The PopcornHour A110 lets you consume a ton of multimedia content off the internet. You can watch videos from a large variety of different sources (Youtube , Cnet, CrankyGeeks, Onion News, blip.tv, dl.tv, Revision3, CNN, Mevio, ESPN, G4, Classic Cartoons), view photos (Flickr, Picasa), listen to podcasts, check weather through Yahoo, read your Gmail email, […]
Everybody who’s familiar with me knows I’m a longtime MythTV user. It’s how I mostly watch TV. So being able to watch my MythTV recordings is a pretty important requirement for a media extender for me. Powering up the PopcornHour A110 I immediately see an entry for my MythTV box listed as a UPnp server. […]
On Saturday I received a PopcornHour A110 Media Tank. I’ve being dying to try out the new generation of media extenders for some time now and the A110 was on the top of my list. The PopcornHour is silent small form factor device that connects to your TV (HDMI, Component, composite, s-video) and plays back […]
“Beginning Open Office3″ by Andy Channelle is a great introduction to the OpenOffice suite of applications. It covers all of the applications separately showing the basics and then ramping up to more advanced topics. Some of the lesser known capabilities of OO are discussed with instructions on how to get the most out of them. […]
So I was mulling my options for building my next generation MythTV infrastructure. I already have an Avermedia A180 card to capture content via cable QAM. It does HD recordings and it works with Linux and MythTV. Last week I finally got my hands on a Hauppauge PVR-1212 and immediately upgraded the firmware and downloaded, […]