Going Digital and On Demand — Part 5 Control
One of the problems with dealing with an all-digital home media library is not only playback like I talked about in the last article, but centralized control. Playback is the...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 4 Playback
The biggest problem of course with moving to digital is how are you going to get the videos or music to where you want them to be. I’ve really fought...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 3 Movies
Currently, I’m looking at ripping all of my DVDs over to a network share so I don’t have to go and dig them out anymore (since the collection is large...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 2 Music
A few months ago I lost all of the MP3s that I had been accumulating for over 10 years. It was a bad hard drive crash and over 200GB of...
Going Digital and On Demand — Part 1 Pictures
This post has multiple parts to it, so fair warning I’m guessing this one is going to be long. Lately, I’ve been more and more annoyed at traditional hard-copy media....
The Great Photo Sharing Conundrum
My mother left me a comment yesterday (yes the mother I don’t talk to) about one of the baby pictures. Her comment asked if I could send her an email...
Would More Transparency Help The Used Car Market?
Seeing we’ve recently been used car shopping, I’ve noticed some problems in an industry which is at least a secondary issue with the automakers that exist currently. We can say...
The Authentication Hole in Autocheck.com
While shopping for cars this weekend, we decided to do a VIN history check against the cars we were looking out. While we didn’t find any that had been in...
Mourning The Death of Palm OS
I wrote yesterday about trying to find a solution to turn my Palm TX into a Bluetooth file server. So far no answers, but I wanted to record my history...
Palm TX Bluetooth File Server Software Wanted
So this week I charged up my old Palm TX, I’ve been mourning over the death of Palm OS. I enjoyed Palm OS, but even I’ve moved on. I have...