The user interface gap between Internet based media and traditional television viewing has been discussed here quite a few times. While the current generation of digital media players often offer proprietary interfaces that attempt to simplify access to the vast amounts of online content from sites such as Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and Swarmcast, the result [...]
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Tags: digital media player, hdmi, home theater, TV 
3 Comments »Despite the benefits of network attached storage with RAID and QNAP’s recent attempt to bring the technology to the home user, consumers generally still seem to prefer external USB hard drives for additional storage capacity and data backup, due mainly to the convenience, ease, and cost of these devices. For those employing multiple external hard [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: backup, hard drive, My Book, storage, USB, WD, Western Digital 2 Comments »I’ve never been a huge fan of dual desktop display configurations. Placing two 17″ or larger LCD displays side by side with their bezels slicing right through my continuous Windows Desktop space is annoying, distracting, and takes up too much real desktop space. I do like the emerging trend of smaller, USB based auxiliary displays, such as [...]
Posted in Displays, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, USB Tags: display, DoubleSight, LCD, monitor, USB No Comments »Oh, how the USB standard has changed the world. Gone are the days of finicky 9-pin serial port connections requiring proprietary driver installations that never seemed to work correctly. Having thus far truly lived up to its name, the Universal Serial Bus standard has become as ubiquitous as the computer itself thanks to its ease of use, [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: eSATA, Firewire, Freecom, hard drive, storage, USB 2 Comments »