I hate to be the posterboy for hardcore windows guys selling out to apple, but one of the reasons i switched away from windows was the lack of all the tinkering around i had t do constantly. The last i remember of DLNA was at some point when i was setting up my xbox to stream some dlna content and i spent weeks doing…

well in that case im in, ive certainly got the space for it. Now all i need is to eradicate all mosquitos...and bees...and flies...and generally all the annoying bits of outdoors nature.

the only kind of poles i can see supporting the weight of 6 people are telephone/electric poles. Doubt you're finding them in a circle, or anything other than a straight line. If you're talking about digging up holes and putting up your own poles, doubt that would hold the weight of 6 people. What other kind of poles…

true that, sorry i was stereotyping to prove my point :) drc is green, so is SA, and i hear tanzania is as well? But theree is a large chunk of africa I imagine the central parts that are very dry and arid. But i could be wrong. I've travelled all over the world but unfortunately never africa.

why does gizmodo suffer from mass confusion when it comes to screen size? is there some consistent "perfect size", or range of sizes you guys recommend? I mean sometimes i read articles on how 3.5 inches is the best, then i hear how 4.3 is perfect, then you complain about how 5.2 inches on the note is too much. And…

I guess youre forgetting all the urban condo dwellers that have nowhere to hang thse up. Two trees is difficult enough to come by let along 6 is close formation. Remove the population of africa since its not a very green continent for the most part. And also remove th suburban population that again has nowhere near 6…

This device is simply a dac. Gizmodo has muddled it upa. Bit with needlessly bringing in airplay. The best use probably isnt even an apple tv. I use a dac, not this one, to connect a very powerful speakersystem to my mac mini. Just using audio out from mini made the sound horrible. Using a dac gave it full depth and…

Ok so i just checked out the audioengine website and there is not a single mention of airplay!! In that case the title "an easy way to make airplay audio sound great" is equivalent to saying "the best way to improve the reception on your cell phone is to use a landline".

Im kind of confused here. This review keeps referring to airplay, without specifying the details. Is this an intermediary device, so i connect this to my wifi network, with an output to my headphones/speakers/integrated amp, and then my ios device picks it up via the airplay interface? If so thats a very useful…

takes a brave man to say something like this sam. and i absolutely agree with you. Unfortunately most people will start flinging some pretty horrible accusations at you about how you're "unamerican" (as if closing your eyes to unfairness is somehow american) without realizing the moral standpoint.

In canada i'm limited to rdio and don't have spotify. I'm glad for this as theres sometimes songs that show up as unavailable. Does anybody know if the "unavailable" songs are because rdio lists them but the service doesn't have rights to them? or are they unavailable in canada but avialable in US and thats why they…

oh and an odd thing, both the xperia and the nexus s have the same specs (same processor same ram) but the xperia browser is sooooo much smoother. not sure if thats a sony enhancement or something off with my system. although the xperia is on ics and nexus s on jb.

the old windows-pc builder tinkerer in me wants to really really really try and like android but the mature all-business no bs part of me still just likes the ease of ios. I recently (2 seeks ago) picked up a cheap'ish nexus S to try JB on. I know its old so part of the problem is the hardware, but JB while much much…

my first foray into android after a few years of everything-apple was the galaxy tab 10.1. I really liked the design, and had wanted to try android for a while especially with 3.0 honeycomb. After one week of stuttering apps and the homescreen lagging or just feeling plain sluggish and "sticky" (not sure how to…

so whats the best compression offered nowadays at the best quality? I pretty much exclusively now use x264 with mkv files. I've heard there was some new standard as of last year that halves the file size of mkv's but almost similar quality. not xvid divx or any of the older formats it was something new. Anybody know…

My younger self that loved to tinker with windows pc and put my own pc's together out of parts tries android every year. And every year I am disappointed. Maybe its that for the past 3-4 years i've been spoilt by apple products - Mac Mini conneceted to my tv, macbook pro 13 inch, and new iphone and ipad every year -…

Service pack 1?

thats very true...amazon generally is by far the best customer support i've ever dealt with. I always call them expecting to argue and fight but its always shocking how every single time there is no issue or resistence from their support...just simple problem resolution where i get more than what i expected with a…

do you know if the return policy is from order date? or shipping date? or delivery date? normally these are very close together for my amazon orders, but for some reason for my kindle i ordered on 25th august it shipped out 2nd august and i received it 3rd august. those few days could make all the difference since i…

I just got my brother a kindle basic non touch one. I actually waited a month or so cos i was expecting new ones any day now. finally ended up ordering one but still sitting with me. I'm hoping these are out soon before my 30 days lapses so i can return this and get a new one.