This detailed screenshot tour accompanies our detailed review of Google TV 2.0 running on the Logitech Revue. The more than 180 screenshots below showcase Google TV 2.0′s features, apps, and flexible new user interface, and demonstrate the addition of customized folders and shortcuts to the homescreen for instant access to all your favorite apps and websites.
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Boxee released version 1.5 of its free multimedia streaming software for Mac, Windows, and Linux desktops today, but simultaneously announced that it will cease offering the Boxee desktop software after January 2012. Thereafter, the company will limit its focus to devices such as the D-Link Boxee Box.
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With a dizzying array of 7-inch Android tablets quietly penetrating the market this year, we wondered how well the lower-priced 7-inch tablets performed. Surprisingly, ViewSonic’s ViewPad 7e ran virtually everything we threw at it, and did so surprisingly well.
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In preparation for reviewing ViewSonic’s low-cost 7-inch Android tablet, this post tabulates the key features and specifications of five 7-inch Android tablets. The comparison includes ViewSonic’s ViewPad 7e and 7x, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and Barns & Noble’s Nook Tablet.
Netflix has just consumed the Boxee Box remote control’s play/pause button. The only thing the bright red Netflix button will do now is launch the Netflix app, no matter what the box had been doing.
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Although it’s not without passionate supporters, Unity, Ubuntu 11.10′s new default user interface, has generated lots of controversy and consternation among faithful Ubuntu users. For those who prefer a traditional Gnome desktop, this post provides a straightforward method of setting up and configuring a Ubuntu 11.10 desktop based on Gnome 3′s “Fallback” mode.
Before launching into this review, which pits Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 against Apple’s iPad 2, I took a few days to familiarize myself with the Galaxy Tab’s Android 3.1 (“Honeycomb”) OS. The thing is, I’d already used iOS on an iPod Touch for two years, but was a rank newbie when it came to Android.
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BoxeeBoxTips has just updated its list of the top 10 Boxee Box tips and tricks, as voted by the site’s readership. The tips and tricks on the list span a wide range of topics of interest to users of the Boxee media-streaming software on PC and Mac desktops, and on dedicated Boxee Box devices.
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Via Technologies has published a free ebook celebrating 10 years of the compact, Mini-ITX motherboard form-factor. “Small is Beautiful: 10 Years of Mini-ITX” is available as a free download in ePub and PDF format.
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Used along with a Slingbox, Boxee’s new SlingPlayer app lets you play content from your cable box, satellite receiver, DVR, or DVD player using a Boxee Box located anywhere in the world.
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