Showing posts with label Consumer Electronics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consumer Electronics. Show all posts
Get My DVDs In iTunes!
Importing, also known as ripping, DVDs to a computer or file management system such as iTunes isn't new. Up until now I have known about ripping but never really found a solid method of doing it for many DVDs. Even though this is not new I figured I would share some of the information I have learned with you as well as my preferred method of saving DVDs as a digital movie file. Recently I was talking about this with my coworker Mark . He said, "Why is it so hard to get my DVD…
Convert VHS To DVD: 3 Methods
Convert your family treasures to DVD before it's too late! Remember that box of old VHS tapes you have in the closet? The magnetic material that makes up your tape is slowly rotting away. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. This happens due to fluctuations in temperature, humidity and normal wear and tear. The tape is gradually disintegrating with every use and slowly losing it's magnetism. Eventually you will start to see signs of this in the form of noise and distortion in yo…
Nokia Lumia 822 Windows Phone 8
I have completed 1 full week using a Windows Phone 8. I made the switch from Android just to check it out and because I was eligible for a free upgrade. I ended up getting the Nokia Lumia 822 which replaced my almost 4 year old LG Ally. I can't really write a good comparison article between WIndows Phone 8 and Android since my previous Android phone was so old and it was not anywhere near the latest version of the Android operating system. The standard processing power and memory alo…
You're Missing Out: Personal Cloud Storage
This is a network drive so it is designed to connect to a router or directly to your computer with an ethernet cable . The big advantage of a network drive or NAS (Network Attached Storage), is that once it is on the home network, files on the drive are accessible from any computer or device on the home network. That means your files can be accessible from smart phones, smart TV's and other networked devices like the Logitech Revue . You can even set it up so that you can access you…
Review Of The Logitech Revue
You can get the Logitech Revue for pretty cheep on Amazon . When it the product was first released in 2010 the cost was $300. Mark Hachman has written a few interesting articles about the Revue for PC magazine including Logitech CEO calls Google TV Box A 'Mistake of Implementation' . In my opinion the concept is definitely a winning idea. The problem seems to be delayed consumer adoption of this concept. In response to the PC Magazine article above, I think people have a very…
Flip Ultra HD Power Button Not Working
Well it turns out my dad is an electronic troubleshooting genius, more on that later. Fixing my Flip and creating a video about it motivated me to start a how-to channel. I had been thinking about starting up some kind of YouTube channel for a while but I hadn't figured out exactly what to do. At the time (April 2011) this was my only functioning video camera so when the power button broke I got desperate and posted this low quality video describing the malfunction. I was hoping som…