The lazy geek's guide to building a home media center

Weird and wonderful high-tech inventions of the world Pre-paid smartphone plans that do not suck, part 2 ITworld Today February 23, 2013 Share this email The lazy geek's guide to building a home media center Anything less than a DIY digital home entertainment project means making the most of Apple TV. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Weird and wonderful high-tech inventions of the world 2. Pre-paid smartphone plans that do not suck, part 2 3. An inside look at Google's news-ranking algorithm 4. How to jailbreak your iPhone 5. Why every Mac owner should use Fast User Switching 6. Liquid cooling vs. traditional cooling: What you need to know 7. Review: Upgrades make Retina MacBook Pro a better bargain 8. 25 geekiest 25th anniversaries of 2013 9. BOOK GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of 'Effective JavaScript' White Paper: APC by Schneider Electric Small Data Centers: Unique Challenges, Unique Opportunities This whitepaper shares real-world trials and tribulations from data center managers in the trenches who deal with the unique challenges of running a data center in constrained space - as well as solutions. Vendor neutral. Learn More. Weird and wonderful high-tech inventions of the world From robotic waiters and high-tech bicycles to "privacy visors," we take a look at recent inventions that are strange but beautiful. READ MORE Pre-paid smartphone plans that do not suck, part 2 Here's a table of the best and most reasonable pre-paid smartphone plans from the big four carriers in the U.S. READ MORE White Paper: Moovweb 3 Steps to a Cost-Effective Mobile Strategy In the new Moovweb white paper, "Creating the Right Mobile Strategy: What You Need to Know Before You Get Started", get the insight you need to make an educated decision on the move to mobile. Read Now! An inside look at Google's news-ranking algorithm A patent application filed by Google last year provides a detailed look at some of the metrics the company considers when ranking news stories and deciding how prominently to display them on its Google News page. READ MORE How to jailbreak your iPhone With the requisite warnings out of the way, let's get started. READ MORE Webcast: HP Intel VMware Beyond Virtualization: Stepping up to the Cloud In this Webcast you will learn how VMWare, Intel and Hewlett-Packard have teamed to create the "software-defined data center," the foundation for highly functional cloud solutions based on VMware vCloud Suite and HP CloudCenter technologies. View Now! Why every Mac owner should use Fast User Switching There are lots of good reasons to use OS X's multiuser support, even if you are just one person on one Mac. READ MORE Liquid cooling vs. traditional cooling: What you need to know Choosing the right cooling option can mean the difference between tearing through benchmarks or crashing and burning. READ MORE Review: Upgrades make Retina MacBook Pro a better bargain In the latest update to the Retina MacBook Pro, some models got price cuts, some received slightly faster processors, and some got a healthy bump in the amount of RAM. READ MORE 25 geekiest 25th anniversaries of 2013 A look back at the most memorable tech-related happenings of 1988 READ MORE BOOK GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of 'Effective JavaScript' ITworld is giving away 5 copies of "Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript" to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win! READ MORE BOOK GIVEAWAY Enter now for your chance to win! We've got 5 copies of each book to give to some lucky winners. Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript MOST POPULAR COBOL will outlive us all 7 frustrating things about being a programmer The CIA knows when you're hitting the gym 7 days with the Amazon Kindle Fire HD: Revealing its inner power-tablet The 9 most endangered species in IT Follow ITworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2013 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **