Since my Iomega Home Media Network Drive gave up the ghost last week, I’ve been in search for a new solution to store the mass of photos, music and digital film collection. I came across HP’s ‘ProLiant Turion II N40L MicroServer’ on offer for £239.99 inc. VAT with £100 cashback from HP and a further chunk of cashback from eBuyer… Read more →
Category: Reviews
Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 Nettop
So I couple of weeks ago I told you all that I’d ordered something new for the living room. My new toy is in fact a Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 Nettop. The main reason for this purchase will be apparent to regular readers of my blog. For those who have just popped in to see what the fuss is about, have… Read more →
[TEASER] Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 Nettop
For a while now I’ve been looking for a decent client that I can plug into the back of TV’s around the house to stream media and LiveTV without forking out a tonne of cash. I’ve looked at the Raspberry Pi, Apple TV 2 and 3, Boxee Box, Acer Revo and many many more small computing clients that claim to have this functionality.… Read more →
Top Five Apps On My iPhone
So a friend asked me the other day for suggestions on what apps to download from the Apple App Store. I had to take a serious think, because I’ve got so many apps on my phone, I couldn’t possibly think of which ones were best. This post is going to most likely be a list of the most used Apps on my… Read more →
Playing around with XBMC Media Streaming
Sunday has become the day to play with technology. So expect more posts on Sundays now than normal. I’ve been playing around with XBMC this morning, and I’m really impressed with the functionality and smoothness of the application. I’m just in the process of testing how well streaming a DVD from my network storage across the wired network will work. I’m hoping… Read more →
A Decent PVR For TuxTV?
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll have seen the posts I’ve made about my TuxTV project. I’ve been looking around at various customised bits of software in order to get some sort of frontend PVR that I can plug into the backend streamer. I found 4TheRecord (4TR), which is a nice little software package that allows you to… Read more →
New toy! Sony RDP-X60iP
Those of you who know me, know I love my iPhone 4S, and I keep all of my music on it. I’d been looking into iPod docks for a while, and we’ve got a Panasonic one downstairs that is built into the blu-ray player. The only thing I found with the Panasonic, is that it was very disappointing. Don’t get me… Read more →