Founder of The Digital Lifestyle.com and host of The Digital Lifestyle Show.
Started podcasting and writing about Media Center in 2005 and a
Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP.
Website: http://thedigitallifestyle.com
Ian Dixon has written 3595 articles so far, you can find them below.
Microsoft continue to add to add TV features to the Xbox 360 with the latest apps being Comcast XFINITY TV, HBO GO and MLB.TV. Details from Major Nelson’s blog: Today three major entertainment apps are now available for Xbox LIVE Gold members – Comcast XFINITY TV,HBO GO and MLB.TV, all with Kinect integration. Here are the highlights. [...]
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Raspberry Pi have posted an update to the pricing matrix from element14/Premier Farnell. The matrix shows what price you will expect to pay in different countries and is an update to the matrix posted a couple of weeks ago. I also noticed today that element14 have updated their Raspberry Pi FAQ.
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BlueStack have launched a beta of their Android App Player for Windows. With the beta you can play thousands of Android apps on Windows. You browse from a collection of apps and then can download them and use them in Windows. It uses Amazon appstore, GetJar and 1Mobile Market for the app stores and [...]
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Apple have released an update to Safari. The update delivered via Software Update takes Safari to version 5.1.5 and is just an minor update. Safari 5.1.5 contains a fix for an issue that could affect website usability when running Safari in 32-bit mode.
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Microsoft have released the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1. With the SDK you can develop for the lower spec “Tango” phones with 256MB ram, also Windows 8 can be used as the development platform. Details from the Windows Phone Developer Blog: I’m pleased to announce that the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update is now available for [...]
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Back in January at CES Nokia announced the Lumia 900 it’s flagship Windows Phone and after a few months wait Nokia have announced the price and release date. The phone will be available for $99.99 on AT& T in the US and you can pre-order from March 30th. I played with the 900 at CES [...]
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Skype have updated the iOS version of their app to support the new iPad’s retina display, other than that 3.8 doesn’t seem to have any changes. I don’t think your going to get 2048 by 1536 Skype calls but the Skype UI should be sharper. What’s New in Version 3.8 Optimized graphics for new iPad [...]
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The Guardian have developed an app for the Google TV despite the platform not being available in the UK. The beta app has new, sport, pictures and videos and the newspaper says the reason for focusing on Google TV is because Chrome (the browse that Google TV is based on) enables them to build apps [...]
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I can’t wait to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi, it could be used as a media streamer, robot controlling or learning device but how about emulating a classic ZX Spectrum? On retrocomputers they have Manic Minor and Jetpac demonstrated on video running on the Pi all compiled on the board. There is something [...]
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XBMC 11 Eden ha been released after being in the beta/RC stage for a couple of months. The new version has lots of changes including new rendering, improved library features, better network support, Airplay and lots more. Read the change logs for all the details. XBMC 11.0 Milestones include Addon Rollbacks, vast improvements in Confluence (the default [...]
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