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Police Blotter: Can Circuit City techs legally peruse your files?

Police Blotter: Can Circuit City techs legally peruse your files?I'll leave it to others...To argue about the content. I do have a question, though...How do you test a DVD burner by "Searching for video files to play" ?Something is fishy here...It's just a matter of giving up your rights...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Consumer electronics, DVD, bedroom, Circuit City Stores Inc., Circuitcity, privacy, radio

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

Photos: Home sweet earthship

A visit to a community of fully sustainable, off-the-grid dwellings in New Mexico.The side entrance and south-facing front of an earthship, an entirely off-the-grid, fully sustainable house constructed of natural and recycled materials. Earthships, which can maintain a comfortable interior temperature regardless of how hot or cold it...

Tags: photograph, earthship, hill, power management, roof, hemisphere, pit, buffer, entrance, kitchen, bedroom, dirt, bottle, cold calling, cell, grid, wall, battery, window, storage

Image galleries 2007-08-08

An iPod in every room: XtremeMac Luna

In my last installment of "An iPod in every room" I reviewed the iHome iH36W under cabinet iPod player. In todays installment I want to look at another room that is a prime candidate for the iPod – the bedroom. Most people use some sort of an alarm clock to...

Tags: iPod, Hardware, Accessory

Blog posts 2007-05-02

'Kelly Blue Book' for homes

'Kelly Blue Book' for homesAnd, just like every other blue bookThis one will be IRRELEVANT. There'll be a sellers book and a buyers book. The buyers prices will be ridiculously low, the sellers prices will be at the opposite end of the spectrum.And then, when you take your...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, bedroom, Kelly Blue Book

Discussion threads 2006-02-08

India's TCS on a hiring spree

India's TCS on a hiring spreethe root causereasons for this decline in the US and rise in other counteriesi) failed US education policiesii) failed labor policiesiii) failure of US citizens to study science and technology.Oh PleaseWake Up, there are more skilled educated U.S. tech workers out of work than there...

Tags: Taxes, cost-of-living, worker, bedroom, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., hiring

Discussion threads 2005-06-22

Additional Resources

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...

Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir  and I was asked to register...

Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Vizio VP422

Vizio has taken aggressive pricing to a new level of low. The company's VP422, a 42-inch flat-panel plasma HDTV, can be had for the extremely low price of $799. While this set doesn't have the picture quality to qualify as the centerpiece of a home theater, it certainly could be...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, color temperature, Vizio, Vizio VP422

Product reviews 2008-07-15

A Modest Privacy Proposal

A Modest Privacy ProposalOK.For some strange reason, people refuse to realize that the internet is a public place. Maybe because they sit in their bedroom and surf.Maybe instead of all these regulations and bureaucracies, we should just hang signs everywhere that read:Hello! The Internet is a Public Place. Don't do...

Tags: Robots, robot, private property, Public Place, Internet, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

(Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)

(Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)Fast Forward, NYC... where the story of the great PIT continues. It just amazes and saddens me how far the US has fallen.When the rest of the world reads about the insurance lawsuits related to the original WTC, the fear of replacing the building with one...

Tags: skyscraper

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killer

Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killerOpen sores are good, but when is it too many?It's about time Symbian went open sores. I guess, Nokia, Mot and others saw the writing on the wall. Never mind Android, the real fear is Apple iPhone. The juggernaut is unstoppable if...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, juggernaut, Open Sores, Symbian Inc., open source, Nokia Corp., Nokia Buys Symbian, killer

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Drew pleads not guilty in suicide case

Drew pleads not guilty in suicide caseBig TalkLet us know when that child of yours turns 13, then we can compare notes. I bet if that happened to your child you would be talking out of the other side of your mouth. We will never know exactly what...

Tags: Lori Drew, CFAA

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

JVC TH-F3

When we looked at last year's TH-L1 from JVC, we were really impressed at the number of connectivity options the compact 5.1-channel home-theater-in-a-box HTIB packed in its tiny chassis. While the device didn't come with a built-in DVD player, it still was able to switch between two 1080p-capable HDMI ports....

Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital music, Corporate communications, Media players, Digital media, JVC TH-F3, JVC, Apple iPod, DVD

Product reviews 2008-06-16

Lori Drew arraigned today

Lori Drew, the psycho mom who set up a fake MySpace identity to toy with a teenage neighbor, is being arraigned on federal charges in Los Angeles today. She's charged with accessing protected computers without authorization and conspiracy. After the fictional Josh Evans told 13-year-old Megan Meier...

Tags: Internet, Web Site Development, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one

Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Asus M70

The Asus M70 is the most fully loaded laptop we've seen in a long while. Aside from its massive terabyte of hard-drive space (enough to hold a few hundred movies or a few hundred thousand MP3s), the multimedia system incorporates a Blu-ray drive and a full-HD display, plus an HDMI...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, Desktops, Asus M70, ASUS

Product reviews 2008-06-06

In all fairness: here's concise statement of the drill-more-oil position

In all fairness: here's concise statement of the drill-more-oil positionI've always respected George WillEven when we disagree. Now your job is to tell us why he's wrong.Truly amazingly short sightedYou're in your bedroom, your wife has hollered outside for help because in the background your house is on fire,...

Tags: concise statement, fairness, oil

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

DJ Mixstation 4 (zip)

TURN YOUR PC INTO A DJING PLATFORM! DJ Mixstation 4 is the latest addition to the acclaimed DJ Mixstation series. It allows you to turn any PC desktop or laptop into a professional DJ Suite. Mix your tracks with ease and play them out to a live audience. Features include...

Tags: PC, eJay, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-06-05

How 'warm' is your MacBook operating temperature?

Just as the experience of pain varies from individuals, so is our evaluation of how hot a Mac laptop can become. Apple says they can become "very warm." We can appreciate that warmth in the winter, but it can be a pain for summer computing. Apple refreshed...

Tags: Lap, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Warm, Notebooks, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Peripherals, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Pandigital 8-inch PanTouch Digital Photo Frame

Pandigital, a veteran digital photo-frame maker, is doing its best to stand out from the competition by incorporating a variation of the familiar touch-screen interface in its new line of PanTouch digital photo frames. You might call it touch screen "lite"; rather than touching the screen, as you would do...

Tags: Keyboards, Flash memory, Pandigital, PanTouch Digital Photo Frame, display

Product reviews 2008-06-02