Hardware news and reviews.
How to Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive
In order to create a bootable USB Flash Drive, you will need some knowledge of computers. I will attempt to make these directions as simple as possible, but even I can be a bit obtuse at times. (Who said that?) Also note that there are other ways to do this, but I am going to share the way that I know works. Here’s how to create a bootable USB flash drive.
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Where is Radio going next?
On December 24th 1906, the world heard its first extended voice radio broadcast. It was from Massachusetts and the broadcast was received by “sparks”, otherwise known as the communications officers on merchant ships in the Atlantic. Since then it seems that radio has made a few technology advances in how we receive their product but since the onset of FM has been stuck in a technology black hole and refuses to accept that the world around them is changing. Technology is changing and the method to deliver their broadcasts is going to change. I will admit that the radio industry has made a few attempts to leap forward with the times but have been run over with a truck much like Frogger. These are my views on some of the mistakes that have been made and where radio needs to advance too.
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Hava Platinum HD
Hava HD is a Ethernet device for streaming your TV signal across your network to your PC. Don’t have a TV in your kitchen, drop your laptop on the counter and fire up your Hava Player. The software gives you full motion video and audio along with a software based remote control to control your Tivo, Sat box, or VCR (who has one of those still). I have played with this some over the past 3 weeks and so far I am pleasantly surprised. Video and audio on the local LAN is superb and set-up was fairly straight forward. The kicker for this device over the popular Slingbox is that Monsoon is developing a client for the Nokia Internet Tablet (N800/810). The software is out for beta testing this week. More on that later.
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Full MythTv Frontend on the N810
Yes folks, we have all dreamed of it and it may soon be reality. There is a semi-functional Mythtv Frontend, in alpha, built for the Nokia Internet Tablet. With MythTv moving towards QT4 someone has ported the front end over to OS 2008. It is not completely functional as of now but, it looks to be a good start. Currently there is a port in works for the front end and back end. Check out the teasers after the “click”.
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MythTv Remote on your N800/N810
Lirc being a pain? Does your favorite universal remote NOT work with your new myth box. Mythetomer is a remote control application for your N800 or N810 to control your MythTv. Mythetomer uses your WLAN or Bluetooth to make a connection to your Myth Frontend for full control. No cables, no hours of configuring key mappings to remote codes and no IR learning. No IR at all. Software available from Mythetomer website, links available after the “click”.
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DIY SSD hard dive.
There is a new Century Compact Flash to SATA adatper coming out May 1st. We have all seen these before but, what makes this one unqiue, is its support for three CF cards. That’s up to 96GB of RAID 0/5 love for half of what the current crop of 64 GB drives are going for. […]
Intel announces price cut of up to 50% on desktop parts.
Intel has tweaked its processor price list, cutting up to 50 per cent off what it charges for desktop CPUs.
The big reduction came to the 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q6700, which now costs $266, down from $530. The 2.4GHz Q6600 is also cheaper now: down 16 per cent to $224. For those of you not […]
Fastest hard drive… Western Digital’s VelociRaptor.
Well, fastest hard drive that isn’t SCSI anyway. Western Digital has taken their Raptor hard drive which is a 10,000 RPM drive and cleaned out the cob webs and added some synthetic turning fluid. Now called the VelociRaptor, with a maximum capacity of 300 gigabytes, the drive is smaller, weighing in at 2.5 […]
IBM’s new racetrack memory, makes old RAM seem like another elderly driver.
IBM has come out with RAM that has data running along a path no larger than a human hair. The result is very very fast RAM. IBM researchers are suggesting that this technology could be available in around a decade and could enable users to store substantially more data at a lower cost. It also will be able to use much less energy because of it’s size. If you ask me, (and nobody ever does so I just talk anyway) ten years is too long cause there will be something even better by that time, I’m guessing. Still, new and faster technology is always welcome.
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