Tag: Off-topic

This isn’t directly HTPC related, but the idea of fiber optics getting fast enough to stream such high quality video is I’m sure very appealing to everyone. Like most cool technologies, who knows when or if we’ll ever see this in the US. But hey, at least we can be jealous for those who have it if it ever does […]

1. Make full use of my Windows Home Server backup system. I have a pretty solid build on my dekstop and I should really preserve it before I muck it up. 2. Back everything up and buy an external drive to backup the backup of important docs and pics. 3. Finish ripping my DVD collection. This is the project that […]

I’m not one to be overly politically correct, so here goes… From the family here at Missing Remote to yours, I want to wish you a merry Christmas.  We do appreciate you hanging around our neck of the internet.  You, the community, are what makes this site so special.  Thanks for the effort you put forth submitting news, answering questions, […]

Halloween is just around the corner, and Dave Zatz of zatznotfunny.com found a fun little indie short film about a man, his TiVo, and how it changed his life… {youtube}akl3I5tYy2g{/youtube}

Now, I know that title is an oxymoron, but hear me out.  It is once again the time that we Americans have been waiting for.  We are neck deep in another presidential election campaign and probably most of you can hardly wait until its over.  In the mean time, here’s a little election humor to tide you over.  

If you are interested in running email from your server, you should check out the New England Digital Media User Group’s live meeting on Ustream. They will fill you in on all the good information including anti-spam, webmail and all that other fun stuff. The Ustream page is here. The New England group page is here. They have been behind […]

I’ve been using the first release candidate for a while now and I have been VERY impressed.  Not only is it rock solid stable, but it is much faster to render pages, and the memory footprint has been vastly improved.  Now, release candidate 2 has been released which should be the last until the final build is pushed out in […]

Episode 233 of DLTV is submitted for your perusal. A video review of the Netflix set top box. A video demo of Microsoft Mediaroom. A Neruos OSD media device giveaway. For the twittering twit in anyone a review of Twurl (I hope that’s spelled write) DL.TV URL

Just browsed over to the NIN site looking for pre-sale dates for tickets to their upcoming Oakland show and came across this.  Wow, I must have been living under a rock for the past few weeks as it looks like the album was posted on 5/5…  I hope this is new news to some! Nine Inch Nails (thank you for […]

InsideHW sends word they have a digi-cam review up. Personally, I am a big fan of the Canon models. I have had a couple higher end and the features and pic quality are outstanding. Inside HW Canon has finally offered compact digital camera with 8 megapixels. This point-and-shoot camera gives impression of reliability and well built product. Canon IXUS 80 […]