Tag Archive for 'pvr'
If you’re in the market for a silent Media Center PC (and who isn’t?), then you could do worse than take a look at Cool Tech PC’s rather attractive Psile model. Looking a little like a squat obelisk from 2001:A PVR Odyssey, this time shifting monkey-magnet features between half a gig and two gigs of [...]
Right, here’s another tick in the “You want Windows Media Centre” column for the PVR-searchers amongst us; Casey Chestnut, swell programmer, has made a fantastic MSN Messenger bot that lets you programme your MCE-running computer to record via a conversation online. Considering there are more and more cellphones with a mobile version of Messenger, it [...]
When I was younger, being a naive but tech-loving soul, I desperately wanted a doorbell. At DIY stores I would excitedly press the test buttons and decide which ring I liked the most; I would judge whereabouts on the door frame the button would best be sited. But my mother, wearing her practical [...]
Yeah, THIS should go over real well. Like a lead balloon. ABC is apparently trying to convince personal video recorder makers to start leaving out the automatic commericial skipping features that helped make the devices to popular. ABC President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw apparently feels that the demand for this feature isn’t too great, [...]
