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News June 30, 2009

Moovida and Jamendo: Perfect Together

Moovida is a media center with a smooth and slick interface, and I really liked it when I reviewed it a couple weeks ago. Moovida now has a plugin for Jamendo, the music 2.0 platform with all of their music under the Creative Commons umbrella of licenses. The interface is strictly a streaming service for [...]

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News March 23, 2009

by Joel McLaughlin

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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Quickies November 2, 2008

by Joel McLaughlin

Top Ten Reasons a Neuros OSD would be a Great Christmas Gift for your Geek

Christmas is fast approaching and we all need ideas for our geeky (and not so geeky) friends and family. Here are my top ten reasons why a Neuros OSD would be a good gift for your geek.

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Events October 12, 2008

by Joel McLaughlin

Ohio Linuxfest 2008: The Community Gathers Once Again

It’s hard to believe that a year has gone by. A lot has happened in the Linux world. While the economy is in the crapper, Linux is growing in both the easy of use and the strength of its community. Ubuntu was at the show this year and had machines from System 76 showing off [...]

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Quickies August 23, 2008

by Joel McLaughlin

One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure: A Open Source Guy’s View on The Dash Express

I have had a few different GPS units over the years. My first was a Garmin GPS 12 which didn’t have any road maps or anything else; it was much more appropriate to use in the forest, but I used it everywhere and even hooked it to a laptop so I could get maps. It [...]