beyondthetech
BeyondtheTech
beyondthetech

Clearly, the last image is a Decepticon. They crash-landed next to the dome which happens to be Luke Skywalker's house.

Sounds good. I was afraid they're going to replace the notice during the trailer that reads "put on your 3D glasses now" with "cross your eyes ever-so-slightly."

I was hoping that they make a box or a TV (perhaps Steve Jobs cracked it like this for the next-gen Apple TV) will have multiple HDMI inputs where they would blend, overlay, or tile on one screen, superimposed with a simplified menu that also integrates FaceTime, Skype, and/or home telephone capability. The box has

Does XBMC support TV tuners and pausing live TV/recording shows?

I think the more tragic flaw is that it's not Bluetooth. C'mon, people! Stop making USB dongles with your own wireless technology. They're about as fun to have as a stylus on a smartphone. You lose them, you tie up a USB port, you need your own drivers, etc. Yuck.

I was wondering about the lack of mention of a TV tuner. I still like instant, live video streams, and I'm thinking that seems to be the big step that a lot of people have to make. I got a CableCARD and tried the tuner setup in an HTPC running Windows 7, but Microsoft has some buggy issues with recording shows

The 1Password app on my iPhone/iPad synchronizes the entire encrypted password database via Dropbox or Wi-Fi, so I always have access to those generated credentials.

Okay, leave this to me... I'm British. I know how to queue.

I gave up and finally bought 1Password for my MacBook Air and my iPhone/iPad. Everything is now randomly generated and autofilled or copy/pasted when I need it. And because it's randomly generated, I'll really never have a chance to memorize it, so I also set the password length to be the maximum so it can't be

Nowadays, I backup to more than one location, and I backup locally as well. The price of local flash drives and external hard drives have gotten unbelievably cheap, so even though I have a CrashPlan plan (?), I still backup locally to an external drive that I can always grab and run in the event of an emergency. I'm

I think I know the answer to this already. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/

Underwater. Upside-down. Being tickled.

That looks like a lot of potentially broken charge/sync cables. Seriously, if they made a case to house and charge multiple iPads in this manner, they could've made special J-shaped cables that wouldn't bend or break when the case is closed.

Most? I haven't found a Blu-Ray player that doesn't play regular DVD discs.

Sprint released their iPhone 4S initially unlocked, then locked it, but it can be unlocked at the user's request if their account is in good standing. No need to be out of contract.

I think what's really nice is that many of our iPhone 4S'es (?) are now SIM-unlocked by our carriers. My Sprint iPhone 4S can take any GSM microSIM and would be sellable to anyone here in the US or people who are planning to take the phone out of the country, like Russia or India. I sold my last few generations of

Does AdBlock or some other service, like OpenDNS have a full list of these absurd domains that we can filter out forever? Try downloading a driver from a download site and you have 20 large, graphical download buttons that go all over the net, only to find out it's a little link 3/4 of the way down the page.

FYI, the Logitech Wireless Solar Kebyoard K760 for Mac/iPad/iPhone is on sale for $59.99 at Amazon.com. Cheaper than Apple's own Bluetooth Keyboard by $10, and this keyboard is also Bluetooth. Can link up to three devices on the fly, too. I just might get it.

No, I'm just downloading the app on my desktop at home, just so the "free" purchase was recorded on my iTunes account. It's only the bandwidth of logging into a remote session from my iPhone and controlling my Mac for a few minutes. Later, whenever I have the time, need, and/or space, I can just click "install" from

I remote into my Mac at home using LogMeIn or VNC, fire up iTunes, and download it there.