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Display Name: HeyItsMeDusty
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Member Since: 8/28/07

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Do any solutions offer OCR for things like vinyl records? Many older vinyl records were created before bar codes were in use. What would be the best way to catalog those?


Get Organized: 6 Home Inventory Apps Weekly Smartphone App Roundup
4/23/12 1:18 PM

So close. But a music purist would NEVER use wifi to get their signal from here to there with the looming prospect of jitter and/or dropped bits.


How To Create a Music Room According to Musical Genre
10/25/11 11:26 AM

Nevermind, I found it.
Link: Vers 1.5R iPhone Dock


A Tech Lover's Stay at the Nolitan Hotel, Downtown NY
10/4/11 9:15 AM

Can anyone identify the make/model of that ipod dock?


A Tech Lover's Stay at the Nolitan Hotel, Downtown NY
10/4/11 9:13 AM

I expected more accurate info from a supposedly "techno-centric" blog. You should run articles like this by the nerdiest most know-it-all guy in the office first, and I guarantee he won't hesitate to point out these issues right off the bat.


Why I Recharge my Phone & Laptop Every Night
1/10/11 3:07 PM

I agree with the poster above. I built my own little HTPC, but I'm using an XBMC Live install, and it works wonders.


The Best Home Theater Solutions
Unplggd's Best of 2010
1/4/11 11:35 AM

I would like to see these stacked up against some Sennheiser HD600 cans. Both superb, but different I'm sure.


Grado Prestige SR225i Headphones: Head of Class
Unplggd Test Lab
12/21/10 10:47 AM

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Holiday Giveaway Daily Roundup
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11/30/10 10:13 AM

Good first post. Keep it up.


The Unplggd Gift Guide for Geeks
11/26/10 3:29 PM

Mine is easily a vintage McIntosh MC-275 tube amp. It is as beautiful as it is functional, but rarely caught in the wild.


What is Your Holy Grail of Tech?
10/27/10 4:15 PM

You can easily do this for under $50 per room that you'd like to stream music to. Just use an old Xbox (not the 360) as a media center that streams music and movies from your digital library (probably just your main computer) on your wireless network.

It will involve hacking an Xbox (or 2 or 3) which is actually way simpler than it sounds. Here is a tutorial: www.productwiki.com/home/article/xbmc.html

Once you've created a few Media Centers out of the old Xboxes, you can hook them up to your speakers in each room. The Xbox Media Center program (XBMC) allows you to hit the IP address of the Xbox from any web browser and control the unit from a web interface that it sets up automatically. For example, you could bookmark the IP address of each Xbox in Firefox and call the bookmarks "Living Room" and "Patio" and then use your browser to control exactly what each media center is playing.

It would take a little DIY'ing on your part, but it's fun and sure beats the crap out of paying $2000 for a Sonos system!


Apartment Therapy Unplugged | Good Questions: How to Stream Music in my Home?
12/26/08 2:16 PM

The idea of leveling irregularities with two subwoofers is right on. Low frequency sound waves are much larger than mid-range and high-frequency sound waves, with the lowest frequencies within our hearing range measuring up to 15 feet! That means you could possibly be sitting in a bass "hole" where the sound wave completely passes over you. Adding a second subwoofer will minimize the bass blind-spots and help even out the sound.

As far as imaging with your subwoofers, it's not something you want to do. You shouldn't be able to tell where the really low notes are coming from. The whole point of imaging is that your speakers create the sensation of a sound embodying a distinct point in space between your speakers. Very good speakers will do this like magic, as will really bad subwoofers.


Apartment Therapy Unplugged | Blogging Electronic House: Shopping for a Subwoofer
2/4/08 4:39 AM

Dusty in Ohio here.

Having two homes is obviously wasteful. The only way that makes sense for me to think about the question of wastefulness is whether or not a particular practice (i.e. having two homes) is a sustainable thing for every other person in the world to do.

If having two homes, even if one of them is green, is something that wouldn't be sustainable if every person were to do it, then doesn't that mean that some people (the people with two homes) would be using resources that the other people (the people who can't have two homes) are living wastefully?

Yes, it's no big deal for one family to do it. Just like it's no big deal for me to drive one gas-guzzling Hummer towing one ATV throwing one McDonalds wrapper out the window. The issue about waste isn't about whether it's ok if one person does it, it has to be a question of what if EVERYONE does it.

Having two houses is by it's very nature a wasteful thing no matter how green either of the houses are.

If you actually read this whole post, thanks.
-Dusty


Apartment Therapy - NYT: Modern Green Retreat
11/14/07 4:43 AM