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04.24.06A cheap portable DVD and DivX playerThomson DTH 620 Travelling with kids can be anything from very rewarding and fun to a complete nightmare. Kids are in general very curious and easy to please as things happen around them on the way to a new destination. You always have the traditional games of spotting and counting special objects, following the map, telling stories etc.. If you combine these methods with some new technologies like MP3-players, iPods and portable DVD-Players you could end up managing even quite long trips with no problems. I have written about the long plane ride and the iPod. In our car we have used ...
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01.17.06The Apple Mobile PhoneApple, please! Giving us an FM radio for the iPod in 2006 is an insult. Why? Why can't you understand that it's not the "iPod Radio Remote" we want. We want the "iPod Cellular Remote". This product should have been a cellular attachment for the iPod. Same idea. Use the screen and the battery in the iPod. Just add a little external box with some keys, a cellular chip and preferably also wifi. Wired had lots of coverage on what people want and why they don't get it in issue 13.11. Seems like the biggest problem is the download service that ...
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12.24.05How to get video on to your iPodThe iPod with video playback is not the most impressive portable video player out there. Archos has devices that support both recording and more commonly used video formats. The lovely screen on the Playstation Portable is 16:9 and way better for video. Creative has a nice device as well... However, the iPod is smaller, more portable, more sexy and something that I actually bring with me. Of course you won't think of buying limited, low quality television shows from the iTunes Music Store when you can record them with no limitations in high quality for free. You just have to do ...
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09.23.05Promixis release a beta of Netremote for MCEPromixis just released a beta of Netremote with tighter integration for Windows Media Center Edition. I haven't tried it yet, but it will find its way into a PDA near me soon! And of course I'll post results of my first tests here.
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09.08.05The Telecrapper 2000I remember back when I had an ISDN line. I used our computer as an answering machine and had the possibility to make personalized messages depending on the number of the caller. For the people calling from an "empty" number, i.e. telemarketers, I routed them directly to the answering machine and simply said "Based on the number you are calling from it seems like you are a telemarketer. Please leave a message and I will call you back". The only messages I got was some mumbling about "what is this?" etc.. Now, welcome the Telecrapper 2000. Record a series of short audio ...