Monthly Archives: September 2009

QNAP NMP-1000 Brings Networked Video, Audio, Digital Pictures And Other Digital Content Into The Living Room

New Home Network Appliance Unique Blending of Set-top Box Player and Networked Storage Capable of Delivering Cinema Quality Video and Audio to the Home Theater QNAP Systems, Inc, a world-class manufacturer of Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers today unveiled a unique new network appliance that can best be described as a set-top player crossed with a NAS server. Computer users around the globe face the dilemma of how to centrally store, manage, and playback growing amounts of digital content Continue reading

Obsessive Windows 7 Under-the-Hood Guide for Music; Can You Finally Dump XP?

Windows 7 running on a laptop, as photographed by / ( CC ) Luke Roberts . Windows 7 makes far subtler changes than Vista did, which gives it an opportunity to refine features by the ship date. And it’s been tested unusually widely, by testers like Luke. Windows matters. It’s what roughly half of CDM readers use, and – for all the attention Apple gets – it’s a big part of the computer music world. Windows today also faces many of the same under-the-hood challenges that other operating systems Continue reading

TiVo TCD540080 Series 2 80-Hour Digital Video Recorder

Amazon.com Product Description TiVo’s Series2 DVR delivers plenty of recording capacity in addition to offering entertainment services like digital music, digital photos, remote scheduling, and hassle-free favorites recording. All this and the famed luxury of being able to pause and view instant replays of live television, too. TiVo DVRs record television programming directly to an onboard digital ATA/IDE hard drive, eliminating the hassles of videotape (imprecise tape searching, head clea Continue reading

The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

More widely of late known as that band with the crazy stage show, inflatable globe, Teletubbies and all, The Flaming Lips have been busy in the lab and have returned with an altogether more intriguing studio album, ‘Embryonic’. Of course, for those coming late to the party, experimental is what The Flaming Lips do – 1997’s ‘Zaireeka’ album came on four discs to be played on four stereo systems simultaneously, nevermind the eight years in the making ‘Christmas On Mars’ film. So now, Wayne Coyne Continue reading

How Is Touch Screen Technology Most Often Found

Can you remember watching an old spy movie from the 1960’s? The protagonist is typically a handsome, clever, well-dressed man, who gets along well with the ladies. He is sophisticated, yet accessible and armed with intellectual weapons unlike anything his era has ever seen. Whether it is the electric shaver which is also a voice recorder, or the pen which secretly emits noxious fumes, or being able to enter a secured room with a highly complex lock decoder, the clever hero in the drama can do Continue reading