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Audio Formats
Mar 13th
As a follow up on the Home Theater troubles from earlier. I decided to keep the current system until the new crop of receivers hit the market. To test the setup, I fired up the PS3 and inserted a movie disc I borrowed (this was my first attempt at a BD movie). And it threw More >
Home theater setup is a mess
Mar 10th
I am redoing my home theater setup. And it is a right royal mess.
The equipment has been bought over the past six years and the oldest pieces are the AV Receiver and the Speakers. The speakers are okay (one of them is showing some signs of problems) by and large: these are Mission’s M5 set More >
PS3 Woes Be Gone
Mar 2nd
It looks like the date related problems faced by many ps3s around the world are now gone. I took the less risky path of not turning on the console. So I guess I will know for sure when I power it up in a couple of days time…
In other gaming news, the ps3 exclusive Heavy More >
Playstation 3 Error
Mar 1st
Apparently there is a widespread issue with the playstation that has appeared over the past day. It seems many of the fat models are having trouble with the date setting today, leading people to suspect that it might be a leap year bug. I haven’t turned the system on today and perhaps it would be More >
MeeGo
Feb 16th
Huh?
The marketing folks dreaming up names for tech products are nuts.
MeeGo is the name of the initiative by Nokia and Intel to combine their respective mobile operating systems, maemo and moblin. This is pretty good news. There is too much fragmentation in small form factor operating systems anyway. Moblin started it, but I prefer More >
Greatest news on the N900 front
Feb 6th
The wonderfully talented KDE man Aaron Seigo has an N900 now. Which means it is only a matter of a little while before we have plasma on the device. How wonderful would that be! With Nokia firmly behind the Qt bandwagon thanks to their acquisition of Trolltech, the entire Qt / KDE experience should come More >
Spirit Rover: RIP
Jan 30th
It’s not quite dead, but now it cannot move as it is stuck in the Martian mud/sand.
The rover landed on Mars in 2004 with a 90 day, 1 kilometre mission. In reality it did something like 10 km over the next 5 years and more (more than 20 times the initial duration). Mostly the extra More >
Apple iPad
Jan 28th
Okay, Apple unveiled its tablet computer called the iPad. No, seriously, that’s what they called it.
As several women asked around the net, “Are there no women in Apple’s marketing department?”
The jokes are flying thick and fast about the name, of course. Did Apple not realize that MADtv had done a parody of Apple iPad years More >
Remote control software
Jan 20th
Tried to install Irreco / Qtirreco for the N900 a couple of times in the past few days. I was aiming for the ultimate cool factor – being able to trigger my Canon 450d with the N900. That would have been amazing. Note the tense in the previous sentence. It did not work.
For some reason, More >
Blogging on the road
Jan 5th
Let’s see how the N900 handles blogging. I downloaded MaStory, a blogging software for maemo and it supports wordpress. Or I will know that it does if this post comes up on the site. Surprisingly the keyboard is not too bad for writing so much text. The placement of he space bar is fantastic. Only More >