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This is bad news. Those planning on upgrading their media Center PC to take advantage of Vista’s CableCARD support had better sit down for this oneâ��you’re going to need a new computer, and you can forget about building it yourself. This could also be a big problem for MythTV and BeyondTV, as well.

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Well since about everything you see on the web has google mentioned on it you wouldn’t think you get paid more money than any of the top 3 Google executives.  Chariman and CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders and co-presidents, Larry Page and Sergey Brin aggreed to be paid annual salaries of $1 each in 2006.  So does that mean if they need a loan from the bank they have to go on stated income and take the higher interest rate?  Probably not because I can’t really think of anything the world they would need a loan for to buy.  On Friday January 20, Google had a 14 percent decline in the company’s stock price because of a legal spat with the US Justice Department.  On Monday January 23, Google shares rebounded back up 7 percent for a gain of $28.04 per share.  This gain meant that Schmidt’s shares had gained $413.8 million in value in one day of trading.  Not bad for a loomy Monday.  Schmidt’s total value in Google closed at roughly $6.3 billion on Monday (resource).

The rumor of burned in logos is no longer a problem on new tvs isn’t a rumor anymore.

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Here are a couple of web development tools all firefox extensions
Web Developer Extension

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Mozilla, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Another one is great for making sure your site looks right in firefox and IE without having to open IE.

IE Tab

This extension uses your IE rendering engine to display the html page in firefox.

If you need firefox…

This is a cool little extension which lets you view thumbnails of all the open tabs with the click of a button. This feature was promoted as being a new feature in IE7, and you can use it in firefox right now. If you need firefox then get it here.

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According to this entry Microsoft is trying to add streaming media to computers and handhelds. Doesn’t microsoft basically already have this with media center extenders from linksys? I guess the difference is making the the stream compression good enough to work over a broadband connection.  Maybe MS should work on the compression of their own dvr-ms format.

The monster 11 tuner system with HDTV support PVR…they keep adding the tuners.

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Four trademark applications submitted earlier this month by Apple are adding grist to the rumor mill concerning the launch of an iPod phone, which has been the subject of speculation almost since the launch of the company’s popular digital-music player. Here comes the phone…

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Although I already have a Scientific Atlantic’s Explorer 8000HD DVR I thought I would want the capability to to save some of the things I record on DVD. So I purchased a Dell Dimension 5500 with Microsoft Windows Media Center on it. After configuring the tuner card that came with it, which was very buggy. I think I had to reboot the computer several times because I kept on getting the error “the tv card is being used by another application” well yeah the media center is using it. I finally got it all hooked up and started watching tv instead of working. It is very distracting working on your computer with a small tv window in the corner on your 21in widescreen (1680×1050) display.

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Type any numbers to create constrain your search, or use backspace to widen it. You can also zoom in to get a better view of surrounding zip codes. Semi-useful and something to keep you occupied.

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