Sync My Ride!!!

http://www.syncmyride.com/

 

I'd be curious to see how well this works.  Its good to see that MS as got this working with a variety of devices - music devices and phones.  The MS Voice Command on the Windows Mobile devices work great without any training.

 

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Samsung SSD...very cool

Samsung has these new SSD drives that replace Hard Drives.  SSD's have no moving parts and are much smaller and faster...

 

check out this video that compares them:  http://www.samsungssd.com/video/ssd.html

 

limted to 64GB of space...but i can see how they can really reduce the size of your notebook.

 

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My home network

I know some of you have been asking about my home network so i thought i'd share with you the topology i have at home.  It's really my part time job keeping the network going amongst my users :)    Especially my little girl who calls me for assistance when she can't get online and play webkinz or nickjr!

Our central Media center does all the recording.  Its running Vista Home Premium and feeding our Xbox 360 and other media center recorded TV.  It also manages all of our central pictures, video and music storage that feeds the rest of the house.

I also have a Maxtor NAT drive that hosts our DVD library...beat swapping out the kiddie DVD's...no more sticky fingers on the Disk...and its all available at our fingertips via the Vista Media Center "My DVD Library" (hidden feature in Vista).  It also shares our Printer.

Access to Live and Recorded TV from my Xbox 360 in our kitchen works very well.  I originally used the Xbox360 wireless G adapter but found it to get choppy about 20% of the time...I couldnt figure out what was causing the interference...I assume its potentially a neighbor.  I had it wired last week and its been perfect since.

I picked up a wireless N router too (WRT350N linksys).  I never had issues with Linksys before but this one is questionable.  It works for a few weeks then the network comes to a complete halt and i loose internet connectivity.  After a hard-reset on the router, i have setup the router again to get it all working again... Big pain.  however, it provides great access for video feeds to my other Dining Room media center pc for video and tv.  The "N" speed and distance is great.  I just wish it was more stable.