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News October 14, 2011

Monsoon Announces Multi-Screen Policy Management Solution

Just under a year ago I reviewed the Monsoon Vulkano Deluxe Pro which opened up my satellite to be viewable on my laptop and IOS devices. I was able to watch my own television programming from virtually anywhere, even changing channels and setting up programs to record. Watching Monday Night Football on my deck with [...]

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Reviews September 28, 2011

by Francis Scardino

Storage Review: The Synology DS211+, A Pint Sized 2-Bay NAS with some Really Big Features

Image courtesy of Synology You can’t be too cautious these days about backing up your data. Time and time again friends, family and co-workers come to me about trying to recover pictures, music and documents on a failed or virus ridden drive. Some even have their small business data lost when the main computer goes [...]

Review: Griffin Beacon Universal Remote for iOS

It looks funny. It does exactly what it promises. And, at least for me, it is in the running for “iOS Accessory of the Year”. Okay, I’m exaggerating a bit but I’m pretty serious about how cool I think this iOS hardware/app combination is. The Griffin Beacon is the universal remote on steroids. With this [...]

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Reviews November 26, 2010

by Travis Ehrlich

Review: Monsoon Vulkano Deluxe Pro

I spent a large portion of the summer building a nice deck just outside my back door. Once it was finished we would sit out there under the bright Texas stars and I would tell my wife I needed a way to watch sports out there. My WiFi is full strength on the deck, but [...]

Monsoon Multimedia Launches Vulkano for Total Control of Video at Home and on the Go

TiVo, Slingbox and Roku are increasingly commonplace in American homes. The problem is, more and more of us have multiple set-top boxes taking up multiple outlets and sucking up electricity while costing a small fortune. Vulkano is poised to change all that with their converged set-top box. Vulkano is …a sleek consumer device with a [...]

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News July 28, 2010

by Dan Cohen

The Vulkano Is on the Way– World’s “First Universal and Affordable Video Platform for Smartphones, PC/Macs, iPads and TVs”

Vulkano is positioning itself as “the next-generation live TV place shifting, time shifting and streaming device for smartphones and other devices”. The system makes it possible to take the home TV experience anywhere and by anywhere they mean… anywhere. When connected to a set-top box and a TV the Vulkano brings video to a host [...]

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News July 3, 2010

by Dan Cohen

Woot- Sells TiVo HD, Takes Shot At Apple

Woot, newly acquired by Amazon, has a TiVo HD DVR for sale today. As an owner of this same model, I can attest to the fact that it is a nice unit. It will certainly do the trick… At least until Apple’s revamped Apple TV comes out. And speaking of Apple, the description of the [...]

Video Review: Stop Vampire Power from Sucking with iGo

Vampire power is the power your electronic devices use when they’re turned off. Example: You plug your digital camera into an electrical outlet to re-charge its battery. Once the battery is fully charged the camera keeps taking power from the wall and attempts to give it to the camera’s battery even though it doesn’t need [...]

Archos 5 Internet Tablet: A Tale Of Woe In Two Parts…

I love tablets. I used a Windows Tablet PC for years and have been chomping at the bit for the Apple tablet. The iPhone and iPod touch have been and are awesome, but I have been longing for something a bit larger. When the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android came along, I thought it [...]

TiVo Continues to Make Big Moves… Adds Support For Blockbuster On Demand

It wasn’t that long ago that I expected TiVo to go the way of the Dodo. It increasingly looked like its time had come and gone as cable companies added DVR functionality to their set top boxes and more and more of us started using our computers to watch and record tv content. Then TiVo [...]

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News August 13, 2009

by Judie Lipsett Stanford

Peeking at Micro Innvations USB Hub Concepts

Some of you may recognize the name Joe Born from the company Neuros, whose open source products we’ve been reviewing and talking positively about for years. What you may not know is that Joe also founded the company Digital Innovations over ten years ago. According to him, he hasn’t been “very active in it since [...]

Neuros.TV Site Adds User Contributions to the Neuros Link

For those who don’t know, the primary part of the Neuros Link is the Neuros.TV website that helps you find content on your Neuros Link from the web. Well, Joe has let me know that you are not just stuck with whatever Neuros and their hackers will give you. Now if you know of a [...]

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News December 18, 2008

by Joel McLaughlin

Neuros Link Bounties Posted and More

Joe Born has posted the first bounties for the Neuros Link. The first bounty is $2500 for getting Netflix working directly on the Neuros Link, or $500 when working through a intermediary PC. This bounty has some stipulations: The programmer must beat Boxee, Ubuntu or Netflix themselves with the functionality. All of these people are [...]

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News November 26, 2008

by Joel McLaughlin

10 Reasons I am Thankful for Free and Open Source Software

As we prepare to give thanks for all the things we’ve been blessed with over the past year and eat a bunch of food, I was thinking of one thing I am most certainly thankful for and that’s Open Source Software. Without it, I could not be writing this post as we are a user [...]

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News November 20, 2008

by Joel McLaughlin

How Hackable is the Neuros Link? VERY!

Still being very geeked about the announcement from Neuros, at lunch I was perusing the forums on the Neuros site and discovered just how hackable the Neuros Link will be. The answer is: VERY The Neuros Link is running Ubuntu 8.10 according to Joe Born’s post in the forum and the specs page. That means [...]

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