A Year With iTunes Match

Reading Time: 3 minutes iTunes Match is an exciting prospect, but after nearly a year of real-world use, it just doesn’t match up. Freedom from having to manage a big music collection sounds wonderful.  Backing up, restoring, transferring, organizing, updating and otherwise messing around with digital music can be a frustrating waste of time. At $24.99/year, iTunes Match appears […]

HD WiFi Streaming Success with the PS3

Reading Time: < 1 minutes It was a challenge to get HD video streaming to my PS3 properly, and I tried several methods to arrive at what works best in my situation. Wireless-G wasn’t good enough to stream HD video reliably to my PS3.  Typically, you can find a relatively clear WiFi channel for your router and be on your […]

Smooth Netflix Streaming on a MacBook

Reading Time: < 1 minutes It was surprisingly difficult to get Netflix to stream smoothly on a Macbook 5,2 using Safari, or any other browser, on an external 1080p display.  Without going into painstaking detail, what I finally found to work well is to configure the external display resolution to 720p, enable display mirroring, and not use bluetooth for an […]