Allegro Portable Internet Radio
Let’s face it, terestrial radio is all but dead. Who wants to wade through all the commercials and limited avalability of the FM or AM dial? I listen to internet radio all the time, when at work at my desk and even on my iPhone when in my car and this little baby while now [...]
Xbox 360 Wireless Interface
A crafty hacker on the benheck forums decided that building a portable Xbox had been done so instead he decided to build a wireless video interface for his Xbox 360. The device acts more like a “thin client” and streams whatever his Xbox is playing. The unit has a 1.2GHz A/V receiver and the guts [...]
Airfoil 3.1: Stream Audio To Front Row
Front Row on the Mac has to be one of the slickest “Media PC” like experiences that a user can have, but when Front Row 2.0 hit the scene Apple mysteriously removed the ability to stream audio to it. Will Apple release an update that will restore the streaming functionality? Who knows, but in the [...]
Watch Full Length TV Episodes Online
Fancast allows you to watch full length episodes of your favorite TV shows. Fancast essentially aggregates all of the available full length TV shows that are already offered by the big networks, but Fancast takes things one step further, taking it beyond the video streaming by integrating movies and other services. Fancast shows directs you [...]
Microsoft puts the smack down on AutoPatcher
AutoPatcher.com has been a safe haven for Sysadmins who don’t know how or want to deploy a WSUS “Windows Server Update Services” server (and all the headache that comes along with it). For those who don’t know, AutoPatcher was a portable “Windows Update”+. You could literally take it around on a thumb drive, (or the [...]
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 [...]
