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Guitar Hero on the Nintendo DS just got cooler

It's no secret I am nuts about Guitar Hero. So you can imagine that I am pretty excited about the upcoming "Guitar Hero on Tour" game set to be released for the Nintendo DS handheld later this year. Today, I got even more excited after seeing the...

Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Games, Keyboards, Game Players, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Plastic guitars and video cards at SXSW

I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, TX, this week. As with CES 2008, the big gimmick for attracting visitors to your booth was Guitar Hero III. I saw at least four booths with GHIII running and, being a nut about Rock Band and...

Tags: Video Card, Video, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Corporate Communications, Video Cards, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Two weeks with the Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick

HDTVs have been one of the hottest consumer electronics categories for the past several years; however, you don't need to invest in an HDTV to get HDTV content. Pinnacle has created the PCTV HD Pro Stick to turn your desktop or laptop into an HDTV. Considering that...

Tags: HDTV, Laptop Computer, Antenna, Pinnacle, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Fixing a defective Rock Band guitar is quick and easy

The guitar that came in our Rock Band bundle suffered from the downward strum issue that many people have reported online. Either the strum bar on the guitar doesn't recognize a downward strum at all or it will recognize each downward strum twice. Not the best situation to be in...

Tags: Screw, Electronic Arts Inc., Productivity, Games, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Why Apple chose to upgrade the MacBook lineup

Yesterday, Apple announced that it was upgrading many of the components (processor, hard drive, video card, etc.) in its MacBook and MacBook Pro line of laptops. After the launch of the MacBook Air in January, many hoped that Apple would announce a completely revamped MacBook lineup. Many in the...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Two weeks with the Eye-Fi wireless SD card

I love taking digital photos; however, I hate the process of transferring them to my PC. I am constantly searching for the cable to connect the camera to my PC. And with more than one person in our house using the camera, it is very easy for photos to...

Tags: Card, PC, SD Card, Photograph, Camera, Wireless, Eye-Fi, Dongle, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Format war officially over as Toshiba drops HD-DVD

Well, all of us who have been speculating about when HD-DVD would be a dead format have our answer -- right now. Reuters is reporting that Toshiba, HD-DVD's biggest supporter, will stop manufacturing HD-DVD hardware. At least the death of HD-DVD was relatively quick. It took just...

Tags: Sony Corp., HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., Reuters Ltd., Blu-ray Drive, Hd Dvd, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-16

Two weeks with Loc8tor Lite

It's 3:00pm, do you know where your TiVo remote is? I do... thanks to the new Loc8tor Lite, a credit card size remote control that helps you find things like your keys or your cellphone or your kids (as long as they haven't wandered more than 400ft away). ...

Tags: Item, Remote, Recruitment & Selection, Cellular Phones, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Netflix kicks HD-DVD while it's down [updated]

As if you needed one more sign that points to HD-DVD being dead, here it is. Netflix announced this morning that it will phase out HD-DVD and go exclusively Blu-ray. So, for those keeping score at home, 4 of the 6 major studios have gone exclusively Blu-ray....

Tags: NetFlix Inc., HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-11

The $6 million home theater

I know this blog is supposed to be about practical gadgetry; however, this one is just too amazing and ridiculous to pass up. Audio Video Interiors has a feature on Jeremy Kipnis in its February issue. Jeremy is a record producer and sound engineer who has built...

Tags: Home Theater, HDMI, Projector, Goal, Video, Jeremy, Home Entertainment, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Marketing, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Apple quietly launches 16GB iPhone and 32GB Touch

A couple of new products showed up in the Apple Store this morning: a 16GB version of the iPhone and a 32GB version of the iPod Touch. Both will set you back $499. If you've got $500 burning a hole in your pocket, go here. by Shawn...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Does the MacBook Air redefine portability?

Jason Calacanis, former CEO of Weblogs, Inc. and current CEO of Mahalo, has posted his impressions of using his new MacBook Air for a week. As expected, he runs through each of the features and discusses what is great or not so great about them. However, the...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-04

VUDU adds more HD content

I was flipping through the VUDU menu after the Super Bowl last night and noticed that they have added about 30 new HD titles to the service. It appears to be a mix of new stuff, like Transformers and Blades of Glory, and older titles. VUDU issued a press release...

Tags: Title, VUDU, HD, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Pros and cons of Windows Media Center in Vista

My friend Davis Freeberg has posted a list of the pros and cons of using Windows Media Center in Vista. I am a long-time Media Center user; however, most of my experience is on XP since I have my XP box streaming content to my XBOX 360. I've had it...

Tags: Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Slacker Portable now shipping

One of the products I was most excited about from CES 2008 was the Slacker Portable. I have long used Slacker Internet Radio, so the idea of a portable, flash-based, Wi-Fi-enabled music player sounds very cool. Today, Slacker is officially shipping the Slacker...

Tags: Capacity, Station Capacity, Corporate Communications, Wireless LANs, Media Players, Digital Music, Marketing, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Wanna rent iTunes movies? Buy a new iPod

WIRED is reporting that Apple's new movie rental service in iTunes is only compatible with newer iPods. So if you have one of those 5G iPods (also known as the *Video* iPod), you can't actually watch your rented movies on the device. Sure, the 5G has been...

Tags: Apple iPod, Wired Inc., Apple Inc., Video, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Two weeks with the TomTom GO 920 GPS

GPS units were some of the most hyped Holiday gifts last year. Because I have about a 15-minute commute, I've always wondered what all of the fuss was about. After all, I'm a guy. I never get lost. Why would I need a GPS unit? Well, with...

Tags: Screen, TomTom, Unit, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Bug Labs Store is open for business (sort of)

Bug Labs, who won the CNET Best of CES award in the Emerging Technologies category, opened the doors of their online store today. In case you missed all of the excitement around the Bug platform at CES, you can check out my video demo here. In a...

Tags: Module, Programmer, Programming, Bug Labs, Development Tools, Linux, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Use your Rock Band drums in Windows

Andrew Rudson has written an app for Windows that allows you to turn your Rock Band drum kit into a drum machine that you can use to play and record your Neil Peart-esque rhythms. I tried it out at the office on Friday and at home over the weekend...

Tags: App, DirectX, Andrew Rudson, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Will iTunes & Netflix make Blu-ray's "victory" meaningless?

Two of the biggest stories leading up to CES were the announcement by Warner Bros. to go Blu-ray exclusive and the announcement of integration of Netflix's streaming service into consumer electronics hardware. Personally, I wasn't at all happy about the first one (considering I have two HD-DVD players at home),...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., HD-DVD, Movie, Disc, Delivery, Hardware, Blu-ray, Apple iTunes, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-01-16