The Best $5 You Can Spend on your Media Center: USB Extension Cord

October 27, 2011 by ADmini No Comments
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If your Mac mini is tucked away in a dark media rack like mine (see above), nothing is more aggravating than having to blindly fish around the back of your Mac mini in a weak attempt to connect a USB cable/thumbdrive/etc. You don’t know if your cable is facing the right way, you can’t see [...]

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Lifehacker’s Wallpaper Wednesday… on Friday

October 7, 2011 by ADmini No Comments
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I haven’t mentioned it on the site yet, but I love Lifehacker’s Wallpaper Wednesday. Every Wednesday they serve up a delicious sampling of high definition wallpapers, perfect for your Media Center. In short, it’s something that I expect to post on a weekly basis. However, this week my Google Reader feeds overwhelmed me, and here [...]

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Steve Jobs. He left us with a Legacy.

October 6, 2011 by ADmini No Comments
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Update Flash to v11 Today!

October 4, 2011 by ADmini No Comments
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Flash. Love it or hate it, it’s still a necessary evil. Today Adobe updated their version of Flash from 10-something to 11-something (11.0.1.152 for those playing at home). This version will make things faster, reduce your cholesterol, give robots free will and probably allow your version of Flash to suck less. The link to the [...]

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Don’t hold your breath for a la carte cable [Republished]

October 1, 2011 by ADmini No Comments
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From the Los Angeles Times… Is the cable industry starting to change its mind about the idea of letting consumers decide what channels they want? A recent story from Reuters says cable operators are working on a such a plan and that it “represents a complete reversal from cable operators’ long-held opposition to what is [...]

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