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Looking for cheap digital signage for your office or lobby?

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...
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TWiT and why you should be listening

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...
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