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Monster® Home Theater PowerCenter 3600

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Monster® Home Theater PowerCenter 3600

An often neglicted aspect of home theaters is power. Without clean and balanced power your new home theater system will not sound its best. Also, you must have true protection against surges if you spend any money on a home theater system. Monster has created a line of Home Theater PowerCenters that filter power optimizing for maximum noise rejection for clean and balanced power as well as surge protection and power filtration for 10 AC components, 3 coax connections and 2 phone connections and includes a $500,000 connected equipment warranty.

If you’re building a home theater… please don’t forget the power!

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MAGIX Announces Movies2Go

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Miami, FL, May 22, 2006 — MAGIX, a worldwide leader in music and video editing software, announced today MAGIX Movies2go. Movies2go finally lets you easily transfer videos and slideshows to all your mobile devices, including portable video players (such as PlayStation Portables (PSP) and iPods), cell phones, PDAs, and laptops, to experience and show off your videos to friends wherever you go.

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NEUROS Free Upgrade Creates Video for Motorola Q Phone

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CHICAGO, July 7, 2006 – Neuros Technology, a leading developer of portable digital media devices, announces the Recorder 2’s compatibility with the new Motorola Q smartphone. The Neuros Recorder 2 records video content from any video source directly onto memory cards that can be instantly played back on handhelds such as the Motorola Q.

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AE Wi-Fi Internet Radio

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AE Wi-Fi Internet Radio

The Geeks love cool new gizmos, and the AE Wi-Fi Internet Radio has excited us! The gizmo connects to your home WLAN so it can be placed anywhere that you have a good wireless connection. All three major streaming formats are supported so you could connect and the Internet gateway uploads channel listings alphabetically by country and genre to your radio.

The more I found out about the device, the more I liked it! It can actually connect and play your PC library of music and has a clock and alarm functionality!

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Help: Hard Drive recovery help – earn Geek Credit!

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Earn 300 Geek Credits by leaving the comment that is used and works to help a Geek recover some data off a bad hard drive situation!

A little over a week or so ago my wife told me about a SMART error message that popped up on her desktop. She’s running Windows XP Professional on a Dell Dimension 8400 with Intel’s RAID controller running two SATA drives using RAID-1. No problem, I thought…

Before being able to fix the problem with a new hard drive, she had a blue screen then while trying to reboot a message stating that “hal.sys” could not be found. Going into Recovery and trying to pull up a directory we get “Directory could not be enumerated.” At this point, I’m starting to sweat a little…

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Plug-In Dimmer INSTEON Starter Kit

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Plug-In Dimmer INSTEON Starter Kit

The 70’s have been over for a couple decades so why would you use home automation technology from then? X10 was created almost 30 years ago now. Even though there have been enhancement products such as phase couplers and signal enhancers, the technology has issues.

Several different technologies have been created especially in the last five years or so including some of the most promising candidates including Zigbee, Z-wave, HomePlug and INSTEON.

Today’s Gizmo of the Day is a complete starter’s kit for INSTEON including two SignaLinc RFs, tabletop controloer and 2 LampLinc V2 Dimmers. It’s instant on and robust networking will amaze you if you’ve been using X10!

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July Geek of the Month Prize

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Smarthome has been gracious enough to sponsor Gizmos for Geeks for the month of July! They have offered a complete INSTEON starter kit so you can play with the latest and greatest in DIY home automation technology!

Watch out for a review of the INSTEON Starter Kit and a comprehensive comparison article of the various home automation technologies available later this month.

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June Geek of the Month

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First of all, Smarthome has been gracious enough to sponsor Gizmos for Geeks for the month of July! They have offered a complete INSTEON starter kit so you can play with the latest and greatest in DIY home automation technology!

June’s Geek Credit Monthly Contest was sponsored by Mvix USA. The prize includes a Mvix MV-4000U multimedia center (hard drive not included!). Their sponsored item is a MV-4000U which is the same product as a Mvix MV-5000U except it does not have a radio transmitter built-in. You can checkout the review the Geeks performed on this gizmo a couple months back and see why we’re excited MvixUSA was our sponsor!

Now on to June’s winner…

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