freakin’ Netgear router–root of lots of problems
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007In my review of the Brother laser printer–Brother MFC-9440CN Review-Great Printer for a Small Office–I said that I couldn’t get the remote configuration part to work. I blamed, erroneously, the Brother software. Yesterday I figured it all out.
HP, through Hill and Knowlton, contacted me to try out the new HP MediaSmart home server and it [...]
HP just doesn't get it
Saturday, February 17th, 2007I've been chronicling my transition to Vista over on Pimp Your Work, it hasn't been fun or easy. Okay, it's been fun in a geek challenge kind of way, but not something that I think most users would really be in to. Part of the problem is HP's lack of support for many models of [...]
Blu-ray is sunk, HD-DVD will win the format war
Saturday, January 13th, 2007Okay, like SGKnox said, it doesn't matter where you stand on porn, it is a huge business. So when I caught the SGKnow post, I had to agree—Sony has yet again blown it.
Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because [...]
Apple shilling vapourware? Valleywag making sense?
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007Now there are two things I never thought I'd put together in the same space. Yes, I read Valleywag. Of course I do. Haven't shown up there yet, probably because when I do stupid stuff at conferences, they aren't there to take pictures. Or I'm not that important yet. Regardless, like Paul from Valleywag I [...]
Interface breakthrough … Minority Report interface demoed, how we should be interacting with computers
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006My buddy Alex sent me this link to a YouTube video (the title refers to an unfortunate drawing bit at the end).
I don't think there is any sage commentary that can come close to what you are just going to see. I'll leave discussions for the comments.
Tags: human interface devices, Minority Report
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