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Onkyo TX-NR616

For the past 20 years, I have been impressed with Onkyo products.  Not only from a feature perspective but value as well.  It is difficult to find receivers that offer more features and better...

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iHomeserver Tip-Movies

As most who have read my posts know, I have been a fan of iHomeserver for quite some time.  One of the challenges I had was how to manage movies properly.  I have more than a 130 iPad movies in my...

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Miccus Mini-jack RX Bluetooth Receiver

Being a avid podcast and music listener, playing content in my car is extremely important to me.  Since I spend close to 2-2.5 hours a day commuting on the Southern California freeways,  listening to...

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ISY-994i-Home Automation at its Best

One of the biggest inhibitors to going to a VM environment (more in a later post) are USB devices.  The worst of these devices are the Insteon Controllers.  Whether using Hyper-V  with a USB to IP...

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Going From Physical to Virtual Machines at Home

A topic I have struggled with for a long, long time has been the use of virtual machines in an actual home environment.  In the past VM’s where limited to enthusiast but now that Hyper-V is bundled...

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Insteon LED Lights

Having been a fan of Insteon products for a numbers of years, I was extremely intrigued by the press release of the new Insteon LED lights.  Why you ask?  The main reason is that this device not only...

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Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard on the Surface

Recently I had the opportunity to visit the Microsoft store in San Diego California. I was wondering around looking at the different laptops and testing out the type cover for the Surface. In the...

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Plex Media-A New Way to Stream

If you are like me you love to stream your content to other devices both inside and outside your network.  The issue is the typically convoluted and unstable packages such as Twonky, tVersity, or...

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SlingBox 500

Introduction I have been an original SlingBox user for a number of years and overall have been happy with it. Though the interface was very laggy, it served a purpose of watching live or recorded TV to...

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Livescribe-Old School Meets High Tech

For many years I have typed my notes directly into a laptop or tablet device and was quite content using that approach.  As many of you know, there are times/places when that is not an acceptable...

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Verizon JetPack-MiFi 5510L

Since using the Verizon LTE service a couple of years ago, I have been a believer.  About a year ago I dumped my AT&T cell service and moved to Verizon.   Prior to that, I had a MiFi so that I...

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Nexus 7 and Migration from other Platforms

Being in the tech field, we are always moving from one device to another based on current trends.  As we grow more and more reliant on these devices as well as stored data, switching from one to other...

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Sonos-Whole Home Streaming

I have always been intrigued by Sonos for a couple of reasons.  One was the claims of perfectly synced audio in every room, and the other was the prospect of good sound quality from a wireless device....

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Home Automation-Planning to Move

Planning Your Home Automation and Home Control Earlier this year I set out to purchase a home and move from my existing townhouse, to a larger home to make room for my new family. As part of the...

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Air Server-AirPlay for your PC

Every once and awhile you run across a product that not only works but find very useful. It may even solve a problem you did not know you had. Air Server is one of those products for me. As I run a...

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D-Link DIR-510L AC750 Portable WiFi Router

As internet access is now entwined in our everyday life, Wi-Fi has become important to us wherever we are.  Whether you have multiple devices, multiple family members, or both, we increasing our need...

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QNAP QSync 2—A DropBox Alternative

I have owned a QNAP for a number of years and have always been impressed with the hardware, performance, and customer support. When I got my first device I used only parts of the software features as...

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IOS Podcast APP

Apple Released a Podcast app today.  Rumored to be available only when IOS 6 was released, I was surprised to see it this early.  Here is short run through of the application and how it looks on the...

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Nexus 7-iPad Killer? The Verdict

Being a big fan of the iPad since its release, I surprised myself when I decided to buy the new Nexus 7 shortly after hearing the announcement.  There were several reasons for my decision starting with...

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iHomeserver–2.2.20.0-A Good Thing gets better

It is pretty obvious from the amount of people that read my first write up on iHomeserver, that we are still looking for ways of not having to deal with iTunes.  When I first started using the program...

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