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Archive for July, 2009

Building a small factor Nvidia Ion based MythTV frontend

Friday, July 31st, 2009

At last year’s CES show Nvidia unveiled the Ion platform. Small form factor boxes powered by Intel Ion processors and Nvidia mobile graphics cards capable of full 1080p h264 video playback! The key is that you can offload the video playback to the graphics card’s GPU. I currently have a Popcorn Hour A110 that’s […]

Being busy and stupid

Friday, July 24th, 2009

I took some vacation time last week and enjoyed some nice time with the family. We didn’t leave home but took some day trips and did some local activities. For the last couple of week I’ve been enjoying a new 21.5″ LCD. Besides my laptop this is my first LCD monitor. I absolutely love the […]

AndNav2 - GPS navigation application for Android

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

The idea of having an all in one device is pretty much realized with my G1 phone. It has a built-in GPS and is capable of being used as a navigation device. There is a commercial application called TeleNav which is free for the first 30 days but $10 a month thereafter. I did find […]

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