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Adventures in HD DVRs Part 2 | TiVo HD Guest Review + TiVo Tidbits

I thought Drew’s comment explaining his purchase and modification of the TiVo HD was thorough enough that I’m publishing it here on its own. My own TiVo HD is currently en route from wherever Amazon was holding it hostage over the weekend; I’ll post my impressions after I get it set up.
Drew says:
I can […]

The Waiting Game

HD-DVD is dead. Yet again, my strategy of waiting it out seems to have been vindicated. I’m still not interested in a Blu-Ray player, but if a movie or a deal were compelling enough, I now feel that I could pull the trigger on HD movies without locking myself into a potential dud. […]

Adventures in HD DVRs Part 1 | TiVo Series3 HD

As a brief disclaimer this post was written about two months ago and I never had the time to finalize it - given the Series3 units are now on close out I figured I should post this in draft condition or it would be fairly useless by the time I posted it a few weeks […]

Airport Extreme Base Station - Don’t buy one

Well, I had all but given up on my Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) when I stumbled upon this fix deep within the apple forums. Apparently if you change an advance setting for IPv6 and set it to “Local-link only” and it will get back to regular speeds and stability… for about 5 minutes.
You can read through the […]

RIP: CompUSA | 1984 - 2008

It’s the end of an era.
I remember when the CompUSA in Roswell opened and it was the only one nearby. It was next to a Lionel Toy store and I went there with my dad to get a mouse for our Packard Bell 8088 (4.77mhz, baby!). The mouse plugged into the serial port, […]

Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player

I broke down a few weeks ago and picked up the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player when Amazon was giving away Heroes Season 1 for free with the drive. As with any HD-DVD player right now, you also get 5 free movies by mail - hopefully those will come sometime in the next few months.Anyway, the […]

BootCamp not installed on new MacBooks

I recently picked up a new Santa Rosa MacBook and was surprised to find that the BootCamp Assistant was not in the Utilities folder. The MacBook came with Leopard pre-installed and I was expecting to jump right in and install Windows. Turns out Apple simply forgot to include BootCamp on the latest image they were […]

Half-Life 2 using CrossOver Mac

Playing Half-Life 2 on my MacBook Pro works great in Vista via BootCamp, but after seeing the worst promotional video of all time I had to check it out for myself using CrossOver Mac 6.2 on Leopard. CrossOver lets you run some Windows apps/games using WINE technology without having a copy of Windows or rebooting. […]