K2D Solutions

06/30/2014

I had to Post this to for all the "Apple can solve the ills of the World" people out there.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/30/la-school-tablet-scheme-laptops/

An iPad for every student was the plan. Then, some students were too smart for their own good, quickly enabling their for-learnin' iPads to access to

05/15/2014

I think Nintendo still has 3 or so years of bringing fat and ugly narcoleptic girls to the party before they stop showing up. The fig "we brought ugly girl Wii and she turned out to be a awesome cowboy, astronaut, physicist, we can do it again!" Nintendo is to gaming as LL Cool J & Will Smith are to Hip Hop, they both prove that you don't have to pander to the hard Core of your audience to make ridiculous amounts of money. Just drop a "classic" now and then" Mario Kart 8 and ride memory lane to the bank.

Nintendo’s Wii U is officially dead. There. I said it. I know Nintendo fans don’t want to hear it, I know Nintendo doesn’t want to hear it, and I know even those who might not like the console but approve of the competition it provides don’t want to hear… [ 573 more words. ]

12/20/2013

http://www.superawesomemicroproject.com The Super Awesome Micro Project: A full sized Lego car, with an engine made from Lego that runs on air. It is the bra...

08/19/2012

Cutting the cord
Vol. 2
Windows 7/8 Mediacenter

This week we will talk about Windows 7/8 Media Center (referred to as MCE going forward in the article) and how you can use this tool to cut the cord and not miss a beat, and the best part is you already have it!

MCE is one of my personal favs when it come to cutting the cord. So many thing can be done with it and with a little know how or help it can quickly become the true center piece of any home theater.

The best way to get started with you own MCE is to build or have it built. From the ground up, but if that is not an option any computer running vista (shame on you) or Win 7 will do. Even a respectable laptop. I am however assuming that you have at this point a flat panel TV with a VGA/DVI/HDMI connection. You'll need that. Then it's off you go.

With the addition of a few parts to round the hole thing out, Digital TV tuner, MCE Remote (or wireless keyboard/mouse) & IR Blaster if your keeping Some cable. You will be able to watch live TV, watch Web only programming (webasodes), Netflix, Hulu Plus, iTunes, Amazon instant video "downloaded content" & and much more. Not only that, but you can record that live broadcasts and use them at your discretion. Saving them for future viewing burn them to DVD or Blu-ray, even post online!

The best part is, just about every Win 7, Vista & select Win XP systems have it built in for free! The addition of the TV tuner can be done for under $50 in some cases. After all that, it is still a full computer! Able to surf the net, play PC games, do work and all on a 42" or whatever you have TV.

Watch, record, save, burn, share TV anyway you want. Load it up to you smartphone or tablet and save yourself the $15 a month "they" charge you for the DVR. Next article we'll discuss the Roku Player, how does it compare to the offerings from Microsoft and Apple, wait here.

K2D score 9/10, must have when cutting the cord!

07/15/2012

The Apple TV is a nice device it has a lot of things going for it. It carries Apple minimalist design theory housing the ethernet port and HDMI (no analog connections i.e. component, composite or S video ) port, TOS Link and integrated B,G and N Wi-Fi. It comes with a small basic three button remote again utilizing apples minimalist design theory. And the unit itself has a very small footprint, about 3" x 3" x 1" cube.

The Apple TV offers a variety of channels used for retrieving content. Some of these include the Apple iTunes video store for renting and purchase of television and movies. Netflix for streaming on-demand video, Vimeo, and major-league sports including NBA TV, NHL TV, and NHL TV. Additional channels for YouTube Wall Street Journal live and a few others are also available.

One of the best features the Apple TV has going for it is the ability to use Mirror mode with your iPad and iPhone mobile devices. In this mode you are able to view a large number of applications and video content from your iOS device directly to you're larger screen connected to the Apple TV.

One the downside the Apple TV is a close architecture, standalone device very little expandability options are available and as of yet it does not have the ability to install additional applications. Not having access to the Apple app stores plethora of applications is somewhat of a disappointment with the device with this much potential however, when cutting the cord having the Apple TV as a starting point still is not a bad idea. Please take note that I am not addressing hacking modding or otherwise altering the Apple TV as the common user would not generally be aware of or able to do such modifications.

Cutting the cord, with the Apple TV it can be done you still need more is a good place to start. 7 stars outta 10 from K2D.

01/12/2012

This is a game changer!

Back in October, BlueStacks unveiled an alpha version of its App Player, bringing a slew of Android apps to Windows PCs, tablets and desktops. Toda

01/12/2012

TV almost on your terms

Boxee is here at Showstoppers, where they've put the Boxee Box Live TV dongle on full display. Initially announced back in November, this tool pipe

01/12/2012

NICE!!

It's still just a proof of concept, which is a bit of a disappointment, but Ubuntu TV was here at CES making its public debut.

01/12/2012

If you aren't content streaming video games to your PC, MicroConsole, Android device or iPad, you're about to get another option: Google TV. Follow