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Category Archives: Cool geek stuff
The snag list
Ok, it is time to admit it. All is not well in the geeky home. There are little niggles, everythings working but it’s not slick and it’s not well integrated enough. It’s time to start finding some solutions. Here are … Continue reading
Y-CAM
For a while now I’ve been looking at some home monitoring systems and how I can best integrate them into my digital experience. Previously I’ve used Yawcam with some pretty great results but currently I’m trying to reduce my carbon … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Home automation, Media Center, Mobile, Windows Mobile
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Long term test – the new Jawbone
When I was in the states a few weeks ago I picked up the new Jawbone from an At&T store. A small sleek black unit, with hidden buttons, leather bound ear loop and the killer feature “Noise Assassin” technology. Well … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, iPhone, Mobile, Technology, Windows Mobile
Tagged jawbone, review
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Squezebox part 1: Squeezebox Duet Installation Experience
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Posted in Cool geek stuff, How I Use..., Media Center, squeezebox, Technology
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HelloTwitFace – now with Summize search!
For the past week I’ve been toiling away on integrating Summize into HelloTwitFace. Summize replaces TweetScan as HelloTwitFace’s replies and search tabs. This was a challenge as I’d already built in RSS reading capabilities to read the TweetScan results, but … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cool geek stuff, How I Use..., Mobile, Social Networking, Technology, web, Windows Mobile
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iPlayer on MCE – very promising indeed
I picked up on this from Ian’s blog but this has got to be one of the best Media Center plug-ins in development at the moment. If you’re in the uk you’ll have heard of the BBC iPlayer, basically we … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Media Center, Technology
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Facebook chat is coming to a jabber client near you soon
[EDIT: Linked it up ] A few sources are today talking about facebook opening up their chat application to jabber capable clients. I’ve talked about this before and I can see this being the killer thing for the fb chat … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Mobile, Social Networking, web, Windows Mobile
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Freesat is comming…finally, oh and a recommendation for a FreeView aerial
Stuff-em-up-the-hill-backwards has an interesting piece with links etc, on Freesat’s launch today in the UK. From my point of view I can’t wait to see support for this in Media Center, there are some codec changes that need to occur … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Media Center, Technology
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PointUI gets an update to make it look WM7 ish
Over the weekend I had some time to catch up and found that PointUI has been updated to version 2.5 and with that it’s seen quite a major overhaul of the UI. It now looks kinda WinMo 7 ish in … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Mobile, Windows Mobile
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Wii-Fi Woes
We just got a Wii. It’s so cool! What wasn’t so cool was the wifi situation. As you’ll know I’m using DDWRT on my Buffalo router, I’m gonna change to Tomato soon as something keeps dropping out, apparently Wii has … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, How I Use..., Technology, wii
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