Network Movie Streaming Solution
I have a large collection of movies as digital files that have been “acquired” over the years from various sources and I have been looking for a way to safely centrally store these and view them on TV’s around the house.
Kodak Zx1 Pocket Video Camera
The Kodak Zx1 offers the same sort of functionality as an HD Flip – shooting VGA and 720p High Definition.
Save The Australian Net
Regrettably the government have decided today that they will pursue online censorship in Australia via Internet filtering at the ISP level. Whilst this sounds admirable – after all I don’t really want my kids looking at kiddie porn – in practice it is an issue for two reasons.
Elgato EyeTV for DTT Deluxe
I recently took delivery of the EyeTV DTT Deluxe, and it is barely larger than the USB plug itself! It comes with a clip-on telescopic aerial, a separate aerial for area’s with less signal strength and an adaptor for plugging into a normal TV socket. Also included in the pack is a remote control and software that turns your Mac into a fully-fledged DVR (Digital Video Recorder). The unit is an HD digital receiver and the picture is sharp and clear.
Pogo Sketch
The Pogo Sketch is a stylus designed to work with todays capacitive touch screen devices. The tip (described well by Leo Laporte as a ‘puffball’) is a spongy material that mimics the action of the finger tips on the screen. It is very effective when gloves – such as surgical gloves – have to be worn so the touch interface would not otherwise work.
Nokia’s Vision For 2015
Nokia have a very bold an exciting vision for where personal technology will take us in the next few years.
Amazon Kindle In Australia
When it comes to reading books the Kindle really shines. Amazon’s stated aim was to make the device ‘disappear’ and allow the reading experience to come to the fore. This is certainly the case. The page turn buttons are large and perfectly placed and the page turn process is much faster than the BeBook. The first book I read on the Kindle was the new Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol and as promised the use of an ereader did fade into the background allowing me to engage fully with the story.
Augmented Reality
For some time web applications such as Google Maps have been overlaying data onto the maps and we have become quite used to finding information about surrounding businesses in such a way. The iPhone 3GS allows developers to go one step further – taking away the 2D view of the map and replacing it with a real-time view of the world using the camera and screen as a viewport.
Apple – Great Products, But Pray They Don’t Go Wrong…
Image via Wikipedia SEE UPDATE BELOW… As those of you that read Dr Gadget just may have picked up by now I’m something of an Apple fanboy. I switched to Mac November 2004 and since then we have had 3 iMac’s, an iBook, 2 white MacBooks and a MacBook Pro. This is not to mention [...]
