- Rage Solo Sound Skateboard BMX Helmet w/ Speakers
- TechLore - April 19, 2005
- Two of my favorite activities are bicycling and listening to music. Historically, they have not been a good combination, because headphones can block out traffic noise that you need to hear to stay safe. Last year, I received a Rage helmet with built...
- My TV - Four Ways to Take it With Me
- TechLore - April 10, 2005
- As a companion piece to my other article about streaming audio around the house, I am ready to help those once again following in my digital footsteps. This time we are talking about how to watch your favorite television shows wherever you want.
- Ask The Experts: How Can I Access a Channel on My TV Without the Remote
- TechLore - February 11, 2005
- Question: Helllp! We have an older, portable Emerson tv that the kiddos use for PS2. The remote is missing. The channel was accidentally manually shifted from channel 3 or 4, whichever channel the tv needs to be on for the PS2 to work. Anyway, we can...
- What's My Favorite Online Music Service?
- TechLore - February 7, 2005
- I don't have enough time to keep up with all the online music services that keep popping up. I have used a few and have started to collect stories from others who are also...
- WMA or MP3 format and other thoughts on ripping CDs
- TechLore - February 6, 2005
- When I first starting creating MP3s from my CDs, I just hit the 'record' button on the software and let the software do the rest. After some more investigation and speaking to a couple of people, I quickly realized that there is more to ripping a CD ...
- MP3 Player reads 'No File' After Files are Loaded
- TechLore - February 3, 2005
- Regardless of how easy transferring music to an MP3 player is supposed to be, it's not always the simplest task to complete. TechLore has been asked repeatedly over the last month why MP3 players read "No File" when songs have been succesfully transf...
- egrips and the Treo 650 cell phone
- TechLore - February 2, 2005
- As I mentioned in my article on the 2005 CES show, I'm very happy with the egrips that I added to my Treo 650. Although I don't often buy accessories for my gadgets, egrips is definitely worth the investment. egrips are form fitting grips for your el...
- Ask The Experts: No Removeable Disc Drive For My MP3 Player
- TechLore - February 2, 2005
- Question: I just bought a Memorex MMP8500 mp3 player for my son. I installed the software, but it does not bring up a Removable Disc Drive for me to use for copying songs from Real Player. Any idea how I can get that RDD to come up? -submitted by gml...
- Ask The Experts: My DVD Player Freezes Half Way Through the Movie
- TechLore - January 15, 2005
- My portable dvd player (Sony DVP-FX701) freezes a frame for several minutes and the dvd spins until I shut down the power. This doesn't happen all of the time and discs that it has happened with are successfully played thru the frame at other...
- Ask The Experts: My Audio Device Only Plays the First 10 Seconds of a Song
- TechLore - January 13, 2005
- Question: My wife has a Sylvania Mp3 player when I download songs it only plays about ten seconds of each song. I'm using windows media player 10. please help -submitted by maf Answer: Many audio products have playback feature known as "intro/scan" m...
- Delphi XM MyFi Portable Radio
- TechLore - January 9, 2005
- In typically early gadget adopter fashion, I camped out at the local electronics store to pick up one of the first portable XM radios. The latest shiny gadget in my hands these days is the Delphi MyFi portable XM radio, XM being one of two satellite ...
- Making Business Trips Easier with Consumer Electronics
- TechLore - January 9, 2005
- It was time for one of those dreaded business trips again. However, this time I thought that I would make the trip a little more interesting by using my gadgets more than normal just for fun. I would keep a kind of diary along the way and keep track ...
- Ask The Experts: MP3s Have Breaking-Up Sounds When Played
- TechLore - January 5, 2005
- Question: I have a bunch of MP3's that, not so long ago, started playing with (bad) sound. The sound is similar to shaking a radio real hard while it is playing. Real shaky, breaking up sounds. I thought it might be my sound card, so I bought a new o...
- How to Love Your Music Even More - Just Add the Metadata
- TechLore - January 4, 2005
- Anyone who has ripped a CD in the last year or so has no doubt been pleasantly surprised by the artist and album information that is now available online. The popular PC music management programs like MusicMatch, iTunes, and Windows Media Player...
- Ask The Experts: Can't Download Wal-Mart Songs Into MyMusix MP3 Player
- TechLore - January 3, 2005
- I purchased a MYMusix WMA MP3 Digital Music Player for my 12 year old and have been unable to download music onto it successfully. I purchased songs from WalMart.Com and attempted to transfer thame. The titles transferred to the player but the only...