The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, tiny computer that’s about the size of a deck of cards. Now the group behind the mini-computer are going even smaller with the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module. It looks like a stick of laptop memory, and actually uses the same connector as a DDR2 SODIMM. But it’s got […]
Koush shows phone to Amazon Fire TV screen mirroring
Android app developer (and member of the Cyanogen team) Koushik Dutta offers a series of apps designed to let you stream content from an Android phone or tablet to a TV using an Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku, or other device. Not only can you stream photos, videos, or music from your phone with his […]
Report: Android TV is Google’s next attempt to conquer the living room
Google’s first attempt at creating software for TV boxes never gained much traction. Google TV had some good ideas, but it had a confusing user interface that made finding apps and content tougher than it had to be, and most Google TV devices were kind of sluggish. Now Google is reportedly making another play for […]
Flixster brings movie trailers, Ultraviolet videos to Chromecast
Flixster provides mobile apps that let you keep track of current and upcoming movies, read reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, watch trailers, and see what your friends like and/or want to see. When you buy a movie which uses Ultraviolet DRM, you can also use Flixster to unlock your movie and stream it over the internet. […]
Asus C200 Chromebook makes a surprise appearance
The first Chrome OS laptop from Asus appears to be just about ready to ship. The Taiwanese company recently launched its first desktop computer running Google’s Chrome operating system, but we’ve seen suggestions that Asus was also working on Chromebooks. Now Online Partner has posted a few pictures of the Asus Chromebox and the unannounced Asus […]
Lilbits (4-04-2014): Inside the Fire TV, Cyanogen’s new image
Amazon already told us that it’s new TV box has a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage along with the ability to stream music and videos, play games, and run other apps. But that’s not good enough for the folks at repair shop iFixit — they want to see all those […]
Rhapsody, Napster add support for Google Chromecast
Two more streaming music services are joining the ever-growing list of apps that support Chromecast. Now you can plug Google’s cheap media streamer into your TV’s HDMI port, fire up Rhapsody or Napster on your Android phone or tablet, and stream music to your TV. Like most big music streaming services these days, Rhapsody […]
AutoCast streams almost anything from Android to Chromecast, including notifications
You can use a Google Chromecast to stream video from YouTube, Netflix, or other online media sites to your TV. You can also find apps that let you stream content straight from your phone to Chromecast, play games on your TV screen, or even draw pictures. AutoCast goes a few steps further by letting you […]
Intel Sharks Cove is a Windows-compatible dev board, Microsoft says more to come
Want to develop software for a Windows PC? All you need is a Windows desktop or laptop and some software tools. But Windows doesn’t just run on notebooks and desktops anymore — a growing number of Windows devices are tablets, phones, and other devices which feature embedded hardware. So Microsoft is working with Intel and […]
WebOS team’s Mochi design language goes open source
It’s been almost three years since HP decided to scrap all of its webOS hardware and in that time some of the software has been released as an open source project, and much of the the webOS team has moved to LG to work on televisions. But the team has one more thing to give […]