Sergiy Babych

Sergiy Babych
Oct 18, 2015
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Nvidia will no longer publish new drivers on its website.

Nvidia plans to begin releasing Game Ready drivers for its video cards exclusively through the GeForce Experience application. To download them, you will need to register with an email. These drivers are released before the launch of major games. They improve performance. The discontinuation of the usual distribution methods for these drivers is ...

Sergiy Babych
Oct 18, 2015
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OpenELEC 6.0 has entered Beta 5.

The OpenELEC team is proud to announce the release of OpenELEC 6.0 Beta 5 (v5.95.5). The most notable change is Kodi 15.1 (Isengard). Starting with Kodi 15.0, the audio encoder, audio decoder, PVR, and visualization add-ons are no longer included in the base OS, but they are available through the Kodi Add-on Manager and can be installed from there ...

Sergiy Babych
Oct 11, 2015
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What is OpenELEC?

OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) – A GNU/Linuxhome theater distribution for a PC, based on the Kodimedia player (new name XBMC). The idea behind OpenELEC is to allow people to use a home theater HTPC like any other device, attached to a TV, like a DVD player or Sky Box. Instead of managing a full operating system, ...

Sergiy Babych
Oct 7, 2015
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Hardware Test - MeLE PCG03 MiniPC

Nowadays, thanks to the ever-increasing miniaturization, you can buy even smaller HTPC devices, which can still prove useful as a very energy-efficient office computer.For testing, I chose a product from the highly respected company MeLE. Since the beginning of this year, they have been offering the PCG03 and PCG09 box models, and since May, the ...

Sergiy Babych
Oct 7, 2015
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Hardware test - VenBOX ITV-K1 with DVB-T2 tuner

Android Box devices are primarily designed for multimedia playback. They are used for watching movies online or in-store via connected data carriers. However, these functions can be expanded to include traditional television – this requires equipment with a digital TV tuner. You can read a review of the Android Box device called VenBOX ITV-K1 in ...

Sergiy Babych
Oct 7, 2015
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Google denies Android Auto data collection allegations

The day before, Motor Trend magazine reported that Porsche had decided to abandon Android Auto for its 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera S vehicles in favor of Apple's CarPlay. According to the publication, the manufacturer came to this decision because of the amount of data that Google wanted to collect with its system: from vehicle speed to oil ...

Sergiy Babych
Oct 5, 2015
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How to create a Google Play account on Android

The official Google Play store offers hundreds of thousands of different applications for devices running the Android operating system. But to download new games or useful software to your gadget, you need to set up your account in the Google store. To work with the Google Play store, you need a Google account — A single pass to all company ...

Sergiy Babych
Oct 1, 2015
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The number of Android users has grown to 1.4 billion.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced before the presentation of the new Nexus smartphones that the number of users of the company's mobile operating system has reached 1.4 billion people. According to the head of the corporation, the popularity of the mobile platform is due to the fact that Google has always focused on the release of large-scale and ...

Sergiy Babych
Sep 28, 2015
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The History of HTPCs

HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer) —— a personal computer equipped with software and, in some cases, hardware that allows it to be used as a home theater computer. In addition, the term is used to describe home theater systems that include a computer, television, and audio system. The integration of television and ...

Sergiy Babych
Sep 18, 2015
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The Windows 10 Start Menu can't handle more than 512 items.

In Windows 10, Microsoft took the best of Windows 7 and Windows 8, and most importantly, brought back the Start button. However, it is far from the declared perfection. A bug related to the accumulation of a large number of items in the Start menu was discovered in Windows 10. Users of the new operating system began to complain that they ...