I love my Raspberry Pi but like I said in my first review the board feels a little vulnerable and so when I saw a case design at the Blackpool Linux User Group I had to get one. The case is made in Telford here in the UK by the Shropshire Linux User Group and [...]
A couple of years ago I started using Simple.tv a service for Media Center that would automatically convert recorded TV shows to a format I could use on other devices like the iPad, it worked very well but I haven’t used it for some time. Today I got an email from them explaining that they [...]
In the latest post on the Building Windows 8 Blog Microsoft have talked about the fast boot process in Windows 8 and with the use of UEFI firmware you don’t have to desperately press F8 to try and get in to the boot loader. It looks like things like booting from a USB stick are [...]
Samsung promised Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) for the Galaxy Note and it looks like it’s finally here (at least for UK owners). I had given up checking for the update each day but today my phone prompted me to download the 318mb download. Once downloaded the Note rebooted, installed the update and after about [...]
As well as the iPad version of My Movies being updated today there are new versions for Android. The biggest changes to the new version is the addition of a movie download option from My Movies for WHS 2011 , so you can browse your movie collection from your Android device and then download movies to [...]
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Parallels for Mac has been updated to support Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I use VMware fusion on my Mac to run Windows 7 and haven’t tried Windows 8 on it yet but its good to see Parallels supporting Windows 8. This release also supports OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview. Today Parallels Desktop 7 for [...]
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Brian and the team at My Movies have been working on the new iPad version for some time, at CES Brian told us about the movie streaming and download features coming in the new version which are going to make the new iPad version really interesting. After a few delays by Apple the app has [...]
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At CES Ford told me how they where planning to upgrade current owners MyFord Touch software via USB and today that have started shipping the drives. The free of charge upgrade can be installed by the user at the home, so no need to take it to a dealer. The upgrade has the new [...]
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Installing the Windows 8 consumer preview on the Acer Iconia W500 was met with the same limitation I found when installing the developer preview and im sure ill find when installing the finished product. The hard drive in the machine is 30GB Windows 8 wants 16GB free, that’s 53% of the hard drive just [...]
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Sky via twitter have just confirmed that Sky Sports F1 will be going live on Sky Go this Friday (9th). The channel will be available on iOS and Android (if you have one of few devices support on Android) and will show all the practice sessions, qualifying and races live. Please note: The Sky Sports [...]
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As we get closer to the Raspberry Pi boards getting into peoples hands there is news on the software coming for the Pi. First there is Arch Linux ARM for the Pi, this is available to download now and is a simple lightweight build that is not for beginners as their is no GUI. They [...]
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My wife has been using a HP Pavilion dv6000 for a couple of years now and it’s come to the end of it’s useful life so she wanted a new PC. We looked around a lots of different Notebooks including Apple, HP, Acer and Samsung and the one she picked has the Samsung Series 3 [...]
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[Image via UWHS) The Xtreamer Ultra2 is a portable HTPC equipped with 6 USB, eSATA, 4 Gb DDR3 RAM, HDMI, an integral IR remote control and powered by the nVidia ION2 Chip that allows vivid and crisp playback of FULL HD multimedia files. The Xtreamer Ultra2 devices incorporate state-of-the-art technology, commonly used in high-end computing [...]
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Plex have a new version of the their Media Server application. 0.9.5.3 has been released for Mac and Windows, there are lots of fixes in this build but its look like the next version may be more interesting. They are adding DNLA support the Plex server so that you will be able to playback Plex [...]
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