This is one of the more exiting products I have seen for a long time in the “hi-fi” arena:

Slim Devices : Product Info : Transporter:

Slim Devices' Transporter™ was designed to appeal to the most discerning audiophiles and

music lovers. It streams digital music with sound quality that surpasses even the most exotic compact

disc players.

At the heart of Transporter is a “no compromise” attitude to component selection and electronic design.

This product seems to be able to tap into most music files stored on a computer, and electronics to match - giving you the best possible way to play your computer-based files to a decent stereo. I have been waiting for this for a while - so now I need to get my hands on one to test!!!

As we just bought my son a Honda Civic (2001) one of the first questions is of course “How do I connect my iPod to the stereo”.

The car comes with a radio & cassette-player, plus a one-slot CD-player.

So we bought a Harman Kardon Drive + Play 1 off a Amazon.co.uk associate company for less than GBP 50, and will blog the trials and tribulations of installing this.

we also found a excellent site with a description on how to take the Civic's console apart, and off we went.

More later :

As I am quite a bit interested in the Slingbox at the moment I found this review of the new Slingbox Solo interesting

I've always wondered about the HDMI standard - and at long last I found a fairly sensible article about it. Well worth reading

What's the Matter with HDMI? — Audioholics Home Theater Reviews and News :

How the designers of the HDMI standard screwed up, and what's to be done

about it.

Basically it says that some standards (like HDMI) were not created to make life easier for the users.

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This blog has excellent reviews of all the major irc clients for mac's under OSX - it's really good:

The Joy of Apple » Blog Archive » A Review of the Top IRC Clients for OS X:

Are you stuck trying to decide which IRC client is the best for you? To help make the job easier for you, I have reviewed all of the most popular IRC clients for OS X here, listing their pros and cons and including screenshots. Some years ago I wrote a fairly popular IRC client for Windows called Bersirc. It included scripting, plugins, and all the basics you would expect from an IRC client (as well as beating most other clients, including mIRC to multiple-servers).