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Video-on-Demand and Blu-Ray
UPDATE: See my Review of VUDU here. Now that Blu-Ray has apparently won the latest format war…how long do you think it will be before the next greatest technology surpasses it? Not long. Instead of DVD’s, there will be an ever increasing use of the Internet to download programming to your HDTV. All you […]
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Wireless HDTV
+++++Breaking NewsToday (Jan 5, 2008) Warner announced support for Blu-Ray. With “Pirates of the Carribbean”, all the wonderful Pixar movies, and now “Harry Potter” and “Batman” all exclusively on Blu-Ray. I will purchase a Blu-Ray player as soon as I have the bucks to do so. The format war is over.+++++Now that you have that […]
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Convert Vinyl Records into Digital Files
Rating: 4 WaterTowers If you are like us you have some old 33’s and 45’s collecting dust in a closet. You may, also like us, have tossed your old turntables and have no way of listening to that great music of your youth. This Christmas, my wife bought me a really cool gadget. The “audio-technica […]
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Gifts for Geeks, Part 2
GO HERE FOR MY 2013 GEEK CHRISTMAS LIST OK, this is a cool site. ThinkGeek has a ton of neat gadgets, T-Shirts, and other stuff especially for the Geek in your life. Since they really are techy geek types they have a nice selection of graphics to lead people to their site. Here is one: Here are […]
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Comcast Tracy Expands HDTV Programming
Frustrated with the lack of HD programming from Comcast in Tracy, CA, I had been looking at DirecTV and DISH and was nearing a decision to move. As luck may have it, last night, Comcast has turned on (at least for now) SIX brand new HDTV options. Since several of them are very good choices, […]
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WebEx Meeting Center
4 WaterTowers OK, now you are working at home, saving the environment, and reducing traffic. Now what? You still need to stay in contact with your colleagues at work or around the world. You need to host a meeting, and/or manage and coordinate an online conference or seminar. What do you do? You […]
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Google Video Advertising Trial
It is a new world, and the Tech Detective (Yeoldetechy) intends to stay at the forefront (sometimes bleeding edge) of technology, as I have for many years now. I have downloaded a new Google Video Ad on the main page of my web site, to see how it works and what people think of it. […]
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Tracy Press Telecommuting Article
My Telecommuting article has reached the pinnacle of any persons journalistic dreams….I have been published in the Tracy Press !! 🙂 UPDATE Nov 12, 2020: The TP link is NOT working…..here are ALL my telecommuting articles. Enjoy! 🙂
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Meraki Wireless Networking
The December 2007 issue of “Popular Science” Announced their Computing Grand Award Winner was Meraki. Since I never heard of Meraki, and their wireless product sounded interesting, I figured I’d take a peek at their website. Verrry interrresting. It turns out that Meraki is evangelizing wireless networking by, and for, the masses. The Old Way […]
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Megaconference
Every year for the past 8 years, the folks at Ohio State University have put on what the Tech Detective (YeOldeTechy) considers the single most outstanding and unique, “virtual”, worldwide event ever, The Megaconference. I know those are strong words, but, they are true. Thousands of students, educators, and hundreds of schools, universities, and organizations […]
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SightSpeed
Rating: 3.5 Watertowers More history….this is almost fun! 🙂 ++++++++++++ I had first heard about SightSpeed a few years ago while working at LBL. I checked them out at the time, but, since we were involved in standards-based H.323 IP videoconferencing, SightSpeed held little interest for our user base. This week I have taken another […]
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How cool is this?
In a previous post, I evaluated Proclaim by Netbriefings. Needless to say, I liked it a lot. Mira from Netbriefings posted a comment to that blog on November 5th. I just picked my head up from Subbing the whole week and saw the comment. The ability to comment via video, with the quality that is […]
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