TechLifeWeb

Sites that I found interesting for September 21st 2009 through September 23rd 2009:

• Indian space mission finds water on moon – An Indian space mission claims to have found water on the moon, raising hopes that a manned base could be established there within the next two decades.
• WWW FAQs: How do I design web pages for the iPhone? – Handy CSS tips to get your page to display nicely on an iphone.
• TV on your Media Center PC: a 30-second primer – Ed Bott has a quick run down on the current state of getting TV on you PC.

Sites that I found interesting for August 30th 2009 through September 2nd 2009:

• Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage – How to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep costs low.
• Freeware Files: Turn your PC to Self-Cleaning Mode, and More! – Handy list of free tools for the PC. A couple I hadn't seen before.
• RVU Alliance Aims to Take Over Your Home – What if the next time you called DirecTV, the service tech didn’t bring a set top box but a server and several thin clients? And what if this server would allow you to watch live premium HD content as well as recorded TV, videos and movies from your PCs and possibly content from the internet?

Sites that I found interesting for June 14th 2009

• Guide to Building a HD HTPC – Good place to start for choosing Home Theater PC Parts – Page 85 – AVS Forum
• Dell: Twitter Helped Boost Sales for $3 Million –
• Enable Concurrent User Sessions in Windows 7 – If you have Media Center powering your television, this will let you connect to another session on the PC to do maintenance.

Sites that I found interesting for May 6th 2009 through May 8th 2009:

• With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like – Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). Provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot. via @CantonDog on Twitter
• TweetMyPC – TweetMyPC lets you shutdown/restart/LogOff your windows PC remotely. via @isdixonon Twitter
• Using Saved Searches To Optimize Your FriendFeed Experience – Saved searches allow you to customize by user, subject, likes, comments, service, ect and really make FriendFeed work for you and bring the information you are looking for. via @jeffisageek

Sites that I found interesting for December 11th 2008 through December 19th 2008:

• Access more memory, even on a 32-bit system – No matter how much memory you have in your PC, you may not be getting the most out of your installed RAM.
• Form Bookmarklets – Makes the browser ignore web site requests to not remember passwords.

  Some sites, including many banks and a few other sites such as Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Passport, tell browsers not to remember passwords for visitors using autocomplete="off". This bookmarklet makes the browser ignore autocomplete="off" temporarily, allowing you to save passwords even on sites that use autocomplete="off".

• Oppo Readies Universal Blu-ray Player – Value video products manufacturer Oppo Digital said it is preparing to enter the Blu-ray Disc player category in a big way, with a fully featured “universal” unit supporting, DVD video, DVD-Audio, and SACD, in addition to Blu-ray Discs with up to 1080p/24Hz output.

Sites that I found interesting for October 9th 2008

• MM3-ProxySwitch :: Thunderbird Add-ons – Nice tool for easily switching proxies in Mozilla products. Works in Thunderbird and/or Firefox
• SmtpSelect :: Thunderbird Add-ons – A toolbar button providing easy access to setting the default SMTP server in Thunderbird.
• Microsoft Preps External Blu-Ray Disc Optical Drive for Xbox 360 – Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp., a joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Toshiba Corp., has been contracted to manufacture external Blu-ray disc drives for Microsoft Xbox 360 game console.
• Asustek planing touch panel Eee PCs – Asustek Computer is planning to launch touch panel Eee PCs in the first quarter of 2009