For those who don’t know, the primary part of the Neuros Link is the Neuros.TV website that helps you find content on your Neuros Link from the web. Well, Joe has let me know that you are not just stuck with whatever Neuros and their hackers will give you. Now if you know of a [...]
Neuros Link: Netflix Bounty Claimed!
Neuros has long offered bounties on different development projects that enhance their products; one I have been semi excited for is Netflix Streaming. Well, sundevil98 has managed to get it working on the Link according to Joe. He did it by installing Mediamall’s Playon software on top of XBMC. The next version of the software [...]
Gear Diary’s Favorite Gadgets of the Year 2008
The Gear Diary Team is as opinionated and diverse as any I have worked with over the years, both in real life and on the Internet. So we had to have a discussion on what we each thought were the best gadgets of 2008… Joel McLaughlin 1. Neuros Link – Soon to be the mother [...]
Neuros Link Bounties Posted and More
Joe Born has posted the first bounties for the Neuros Link. The first bounty is $2500 for getting Netflix working directly on the Neuros Link, or $500 when working through a intermediary PC. This bounty has some stipulations: The programmer must beat Boxee, Ubuntu or Netflix themselves with the functionality. All of these people are [...]
Neuros Link to Support Joost
Was going through my feed list and noticed Joe posted a update on the OdNT Blog about Joost and the Neuros Link. Joost, which came from the creators of Skype and Kazaa, started out as a client you loaded on your computer that was similar to Boxee. Now it’s a flash video site very similar [...]
10 Reasons I am Thankful for Free and Open Source Software
As we prepare to give thanks for all the things we’ve been blessed with over the past year and eat a bunch of food, I was thinking of one thing I am most certainly thankful for and that’s Open Source Software. Without it, I could not be writing this post as we are a user [...]
Amazon Unboxed to be on the Neuros Link
Even though most people don’t even have the Neuros Link yet, Neuros is at work adding features to the Link in the form of Amazon’s Unbox video on demand service. Now you can use your Neuros Link to watch any of the 20,000 titles you can rent via Amazon’s service. They are still hard at [...]
How Hackable is the Neuros Link? VERY!
Still being very geeked about the announcement from Neuros, at lunch I was perusing the forums on the Neuros site and discovered just how hackable the Neuros Link will be. The answer is: VERY The Neuros Link is running Ubuntu 8.10 according to Joe Born’s post in the forum and the specs page. That means [...]
Neuros releases the Neuros Link
Have you ever wanted to watch the stuff on Hulu, NBC.com, CBS or CNN.com on your TV but you didn’t want to build a PC to do this with? Well, new you can thanks to Neuros! Neuros has introduced the Neuros Link today on their website and it supports those 4 sites and many others [...]
Order Dominos Pizza via your Tivo!
What worries me most about the new ability to order Dominos pizza via your TIVO is not that it’s an odd way to order, but that in 15 years my grandchildren will ask me to tell them about the days people actually left their houses to go shop and have meals. TiVo subscribers can set-up [...]
Winner of the Neuros OSD!
The winner of the Neuros OSD giveaway is none other than Dann Washko of the Linux Link Tech Show. The comment my son pulled out of the hat is below: I did not see if the Neuros had a built in webserver but that would be great. To be able to stream the movies over [...]
Contest: Gear Diary is giving away a Neuros OSD!
This contest is now closed, and a winner will be announced shortly. Thank you for participating! As a fan and advocate of open source software, I’ve got a lot of love for companies like Neuros. Now I have another reason to love them: Neuros is sponsoring an OSD give-away on Gear Diary! To win, all [...]
Holiday Gift Suggestions: Top Ten Reasons a Neuros OSD would be a Great Christmas Gift for your Geek
Christmas is fast approaching and we all need ideas for our geeky (and not so geeky) friends and family. Here are my top ten reasons why a Neuros OSD would be a good gift for your geek.
Review: Hauppauge HD PVR Model 1212
Would you like to record video from HDTV without having any DRM(Digital Rights Management)? If so, the Hauppauge HD PVR may be for you. Similar in size to the Mac Mini, the HD PVR is a small and light box. In the front, you have a SVideo, Composite Video, Left and Right Audio for connectors.
Crowd Narration Comes to the Neuros OSD
Imagine participating in a chat about the Presidential Debate, or any other live event, and the chat being superimposed on top of your TV. Sure, it’s been done before, but that’s been controlled by the media. This is outside of whatever the news outlets will do, and it is provided on your Neuros OSD by [...]



