Author Archives: Peter

The Future of Music, network music players.

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley The playback of music in the home is being revolutionized. Forget about using disk based media CDs or LPs for music playback, network music players are the future. These devices let you listen to streamed music from … Continue reading →

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What is a DAC?

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley The trouble with playing back music from your computer, is it is not very good quality, unless you have a high quality sound card installed. Most computer sound is being processed by a cheap on-board sound chip. … Continue reading →

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Turned Off By Standby

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley In this modern age we have all these wonderful gadgets that for convenience are designed to  instantly turn on. So you come home from work and grab the remote and turn on the TV. Most people don’t … Continue reading →

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Set up an Entertainment Centre

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley It is very easy to set up an exciting home entertainment centre on your personal computer, plus you can do it for little cost, or for free. Why purchase all those extra boxes, eg DVD player / … Continue reading →

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Greatly Improve the Sound of Your Music CDs Play back!

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley You can greatly improve the playback sound quality of your CD collection by purchasing a CD Nova Physics Group Memory Player, at a cost of US$15,000, or you can do it for virtually nothing by following the … Continue reading →

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Music Sound Quality

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley With the advent of fast Internet connections and large hard drives, there is no reason for people in their right minds to be purchasing or using lossy audio files, that have mediocre sound when played on a … Continue reading →

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Blue Ray Content Management & Digital Rights Management

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Peter

Blue Ray Blue Ray is the latest disc movie technology that promises a great improvement in picture, and sound quality. Blank Blue Ray disc are available at present for data storage that can store 25 GB per single layered, and … Continue reading →

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Subject to inspection (STI)

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley Well what a merry-go-round I’ve been on! I had a 17” LCD monitor delivered by courier, the cardboard box looked a bit pressed in at the top, near the carry handle but nothing suggested that it was … Continue reading →

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NoScript Essential to Web Surfing

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley At present, the hacker black market is paying $100 per thousand hacked Australian computers. That’s correct, there is a black market for hacked computers, and Australian computers are fetching top dollar, compared to other countries. Why do … Continue reading →

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What Wireless Security?

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Peter

by Peter Daley The statistics are pretty frightening, 70% of home, and small business wireless routers providing broadband connections, have no security on them. In reply to a previous blog I had written in a local newspaper, I was urged … Continue reading →

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