Tech DC

Happy holidays! Unless you hate Christmas and live next to a house blaring music like this.

WARNING: video may induce epileptic seizure.

Why you should buy a home theater projector
Screen size. For the ultimate large screen (100+ inch) theater experience, a front projector is the only solution under $80,000. There are large LCD, Plasma, and rear-projector televisions, but none over 100 inches that can practically be purchased or fit through your door.
Why you should not buy a [...]

Kindle Battery Update.. Not For Most People
It has been widely reported that the recent Kindle firmware update improved battery life up to 85%. Unfortunately, this is not true for almost all Kindle owners.  The battery life improvement only applies to the recent Kindle 2 (Global Wireless) version that was introduced October 7, 2009.  The original [...]

Be Kind to Your Cables
Bending cables hurts them over time. That’s why it’s helpful to know the “over-under” looping technique to minimize bends and kinks. It’s simple and can give your cables a longer life. Here’s a video from HackCollege explaining the over-under method. I find this especially useful to prevent kinks in longer cables.

Over-the-air (OTA) high definition television is great. It provides free high definition programming that is higher bitrate (meaning higher quality) than high definition TV from cable, fios, or satellite.
But it can be tricky to get antenna placement correct.
Channel Spreadsheet
I use a spreadsheet that I create from antennaweb.org data for installing HD OTA TV for DC [...]