Kensington’s PowerLift Backup-Up Battery
I was just talking to someone from Steam TV Networks about the need for a sturdy dock that can hold up a tablet or phone, something that keeps the device propped up when using it to watch video. Kensington has release just such an item built for the iPhone. Kensington’s new PowerLift is a sturdy [...]
Turn Any NAS Drive Into A Time Machine Drive
Time Machine is a great built-in feature in OS X. When Apple first announced that they would be offering the ability to backup and restore your files and system with the ease of use that we have come to know and love from Apple I was ecstatic. Then I found out that you had to [...]
GFI Backup – Free Backup Software
We all know we should do it. We have all said it enough times. Backup backup and backup. There is no better way to ensure that all of your pictures or documents will carry on if you don’t back them up. Well you really have no excuse now do you. GFI Software just launched a [...]
Leopard Secrets
Is that genius bar annoying the crap out of you? Kill it with secrets. Secrets is a preference pane you add to Leopard that allows you to play around with all sorts of options that Apple never wanted you to play with. Did you know that you can enable an expert mode in Disk Utility [...]
Nintendo Stops Modders With Glue
Nintendo has just landed a serious blow to mod chip developers. By using something as simple as epoxy, they have made it a sticky (no pun intended) situation for people who are developing mod chip for their game console, the Wii. Glued down epoxy around the DVD-ROM IC chips will surely make it hard, if [...]
Wii Backup ISO Loader
The above video shows you a very legit looking Wii backup ISO loader that’s in the works. The loader works via the super easy to use homebrew channel. It seems that you will have to rip the game disc and then patch it before you can burn the copy. No release date has been set [...]
DVD::RIP – Rippin Linux Style
There is a ton of software available for both Windows and OS X that allow you to rip and encode DVD’s, but what about Linux? A few months back I did a segment on the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show on just that, DVD rippers for Linux. (Video after the break) DVD::RIP is a [...]
Rear View Mirror TV
Who really needs to see the cars behind them anyway? Thanks to this alarming new trend in China, rear view mirrors will soon display TV or GPS maps instead of the constant need for checking behind you for that car that just might slam you from behind. Models range from a basic LCD monitor to [...]
Macworld Keynote
Just like was expected the blog-o-sphere went crazy over the Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs. Almost every blog was live-blogging the event, live-blogging the live blogs, and live blogging the live blogging of the live blogging (you get the idea). This is why I wanted to wait until all of the mass hysteria over the [...]
iTunes 7.6 And Digital Copies
According to the site macrumors.com will are set to see the release of iTunes 7.6 during next weeks MacWorld. This one isn’t just going to be a bug fix release, as you can see from the picture above someone got an early copy of a Family Guy DVD which mentioned that he needed iTunes 7.6 [...]
Time Machine Over The Network
One of the most useful additions to Leopard that I use religiously is Time Machine. One of the only problems I have with it is that I must have a physical disk connected to my Mac in order to use it. Now I have a massive 3TB worth of network storage at home, why can’t [...]
26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256
I always feel the need to speed up the process of backup my my dvd’s and encoding them with DVD:RIP, I’m sure this bad boy would make it fly. Calvin College student Tim Brom built, from scratch, a 26.25 gigaflop supercomputer that runs off of a single wall outlet for about $1200. The supercomputer, called [...]
One big storage unit
I’m all about big storage. You know how the old saying goes, you can never have enough money and you can never have enough disk space. The Lanner NS04-3100 is a 4-Bay Media Storage server. The box allows you to share media files such as music, pictures, and video. The unit has 4 internal SATA [...]
