If your laptop doesn’t already have a wireless network card, go out and pick one up. It will only cost you a little more than half the price tag of the XBox 360 adapter. Once your laptop is WiFi enabled, place it somewhere near your XBox 360 and connect the two of them with a short ethernet (cat5/network) cable. Plug one end of the cable into the network jack on the back of your XBox 360, and plug the other end of the cable into the network jack on your laptop. The next step depends on what operating system your laptop uses:
Windows XP
- Make sure you are logged in as a computer Administrator.
- Go to the Control Panel (click Start, click Control Panel).
- Double-click on Network Connections
- Click on the Advanced tab, then check Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection.
- Click OK
- Turn on your XBox and connect to XBox Live.
Mac OS X
- Click on the System Preferences icon in the Dock.
- Select the Sharing preference pane.
- Click on the Internet tab.
- Start Internet Sharing.
- Turn on your XBox and connect to XBox Live.
Note: if you restart your computer and cannot connect to XBox Live, nothing is broken. The system may have just reset Internet Sharing to disabled, so follow these instructions again.
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How To, Wireless, Xbox
Here’s a pretty good article outlining how to burn practically any video file to DVD.
http://lifehacker.com/5082262/how-to-burn-any-video-file-to-a-playable-video-dvd
[lifehacker]
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This is a guide that, if followed, will unchain your Apple TV from its cruel iTunes tether, turning it into the useful living room conduit of music, video and web-based content it should have been all along via the media center software Boxee. Boxee can be installed fairly easily via the ATV’s USB port to bring Hulu and Comedy Central streaming, playback of any video or music file anywhere on your network in virtually any file type imagineable, and a bevy of internet A/V sources like Flickr, Last.fm, NPR and BBC podcasts and tons of others—all upping the usefulness and fun of Apple’s notoriously underachieving box by a factor of 10, easily. If you have an ATV, Boxee is a must-install, and it’s 100% free. Let’s get started.
[gizmodo]
[boxee]
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Apple TV, Boxee, How To
Who is John Hodgman? If you’ve ever owned or watched a TV since mid 2006, you should know him through his Mac commercials, where he plays the awkward, nerdy, loser Windows PC guy no one wants to be. Doesn’t the Mac guy (on the right) just look so relaxed, cool and trendy that you want to go out to buy a Mac and be like him? (Hodgman on the left)
Well Hodgman is actually a die-hard Mac fanboy inside. Outside of his famous Apple commercials, Hodgman also acts as a correspondent for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Well, he was on the show tonight, and as part of his skit, he pulls out his iPhone to answer a call. However, he answers the phone much like you would expect his PC persona would – upside down. Good job! Apparently Apple needs to make the iPhones even easier to use to avoid comedians from making this embarrassing mistake again.
Here are shots from the show (sorry I don’t have a good screen capture setup going):
As you can, the iPhone has a black cover on the bottom portion of its back. This acts as the microphone and speaker (for speaker phone and audio playback) cover, and also if you wanted to access the guts of the iPhone, you would remove this piece first to gain access to the rest. Think of it as your iPhone’s hot, sexy black thong barely separating you from the goods within.
So comparing to the pictures above of John Hodgman, you’ll see he clearly pulls out his iPhone and holds it upside down to his ear. Sucker!
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Headphones, How To