Archive for August, 2009
split screen TVs
3D TV is apparently the “next thing” to ensure that we sit like vegetables on the sofa soaking up hours of adverts.
Since 3D works by making each eye see something different, a request if I may. Please can we have split-screen TV. So when your significant other wants to watch “Come Dancing” [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2009 under Idea.
Comments: 2
Last FM proxy
A bit late into the game, I’ve just setup lastfmproxy so that I can listen to it on my Roku Soundbridge. Pretty simple - just install the package, change the username/password, set the bind address to 0.0.0.0 rather than 127.0.0.1 so that other things can talk to it and then point to http://servername:1881/lastfm.m3u.
Well, sort [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2009 under My setup.
Comments: none
Google Chrome on Linux - not quite ready
After reading this article I decided to give it a go.
First of all, the import from firefox doesn’t import passwords so until that happens I’m not going to cut over. It certainly seems nice and quick - however I really dislike the Chrome interface personally even if it does reduce the (small) amount [...]
Posted: August 4th, 2009 under Linux, Linux Rants.
Comments: 3