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If you use a Mac as your media hub and aren't interested in getting a Apple TV but you would like to use AirPlay you may want to try Banana TV. Once you download and install Banana TV, it will appear in your menu bar. Banana TV uses the AirPlay protocol to allow you to stream AirPlay enable videos or
Back with a special 90 minute podcast for you to catch you up from no show on Monday.. I have a great contest kicking off on the show today. Get qualified by becoming an Insider and or making a one time $25.00 donation details in the show tonight. Lot's to share on my trip to Silicon Valley and the headache
Firefox 4 was released a few days ago after what seemed like the most Beta versions a product has ever had (12 + the RC I think it was). It had a lot to live up to since Firefox 3 is the record holder for the software with the most downloads in the first 24 hours - 8,002,530. Plus, a
I recently lost my TiVo remote and I don't care. It's not because I not using TiVo anymore I use it almost daily. However I have fallen in love with the TiVo remote on the Ipad. It is so much better and easier to use then the physical TiVo remote. The TiVo remote is free from the Itunes App
I love doing my podcast "The Day in Tech History" (http://www.dayintechhistory.com). Sometimes I have to stop and reminisce those events. One of them happened today as on March 24, 2001 Apple released the OS X. It was Steve Jobs' company NeXT that technically created the 10th version of the OS. OPENSTEP was the base to OS X. When Apple brought
Earlier this month Apple revealed their follow up to the iPad, cleverly named the iPad 2. When Samsung saw it they were a little put back and decided to take their upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1 back to the drawing board. Now, they have revealed the new tablet and it’s got a little brother, the Galaxy Tab 8.9. The new Galaxy
I was going to write this a couple days ago, but I been having too much fun playing with the application. If you like to watch videos from Youtube but are not happy with the YouTube interface on the iPad you may want to take a look at VideoHunters from the The APP Company. VideoHunters is a great way to
The Amazon App Store for Android was released today and it brought along Angry Birds Rio for the ride. Even better, Angry Birds Rio is free for a "limited time". We haven't yet heard what that limited time is. The app store can be downloaded from here. It's a pretty fast download and install, but before you get started you
Taiwanese Edimax has been making steady inroads at the cheaper end of the market with a range of products which typically undercut the market leaders on price. As with its Chinese sibling TP-Link, I've always been a bit wary of their products but recently I had the opportunity to try out the Edimax 3G-6200n, a 3G 11n wireless router and
OpenSuSE 11.4 was released back on 11 March so this weekend I took the plunge and upgraded my main PC from 11.3 to 11.4. And less than two hours later, I had the best ever SuSE running on my PC. Here's how I got on... SuSE offer two methods of upgrading, the first being an on-line update and the second
One of the problems with watching video podcasts as an alternative to conventional television is that you have typically and deliberately watch one video at a time. On longer videos it’s not as much of a problem, but with short videos that last 5 minutes or less you have to keep manually restarting the next video after the previous one
There are a couple of applications on the Mac that I use almost daily. They are single task apps, that do only one thing. The first is Tea Timer and the second is Alarms. Tea Timer is a Dashboard application. It does one thing it reminds you of things you tend to forget, like your tea is ready or your pizza
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