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Tim goes solo for a week as he welcomes his new son Cole to the world. Are you looking for a really good game controller for your Mac? Tim has the product for you! Also, a price increase for movies on the iTunes store? Say it ain’t so!
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XBox 360 Controller for Macintosh
Tim’s Video Find
Prosoft Engineering
With Mac OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard) Apple has introduced a very nice new feature called “back to my mac”. For those with a .mac account, you can now setup a secure way of accessing your Mac from on the road. Useful? Oh yes it is.
However as usual there are two problems, firstly you need Mac OS X 10.5, which many of us haven’t purchased yet. Secondly, you need a .mac subscription, which I am being told is very useful, but so far I haven’t had a need for.
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Wi-Fire Long Range USB 2.0 802.11g Transceiver
Company: hField Technologies
Price: $79.00
http://www.hfield.com/
Most product reviews are about new products from well known companies. This one isn’t. This is a unique new product from a unique new company.
hField Technologies got its start when founder Curtis MacDonald, then a student at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, moved into an off campus apartment just out of range of the university’s wireless network. A radio hobbyist, he decided to create a Wi-Fi transceiver with longer range and a more directional antenna. With other students asking him to build additional units for them, he realized he’d stumbled on an opportunity.
Wi-Fire became a project in Lehigh’s Integrated Business and Engineering Honors program. Other students joined the Wi-Fire team, and together they won the university’s 2004 Student Entrepreneurship Competition. Over time, the project received over $40,000 in grants and lots of advice from local economic development agencies and Lehigh University. In 2005, hField Technologies was incorporated, a business plan was developed, and final development of the product began. FCC certification was received and the product was first offered for sale in September 2006 for Windows XP.
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