MythTV, the popular Linux based PVR project, has been around for some time. It's nice, and it functions well, but it's only as functional as Windows Media Center Edition plus, it can be difficult to install and configure.
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Elton John did what everyone expected the Beatles to do: made his entire career's worth of music available online, exclusively through iTunes.
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Today, Miglia Technology announced the launch of TVMini Express for a bargain price of just £39.95. The latest addition to the Miglia TV range this small USB device transforms your Mac into a completely portable digital TV tuner and puts your recorded files directly onto your iPod.
TVMini Express features Miglia’s new software which works in harmony with Miglia’s award winning hardware. TVMini Express is perfect for watching and recording TV and exporting to iPod. TVMini Express’s integrated digital TV tuner lets you enjoy a wide range of TV channels at home or whilst travelling. Full Freeview and TNT support makes the product a great choice for students and business travellers alike.
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Today, Apple announced they are now shipping Apple TV™, an easy to use and fun way to wirelessly play all your favourite iTunes® content from your PC or Mac® on your widescreen TV, including movies, TV shows, music, photos and podcasts. With Apple TV’s stunning new interface, anyone can quickly browse and view their entire collection of digital media from across the room using the simple and intuitive Apple Remote. Apple TV easily connects to almost all modern widescreen televisions.
“Apple TV is like a DVD player for the Internet age—providing an easy and fun way to play all your favourite iTunes content from your PC or Mac on your widescreen TV,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Apple TV allows you to wirelessly play your content from your PCs or Macs using your existing WiFi network as well as the newest and fastest version of WiFi—802.11n.”
The seamless integration of Apple TV and iTunes lets users choose from over 400 movies and 350 TV shows in near DVD quality; over four million songs; 5,000 music videos; 100,000 podcasts; and 20,000 audiobooks from the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com/uk). Users can also watch their favourite movie trailers right on their widescreen TV, listen to their favourite music on their home entertainment system, and view slideshows of their photo albums in high definition resolution. Apple TV makes it easy for users to explore their entire media collection with an easy to use and intuitive new interface. With the Apple Remote, consumers can easily browse through their favourite movies, TV shows, music and photos from up to 30 feet away.
Apple TV has a 40GB hard drive to store up to 50 hours of video, 9,000 songs, 25,000 photos or a combination of each and is capable of delivering high-definition 720p output.* Apple TV is easy to connect to a broad range of widescreen TVs and home theatre systems and comes standard with HDMI, component video, analogue and optical audio ports. Using high-speed AirPort® 802.11** wireless networking, Apple TV can auto-sync content from one computer or stream content from up to five additional computers right to your TV without any wires.***
Apple TV, which includes an Apple Remote, will be available beginning this week from the Apple Store® (www.apple.com/uk), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorised Resellers for a suggested retail price of £199 (inc. VAT). Apple retail stores will also offer hands on workshops and demonstrations of Apple TV’s features. It requires iTunes 7.1 or later running on a Mac with Mac OS® X version 10.3.9 or later, or a Windows PC with Windows XP Home/Professional (SP2).
This years PMA show brought with it many exciting announcements, including Kodak announcing their Z885 compact digital camera. This little beauty offers 5x optical zoom, 8.1 megapixel resolution and an amazingly high ISO setting of 8000. This equates to a camera that should handle low light situations very easily. There are ten automatic scene modes built in, to ease the new user into making awesome shots. No UK pricing yet, but expect to pay $199 when the Z885 starts shipping in May.
"These are 5 of the (in my opinion) best free “grunge” or “eroded” typefaces of late. Three of which are from the same artist/typographer Gyom Séguin..."
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AppleInsider reports that Apple's popular line of iMac personal computers are about to undergo a substantial facelift that will showcase striking new industrial designs that will leave both competitors and onlookers smitten. The redesign, however, will only be applied to the 20-inch and 24-inch iMacs. The 17-inch iMac may go bye-bye...
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Gizmo Project 3 has been released for both the Mac and PC platforms. Having been a long time fan of Skype, the slightly lesser known Gizmo has been in my dock for the odd dabble. This new version 3 brings with it some very interesting new features.
The new Meta-voice capabilities of Gizmo Project 3.0 allow users to call four of the most popular Voice and IM networks. All your calls to Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live, Google Talk, and Gizmo Project users are free. This is a superb addition and will prove very popular. Another new feature is being able to customise your avatar by picking a personalized graphic. Your avatar is the picture used to represent yourself in Gizmo Project.
Gizmo Project 3 now supports file transfers via the Jabber protocol. This means you can exchange files with anyone using a jabber client! The new chat history (which has been around in other IM clients for a long time) allows you to save all your past IM conversations, plus you can now chat with several users at once.
This is a very worthy update and well worth checking out.
Comic Relief did a marvelous job on Red Nose Day, with the good work still going on at ebay. Amongst the Comic Relief auctions are signed t-shirts, prints, and some rather cool iPods. You can choose from Suzy Murray's Missing iPod, David Walliam's or Alan B'stard's. At the time of writing this post David Walliam's was on £190 for a 4GB 2nd generation Nano. All with personally selected playlists.
Ever wish you could set your mac up to unlock when you came into the room with your bluetooth cell phone? Maybe you'd like to autosync your phone with your mac when you get home? Here is the consummate guide to setting up bluetooth proximity detection.
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Technovision is showing off their 205-inch LCD at CeBit, that makes the formerly buff Sharp 108-inch LCD feel downright pathetic. That's enough space to park two mini coopers on, side by side. Wait...TechnovisionWho?
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Today, CTM Development released FoxTrot Personal Search 1.5, an advanced Mac find-by-content application including the most recent optimisations to its high-speed FoxTrot search engine.
According to Chantal Favre, VP of CTM, "Even though FoxTrot Personal Search is a great addition to any knowledge worker's MacBook or iMac, version 1.5 now contains many improvements especially relevant to Mac users in the legal, media and scientific fields."
This new release features:
- 14 user-experience and functionality enhancements
- Searches excluding literal strings and words
- Proximity searches
- OR searches of literal strings
- Relevance-ranking tuning
- Improved support for e-mail messages from CTM's flagship PowerMail application
- 5 other improvements and changes
The application can be downloaded here. A full license costs $36 or 29 euros.