Archive for March, 2007

Tax TIP

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

It’s Tax time. If you live in California then you must have one or more cars. Go to this website to calculate the VLF you’ve paid:

https://mv.dmv.ca.gov/FeeCalculatorWeb/vlfFees.do

In case you don’t know, you can deduct VLF in your itemized deductions. The calculator is really handy since I alway throw away that license renewal notice right after its done.

Mac Mini as an entertainment center

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Right out of the box, the Max Mini has almost everything an entertainment center needs to have:

  1. A decent DVD player;
  2. High definition output via DVI;
  3. Music (iTune), Video (Quicktime or MPlayer) and Photo (iPhoto);
  4. Integrated media control via Frontrow;

On top of that, you have all the glamour and functions of OS X and networking capability to pull content from the web or your other PC/Mac boxes. And with the famous Apple polish and a size smaller than your lunch box, it looks right belongs to your newly decorated living room.

So why pay $2000 for a media center PC or even expensive custom job, when you can get all this for as little as $600. I’m going to try it next week when my new HDTV arrives.