It is a sad day here in the Golod household. I put my faithful Tivo Series 2 DVR with lifetime subscription up for sale on eBay. I have not used the Tivo in many moons, mostly because I became a big backer of Microsoft’s Media Center Edition platform and more recently of the Comcast […]

Well, I have been having computer chaos over here lately. My main workstation also acts as a Media Center PC or HTPC (Home Theater PC to some) has been acting up lately. I think the recent upgrade to Norton Internet Security along with dumb ass AOL 9.0 Security Edition (for proxy purposes) install are working […]

How cool is the Harmony 880 universal remote control by Logitech? For the money, I don’t think you can touch it with a stick. Let’s face it, all of us geeks have too much A/V equipment in our homes and the wife wants to crack us over the head with all of the […]

Ok, so yesterday my new little USB GPS receiver shows up and of course I go into full geek mode. I pulled out the IBM X20 (the best thin-client laptop platform ever made IMHO) and plugged it in. I fired up MS AutoRoute 2006 and once I configured the GPS receiver with the software […]

Life is grand when you are a geek. So, in planning out some of our travels for the honeymoon in Tuscany, I have been fortunate enough to receive advice from many different sources on places to eat and drink at. Everything from wineries to hit in Montalcino and Montepulciano to restaurants in the surrounding […]

Just read over at the Google blog that the Google Video team is making their move into Pay Per View video. You missed cry baby Kobe score 81 points the other night? No worries, you can watch the Lakers vs. Raptors game on demand…you just have to pony up $3.95. Who said content […]

Ok, sometimes Microsoft can be a PITA with how they intentionally try to wedge themselves into a market and free software makers out. Streaming audio has been one of those places for a long time and I really don’t know why MS just doesn’t support .pls and mp3 feeds natively…and why someone hasn’t created […]

LOL, well I have to say, I love the internet. You may remember I wrote about Sony installing a root kit last week. Well, it is really only a matter of time these days before any “corporate” software is circumvented by someone and made public on the web. Did I mention you can easily […]

Tivo fanatics of the world have been scheduling television shows remotely to their Tivos for over two years. Actually, even more if you were into paying them for the Home Media option (that is now free). I signed up and had it working in a few minutes a couple of years ago. I did […]

Apparently the folks at Sony have decided that their preferred method of implementing DRM software is to install a rootkit without anyone knowing. I just read an article over at ZD Net that details a few testers’ accounts of discovering the Sony DRM scheme. Worse, the software/rootkit apparently prevents songs from being copied […]

Unless you live in a cave, which you may if your name is JC Metz, you have heard of the new iPod Video.  The Video iPod is pretty sweet, I checked one out last week and the picture is very nice, much better than I had originally expected.  Well, apparently a bunch of other people […]

Many of you know that I am a total electronics geek and one of my latest projects is the home media center pc running Windows Media Center Edition 2005. Basically, the thing is a Tivo on crack. This is the 2nd generation of Windows MCE and they have improved a lot of the functionality […]

If you have ever used a real remote computer system like Citrix, then you have probably been craving multiple Remote Desktop sessions since you first fired up Windows XP Professional and/or Media Center Edition. Here is a HACK (translated: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK), to enable multiple Remote Desktop sessions on your XP Pro or […]

In case you are living under a rock, or other similar location, Apple released the 5th generation of the IPod yesterday. The new IPod is smaller and lighter and allows users to play videos in addition to music on a small color screen. Retailing for $399 the new IPod can hold 15,000 songs or you […]

Last night i was pretty fired up on the concept of the Windows MCE Extender, but after reading a few reviews that I found, I am not at all. The media extender boxes allow you to grab all of the content (in theory) from your home media PC running Windows Media Center Edition 2005. […]

If you are reading this, then follow this link to get a Free copy of Divx 6 Create software. If you don’t know what it is, don’t worry. It is something that you will be using soon enough. It is good for one day only to commemorate DivX’s fifth anniversary.

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Thanks to Deppy for pointing this one out. Here is a smoking deal on a Sony DRU-720A DVD RW drive for $20 after rebate. It even comes with a black face plate (for those of us with black cases) and a copy of Nero Burning ROM 6.6. I bought a similar drive this year […]

Well, I have been pretty fired up on News Hosting’s unlimited binary newsgroup access, but lately their retention has been kinda weak. I know they were having some issues a couple of weeks ago, but I have not seen more than about 2 weeks retention on all of the groups I use. That is kinda […]

Ok, I just learned that reading directions is actually useful sometimes. I have about 1.2TB of disk space in the Media PC right now (TB stands for TeraBytes people. That comes after GB or Giga Bytes…it is a lot). I have about 56k songs on here and I have a few hundred CDs that […]

Tito just sent me a link to a site with some Tivo Tips. The coolest being the ability to change the functionality of the “skip to hash” button (the one with the right arrow pointing to a vertical line) to act as a 30 second skip forward button. This is something that MS has put […]