I’ve been using Vonage as my home phone the past year and generally found the quality of connections to be acceptable. There are times when I can’t use it very effectively while downloading and it seems to have hard time making reliable connections to northern ontario. What has really surprised me recently is the number […]
CBC + Open Source
Its recently been revealed how the CBC powers its websites using Open Source software. This software is essentially free to use and its continually improved by a variety of developers around world that contribute their improvements for free. Its great to see a pseudo government organization and especially a media company using the advantages of […]
MythTV Usability
I’ve been using MythTV for about 2 years now and at times its been a challenge to keep it running. One of the reason I keep coming back to it is that I find it to be the easiest PVR to use. Recently a usability study of MythTV was done by Interactive Digital Television Laboratory […]
DemoCampToronto7 Review
DemoCampToronto7 was last night a quite crowed No Regrets. Its a fairly small venue so space was a premium and the demos were a little harder to understand without the lights, sounds and magic that its Mars. The presentations broke down as follows: 1/ Portal Prophet Platform by Kristan Uccello from Domainer My initial expectation […]
MythTV Presentation
My presentation at the GTALUG was a relative success. I wasn’t able to get my laptop connected to the projector so I did the presentation oldschool with blackboards and just talking. There was around 30-40 people there and lots of lively discussion around MythTV. We ended the night with a couple of pints at the […]