Category Archives: Hardware

Mobile, 5 Years in the future

Posted on September 21, 2008 by vanevery

I was just interviewed for an upcoming book and one of the questions was: Fast forward 5 years into the future, can you paint me picture of the mobile world? Here is what I said: I am going to beg … Continue reading →

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Dreamhost, my web host has had some difficulty lately

Posted on August 5, 2006 by vanevery

DreamHost Blog Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster.. Damn.. I am glad I no longer work in that industry.

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ITP End of Year Events – Thesis Presentations and End of Semester Show

Posted on April 19, 2006 by vanevery

ITP Spring Show 2006 A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of ITP. This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP. ITP Thesis Presentations 2006 ITP’s graduating … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Art(Ware), Development, Electronics, Entertainment, Events, Fashion, Food and More, Gadgets, Hardware, Java, Mac, Networking, New York City, Open Source, Political, Privacy, Processing, School, Social Networking, Software, Streaming and Multi-Media | Leave a comment

Almost a dream machine

Posted on February 5, 2006 by vanevery

Dream-Multimedia Open Linux based Set-Top-Boxes! Unfortunately, DVB only, no ATSC. Us poor poor North American iTV developers are left behind yet again..

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iPod video, will it lead to more streaming video consumption?

Posted on January 16, 2006 by vanevery

Streamingmedia.com: Video iPod Sales Growth Portends Big Things for Streaming Media in 2006 From the article: The biggest unanswered question, of course, is whether the average consumer, who has preferred her iPod audio and video downloaded, not streamed, will warm … Continue reading →

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The perfect Linux HD capture card (it seems)

Posted on December 14, 2005 by vanevery

pcHDTV Makers of the Linux based (at least the drivers) HD-3000 HDTV card. Now if I can ever get around to building my myth box..

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Hacking OSX onto x86

Posted on December 10, 2005 by vanevery

How to Build an Intel Mac Don’t want to wait for the shiny new OSX/Intel boxes that will arrive next month (pure speculation that Apple will release one or two at MacWorld). Build your own! Get more dirt here: OSx86 … Continue reading →

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Understand the iPod iTunesDB

Posted on October 31, 2005 by vanevery

ITunesDB – wikiPodLinux From the site: This page details the format of the binary files used on the iPod to keep track of the music it contains as well as its play history. Collectively we refer to these files as … Continue reading →

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Java + USB

Posted on October 30, 2005 by vanevery

Universal Serial Bus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On the ITP PComp Listserv there was recently a thread about USB and Java. I have some interest in this so I figured I would do a bit of searching around. Here … Continue reading →

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$100 laptop effort, getting close to reality

Posted on September 28, 2005 by vanevery

Design of $100 Laptop for Kids Unveiled – Yahoo! News

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