Practical Gadgetry

Archive: 11-2007

• DivX support coming to XBOX 360 on Tuesday

  Microsoft has announced all of the details on the upcoming Fall Update for the XBOX 360 that is set to go live at 2AM PST on Tuesday, December 4th. Most everything on the list had been reported or...

  Posted by Shawn Morton | November 30, 2007, 12:14 PM PST

• VUDU offering Bourne trilogy in HD

  VUDU, the streaming set-top box that I reviewed back in October, has announced that they will now offer HD content. The first two movies offered in HD are The Bourne Identity and The Bourne...

  Posted by Shawn Morton | November 28, 2007, 6:53 AM PST

• Holiday travel survival guide

  Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I traveled with my wife and 4 kids (ages 6 months to 10 years) to Memphis to visit relatives. The trip takes around 7 hours; however, it can seem much longer if the...

  Posted by Shawn Morton | November 27, 2007, 10:15 AM PST

• Two excellent Guitar Hero hardware hacks

  I came across two very cool Guitar Hero hacks on Instructables this morning. The first, by user fungus amungus, shows how to put LEDs into the fret buttons of your GH guitar. The second, by...

  Posted by Shawn Morton | November 16, 2007, 7:20 AM PST

• Phase enables iPod-owning Guitar Hero addicts

  This week, the team at Harmonix, who created the first couple of Guitar Hero games before defecting to create Rock Band, released a new game called Phase for the iPod (NOTE: only the new iPod...

  Posted by Shawn Morton | November 7, 2007, 6:42 AM PST

• Snagged my $98 HD-DVD player at Wal-Mart this morning

  As we reported yesterday, Wal-Mart kicked off the holiday shopping season this morning with a “secret sale” that included a $348 Acer laptop, a $998 50″ Sanyo plasma TV and a $98...

  Posted by Shawn Morton | November 2, 2007, 6:54 AM PDT

• See Windows Home Server and Sonos in action

  on10.net has a new video series called “Show Us Your Tech” where they let Microsoft employees show off the technology they are using in their homes. The first video in the series shows...

  Posted by Shawn Morton | November 1, 2007, 8:24 AM PDT