Panamax releases new compact UPS battery back-up for home theater systems.
PETALUMA, Calif. — Jan. 27, 2009 — Panamax, a world-leading provider of AC power management solutions, today announced a new compact, lightweight UPS battery back-up. Measuring 10.25 inches by 8.875 inches by 4.375 inches (length x height x width) and weighing only 16 pounds, the MB850 is an ideal back-up solution for home theater applications with remotely located A/V equipment or space and weight constraints.
Good Design 2008 Awards
Good Design Awards is the world’s most prestigious global awards for new product design and graphics.
This Last year Good Design Awards in the Electronics category among others went to:
- HP TouchSmart IQ500 Series PC
- HP Blackbird 002
- Logitech Mx 1100 Cordless Laser Mouse
- Russound RFR-ES Remote
- Sling ProHD and Sling SOLO
- Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Speaker System
- and ..surprise, surprise.. the whole range of Apple products
All (or most of) these products could be seen at The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. (continue reading this article and leave comments here…)
Windows Media Center is the Best DVR
Windows Media Center is the Best DVR application according to survey conducted by LifeHacker with 31% of votes. The other contestans were MythTV (28% of votes), TiVo (20%), SageTV (10%), GB-PVR (6%) and BeyondTV (5%).
I totally agree with the outcome (by the way I voted for WMC as well), though I have to admit — I never tried TiVo DVR.
Read the full story at LifeHacker.
Windows 7 Beta released
Windows 7 Beta was released to public testing last week. It seems that demand was so high that MS servers were overwhelmed with download requests. The web page showed “Server is too busy” error most of the time and later in the day the download link was removed from MS servers. This week the download link seems to work more stable.
Microsoft doesn’t recommend installing the Beta on your primary work or home PC. So if you have an available system go download and try it for yourself. The Beta release is time-limited and will stop working in August 2009, at which point you will have to uninstall it and return to a previous version of Windows installed on that system.
As with any Beta software there are certain issues that you should know about. That’s why Microsoft urges you to thoroughly read through Release Notes before installing Windows 7 Beta on your computer. Some of the issues are severe and might corrupt your media files, so please DO read the Release Notes BEFORE you install the Beta.