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If you have never owned an HTPC with the ability to automatically skip commercials then you probably should stop reading this post right now. Otherwise, carry on and I will explain to you how I think commercial skipping should work. How Things Work Now Currently if you want to flag commercials, you need to...
Read more →After doing this two years I figured I needed to continue my tradition. If you want to see how right or wrong I was in previous years check out my 2009 predictions and 2010 predictions. Computers 1. First of all 2011 will be the year of the tablet. That isn’t a prediction, it’s more...
Read more →I have been a webOS advocate since I first installed the emulator on my computer and saw just what the software could do. WebOS has seen some much needed updates over the past year but there are still some things that I feel are lacking or even completely missing as it is today. I...
Read more →I was thinking the other day, you know what my site needs? More rants. That is exactly what I bring you today cause I am finally fed up with something in the technology industry. What exactly am I fed up with? Well, a lot of things, but this particular post is about the complete...
Read more →For a while in MythTV 0.22 I was getting an error with MiroBridge saying Miro was not set up properly even though Miro worked just fine and I triple checked all my config files. I waited until upgrading to MythTV 0.23 to fix it because there was a much easier one button install option...
Read more →I know what you are thinking, “how did my wife create that amazing (r)evolution commercial?” I would like to take a couple minutes to share with everyone how she made it, and what software I used to help her edit it. First of all here was the setup. She started with a piece of...
Read more →The MythTV theming challenge comes to a close Sunday January 31st and the entries are starting to show up on the MythTV theming mailing list. Here is one that showed up that I am very excited about. It was created by Gary Butters (not me). If you already have MythTV set up you can...
Read more →I thought I would follow up on my predictions for last year and see how I did. Computers: 1. Multitouch – While this didn’t make as big of a push as I hoped, hardware development is very slow in a recession, there have been announcements of hardware coming out in 2010 that defiantly take...
Read more →This is a continuation of Part 1 and in this video I just walk you through a Mythbuntu installation and what options you want to use. The next parts will be about configuring the software past the initial installation. Sorry for the sound quality. I had to use my digital camera for video (which...
Read more →I have been working on my MythTV box for some time now and finally got around to editing the first part of the how to I recorded when setting it up. The first part is just about setting up the hardware (not much new), but the second part (and probably third and forth) is...
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