34 month ago
plasticbag : Mac Rumors do their rumour round-up before MacWorld on Tuesday... - They don't know bloody anything this year! Or at least, I'm hoping they don't - because the stuff they're talking about at first impressions is all a bit meh... I'm hoping for Apple Home Entertainment Appliance stuff...
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37 month ago
erikbenson : Apple - iMac G5 - Front Row - This is the coolest thing. I have an older iMac and can't find a way to buy this software. Why not?
plasticbag : Front Row - as installed on the Apple iMac G5 - So I had a play with this the other day in the Apple sotre and it's pretty bloody sweet frankly. I'm going to need this in my flat...
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38 month ago
plasticbag : Mark Thompson's speech to the Edinburgh International Television Festival 2005 - "But the idea that, in the age of the i-pod, the public would not welcome the opportunity to actually buy a download of a piece of music they have heard on a BBC site ... seems to me ridiculous. "
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39 month ago
plasticbag : A beautiful intriguing gadget on the Apple Store: EyeTV for Digital Terrestrial TV. Currently quite wanting one of these... - "EyeTV for DTT allows you to watch, record, pause and rewind free-to-air Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) on your Macintosh in crystal clear digital quality."
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41 month ago
plasticbag : The Slingbox from Slingmedia grabs your TV pictures and redistributes them to other devices and computers around your home (or elsewhere) - I don't quite get why this is cool. Explore the product spec for an awesomely dumb neologism: "Placeshifting: the SlingboxTM lets consumers shift the place they can watch TV the same way a VCR shifts the time they can watch."
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42 month ago
plasticbag : Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC - An article for Make magazine that's available on the website about how to create home media centres that are better than Tivos
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42 month ago
Andy Baio : Broadcast Flag struck down by Appeals Court! - "nothing has changed to give the FCC the authority it now claims"
jimray : Appeals court overturns FCC mandated broadcast flag - Wow, there's hope that technology can exist without being beholden to the overlords of entertainment
plasticbag : The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals strikes down the US Broadcast Flag - "And to the studio execs whom I faced across the table, who shouted at us and excluded us and told us that this was going to happen no matter what: NEENER NEENER NEENER."
jkottke : The stupid and ridiculous Broadcast Flag was struck down in US Appeals Court on Friday - Congratulations to the EFF and Cory on this victory.
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44 month ago
kaninka.net : Airfoil - Að "stream"-a allt hljóð yfir à Airport Express
plasticbag : Rogue Amoeba is "Airfoil" allows you to pump any audio from your computer through AirTunes - We tried it with some television last night and it was a full two-seconds behind. Someone has to fix this. It's too important...
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46 month ago
plasticbag : Airclick remote control for your stereo-connected iPod, via Mr Webb - "AirClick USB is a remote for Mac and PC computers. The receiver module attaches to any available USB port (including hubs) and receives signal from up to 60 feet away."
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jkottke : Mouseradio doesn't have any buttons or knobs - Tip the speaker end up to turn it on and slide it around to control the volume and tuning.
plasticbag : The mouseradio is a fully functioning radio without buttons. The idea was to use the mouse navigation and to implement it in a radio. - "Moving the radio vertically changes the volume, moving the radio on the horizontal axis changes the frequency. The radio is on, when the black speaker points up in the air."
cameron : Mouseradio: buttonless radio - I like the dramatic pauses in the video
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plasticbag : Death of video recorder in sight - The death of the video cassette recorder appears to be in sight after the UK's largest electrical chain said it is to stop selling them. Dixons will phase out VCRs due to the boom in DVD players, sales of which have grown seven-fold in five years.
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