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Photos and information on new TiVo Series3 w/ CableCard & HD

Filed under: TV, Hardware — Moobys at 7:14 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2006

New TiVo has external SATA port for easy Hard Drive upgrades. Two CableCard 2.0 slots. Internal NTSC, ATSC and QAM tuners. New TiVo remote with backlight too!

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Treo 700w: A marriage not made in heaven

Filed under: Mobile, Windows, Hardware — Moobys at 9:41 pm on Sunday, January 8, 2006

Alas, even after all that plastic surgery, you can’t escape the fact that you’re basically running Windows.

For instance, you open programs from a tiny Start menu, which you activate by pressing a dedicated Windows-logo key. Fine, except that the Start menu has room to list only seven programs. For access to anything else, you must open the Programs folder. But even here, only nine icons fit on each screen, and no list view is available. So you have to do a lot of scrolling.

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iPod Battery Appeal Dismissed - Settlement Finalized !

Filed under: Mac, Hardware — Moobys at 12:32 am on Thursday, December 29, 2005

“On December 20, 2005, the appeal filed by individual objectors to the Settlement was dismissed and the Settlement is now Final. This means Apple and the Settlement Administrator can move forward with claims administration and claims fulfillment.”

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4GB of ECC ram in one large DDR stick!

Filed under: Hardware — Moobys at 12:45 am on Monday, November 14, 2005

The 4GB barrier has been broken, and the package is huge.
It’s too bad its DDR 333! I wonder how much these babys cost?

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LED bulbs: a bright idea?

Filed under: Hardware — Moobys at 11:45 pm on Sunday, September 25, 2005

Next time you screw in a cheap incandescent light bulb, ask yourself this: Do you ride a horse to work? Still churning your own butter?

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Palm gets sued over crappy Treos

Filed under: Mobile, Hardware — Moobys at 11:54 pm on Tuesday, September 20, 2005

As useful as the Treo 600 & 650 are, they are not without their faults. Just about every Treo owner will find themselves nodding in agreement with most of all of the items alleged in this class action suit (PDF link). Looks like someone is finally gettin’ their cumuppins…

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