I was browsing the hard drive aisle at Best Buy when I came across the Buffalo LinkStation Storage Center on sale at a price too good to pass up. This network-attached storage device connects to your home network and sets up in a snap through the built-in web interface. Within minutes I had a 250gb …
My luck continues … I was the winner of a random drawing for a customer satisfaction survey I filled out some months back. My prize: a 30gb 5th generation Apple iPod with Video! Now, there was nothing really wrong with my trusty Archos Jukebox Studio 20 that has served me well for close to four …
I must have been extra good this past year because my wife gave me the Sony KLV-S23A10 23″ LCD HDTV display for Christmas to replace an old 13″ tube. This 1366×768 display has 1 component input (for a DVD or other HD source), 3 composite and S-Video inputs, and HDMI and RGB connections. While it …
While filming the holiday party movie for work, my 7-year old Sony miniDV camcorder‘s CCD finally gave out. In a rush to replace it, I picked up the Samsung SC-D353 on the cheap at Circuit City. Well, you get what you pay for: the camera’s autofocus was horrible, it had a black-and-white internal viewfinder, and …
Until now, I’d been sticking with the cheaper universal remote controls. My favorite was the Magnavox PMDVR-8 which did a great job of controlling all of my home theater devices, including my TiVos. Recently, however, I had two of the units go bad. I was going to just replace it with the same, but was …
After starting out in the Palm camp back in 1996, then switching to Pocket PC and hp’s iPAQ line in 2001, I’m now a Palm user again. I got a Palm Treo 650 through work, and I love it … finally I don’t have to carry my PDA, cell phone, and G100 (e-mail device). I’ve …
Thanks to a great deal, a third TiVo has made its home in my media closet. This one is the Toshiba RS-TX20 Digital Media Server. Housed inside its shiny case is a DVD player, DVD burner, and a 140hr TiVo. It has all the same connectivity options as my other standard Series2 boxes, but also …
Uniden’s ELBT595 Digital Bluetooth Cordless Phone is a normal 5.8GHz cordless phone for your home, but acts like a cellphone. The base station has the usual expected features: caller id, digital answering machine, speakerphone, dial pad, address book, etc. The handset is about the size of your typical clamshell cell phone, complete with color LCD …
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The Roomba Red robotic vacuum by iRobot is a squat little creature that, according to the literature “happily” cleans floors, under furniture, etc. It’s fun to watch as it figures out the best way to navigate a room, and it drives my dogs nuts. My Robosapien had better watch out … there’s a new robot …
We did a little room reorganization last weekend that ended up moving my home office to a different room. Not a problem, since I run a wireless network, but I had to move my Brother MFC3820CN multi-function machine into the new office as well, away from router which it had been directly cabled to. Enter …