Polycom has released a Communicator for Skype: This high end speakerphone has been designed to deliver flawless sound and eliminates any disturbances in the background like echoes etc. The Polycom Communicator is also capable of high-quality audio output for playing music, games, etc. and seamlessly integrates with the Skype software. It will be available by June end for a price of US$129.
Sonos Digital Music System
Sonos offers nice looking, wireless, multi-room digital music system that lets you play digital music over house (for flat it’ll be to much I guess). The system contains ZonePlayer, Controller and Loudspeakers. There are two models of player: with built-in amplifier and without it. To control the system it sports a wireless, handheld, iPod-like Controller with color LCD. Installation of Sonos system is extremely simple. […]
Phone with Personal Media Player
Mobile phones are not just phones for a long time. Our first mobile phone Siemens C25 didn’t contain even a clock (we bought it in 2000). Now nobody wonders at digital camera or a bunch of connection features such IR, Bluetooth or WiFi (the last one is less common). The vendors have to devise add new features to excite potential buyers. Korean company The Pantech […]
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I’d like to introduce a new Plutohome howto – Howto setup a new Media Director in Plutohome. There is a brief instruction howto setup a generic PC as Media Director (MD). The introduction to using Mac Mini as MD is coming soon (if Mac’ll booted successful ;))
Mac Mini as Plutohome MD: part II
After about three weeks I continued my work with Mac Mini. It turned out, that this Mac is Intel-based not PPC. So, all found manuals explained a process of installation Linux on Mac are useless now. I dive into Intel Mac boot process deeper and deeper. As you can know Apple doesn’t use archaic BIOS. It use Open Firmware for PowerPC and Extensible Firmware Interface […]
aOpen Mini PC
(click to enlarge) (click to enlarge) Recently I found a new aOpen mini PC which is very similar to Mac Mini. It’s amazing! If we won’t be able to boot Plutohome Media Director on our test Mac Mini aOpen can replace it.
UMPC attacks
Right after Japanese UMPC French company It’s Label has developed a new UMPC specifically for the French market.The Origami It’s is a convenient marriage of both form and functions, featuring a 1.0GHz VIA C7M NaNo processor and runs on the Windows XP Tablet PC OS (not Linux again). The device boasts an ultraslim 7″ wide-angle TFT LCD with a nativeVGA resolution of up to 800×480, […]
Nokia is alive and kicking!
Last time when I played with Nokia 770 I created a file .profile and put it into /home/user. The reason was to run manually installed programs (they are in /var/lib/install/usr/bin which isn’t in the PATH). I wrote into .profile installed applications path and libraries for this. But I made some error and Nokia 770 couldn’t boot anymore. I saw this scary picture instead of usual […]