Give Us One Minute

Sarah Brownlee learns how to take control of that complicated home theater setup using the Logitech Harmony 880 universal remote. This handy remote is programmable and makes setup a breeze through its web interface. Steven Combs also demonstrates a little know feature of the remote, the on screen slideshow. This video originally aired on January [...]

So you’ve got some of those old Atari 2600 cartridges hanging around in a dark closet somewhere and that soldering iron hasn’t been fired up in years. Benjamin Heckendorn has just the project for you. Build your own handheld Atari 2600. We call it the Portable Atari 2600 Advanced DS. Ben provides plenty of images [...]

We wondered just how LEGO was going to follow up on the LEGO Star Wars video game juggernaut. After all, LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II pretty much covered the entire film series. That’s not to say that there won’t be another LEGO Star Wars, but in the mean time we get to [...]

As we’ve mentioned previously, our brand new shiny AppleTV arrived last week and is in the GUOM Lab. We are just now getting around to posting some images taken during the process of our taking this wonderful gadget out of it’s box. We’re not sure what the fascination is with showing images taken during this [...]

We enjoy the NBC television show Heroes and are looking forward to its return in April. In the meantime, we just discovered this YouTube parody. What would you do with your useless power?

An update to the PmWiki TextMate Bundle has been uploaded and is ready for download. You can download this bundle from TextMate PmWiki Bundle page in The Lab. Use the link below to view the change log for this bundle.

A new PmWiki TextMate Bundle has been uploaded and is ready for download. You can download this bundle from TextMate PmWiki Bundle page in The Lab. Use the link below to view the change log for this bundle.

The Give Us One Minute labs has just received our Apple TV via FedEx. Our Apple Airport Extreme arrived a couple of days ago and we will be doing the complete install of both units this weekend. We hope to have full details of our install online during the weekend or early next week. Check [...]

Sean McHose and Steven Combs look at various gadgets you can purchase to stuff your favorite Geek’s stockings. We look at a bluetooth mouse, power-line networking adapters, Liberator cables and Sean’s favorite the Ninja Remote. This is a late post to GUOM and while Christmas is far behind, many of these gifts are perfect for [...]

A while back, Steven received an e-mail from a member of the Ivy Tech adjunct faculty in Northern Indiana. The message was from Jane Goodwin and in that message she mentioned to Steven that she recently saw his Inspector Gadget spot on YouTube where he featured the Pacific Digital picture frame. Steven also learned [...]