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Hands-on with the Boxee Box

Andy Brudtkuhl — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:08:28 +0000

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Andy Brudtkuhl — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:55:52 +0000

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People Want To Connect Their TV To The Web

Andy Brudtkuhl — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:28:10 +0000

A recent eMarketer report shows that 65% of people would like to connect their TV to the internet. The market is ready and 2010 will be the year…

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Not Surprised: Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day

Andy Brudtkuhl — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:57:46 +0000

Study: Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day.

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Boxee Box Pictures, Release Date

Andy Brudtkuhl — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:47:34 +0000

The Boxee box got unveiled today. I personally think the design of the box sucks – but I still want it. You too can have one in Q2 2010

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Dell Increases Prices When Customizing PC

Andy Brudtkuhl — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:38:09 +0000

So I bought a Dell Inspiron Zino HD yesterday to run the man cave theater and I noticed an interesting strategy from Dell…

When going through and applying some upgrades (ram, etc) I stopped on keyboard. You see this will be hooked up to a projector and TV so I will need a wireless keyboard and mouse – and the one I have requires a PS/2 port – which the Dell Zino doesn’t have.

Here’s what I saw…

The Dell Wireless Keyboard & Mouse listed costs $75 – which I thought was a tad much since you can get a decent KB/Mouse combo for under $50… Not to mention the picture has a wired mouse… Anyway I decided to jump over to Dell’s accessories store to see what was up. There, I saw this…

Yep – that’s $15 cheaper. What’s the strategy here? Well when you are in the process of buying a several hundred dollar PC Dell must think you are more apt to pay $75 for a wireless keyboard and mouse. They also must realize that no one will pay that much on their own – so their accessory store has it for $15 less.

What do you think about that?

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How To Install Google Chrome OS

Andy Brudtkuhl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:07:21 +0000

I downloaded Google Chrome OS from GDGT but had problems installing it per their instructions….

Here’s what I found through discussions on how to install Google Chrome OS on Windows with VMWare Player

1) Create a folder on your C drive called Virtual Machines

2) Download the Chromium image from Gdgt and extract the VMDK file to c:\Virtual Machines

3) Download and Install VMWare Player

4) In VMWare Player…
a. Select “Create a New Virtual Machine”
b. Select “I will install the operating system later” and click the Next button
c. Under Guest Operating System select Other and under Version select Other and click the Next button
d. Under Virtual Machine Name enter “Chrome OS” and under Location browse to the c:\Virtual Machines folder you created above and click the Next button. [Note: This will be the downloaded VMDK file and the newly created blank Virtual Machine in the same folder]
e. On the Specify Disk Capacity page leave defaults as they are and click the Next button.
f. On the Ready to Create Virtual Machine page click the Finish button.

5) Navigate to the c:\Virtual Machines folder in Windows Explorer.
a. Rename Chrome OS.vmdk to Chrome OS.vmdk.old
b. Rename chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk to Chrome OS.vmdk

6) On the VMWare Player main screen select Chrome OS and click Play Virtual Machine [Note: This will show the OS logon screen]

7) In the bottom right hand corner of the VMWare Player window right click on the Network Adapter Icon and click Disconnect then select Settings.

8) On the Virtual Machine Settings window on the right hand side under Network connection select Bridged and then click the OK button.

9) In the bottom right hand corner of the VMWare Player window right click on the Network Adapter Icon and click Connect

10) On the OS logon screen enter your Google e-mail address as your username and your Google password as your password.

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The Roku Channel Store

Andy Brudtkuhl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:05:02 +0000

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Future Of Internet Connected TV’s

Andy Brudtkuhl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:03:30 +0000

MMatthew McRae of Vizio talks about the future of internet connected TV’s…

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Livestream Launches Live Streaming iPhone App

Andy Brudtkuhl — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:04:24 +0000

Using Livestream Procaster, users can stream live from their webcam, video camera or even broadcast their PC or Mac desktop. Livestream producers can start streaming live to the addressable iPhone and iPod Touch audience over 3G or Wi-Fi connections, with less than five minutes of setup.

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