Archive for January, 2006

What Firewire card should I get?

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

There are many models and makes of firewire cards. If your computer is a laptop then you we carry a Firewire PCMCIA card that should do the trick. Some newer laptops have newer ports that are not compatible with PCMCIA cards. If you purchased your laptop during or after January 2005, then you may want [...]

Aggregate some bandwidth

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Most companies are pretty good at planning for a hardware failure with backups of sensitive data. Most people, however, don’t consider the value of bandwidth redundancy.
Enter the Splitronic Broadband Aggregator. This thing is cool - just plug one broadband source in one end and the other in the other end and it will do the [...]

HDCP

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

High-Bandwith Digital Content Protection. HDCP is an encryption method that is used in High Definition video applications that was designed by Intel, and has had the support of the movie industry, but there are a couple of things you might want to know about it.
What it does. Part of why movie studios [...]

The Cantankerous Debate

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Well, Mark and I have been debating with each as to how the DVI to Component adapter works. After arguing for the last few weeks, we finally gave in and tried to find out. So grabbed one of these awesome cables from our stock, pulled out our trusty multi-meter, and found the pinout by using [...]

Antivirus Programs

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Many Antivirus programs block virus programs from installing. Those crazy antivirus programs work too well at times, and have been known to block genuine programs from installing. One of customers told us of FastLynx struggling to install on his Windows 98 machine. If you experience the same problem, and you have a “really good” anti-virus [...]

KVM Switches

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Just a thought for everyone to ponder on. Macintosh keyboards are trouble when it comes to KVM Switches that use the Scroll Lock key as a switching hotkey. So if you have a Mac keyboard, and want to use it with a KVM, then get a KVM that doesnt use a hotkey. Also, you may [...]

Adding Firewire to your Computer

Friday, January 6th, 2006

USB to Firewire adapters are now on the market. Pixela makes this adapter. You can see it by clicking here. We do not sell this adapter at this time. This adapter is made for connecting firewire cameras to your USB port. At this time, no other Firewire device will work.
My personal thoughts on [...]

Using the Radeon 9000 with a HD TV

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Here’s the issue: I wanted a video card that would allow me to use my LCD monitor and my Sony Wega HDTV at the same time (like an extended desktop). I bought a dual-port video card with a VGA port and DVI. My TV is HDMI so I used a DVI to HDMI adapter to [...]

Cuteness with Attitude

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Ever had the thought that you could be watching the latest re-run of Law and Order but you are rather typing your overdue research paper? Well now you can do both! The USB TV Tuner Cutebox is right for you.
I ran into the problem that my roommate would be watching TV when I [...]