A new watch for WhiteDog…

May 18th, 2008

Well, not really since I don’t wear a watch at the moment. I however stumbled on this beauty today:

This is the Sony Ericsson MBW-150. It’s not just a watch. It’s a bluetooth watch! It alerts you of incoming calls and messages, controls your music playback and even allows you to divert calls. It should work perfectly with my W880i phone. It should arrive before the end of the week. Stay tuned!

HDMI Sound Cards

May 18th, 2008

As i am looking into upgrading my Home Theater to support Full HD, one problem that comes up is audio. While most people are just starting to become familiar with optical connections, the industry has already moved beyond that point. Thing like True HD sound use too much bandwidth to transfer over an optical connection.

So where does that leave us? HDMI supports video and audio. The only problem is combining the output from the graphics and sound card into one signal. I was initially looking for a video card with audio-in capabilities but did not find any that supported the newer HDMI 1.3 standard. This solution poses another problem as well: when such card becomes available, it will be very expensive. HDMI capable video cards however, are already available and very well priced.

The solution? HDMI capable sound cards. They have a HDMI input for the video signal from the graphics card and a HDMI output that sends out a combined Audio / Video signal. I have found 2 models already in the works:

Auzentech HDMI X-Tension Sound Card
Asus Xonar AV1

I will post more on them as they get released… and i decide which to buy :)

Robin Williams – Drunk Scotsman Invents “Golf”

May 18th, 2008

Windows cannot open this file

May 18th, 2008

Are you annoyed with this dialog box as well?

Just add the following registry key to disable that dialog and skip directly to “Open With”:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\
DWORD: NoInternetOpenWith – Value: 1

Vista gigabit issues finally fixed

May 18th, 2008

For over a year now i’ve been struggling to get gigabit speeds using Vista. I tried all the tricks in the book, patiently waited for SP1, but no dice. Today I stumbled onto this blog post promptly solving all my issues.

As you can see, i’m a happy camper now!