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Sunday, July 13, 2008 4:31 PM

Using a Zune 80GB as a Car Video Player

Following on the theme of trying to make it easier for my kids to watch movies in the car but without the hassle of the pesky shiny discs, I decided to try using a Zune 80GB as a car video player. This is clearly outside its design parameters, because
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:38 AM

My personal take on the iPhone: deja vu

I paid $500 for a smartphone with a touchscreen, music player, email, web browser and a camera. No, this wasn't an iPhone I got before tomorrow's launch, it was a Sony Ericsson P800 and it was almost five years ago . The iPhone hype is really getting
Posted by andypennell | 4 Comments
Friday, October 13, 2006 1:39 PM

BBC America: Why Do You Hate Me So?

I'm sorry but I have to rant about BBC America's Guide Data that my Tivo uses. My TV enjoyment is determined entirely by how well or otherwise my TiVo works. In my seven years of using TiVo, only once has it not recorded something I wanted. However, in
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:49 AM

Wanted: Power Strip with Switches

It shouldn't be this hard, but all I want is a power strip with switches on each outlet. In my garage I have no less than six different chargers, and I don't want or need them to be on all the time. If I still lived in the UK, I could find such a device
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:19 AM

PS3 Video Specs - Much Less Than Originally Claimed

Sony's press release for the PS3 makes interesting reading, especially for the cheaper one (if $499 can be described as cheap ). It lacks digital video out, so I'm not sure how they can do 1080p at all (how many TVs can take 1080p over component video?
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Monday, February 28, 2005 5:36 PM

Windows XP Bluetooth Rant: One Year Later

In my blog from a year ago I ranted about the poor state of bluetooth in Windows at the time, and the pain in syncing my Sony Ericsson P800 phone over bluetooth. Its now 12 months later, XP SP2 has long since shipped, plus S/E have updated their sync
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Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:35 AM

DVDs in 1080i, from a network share: Nirvana

I have moved this posting regarding the beta 2.0 software for the Roku HD1000 to my personal web site at ControlAV . Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Sunday, November 07, 2004 2:01 PM

I Need Exchange ActiveSync on my phone

The past few weeks of extreme busy-ness in Visual Studio land (details omitted) have clearly demonstrated the need for my phone to be able to connect to my corporate email, which of course is Exchange. Microsoft Smartphones and the latest PocketPCs support
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:30 PM

Shocking news: Google can't find something

We have a little known feature in the debugger so I wanted to see where, if anywhere, it is documented, so naturally I used Google. It can't find it. Not because it doesnt exist, but because the thing I am looking for is “.load” : yes, that's
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