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Get StarBurn Disc-Authoring Utility Free (Today Only)
Physical media may be on the way out, but for now everyone still needs a good disc-authoring utility. StarBurn v.10 can rip, burn, and author just about any kind of optical media, from CD-R to DVD-RW to Blu-ray. It normally sells for $495(!), but today only...
Tags: Rick Broida, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, DVD
Blog posts 2008-08-05
Style Counsel: Willie Brown on Dressing the Man
Willie Brown was once dubbed "the Best Dressed Man in California" by Esquire magazine. Who? If you're not from California, it's forgivable if you’ve never heard of him. Simply put, Willie Brown, 74, is one of the most powerful people in California politics. An attorney by trade...
Tags: Michael Mattis, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Quality Clothing, Suit, California
Blog posts 2008-07-29
Turn a Business Card into an iPhone Stand
Planning to take the iPhone 3G plunge tomorrow? One thing you'll soon discover is that there's no comfortable way to watch videos, as the iPhone comes without a stand. You'll either have to hold it for the duration of your show or try in vain to prop it upright at...
Tags: 3G, Apple iPhone, Business Card, Card, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Programming Languages, Rick Broida, Software Development, Software/Web Development
Blog posts 2008-07-10
Boot Camp for Your Brain
Last week I wrote about brain maintenance, and it seems like I'm not the only one with gray matter on my mind. An Associated Press article about the growing market for "brain fitness" revealed that software to train your brain resulted in $225 million in revenues in 2007. That's a...
Tags: Personal Technology, Tv & Home Theater, CC Holland, Home Entertainment, Games, TVs, Brain
Blog posts 2008-07-03
Wallstrip Chat: Peter Kafka and the new face of journalism
After eight years at Forbes, he is managing editor at Silicon Alley Insider. Peter Kafka sits down with Julie Alexandria to share his thoughts on the future of newspapers and magazines, the 2008 recession, and the hit TV show "American Idol."
Tags: alley, big, blodgett, forbes, henry, Home Entertainment, howard lindzon, insider, interview, invest, investing, julie alexandria, kafka, Managing Editor, media, nasdaq, nyse, Personal Technology, peter, record, silicon, startup, stock stock exchange, stocks, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, wallstrip
Videos 2008-06-09
Motivational Posters Are Lame
I love "How I Met Your Mother," a sitcom that has some of the smartest writing on television. The set design and the inside jokes are clever, which is why I watched part of the last episode with my DVR set to super slo-mo in an attempt to decipher one...
Tags: CC Holland, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Poster, DVR, Management, Team Management
Blog posts 2008-05-08
5 Things Borders Is Finally Learning
Borders had a tough fourth quarter, announcing a 14.2 percent decline in music sales, flat book sales and the chain's towering $554 million debt looming over all. And now they're "exploring strategic alternatives," never a good sign. You might blame the standard "Americans don't read" whinge, but...
Tags: Sales Force Management, Consumer Electronics, DVD, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Sales Strategy, ALA, Borders Books & Music, Bookstore, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Lisa Everitt, Sales
Blog posts 2008-03-31
Send 5GB Files with File Dropper
If you need to send someone a big file, forget about e-mail: You need a big-file sharing service like Drop.io, YouSendIt, or Transfer Big Files. If you need to send someone a really big file, try File Dropper, which raises the file-size cap to a whopping 5GB. Think about...
Tags: File, E-mail, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-03-24
Netflix: Keeping Snail Mail Relevant
Since Blockbuster backed down and Wal-Mart wimped out, Netflix has made a comeback as the supreme DVD service. But will the new brawl be with Apple and Tivo over the downloadable movie market?
Tags: Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, NetFlix Inc., Home Entertainment, netflix inc, nflx, mail box, mail order, dvd, movies, movie, on demand, super bad, jaws, rock, revenge of the nerds, star wars, simpsons, norbit, blockbuster, animal house, web video, cbs, cbs news, cbs.com, howard lindzon, closing bell, julie alexandria, wallstrip, wallstreet, stocks, stock market, stock exchange, money, finance, investing, invest, nasdaq, nyse, cash, business, warren, buffet, berkshire hathaway, day trade, trends, cnbc, trading, market, jim cramer, britney
Videos 2008-03-21
Pure March Madness?
We asked the question yesterday, will March Madness topple the economy? Heck, does this veritable virus threaten Western Civilization itself? Perhaps all life on Earth? Well, maybe not. But, like it or not, it’s a part of our office lives for the next couple...
Tags: Games, Home Entertainment, Management, Michael Mattis, Personal Technology, Security, Team Management, Tv & Home Theater, TVs
Blog posts 2008-03-21
What Killed 'Quarterlife'? Cramming
Quarterlife was a made-for-MySpace show chronicling the lives of its young digital-age protagonists. It did OK on MySpace. Then the "good" news hit: NBC picked up the show last November, the first time in the US that a made-for-Internet program jumped to a TV network. ...
Tags: Marketing, Home Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Anthony, Entertainment, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-03-05
Television: Tomorrow's Web
Does TV have to be disrupted by the Web? Yes. That is to say, maybe. No, wait -- TV will disrupt the Web. So goes The Revolution Will Be Televised, an essay by Michael Hirschorn in the March issue of the the Atlantic. It’s a must-read...
Tags: Home Entertainment, Michael Fitzgerald, Personal Technology, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Web
Blog posts 2008-02-28
The Economy: A Grinding Five-Year Restructuring
I made that pronouncement in my previous posting and now I'm being challenged to explain what I mean. I relish the opportunity.  This is more than a one- or two-quarter recession. This is the end of a nearly 30-year cycle that started when Ronald Reagan took office...
Tags: William J. Holstein, Home Entertainment, Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Quality, Games, Government, Stimulus, Financial Accounting, TVs, Vertical Industries
Blog posts 2008-02-21
How Can Depriving a Customer Help?
Upon opening the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday, I scanned through pieces heralding the end of HD-DVD and the death of the middle class to find a little hidden graf. Burger King joints near Las Vegas did the unthinkable. They took away our beloved Whoppers. Sure,...
Tags: Jonathan Haeber, Manufacturing, Marketing, Home Entertainment, DVD, Food & Beverage, Personal Technology, Customer, Hd Dvd, Marketing Research
Blog posts 2008-02-20
Google Boss Schmidt Takes Reins of Digital Brain Trust
In the past few years, prominent Googlers have taken team building to a whole new level. First it was Messieurs Brin, Page and Kordestani’s involvement in the X Prize Foundation, now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken over the chairmanship of the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank that hopes...
Tags: TVs, Team Management, Idea, Team, Google Inc., Jeff Palfini, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Management
Blog posts 2008-02-07
Universal combines video, theatrical marketing.(Universal Studios Inc.)
By Marcy Magiera Shorter windows play a role Universal Pictures has consolidated domestic theatrical and home entertainment marketing, prompted by compressing windows that have drawn the two functions much closer together. ...
Tags: DVD, home entertainment, marketing, Universal Studios, video
Research articles 2007-02-26
How to Manage Your Focus; 15 Simple Ways to Declutter Your Mind
Clutter is the American way. Our computer and TV screens are cluttered. It accumulates on our desks. Sometimes even our staffs can feel cluttered with layers of complexity and bureaucracy. It's the stuff that feels like mud to wade through -- and it's everywhere. Even in our heads. Considering almost three-quarters of us are stressed...
Tags: Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Productivity, Mind, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-12-17
Marc Sternberg: Managing Transitions
Transitions aren't always hard. Marc Sternberg, President and COO of AlwaysOn found a new niche driven by an innovative marketplace. Television and print have been forced to make way for new media, and this former Hollywood Reporter executive has not only adapted, but has helped grow AlwaysOn, an insiders'...
Tags: building brands, managing transitions, Marc Sternberg, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet, TVs, Branding, Web 2.0, AlwaysOn
Videos 2007-12-10
David Waxman: New Opportunity in Old Media
Think globally, act locally. That type of thinking helped David Waxman, co-founder of internet-based ad agency Spot Runner tap into the multi-billion local TV ad market. While other firms were concentrating on the big fish and networks, Waxman and his partner Nick Grouf saw a huge opportunity in aggregating the...
Tags: TV ads, Spot Runner, David Waxman, Media, Advertisement, Opportunity, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Local advertising, TV
Videos 2007-12-04
Get a Remote Control for Your Computer
Why should you have a usb-powered remote like the one shown on the left for your computer? There are a lot of reasons. First, it combines the PowerPoint usefulness and laser pointer of this wireless presenter with the folds-into-your-laptop's-PCMCIA-Slot portability of a Mogo mouse. Second, it has controls...
Tags: Control, Computer, Media Center PCs, Productivity, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, David Goldenberg
Blog posts 2007-11-27
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