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Monday, June 1st, 2009An interesting trend in geek gadgetry is the increase in devices made to hook directly to a bare drive (and leave it bare). As people upgrade computer storage, they’re starting to have perfectly good drives lying around, though usually without a good connection solution. Two hundred GB drives are seemingly the new floppy disk. Bare [...]
Hulu Carves Out a Place in Your Media Center
Thursday, May 28th, 2009Since its introduction, Hulu has found an avid following of its video delivery service. But there’s always been the drawback that you have to dial in the website and watch on a browser. You get the video, but in a less comfortable way than other solutions. Today Hulu aimed to change that with Hulu Desktop, [...]
Keep an Eye on Baby Birds With This IR Camera Setup
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009A few weeks ago I wrote about a time lapse digital camera for capturing things like plant growth in your garden. Today, we’re again looking to to the subject of nature photography with a gadget twist, though this one’s a bit more voyeuristic. The Nest Box with IR Camera is a simple enough wooden bird [...]
Awaiting Blu-ray Assimilation
Monday, August 18th, 2008I’ve resisted thus far, but I fear my time is running out. The time is nigh for my assimilation into the growing pack of Blu-ray player owners. I was a fairly early adopter of the DVD format, getting my first drive in a high-end Compaq desktop in early 1997. That was a pretty easy decision: [...]
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