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iPowerPro Protects Circuits, Isolates A/V
Leveler Protective Technology’s iPowerPro provides surge protection for the whole house, and isolates the circuits for your home theater gear.

NEC NP41

NEC NP41 The NEC NP41 is one of the lower priced XGA projectors capable of more than 2000 lumens of brightness. 999 NEC NP41

FEAR Combat
FEAR Combat is the free to download and play version of the original FEAR PC shooter/horror game. Join thousands of other gamers and get the entire FEAR multiplayer experience. Joining FEAR Combat is easy and free. Simply register for your free CD Key and download the free game files. F.E.A.R.’s multiplayer component includes mainstay […]

How To Play Lossless Music In Windows Media Center
I’ve been slowly over the weeks re-importing my CDs to MediaMonkey in the lossless FLAC format as I now have tonnes of hard disk space to accomodate the better sounding, but larger music files.  However, being able to play my music in Windows Media Center proved tricky until I found this great guide on the […] Related posts:

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Grimm: Some probs with new PC (General Computing)
Hi all ,

A week ago , i received a new pc from a friend , and im still making him ready , but some things just doesn't seem to want to work .. Ive formatted the main disk , installed Windows XP Home with SP3.

The first problem is the sound , I got this onboard sound chip i don't use , because i also got an Creative audigy 2ZS audio (DF00) card , i got the right drivers loaded , windows is set for using this device to play the sound , everything is unmuted etc, but i have nothing . No system sounds or songs .

Second , there is something wrong with a second harddisk i wanted to add from my old pc .
On the C: disk , i put a jumper on the pins where it said : Master ( when slave present ) . The other disk is auto on slave without a jumper . Tried it , nope . After some searching ive found windows saying somewhere that most pc's only can have 4 SCII(?) stuff attached , and as i have 2 dvd-players , floppy , 1 HDD . I thought it was because i had one device to many . Unplugged one of the Dvd players . As im rebooting , before the windows load screen apears i get this message : Grub loading please wait . Cannot load GRUB 1.5 , Error 17 . And he freezes , i had to put the dvd player in again to let him startup . Now windows does find that there is another HDD , but the acces to it is denied ( The disk appears in my computer with a red question mark on it . )Ive tried detatching the floppy for the HDD ,now i can startup but i still have the question mark.Could this problem be because there is still a version of windows XP installed on the HDD i want to add ? :s

Third : I wanted to connect my Creative ZEN mp3 player to the machine . Installed the drivers using the CD that came with it . The installation went good . But now if i connect it , the Zen media explorer says there is no device connected to the pc , i can't find the mp3 in my computer .. Every time i connect him the Add new hardware wizzard shows up ,and he finds the file on my computer , but everytime it gives the error : Filename , directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect . I can find the ZEN in my system under MTP devices , but there is a yellow ! mark on it ..

Anyone that can help me? Please hold in mind that i can't acces internet from my home where the pc is , i can only check the net while im on my work .

Cheerz
Grimm

LG and Samsung Join Forces to Develop and Promote Mobile Digital TV Standard

- Agreement signed on May 14, 2008
- Companies are jointly developing and proposing technology for a mobile/handheld DTV standard to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC)
- LG President and CTO Woo Paik: “LG and Samsung are already world-class in digital TV and mobile communications. Through this collaboration, we also have an opportunity to lead the North American mobile DTV market.”
- Samsung President, Digital Media Business JongWoo Park: &quo..

Games on iPhone and iPod touch offer “immersive, addictive fun”
“For the last few days,” Arik Hesseldahl (businessweek.com) has “been sampling some of the games available from the iTunes Store on the iPod Touch, and and I’ve been stunned at how elaborate and involved they are.” The games, he exclaims, are “immersive, addictive fun.” And he contends that “the iPhone and iPod Touch are well on their way to becoming an important force in handheld gaming.”

AMD Reports Second Quarter Results
AMD (NYSE:AMD) today reported second quarter 2008 revenue from continuing operations of $1.349 billion, a seven percent decrease compared to the first quarter of 2008 and a three percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2007. As part of its previously communicated review of its non-core businesses, AMD decided to divest its Handheld and DTV product businesses, and therefore is classifying them as discontinued operations¹ for financial reporting.

LG’s Pause & Play TVs Highest Rated by Digital Television Group
LG Electronics (LG), a major player in the global flat panel display market, announced that its Pause & Play TVs with built-in digital video recorders (DVR), received Freeview Playback certification from the UK’s Digital Television Group. “This is the first time a device other than a set-top box has won Freeview Playback certification. Our DVR is built-in to the TV, allowing people to pause and record TV serials without having to connect a clumsy external unit to their televisions,” said Mr..

Iconoclasts | John Favreau and Tony Hawk
Director of Iron Man Interviews Director of Skateboarding Two men we wouldn’t mind having lunch with. Here at GP we love a good mashup. Especially when two seemingly opposite ideas come together for something unexpectedly great. Tonight I’ve got my DVR set to record Iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel. If you don’t know about Iconoclasts, it’s an outstanding […]

AMD Introduces New Tuner Products to Deliver Exceptional HDTV on PCs
Sunnyvale, Calif. — October 15, 2007 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) is expanding its TV Wonder™ product lineup that enables HDTV on the PC. Available through VisionTek at Best Buy stores across North America, ATI TV Wonder™ 650 Combo USB, TV Wonder™ 600 PCI and TV Wonder™ 600 PCI Express transform PCs into exceptional high definition digital video recorders. The TV Wonder™ family of products is AMD LIVE!™ Ready and Certified for Windows Vista® — delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience™ and strengthening the value of multimedia PCs

Wearable Electronics
Motorola and Burton Snowboards have teamed up before releasing their Audex Bluetooth Jacket Series, it was a success, so they are doing it again. Expanding their wearable electronics collection, enabling easy wireless communication and music entertainment from snowboard apparel. The new electronic fashion for 2007 will include Audex Bluetooth Stereo System that streams downloaded music

Ensuring Junior Goes for a Mild Ride
A new safety technology from Ford will let parents limit teen drivers’ top speed, cap the volume on the stereo and encourage other safe driving habits.

Harris, Google TV Ads work together
The service enables Harris’ traffic clients to expand TV advertising opportunities through the Google TV Ads platform.

Panel Construction - Coin Door Panel C

[ ] Take one of the 12” pieces and mount four l-brackets along the side edges. Test-fit the panel and mark where the brackets are. (see pictures)

Run two screws into the side panel to temporarily secure the COIN DOOR PANEL C into place. Remember not to glue it in place yet and use as few screws an necessary to hold it in place for test-fitting.

[ ] If you are going to install a coin acceptor, you should cut the mounting holes for it now.

Some coin acceptors that I have found that are small enough are from http://www.happcontrols.com. Some examples that should fit are:

40-0023-00P
40-0229-00
40-0168-00
40-1500-02

They range from around $30 for single slot and $65 for a double slot.