Thursday, July 15th, 2010
So here is my latest hunger– moving out into an apartment with my buddies that is an incredible media hub.
Like…
- Being able to record TV and send it to any computer at any time…
- Or send LIVE TV to any room’s computer at any time!
- If I’m lucky, that means that we can watch multiple channels from multiple boxes with only one cable box, or high-quality decipherable stream…
- Being able to watch internet videos on the main TV…
- Being able to watch whatever videos were loaded onto it!
- Being able to send DVDs across rooms!
- Being able to remotely tell the program to download torrents and other media, keeping users separate, but all within the upload limit, and allowing remote access to the files!
- Receive Audio from the main radio station in the house..
- And broadcast to the household radio station from any computer!
- Even to play a role as a game server!
It’d be complex, but damn. I think this’d be awesome. I think I’d need a great ethernet card, some nice RAID management.. etc..
What a headache, but fun!
Tags: audio, center, cool, home, media, pvr, radio, torrents, totally, video
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Sunday, May 16th, 2010
This post is an appendix to my ‘old list of attempted solutions’ in my ‘attempt to fix my shaky wacom tablet cursor’ post.
Continue reading below if you want to find out all the things that didn’t work.
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Tags: art, artistry, digital art, drawing, frustration, pen, shake, shaking, tablet, wacom, wobbl
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
I took a look at the Sprint Hero, and finally got one.
Problems:
- It has its slow moments. Sometimes, I type so fast that the keyboard can’t keep up, even when the phone is doing nothing.
- Some applications you download can stay on constantly, draining the battery, even if you aren’t using them. (EG: See the UStream application. Great in theory, bad in practice?)
- It has its slow moments more frequently than you’d desire. Sometimes, I hit the phone-hangup button to stop the sleep display on the phone, and I have to wait at least half a second for it to show up. This can be a problem when it doesn’t show up for seconds, and then you hit the same button just to make sure it’s working. If you dot hat, when the phone DOES come back, the display will light up–and then immediately disappear because you DID hit the ‘turn off display’ button twice.
I think it’s worth my investment, however, and I’ll let you know how pleased I am by the end of the… ack. Two year contract :p
$80 per month is affordable, however. I’ve had this for at least a week, and have only used 24 minutes out of 450… Either I don’t call landlines enough, or I picked an amazing plan for my phone.
Be back later– I plan to make an intellectual post on How to discipline yourself, what habits to create to get yourself discipline, and what has inspired this need for it with me.
Tags: affordability, android, cell phone, droid, google, hero, htc, minutes, phone, plans, rates, sprint, Technology
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
EPRP means “Everything Plus Referral Program”.
I read a comment at the DROID ERIS for Verizon post at Engadget that talked about an affordable plan with Sprint’s Hero SmartPhone, which is essentially HTC’s Droid Eris.
If/when I switch to this plan/phone, I”ll let you know. I currently don’t get to leave my computer a lot, so if I plan on going out sometime, I think I’ll get the phone.
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