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What’s a DVR?
DVRs are digital video recorders, and they record TV to a hard drive. TiVos are DVRs, but not all DVRs have TiVo functionality.
Cable DVR or TiVo?
The cable company DVR is cheaper, but isn’t as easy to use as TiVo. TiVo also has cool extras like digital photo viewing and music streaming.
What’s Blu-ray?
Blu-ray is Sony’s high-def DVD technology that lets you record HD shows to DVD. But it’s new, relatively untested, and expensive.
You can play MP3 files from your home stereo, from your computer, and from a portable player using headphones. But MP3 is still a relative newcomer in the world of car audio.
If your car’s audio system doesn’t recognize MP3 music discs, consider these less expensive workarounds:
- Use a cassette player adapter. If your car has a cassette player, check out a CD-to-Cassette Player adapter. It looks like a cassette tape with a stereo cable hanging from one end. Plug the cable into your portable MP3 player’s headphone jack, insert the cassette, and start listening to your MP3s through your car stereo. It sounds amazingly good - well, at least compared to the road noise.
- Use a wireless FM adapter. Plug the cable from an FM transmitter into your portable MP3 player. Then tune your car’s FM radio to the right frequency and listen to your MP3s. Unfortunately, sound quality varies because of local interference, and you’re dependent on the batteries that power your wireless adapter.
- Buy a car stereo with a CD Input jack. Some car stereos lack a CD player. Instead, they have a CD Input jack. Plug a 1/8-inch stereo cable between this jack and your portable MP3 player to hear MP3s through your car’s stereo system.
- Burn MP3 songs onto a CD in audio format. Does your car have a CD player? Then convert your MP3 songs back into standard CD audio format and copy them to a CD. You can’t fit more than a dozen onto the CD, but at least you can hear them.
- Connect a portable MP3 player to amplified speakers. Take some amplified speakers - like the ones that come with your PC - and plug a portable MP3 player into them. Carry it all to your car and start listening. To change songs, just swap new cards in and out of the portable player.
Just like car stereos, dedicated MP3 players for cars can be ripped off. To avoid that, substitute your portable MP3 player. You can easily grab your portable MP3 player when you leave the car, keeping it safe
Creatures of habit that we are, we sometimes get into a gadget rut, forgetting that our iPods are probably capable of a lot more than what we do with them. So far, I’ve used mine for listening to music and podcasts, watching movies (which isn’t my idea of film appreciation), and receiving RSS feeds. But I didn’t know what I was missing until I stumbled across “100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better” from the Online Education Database (OEDb).
Many of the suggestions are free, while some have a low-cost fee. There’s not a loser in the bunch, and they come from some far-flung places on the Web.
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Fore! Anyone who’s ever wanted to play along with the greats should not miss Golf Launchpad Tour’s debut at Yahoo!’s Last Gadget Standing here at CES 2008. They don’t get more realistic than this golf simulation from Electric~Spin. Not only does it let you play a realistic 18 holes at your favorite course, it allows you to play along with your favorite pro golfers, too. And you can do it right from your own home with—get this—your very own clubs. That’s sure to improve your handicap!
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