Archive for July, 2005

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Building a Media Center equivalent on Linux

Many of my friends are impressed with Windows Media Center. On checking with some PC vendors, I learned that its just a PC + TV Tuner Card + Windows + Software to control the TV and do the recording. What is needed is any TV Tuner Card. If you need to record then TV Tuner […]

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Friday, July 22nd, 2005

10 Year old are becoming geeks :)

A 10 Year Old girl from Pakistan has become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. Read the complete article, she met up with Bill Gates and asked him some good questions. Way to go Arfa Karim Randhawa and all the young geeks.

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Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

Toshiba Qosmio – Interesting Notebook

Toshiba Qosmio looks interesting. Its a widescreen notebook, TV, PVR (can record TV programs to the Hard Disk), has good speakers and DVD writer. This one notebook can replace your PC, Notebook, TV and Audio system. The price is bit expensive: 17″ costs US$ 3000 (Street price around US$2000). It runs Windows Media Center, now […]

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