Archive for December, 2008

Travel Gadget Guide

Share You traveling? Here are some must haves the next time you do! The Belkin mini surge protector is $20 at Newegg The Logitech VX nano mouse is $50 at Newegg The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150 is $300 at Amazon #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top:...
December 23rd, 2008 | Announcements, How To..., Online Shopping, Randomness, Videos | Read More

TNMS on Winter Break

Share I’m on vacation and have been since Friday (too bad I have 2 finals and a presentation to work on). Dave is leaving Boston for Las Vegas and Corey and Andy should have time off too… so we’ll be back after the new year. We’ll see you in 2009 hopefully with new forums and...
December 22nd, 2008 | Announcements | Read More

Streaming video box a big "block buster"

Share So Netflix has already been streaming to the XBox and to Roku, but now Blockbuster has just released their own video streaming player.  A little behind the game with both mailed DVD rentals, they are also behind the game on video streaming hardware.  Gizmodo has a review of the 2Wire device...
December 19th, 2008 | TV, Video Games, Videos | Read More

The end of an Era

Share By now, you’ve heard the news that Apple will no longer be participating in the annual Macworld expo, and that Apple founder Steve Jobs will not make his annual keynote address this year.  Personally, I became an Apple semi-convert sometime last year, so this news is not as surprising to...
December 18th, 2008 | Apple, Rumors | Read More

Microsoft comes clean: We figured no one was stupid enough to move the Xbox with a game playing in it.

Share A few days ago Kotaku reported of the lawsuit between a man and his gaming console, stating that the Xbox 360 scratches games while they are being played. More insight led to the information that not only did Microsoft know about it, but they looked into at least THREE different ways to fix the...
December 18th, 2008 | Video Games | Read More

Weekend Recap: December 15th 2008

Share It took all weekend, but we were able to upgrade our WP client and we are still working on a new forums board. The integrated one that we originally had was a little too simple and this one will be more secure and in depth. There will also be more features included into our site so stay tuned! I’m...
December 15th, 2008 | Cell Phones, Rumors, TV, The Internet, Weekend Recap | Read More

Upgrade/Forum Issues

Share We are currently experiencing upgrade and forum issues. We are trying to resolve this problem as fast as we can. Thanks for your cooperation! TNMS dtsv.dtse_post_724_permalink = 'http://kurteng.com/2008/12/upgradeforum-issues/'; dtsv.dtse_post_724_title = 'Upgrade/Forum Issues';
December 12th, 2008 | Announcements | Read More

TiVo Forgets What Made Them Popular

Share I’ve never used TiVo.  By the time I was financially stable enough to enjoy features such as pausing live TV, every cable company in the US offered their own version of a digital video recorder (DVR).  This made TiVo kinda pointless for me, though my own experiences with DVR help me to...
December 9th, 2008 | TV | Read More

Weekend Recap: December 8th, 2008

Share Hope everyone had a great weekend. We had our first real snow where I live in PA and I decided to drive 45 minutes to a friends house for a House-warming party in it. It only took me nearly 2 hours to get there, but I made it safely thanks to my Garmin Nuvi GPS Unit! (in case you cared!) Now, onto...
December 8th, 2008 | Weekend Recap | Read More