Spring is in the air, here in the Northern Hemisphere, so it’s time for another version of PowerDVD to emerge, blinky-eyed, from the embargo and let us know how much winter is left in the HTPC landscape. Unfortunately, the UltraHD Blu-ray story hasn’t changed at all, so there’s still that weird thing where AMD CPU users, and anyone with a […]
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I’d never heard of XGIMI before they sent me the details on their new XGIMI Horizon 1080p and XGIMI Horizon Pro 4K projectors, and TBH I was inclined to ignore it until I actually looked at the specifications for them. While it is a bit disappointing that they don’t support Dolby Vision, HDR 10 is on board along with Android […]
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We’ve been using Current banking for a bit over three years because it provides a really easy way to control over, and get great visibility into, what our kids spend their money on. There have been ups and downs in that time, mostly due to Current’s immaturity as a financial institution. But, where it wasn’t always perfect, that imperfection was […]
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Considering the nightmare that many people experienced with the 1.9.0-1.9.2 UDM/UDM-Pro firmware releases, my upgrade to 1.9.3 was relatively painless. I did experience a few issues, so I thought it was worth documenting them, and what I did to fix them.
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I’ve been really, really, cautious with the 1.9.x UDM/UDM-Pro firmware releases, but I think it’s time to throw caution to the wind with the 1.9.3 release. Somewhat because it genuinely seems to be more solid release (mostly on the controller side), but also because UI’s breach, and lack of disclosure around what happened exactly, puts us all at massive risk. […]
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