http://www.dell.com/content/product...s=19&l=en&s=dhs Dell is doing something really puzzling with their Mini 10 netbooks, and I can't quite wrap my head around the logic of it. At CES they announced the Mini 10 with some really surprising features, including GPS, a built-in TV tuner, and several ot...

That's a blown-out DLP bulb from my Toshiba TV. What does that have to do with Blu-ray? Keep reading. Back in November, I finally got around to re-doing my home theatre rig. I was replacing the DVD player, the amp, and wiring everything through the amp via HDMI (a first for me). After I got it all c...

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008...ing-going-gone/ "Jeez Louise. A conference organizer asked if I could put together a DVD loop of my funniest Web videos, to play in the registration area while attendees stand in line. No problem, I thought: I’ve got all of the original iMovie projects bac...

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/20...ube-videos.html A mere 15 days after I uploaded my first wide-screen video and asked YouTube to release a 16:9 aspect ratio player, they implemented it. Am I good or what? For my next feat, I'll be asking for 10,000 shares of Google stock for $1. ;-) OK, back to...

http://xiirus.net/articles/article-hp-pavilion-tx1220us-disappearing-wireles s-network-card-fix-t522o.aspx A concerned Digital Home Thoughts reader reached out to me recently to ask me to look into this issue of the tx1000 failures, and not owning a tx1000 I have no personal experience with this, bu...

For me, Amazon's MP3 store represented a chance to finally get into purchasing MP3's. Prior to this, a majority of my collection came from ripped CD's, but over say the last 5 years, I've hardly purchased any CD's because frankly there was not much out there that I liked well enough to buy an entire...

I had a particularly frustrating experience last week that reminded me of my utter contempt for the un-finished wireless protocol that is 802.11n. I do a bit of computer consulting when I have time for it, and someone needs my help, so I was assisting someone with the setup of a laptop. He had purch...

I had a particularly frustrating experience last week that reminded me of my utter contempt for the un-finished wireless protocol that is 802.11n. I do a bit of computer consulting when I have time for it, and someone needs my help, so I was assisting someone with the setup of a laptop. He had purch...

I had a particularly frustrating experience last week that reminded me of my utter contempt for the un-finished wireless protocol that is 802.11n. I do a bit of computer consulting when I have time for it, and someone needs my help, so I was assisting someone with the setup of a laptop. He had purch...

I was checking out an HP desktop computer because my latest Media Center computer upgrade is giving me a headache (more on that later today if I can manage to write about it), and I saw something that really frustrated me. It's not the first time I've seen it, but it's certainly one of the more glar...