WDTV plus B-Rad Firmware equals Many New Possibilities
I purchased the original WDTV (Western Digital HD Media Player) over 12 months ago – they are a fantastic little box that will play just about anything and have full 1080p HDMI output with 5.1 digital out – needless to say it has served me very well.
My only negative comment is that it required a lot of sneaker time (copying files from my torrent server onto USB drives and then plugging them into the WDTV player to view them on my HDTV).
Well, Western digital recently released a new version, the WDTV Live – the best new feature is that it includes is ethernet (on board) and wireless support (with selected adaptors). I’ve upgraded to the WDTV Live and I have to admit – I think it’s worth it.
Not only is the new WDTV Live faster than the original version it also supports DTS decoding and I’ve also found it’s Read more…
Tech posts to come…
I’ve had a few days to play and in that time I’ve built a MythTV player and started to understand a few things about setting up a Bose surround sound system – yes, speaker placement is evereything… I’ll post some more info soon – both are challenging topics and require unique posts… stay tuned…
The things that make you remember…
When I turned 21 my Nanna gave me a gift – I appreciated it but I didn’t think too much about it, at the time. She gave me a proper bottle opener – you know – the ones you need to use when they put a real cork in the bottle 
smiley because they are mostly screw tops now… but every time I open a bottle that has a real cork, I always use the bottle opener my Nanna gave me and I always remember her.
What do you remember?
Share – Christmas is the time for sharing
In each of our lives there are things we need to do every day, things we are required to do. It’s part of or lives, our jobs and who we are. It may keep the world turning, but doesn’t make it a better place.
Christmas is a time – in fact the best time – to challenge all of that – to take the opportunity to do one of the simplest things we can to make a difference… share.
Sharing is in our nature and it feels good to share. We enjoy a meal more when it is shared with others, an experience is more fulfilling when shared with others and we feel most fulfilled when sharing with others…
So far this post has written itself, I’ve really not had to think to much about it… the next part is more about what’s next, and to be honest – I don’t think I’m able to write that part on my own… it’s up to each of us to determine how we can best share.
I’ve put it out there – Christmas is about sharing, sharing with others and the joy of sharing.
How will you take the opportunity to share this Christmas?
The Perfect Gift For A Man – Compiled by Gavin Heaton and Mark Pollard
Question: What does it really mean to be a man?
The Perfect Gift For A Man
The Perfect Gift For A Man
The Perfect Gift For A Man goes a long way towards helping us understand this question and a fair way towards answering it.
Personally, I think, the book is a must read for every man. If you don’t believe me – just start to read the first couple of stories in the book - then decide.
Where did it start?
Gavin Heaton (@servantofchaos) and Mark Pollard (@markpollard) put a call out asking for help to compile a book about “becoming a man” after their efforts around the Inspire Foundation’s #Manweek campaign and the feeling that they both wanted to try to do more to make a difference. The result is an outstanding book that contains 30 stories straight from the hearts and souls of everyday men and women like you and me.
Is it a good read?
Reading through the text, I became thoroughly engaged by the openness, honesty, emotions and insights that each of the personal accounts bring to the book. Each of the stories bring something new; a new or different way to think about a situation, something that you can relate to or the realisation that sometimes Read more…
Make a work Blackberry 8310 work for you
I have a Blackberry 8310. It’s great to be connected to work email, calendar, tasks etc and I’m actually much more productive now than I was previously, however it also has to work for me. I’ve found a few tweaks to share that make my life a bit easier.
1) Auto Text can make your life easier – especially for your email signature
I noticed that with the Blackberry – every email I sent didn’t include my standard signature. I added a signature in email/options/Use Auto Signature – however I noticed it was always added at the end of the email rather than with my most recent text – the solution – create an Auto Text (in my case RM – then press return to expand) that is unique and automatically gets transposed by Auto Text into my full multi-line signature. This way it is always and only added where I want it to be.
2) Organising Email & Outlook Read more…
