The first couple of series may have been roundly mocked in the UK. But they were a smash hit in the US, breaking viewer records at BBC America and driving a large audience to the cable channel. Torchwood, adult sci-fi alien-chasing spinoff of Doctor Who was one of the very few shows to have a […]
First, the brick & mortar Apple Stores will offer to migrate your data for free, if the new system is purchased from them, the main hassel is the wait, and bringing in the old system. Alternatively, on the new system, as soon as it is booted will offer to migrate the old computers data. All […]
Take this quote from Macworld: When we connected the MacBook Pro to a 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio drive and copied a 1GB file to it from the internal hard drive, we found that it took 23 percent less time over FireWire 400 than over USB 2.0. Duplicating that file using FireWire 400 on […]
Created with the same MediaWiki software that was developed for the Wikipedia project, AllPinouts.org is a wiki that allows users to get and share information about hardware interfaces, including pinouts of ports, expansion slots, and other connectors of computers and different electronic devices (i.e. cellular phones, GPS, PDA, game consoles, etc.). All text is available […]
Elgato makes some good products, but they are typically a little expensive…. Macworld has just announced that they have released “Elgato Video Capture”. And it’s pretty darn inexpensive at $100… What I am more concerned with is what Software is included. EyeTV, their normal software package has a history, this new “Video Capture Software” that […]
From the clip pad files from 2008 & Life Hacker… A trick that I keep intending to do for cable management… Hide Your Cables in Your Baseboards and Crown Molding [DIY]: Hide your networking and television cables with WireTracks, a wire management solution that hides your messy cables behind crown molding and baseboards. The WireTracks […]
Now, we don’t have a Fry’s electronics here, so I am not able to verify this… But Engadget is certainly a trust worthy source for this… If you have a Fry’s store near you, revolt! Evidently some of the Fry’s store’s may still be running the Monster’s HDMI Cable scam. Now, I am a video […]
And the SciFi Network continues it’s slow but fatal slide down the hill… According to CNet… Sci Fi Channel to become Syfy: Thank the lawyers?: “In perhaps the most ill-advised branding move since New Coke, the network’s basic-cable Sci Fi Channel will be renamed the phonetically similar Syfy on July 7.” SciFi, Z Rank monster […]