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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:26 PM

More Media Center: Dual Hauppauge 4000 DVB-S2 Cards

In the latest - and hopefully final - part of the Media Center saga, I've also pushed a second Hauppauge WinTV-HVR4000 card into the machine so I get the multi-channel recording from the satellite channels I can receive (a la Sky+). Phew - just in time
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:25 PM

Asus EEE 1101HA

I bought a replacement netbook recently: my old MSI Wind didn't really have the battery life I wanted but it worked fine otherwise. Picking a netbook should be fairly straightforward as the specs are all the same but I was particularly attracted to the
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:14 PM

Multi-Touch Surface with Physics Engine

Fresh up on the YouTube Channel is this awesome piece of work from the guys in the Microsoft Technology Centre . I’ve talked about the value the MTC for a business before . This particular work was by Dave and Andy who are some of the smartest guys I
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:48 PM

Unboxing RoundTable

I came across this great set of photos   from Rich showing the “unboxing of a RoundTable device” whilst I was surfing about today. Excellent stuff. RoundTable is not quite as portable as a web cam, but you’ve seen nothing until you’ve unboxed a Surface
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:59 AM

Smart Free Apps for Windows Mobile

Nice to see a list of free apps for Windows Mobile on Mashable . A few new ones in there for me. Although my Twitter app of choice is TinyTwitter . As James points out: Incidentally I’m told that the launch sales of Samsung’s Omnia phone were better than
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Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:12 AM

All I Want For Christmas

Talking of @Stevecla , he’s pointed out some cool bits of tech that – for anyone who is listening and has reserved “Christmas Budget for Marc” – I would love to get my hands on. A Pico Pocket Projector from Optoma These handy cable tidys from Proporta
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Friday, November 14, 2008 9:02 AM

Gears of War Zune

I’m loving GOW2 and am hoping to add this to the very small list of “games I actually finished” which (in recent years) amounts to er, GOW and Fable2 (there must be others… surely). Anyway, for the Zune and GOW afficionado, there’s this :
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