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The Ultimate Guides To
Home Media

Oppo DV-981HD Upconverting DVD Player
Latest Oppo player Gets Into Steel Cage, Kills Siblings. We report the gory details

1956: The whole family gathers around the 19” B&W TV in the living room to watch I Love Lucy. Big argument erupts when little junior starts crying because he wants to watch Davy Crocket instead. Lucy is not pleased. 2006. You skip right past the commercials. Plus, unlike TiVo, there are no monthly subscription fees.  And no one is watching what you watch, like back at TiVo HQ. How do you do this?  Read How To Create a PC PVR System.

On a recent Sci-Fi channel series, nerdy guys in a super secret government lab were using expensive video conferencing gear with “CISCO” emblazoned all over it. But free state of the art videoconferencing comes standard with Apple’s new line of Intel processor-based MacBook Pro laptops. Maybe the Bush administration classified this info, but you can read it here.

A great Chinese Electrical Tsunami has hit Japan and South Korea and terrific values in high-end audio and video gear are washing ashore in the U.S. Case in point, two amazing products from Oppo, the $200 OPDV-971H and $150 DV-970HD DVD players. This kind of A/V performance at these price points would have been thought impossible just a few years ago.

Read how a little device, the Squeezebox, should be scaring the crap out of the big boys in the audio high end. Read all about it!Or Listen to the mp3 audio.

The G Spot (tm) podCasts by Francis Vale give you the down and dirty on the sweetest gear that will get you off and smiling in no time. This is the URL for subscribing to the RSS/podCast feed, http://www.vxm.com/G_Spot_pvr.xml

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More Good Stuff

IQAir HealthPro Plus Air Cleaner

The only air cleaner to have when it all goes horribly wrong...

PC Safety

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love The Net.

The Ultimate Techno-Watch Review

Time, next to sex, is the most intimate connection you have with life. And you thought it was just a wristwatch. Hah!. Find out how to keep time the correct way with this review roundup of four great techno-watches: The Fossil Wrist Net Watch with MSN Direct service; the Casio Atomic Solar G Shock; the Citizen Blue Angels Edition Skyhawk; and the Seiko Arctura Kinetic Chronograph. It's all in here!


The Ultimate Digital Photography Reviews

Heads up! Check out the terrific Sony CyberShot DSC-600 camera. It a great shooter, at a great price.

And when you've got your snaps, try using Google's free Picasa software. Read the Picasa review here.

Finally, you need to print your photos, so have a read of this review of the Epson PictureMate Deluxe Viewer Edition.

And there's more! Your Ultimate Guide to DP pleasure. In this 14-page, multi-section review we take a hard look at Casio's EX-P600 camera; the Epson PictureMate photo printer; Samsung's 173P flat panel monitor; stage a winner take all shootout between ULead's PhotoImpact 10 and Adobe's Photoshop Elements 3 software; and finally, do a review of Maxtor's new OneTouch II 250GB drive for backing up your D-Life. And everything in this article works on both PCs and Macs! It's all in here, so come and get it!


Epson Stylus Photo 2200

There was a time, way back when, when people actually mucked around with smelly chemicals, small red lit rooms, big black and white timers, and a variety of other paraphernalia to turn mysterious looking negatives into glorious-looking photos. But this is the new millennium, so chuck all that toxic photo waste into your neighbor's backyard and read this review of the fabulous Epson Stylus Photo 2200 printer.



Got A Bug Up Your Ass? A Podcast Mashup of Science, Religion & Politics

"Part 2: Ain't That Some Crazy Shit? In part 2, Francis Vale does a podcast dis on Intelligent Design, talks about how quantum computing may spell the end of our universe, the true origins of Right Wing Christians, Dante and his Inferno, Gay Iraqi VCR-toting criminals, and a whole bunch more of absolutely crazy shit. This is the URL for subscribing to the RSS/podCast feed, http://www.vxm.com/BugUpYourAss.xml To access the mp3 podcast file directly, click here

"Part 1: Ain't That Some Crazy Shit?" This 25-minute audio riff by Francis Vale spills the inside beans on Microsoft’s plans for World Domination by taking on China and scuttling the US Navy, as well as sinking the Taiwanese. Also discussed is how Intelligent Design is going to save America’s technology ass, as well as turn your IT department’s latest zillion dollar loser into a god-blessed winner. http://www.vxm.com/BugUpYourAss.xml To access the mp3 podcast file directly, click here

"George Bush, The Gambian Cowboy"

If any question why we died
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

George Bush, The Gambian Cowboy is a 30-minute mp3 audio riff on our fearless Commander In Chief that takes no prisoners, only unconstitutional detainees. George Bush, Iraq, the economy, the NRA, healthcare, education and more get totally punked. http://www.vxm.com/BugUpYourAss.xml To access the mp3 podcast file directly, click here

 

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Connect With The Music

Has the analog train passed you by? We decided it was time to see if we really needed a ticket to ride. We board the Musical Surroundings Analog Express and find they have an analog locomotive that will get you there there, Gertrude.

Something big in high-end audio is a-brewing, and it's coming in a very small box. Watch out! The Netgear Ready NAS NV+, in combination with Seagate Barracuda ES disc drives and the Linksys PLK200 for Home Plug A/V is going to cause the digital music fur to fly. Talk about opening up a big can of whoop-ass in the home media server market!

I knew it was time I joined the secret musical society and found out what was up with all those bars, lines and squiggles. So I took the plunge and learned, kinda, how to be a piano virtuoso in 10 easy steps, thanks to Yamaha's DGX-220 MIDI Portable Keyboard. Making musical mayhem was icing on the cake.

Crazy Russians, awesome Cubans, and some really rad hardware shoot the Banzai Pipeline as we have a look at the totally outrageous Manley WAVE tube preamplifier + DAC.

Time for some deep bass mayhem and to piss off your high rise neighbors. Check out this review of the mighty black sub-missile otherwise known as the Hsu Research TN-1220HO subwoofer and the accompanying Hsu 500 watt amplifier with built-in crossover. Read it all here...

Something amazing this way came, which must be heard to be believed, namely the Manley Neo-Classic SE/PP 300B tube amplifiers. Read the full review

Has Clear Channel finally made your radio listening anything but? Are you ready to leave earth in search of intelligent radio life in outer space? Then look no further, and check out this review of XM satellite radio and the great Polk XM radio....

The One Has Arrived, and we don't mean Jet Li. At last, a true breakthrough PC system that crosses over into the high-end audio domain, and whips its ass pretty good. Read on....

Get wired so you can chill..Read On.

The Sunfire Home Theater Grand III Processor When you need to rock your crib --and neighborhood - More..

The Stefan AudioArt Equinox Headphone Cable and the Musical Fidelity X-Can V3 Headphone AmpShock and Awe For Less Than $1,000

Psst! Wanna buy a Ferrari for five thousand bucks? Click here...

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Nanotechnology

Furthering the HDTV Revolution – The CNT-FED Display—Will carbon nanotubes be the winner in the next big display brawl?

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Transportation


You're s-o-o cool. You never where a helmet. Oh baby, before you take a fall, read about the striking connection between head injury and getting Alzheimer's. Don't say you weren't warned.

The Acela: Time to take the train baby...

The LimoLiner—Can a Tortoise Bus beat the Mighty Acela Express and the Shuttle in a race from Boston to New York? The surprising answer...


Wired Living

The Paradox of the Best Network

The communications revolution has been thwarted! David Isenberg and David Weinberger explain why the best networks will never make any money. Is it time to go short on AT&T and Comcast? Read more...

The Death of the Internet

A fifteen minute video that explains why the Internet was DOA even before the gasping dot coms beached onto the polluted NASDAQ shores. And there is much more

.How Microsoft Intends To Worm Its Way Into Your on-line Life

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The Power of The Mind

A Patient Case Study:

The Meaning of Life As A Theme & Variations, By Dr. Mendelowitz

A New Model for Consciousness

A ground breaking article on consciousness by Dr. Gordana Vitaliano , medical doctor, psychiatrist, and a world renowned expert in Neurolinguistic Programming. More...

Discover how consciousness ended up being part of your gene pool

The Mystery Of Being
Is it possible to have magic in a life run by by HMO's? Dr. Mendelowitz explains..

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Commentary

HIV/AIDS in the over 50 set. What you don't know can indeed kill you, no matter what your age.

The tech genie is out of the bottle. Unfortunately, we asked for the wrong wishes, again. See what Amy Peikoff, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy has to say about getting it right this time, in When Property Goes, So Does Privacy.

The HDTV anti-piracy wars have finally and totally screwed us. More...

George Orwell finally goes into the broadcasting biz . More...

Spam, Not! Go away for two weeks, and come home to a mudslide in the den.

Format Funk What not to say when asked for computer advice

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