Tag Archives: Open Source

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Winner of the Neuros OSD!

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Holiday Gift Suggestions: Top Ten Reasons a Neuros OSD would be a Great Christmas Gift for your Geek

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.

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Ohio Linuxfest 2008: The Community Gathers Once Again

It’s hard to believe that a year has gone by.  A lot has happened in the Linux world.  While the economy is in the crapper, Linux is growing in both the easy of use and the strength of its community. Ubuntu was at the show this year and had machines from System 76 showing off [...]

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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 [...]

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The T-mobile G1: Could be the one to beat Apple

A lot of discussion is happening in the blogosphere regarding T-Mobile and Google’s G1.  While I ilike the iPhone, I think the G1 could be better.

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Neuros OSD 2 Developer Kits now on Sale

As a huge fan of the Neuros OSD and Neuros in general, I’m excited to tell you that Neuros has announced the follow up to the OSD, the OSD2 is now on sale for $249.99 in the Neuros Store.  Now this isn’t intended for end users just yet, but when it is it will bring [...]

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Neuros OSD 2.0 Developer Kit Available for Pre-order

I know there’s alot of people excited by Apple’s news today.  I realize they are indeed nice devices, however I am a more open kind of guy.  Plus since I just got a Neuros OSD myself, I was amazed to see that the new OSD 2.0 device is now shipping to developers.  It’s been shipping [...]

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Use the web without using a browser

More and more I think we’re going to all be using the web without actually using a browser.  Joe Born from Neuros has let us know that a new feature of the Neuros OSD will be the ability to use wiki’s and other internet sources to look up data about TV recordings on the OSD [...]

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One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure: A Open Source Guy’s View on The Dash Express

I have had a few different GPS units over the years. My first was a Garmin GPS 12 which didn’t have any road maps or anything else; it was much more appropriate to use in the forest, but  I used it everywhere and even hooked it to a laptop so I could get maps.  It [...]

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Save on the Logitech Z906 5.1-channel 3D Surround Sound THX-certified Speaker System

Audio quality matters. But until you hear something that is really full and rich sounding you can’t know what you [...]

PlayStation Vita Game System Review – Part I

Gamers gain a more robust mobile console experience with the PlayStation Vita versions using Wi-Fi/3G or Wi-Fi only online capabilities plus a rear touchpad, two analog sticks and a sharp OLED display.

BANG! Your Lights Are Out

Back in the days when I was on the look out for the “perfect tablet” (in other words, before I [...]

RIP Eugene Polley, Inventor of the TV Remote at 96

Image courtesy of Wikipedia I remember reading an article about 25 years or so ago! on how everything wired was [...]

Get a Droid RAZR 16GB 4G LTE Plus $25 Apps Plus $40 Credit Plus Double Data

AmazonWireless had the 16 GB Droid RAZR for just $0.01 with new two year contract. Thatnis pretty amazing considering the [...]

Windows XP’s “Bliss” Background: A Blissful Happenstance

Most people who have been using PCs in the past decade or so have doubtless seen this image, the default [...]