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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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Very cool. Casey at Brains-N-Brawn has figured out a way to stream DivX video to the Xbox 360 using Windows Media Endcoder (via HD Beat). This is great news for all us lazy people who would otherwise need a program like Videora Xbox360 Converter to manually transcode each video into Xbox compatible WMV

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Ever had the urge to build your own TiVo box? Here is how to do it. Instructions on how to build a better DVR out of an old PC.

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The slingbox is a little deceptive where on the side of the box it says it can connect to your 802.11a/b/g home network. It is true but you need a wireless adapter to plug into your slingbox to make it wireless. Here is how I made mine wireless. First you need to update your WRT54G/GS with DD-WRT. One of the newest features available in the administrator console in dd-wrt v23 is wireless bridging. Here is the setup.

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Griffin has certainly done very well since Apple created the iPod. With over 42 million iPods sold everyone has to buy those accessories for your iPod. TuneCenter, the Home Media Center for iPod is the lastest and greatest creation from Griffin. You can play your music through your home entertainment center and show your pictures and video on the tv all controlled with a remote from your video iPod.

Verizon and Palm came out with the Treo 700w recently. Verizon’s Treo 600/650 comes with a software package called Intellisync, which allows you to push your corporate email (MS Exchange and Lotus Notes) to your Treo. According to a Verizon employee the 700 supports the same software except currently Verizon is experiencing problems with email taking 30 minutes to get to the 700w. The employee didn’t offer any more explaination just that Verizon wasn’t sure why or how long it would take to fix it.

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There are several firmware options besides the versions linksys comes out with. My personal favorite is DD-WRT v23 is the most recent as of 12/25/05. It supports the following routers.

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After bricking my wrt54g and attempting the most famous unbricking techniques of shorting out pins 15 and 16 didn’t work mainly because this is rumored to only work on version 1 of the WRT54G router. So I decided to make the connection to the router the most basic and hold down the reset button and all of a sudden I got the best news…..

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DD-WRT just released the new v23 yesterday.