Posted by Andrew in Technology
on Dec 11th, 2009 | 2 comments
So were we, and now I’ve got a great, inexpensive solution to share. We’ve had a decent 720p HD monitor hanging on the wall in our office lobby for some time now:
The problem is we were basically running a PowerPoint (not HD) from a computer through the wall and to be honest, it wasn’t the greatest quality. That’s been our system for a while now, but we finally got a better solution in place this week.
I got a call from our IT department saying that they thought a Roku box (affiliate link) would accomplish the job via one of its new content providers, FrameChannel. I was...
Posted by Andrew in Technology, Travel
on Oct 14th, 2009 | 0 comments
In my last post, I talked at length about how I prepare for my life on the road each fall. I put around 6,000 miles on my little Honda Civic each year, and so I am very concerned with what I will have available for listening. To be honest, I almost never listen to music in my car anymore! As I put it in that last post:
My favorites include The Dave Ramsey Show, This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, and The Tech Guy. My car plays MP3 CDs, so I just load them on a CD-RW, and the disc starts playing where it left off every time I get in the car. When I’ve listened through the disc, I just use...