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« on: May 06, 2016, 07:30:08 PM »
Got two Moto G Cellphones in good condition. Screen protector and case already on them.
$500 for one.
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« on: January 12, 2016, 10:57:30 AM »
I'm selling my Sony SGPT111US/S Wi-Fi Tablet for $600. It is in good condition. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-SGPT111US-Wi-Fi-Tablet-16GB/dp/B005FXYJZY/https://youtu.be/VGksVK-z4fYKey features include: - NVIDIA Tegra2 Processor; 9.4-inch Display - Front and Rear Camera. Front 0.3 Megapixel. Rear 5.0 Megapixel - Bluetooth Integrated Stereo - Full-size SD Card slot - USB host means that with a micro USB to female USB OTG cable you can use flash drives, externally powered hard drives, as well as USB game controllers, keyboards and mice. - You can copy files to the tablet from your computer using a standard micro USB cable that's included with most Android smartphones and tablets. - You can use the Sony Tablet S's universal remote to control home entertainment devices using its integrated infrared (IR) Includes tablet, charger and carrying case. Sent from my SM-G900T using Tapatalk
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« on: January 08, 2015, 10:49:25 PM »
This site is very cool. Lets you share your videos right from your browser to watch movies with others. We should do a GATT online movie night. http://lifehacker.com/rabbit-lets-you-watch-netflix-youtube-browse-the-web-1678199419https://rabb.it/Chrome/Opera: Watching Netflix online with other people usually involves counting down and hitting play together. Rabbit gets around this by allowing everyone to watch the same feed together. The service supports Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, or anything that runs in the browser. At its core, Rabbit is a group chat service with voice and video support. In that respect, it's not much different than Hangouts. Where it distinguishes itself, however, is by allowing you to launch a window where you and your other guests can watch things like Netflix together. As you'll quickly notice, what you're really watching is a small virtualized Chrome instance, so anything that can be played in a browser can be shared with your friends. It even has Adblock Plus pre-installed. https://rabb.it/
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« on: December 07, 2014, 03:57:12 PM »
Selling my new Syma X5C Quadcopter (only used it twice)
Comes with -
Built in camera
2 Batteries
2 sets of prop protectors
2 sets of replacement blades
2 remote controls
2 Gid Memory card
2 usb sd card adapters
2 chargers
Price: $500
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« on: December 04, 2014, 10:37:48 PM »
SSD durability looking really impressive yes.... http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytesMORE THAN A YEAR AGO, we drafted six SSDs for a suicide mission. We were curious about how many writes they could survive before burning out. We also wanted to track how each one's performance characteristics and health statistics changed as the writes accumulated. And, somewhat morbidly, we wanted to watch what happened when the drives finally expired. Our SSD Endurance Experiment has left four casualties in its wake so far. Representatives from the Corsair Neutron Series GTX, Intel 335 Series, Kingston HyperX 3K, and Samsung 840 Series all perished to satisfy our curiosity. Each one absorbed far more damage than its official endurance specification promised—and far more than the vast majority of users are likely to inflict. The last victim fell at 1.2PB, which is barely a speck in the rear-view mirror for our remaining subjects. The 840 Pro and a second HyperX 3K have now reached two freaking petabytes of writes. To put that figure into perspective, the SSDs in my main desktop have logged less than two terabytes of writes over the past couple years. At this rate, it'll take me a thousand years to reach that total. So, yeah. Pretty insane. It's time for another check-up.
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« on: August 27, 2014, 03:58:25 PM »
A good comparison for those looking for online storage plans. http://gizmodo.com/dropbox-google-drive-and-more-whats-the-best-cloud-st-1627423823Cloud storage bigwig Dropbox just slashed the price of its plans, offering 1TB of storage for $10 per month. And it's not alone. Over the last year, most of the major players have been cutting prices and upping sizes. So what's the best option today? The price of storage has gotten so cheap that most of the serious options you would consider are almost giving it away. Dropbox, MediaFire, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive all offer 1TB for $10 a month or less. And MediaFire's $2.50 fire sale is an unbelievably good deal; it's amazing more people don't talk about. iCloud and Box seem like pretty pathetic options by comparison.
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« on: August 09, 2014, 11:18:02 AM »
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« on: June 15, 2014, 01:28:18 PM »
I think the verdict is still out on this... http://science.howstuffworks.com/gamer-soldier.htmWhether it's Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 or Halo on the Xbox 360, no video game has been without people eager to point out its benefits and dangers. Concerned parents have led the continued demand for studies on video games to determine the impact of media on their kids. Can video games make you better at school or on the job? It's true that games can be educational and improve hand-eye coordination, which have positive real-life applications. Studies of violent video games, though, suggest a correlation between the games and increased aggression and anti-social behavior. So, whether or not you benefit could have more to do with which games you choose to play. No matter the game, however, there are universal concerns that significant time spent playing games can negatively affect your physical and mental health. For example, increases in childhood obesity are linked to kids exercising less, which may be attributed to watching television or playing video games. Innovations like the Nintendo Wii game console address this with a "get off the couch" approach, requiring the player to balance on a board or move their arms to control game play. This article explores whether those who play video games make better soldiers. Is the first-person shooter experience a realistic introduction? Do gamers have better tactical skills? Let's start with a general look at how video games can aid in education and training.
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« on: May 09, 2014, 08:41:24 PM »
Ever tried the Beats By Dre Headphones? http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-how-monster-lost-the-worldThere's never been anything like Beats By Dre. The bulky rainbow headphones are a gaudy staple of malls, planes, clubs, and sidewalks everywhere: as mammoth, beloved, and expensive as their namesake. But Dr. Dre didn't just hatch the flashy lineup from his freight train chest: The venture began as an unlikely partnership between a record-industry powerhouse and a boutique audio company best known for making overpriced HDMI cables. You might know this; you might own a pair of beats that still has Monster's tiny, subjugated logo printed on them. But what you don't know is how, in inking the deal, Monster screwed itself out of a fortune. It's the classic David vs Goliath story—with one minor edit: David gets his ass kicked and is laughed out of the arena. This is the inside story of one of the all time worst deals in tech. The route to a rapper-gadget sensation doesn't start in the VIP section of a club over a bottle of Cristal. The idea wasn't hatched in the back of a Maybach or in a boardroom whose walls are decked out in platinum records and shark tanks. Before Dre got paid, and red 'B' logos clamped millions young heads across the globe, the son of Chinese immigrants started toying with audio equipment in California. Beats begins with Monster, Inc., and Monster begins with Noel Lee. He's a friendly, incredibly smart man with a comic-book hairstyle and a disability that adds to his supervillain stature: Lee is unable to walk. Instead, he glides around on a chrome-plated Segway. Lee has been making things for your ears since 1979, after he took an engineering education and spun it into a components business with one lucrative premise: your music doesn't sound as good as it could. In true Silicon Valley fashion, Lee started out in his family's basement: taste-testing different varieties of copper wire until he found a type that he thought enhanced audio quality. Then, also in Silicon Valley fashion, he marketed the shit out of it and jacked up its price: Monster Cable. Before it was ever mentioned in the same gasp as Dre, Monster was trying to get music lovers to buy into a superior sound that existed mostly in imaginations and marketing brochures. "We came up with a reinvention of what a speaker cable could be," Noel Lee boasts. His son, Kevin, describes it differently: "a cure for no disease." Monster expanded into pricey HDMI cables, surge protectors, and... five different kinds of screen-cleaner. Unnecessary, overpriced items like these have earned Monster a reputation over the years as ripoff artists, but that belies the company's ability to make audio products that are actually pretty great. The truth is, audio cable is a lot like expensive basketball shoes: There are a couple hundred people in the world who really need the best, and the rest of us probably can't tell the difference. Doesn't matter: Through a combination of slick persuasion and status-pushing, Noel Lee carved out a small empire. But you can only sell so many $200 cables. The next step was speakers, but the company started in on speakers too late; the hi-fi era was over. Plenty of people were content with the sound their TVs made, or at most, a soundbar. Monster took a bath. But speakers for your head? This was the absolute, legit next big thing. http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-how-monster-lost-the-world
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« on: May 07, 2014, 09:27:28 PM »
Interesting read... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/technology/the-unlikely-ascent-of-jack-ma-alibabas-founder.html?_r=0What is Alibaba Video: http://nyti.ms/SxPHEmHONG KONG — The first time Jack Ma used the Internet, in 1995, he searched for “beer” and “China” but found no results. Intrigued, he created a basic web page for a Chinese translation service with a friend. Within hours, he received a handful of emails from around the world requesting information. It was an introduction to the power of the web that would drive Mr. Ma to create the Alibaba Group four years later. Today, Alibaba is China’s largest online retailer, with merchandise volumes that lag only Walmart, worldwide. The e-commerce giant is also moving forward with plans for a stock sale that is expected to rival Facebook’s $16 billion offering two years ago. If successful, the deal would help vault Alibaba and Mr. Ma, who owns 8.9 percent of the company, to the highest ranks of technology industry titans. Some of the statistics in Alibaba's filing for its initial public offering revealed the potential the Chinese e-commerce giant still has to grow.Bits Blog: Alibaba, by the NumbersMAY 6, 2014 Mr. Ma’s ascent to dot-com billionaire is remarkable for not following the traditional script. Unlike Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Steven P. Jobs or Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Mr. Ma, 49, has no background in computing and professes not to understand technology. Raised during China’s Cultural Revolution, Mr. Ma began his career as an English teacher. Instead, his role at Alibaba has always been as the company’s main strategist, a flamboyant motivator in chief to his staff and a relentless opponent to those who have competed against him. Alibaba’s two main websites, Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com, now account for 60 percent of the packages shipped through the Chinese postal system. “He effectively represents millions of people who now depend on Alibaba for their livelihood,” said Duncan Clark, who has known Mr. Ma since the late 1990s and is the chairman of BDA China, a consulting firm in Beijing that focuses on the digital and consumer sectors. “That’s a constituency. He’s a politician with a small ‘p.' ” He has also proved to be a serial disrupter — an outsider with a knack for creating new markets by reimagining old industries like retailing or finance. Alibaba and Mr. Ma are shaking up some of China’s most staid, state-dominated industries, starting ventures in banking and finance and mobile phone communications. He is even moving into the department store business and film production. “Innovation in many industries has been triggered by outsiders,” Mr. Ma wrote last June in an opinion article in The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party — an unusual move for a private sector entrepreneur. He was putting the country’s state banks on notice. Publication of the article coincided with the start of Yu’e Bao, a high-interest money market product that Alibaba initiated to attract investment from its customers’ online payment accounts. As of February, 81 million people had signed up for the product, which had $40 billion in assets under management. “The finance industry needs a disrupter, it needs an outsider to come in and carry out a transformation,” Mr. Ma wrote in the article. He brings his own flair to the role. At a 2009 stadium rally to celebrate the anniversary of Alibaba, he emerged on stage wearing a waist-length blond wig, a black leather jacket with red flame and metal stud accents, sunglasses and lipstick. Raising a microphone, he ripped into a stilted rendition of “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?,” eliciting cheers from the crowd of 16,000 employees. Since the beginning, Mr. Ma has shown a knack for thinking differently. At a time when few Chinese households had their own computers, Mr. Ma in 1995 made the decision to leave teaching to set up an online business. In his hometown, Hangzhou, an eastern city about 100 miles from Shanghai, Mr. Ma established one of the country’s first officially registered Internet companies, a business index site called China Pages. Cui Luhai, who was then running a computer animation business, met with Mr. Ma at the China Pages office to learn more about his plans for the website. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/technology/the-unlikely-ascent-of-jack-ma-alibabas-founder.html?_r=0
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« on: May 01, 2014, 11:36:57 PM »
Rough times ahead... http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/05/01/sony-financial-trouble/As far as Sony is concerned, the PlayStation 4 is doing exceptionally well. The new console is outselling both the Xbox One and Wii U, and it has an early lead in the generation race that doesn’t seem likely to let up anytime soon. Put plainly, the PlayStation 4 is kicking butt. Attribute that success to quality hardware, good branding, nice pricing and top-notch customer appreciation during an aggressive and strong marketing campaign. This is a company that managed to sway the adoration of gamers away from the Xbox platform, practically turning the Xbox One into a villain near E3. But, let’s shift our focus to the rest of the Sony lineup. The Japanese corporation makes a lot more than video game consoles, and it was once the market leader in home and portable entertainment. Sony practically set the standard for audiovisual goods for a very long time. Today? Sony’s in trouble. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, once in charge of the PlayStation arm of the company, announced another large profit forecast reduction this morning. Sony has lowered estimates two other times for the outcome of the fiscal year that ended in March 2014. Now? Hirai and Sony are warning shareholders that its operating income is set to dip from 80 billion yen to 26 billion (roughly $782 million to $254 million). The results will release in the middle of this month. The company is trying to address its issues. Hirai is new, and he and the other executives have already elected to ditch the PC manufacturing arm of Sony. Unfortunately, the bloat extends well beyond just the Vaio line.
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« on: May 01, 2014, 03:10:21 PM »
Whether you love or hate Origin, can't agree with free games  http://lifehacker.com/download-free-aaa-computer-games-from-ea-origins-on-th-1570077659Windows: Electronic Arts has launched a new initiative called "On The House" which lets you download full-version PC games for free.P As far as we can tell, there is no catch here. All you need is an EA Origin account and the software installed on your Windows computer (okay, for some, that is the catch). Every month, EA will be giving away a new game to download to your hard drive for free, and the first one on offer is Dead Space, which expires on May 8.1
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« on: April 28, 2014, 08:50:28 AM »
https://2014.spaceappschallenge.org/project/pip-boy-3000/Description Problem Space is no longer accomplished by the public sector space agencies. Now, commercial space companies have expanded the market for space technology. Your challenge is to design wearable clothing and accessories that could be useful for space travelers and/or the engineers and technicians involved with ground processing spacecraft and rockets. If possible, build a prototype(s) (hardware or software) during the 48-hour Space Apps marathon. Incorporate understanding of challenges of working in the hostile off-planet environment into your wearable space designs that can improve the quality and safety of our explorers. Solution: Pip-Boy 3000 We wanted to make a piece of popular science fiction into a reality so we chose the Pip-Boy 3000 from the game Fallout 3. The goal was to bring environmental sensors into an easy-to-use cuff device that could help a wearer determine if their environment is safe for navigation or helmet removal. 
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« on: April 27, 2014, 11:59:31 PM »
Ah next COD game for the fps fans :p Update : Call of duty advanced warfare leaked video and images. http://www.destructoid.com/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-leaked-see-the-first-video-and-images-274126.phtmlhttp://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/472074/First-picture-of-almost-lifelike-Call-of-Duty-on-Playstation-4-PS4-and-Xbox-One-revealed While the image only shows a close up of one soldier and a partial shot of another in the background it reveals almost lifelike graphics. The unnamed title is the first game in the hugely popular series to be developed solely for next generation consoles the PS4 and Xbox One. The almost photo realistic graphics were showcased by Sledgehammer Games, who are making a CoD game for the first time. First glimpse of new Call of Duty game on Playstation 4 (PS4) and Xbox One It was unveiled at a Game Developers Conference 2014 panel titled Quest for Quality: Maximizing the Relationship Between Creative and Production. Publishers Activision had previously said the latest CoD would be the first game in the series to be developed as a "priority" for the latest consoles. Activision chief Eric Hirshberg said: "Obviously in the console-transition year, anyone who developed a cross-generational game last year had to deal with the fact that the technology of the next-gen platforms was still coming into focus and changing quite a bit during the development process. "Now that we have the next-gen hardware out in the marketplace and solid, that is our primary development." The new Call of Duty title is expected to be released in November later this year when the latest CoD games invariably arrive in shops worldwide. It follows in the footsteps of last year's Call of Duty: Ghosts which was the second best selling game of 2013. In the space of a few months it sold 12.71million copies worldwide. That game was the first CoD title to be released on the PS4 and Xbox One but it was also developed for previous generation consoles. It was released on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and the Nintendo Wii U.
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« on: April 22, 2014, 04:04:46 PM »
Selling my Wii as I don't use it. Just tested it, works great.
Includes the following:
Nintendo Wii system
Nintendo wii stand
Original box with manual
2 nunchuk controllers
2 wand controllers
2 silicon cases for wands
2 steering wheel accessories
Rayman raving rabbids
Red Steel
Super Mario Galaxy
Mariokart
Wario Ware Smooth Moves
Price: $900
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« on: April 21, 2014, 04:28:30 PM »
Looks like monthly fee going up... http://gizmodo.com/netflix-is-going-to-raise-prices-for-new-users-1565717395Bad news: Netflix will be hiking its prices for new subscribers. Per a first quarter letter to shareholders, CEO Reed Hastings says: Our current view is to do a one or two dollar increase, depending on the country, later this quarter for new members only. Hastings added that the $8 rate for existing customers will stand for a "generous time period." It will only be a dollar or two a month, which isn't much, but if you've been thinking about signing up for Netflix and you haven't already, now might be the time if you want to save a few bucks. Hastings hasn't mentioned when this is happening, just that it is going to happen at some point.
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« on: April 20, 2014, 09:32:33 PM »
Selling my copy of the last of us (ps3 game)
$200
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« on: April 18, 2014, 10:08:02 PM »
The search for life in outer space continues... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/science/space/scientists-find-an-earth-twin-or-maybe-a-cousin.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1It is a bit bigger and somewhat colder, but a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far, astronomers announced on Thursday. The planet, known as Kepler 186f, named after NASA’s Kepler planet-finding mission, which detected it, has a diameter of 8,700 miles, 10 percent wider than Earth, and its orbit lies within the “Goldilocks zone” of its star, Kepler 186 — not too hot, not too cold, where temperatures could allow for liquid water to flow at the surface, making it potentially hospitable for life. “Kepler 186f is the first validated, Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star,” Elisa V. Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., said at a news conference on Thursday. “It has the right size and is at the right distance to have properties similar to our home planet.” Dr. Quintana is the lead author of a scientific paper describing the findings in this week’s issue of the journal Science. Kepler 186f is the latest planet to be sifted out of the voluminous data collected by Kepler, which kept watch over 150,000 stars, looking for slight drops in brightness when a planet passed in front. Just Right for Water Kepler 186f is the fifth planet found orbiting Kepler 186 and the first Earth-size planet found in a star’s habitable zone, where water might remain liquid on a planet’s surface. This follows the announcement last year that another star, Kepler 62, has two planets in its habitable zone, but those two were “super Earths,” with masses probably several times that of Earth. The gravity of those planets might be strong enough to pull in helium and hydrogen gases, making them more like mini-Neptunes than large Earths. With its smaller size, Kepler 186f is more likely to have an Earth-like rocky surface, another step in astronomers’ quest for what might be called Earth 2.0. “It’s a progression,” said another member of the discovery team, Thomas S. Barclay of the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. “This planet really reminds us of Earth.” The researchers speculate that it is made of the same stuff as Earth — iron, rock, ice, liquid water, although the relative amounts could be very different. The gravity on Kepler 186f, too, is likely to be roughly the same as Earth’s. “You could far more easily imagine someone being able to go there and walk around on the surface,” Stephen Kane, an astronomer at San Francisco State University and another member of the research team, said in an interview. Kepler 186f is not a perfect replica, however. It is closer to its star — a red dwarf that is smaller, cooler and fainter than our sun — than the Earth is to its; its year, the time to complete one orbit, is 130 days, not 365. It is also at the outer edge of the habitable zone, receiving less warmth, so perhaps more of its surface would freeze. “Perhaps it’s more of an Earth cousin than an Earth twin,” Dr. Barclay said. On the other hand, with its greater mass, Kepler 186f could conceivably have a thicker, insulating atmosphere to compensate. Red dwarfs emit more of their light at the longer infrared wavelengths, which would be more readily absorbed and trapped by ice and gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide. “This makes the planet more efficient at absorbing energy from its star to avoid freezing over,” said Victoria Meadows, an astrobiologist and planetary astronomer at the University of Washington. “Which is why this planet is still considered potentially habitable, as long as it has a dense enough atmosphere, even though it receives less light from its star than Mars does from our sun.” She added, “It’s fun to note that if the planet is habitable, photosynthesis may be possible.” At the wavelengths that plants need, Kepler 186f receives only about a sixth as much light as Earth does, but “there are plenty of Earth plants that would be quite happy with that,” Dr. Meadows said. Astronomers cannot tell the exact age of the star, but such dwarfs are the longest-lived stars in the universe. If Kepler 186f is habitable, life would have had plenty of time — billions of years — to take hold. But speculation about the planet will remain speculation for a long time, if not forever. The Kepler measurements indicated only the size of Kepler 186f. It is too far away for astronomers to discern its mass, much less whether it has an atmosphere and oceans or if it teems with living creatures. Nonetheless, since dwarfs are the most plentiful type of star in the galaxy, astronomers are hopeful that Earth twins are plentiful, and that some will be found close by, allowing other telescopes to make temperature and mass measurements or to identify molecules in the atmosphere. Kepler’s original mission ended last year, with the failure of equipment that kept the telescope precisely pointed, but scientists still have years of work in analyzing the data, which has so far yielded 962 confirmed planets. More than 2,800 planet candidates remain to be studied. Correction: April 17, 2014 An earlier version of this article misstated the number of planet candidates found by Kepler that remain to be studied. It is 2,800, not 3,800.
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« on: April 17, 2014, 10:16:06 PM »
So I bought an Amazon Fire TV to use primarily with XBMC. Made a new thread to document my findings.   Included in the box are a remote, aaa batteries, power adapter, the fire tv unit itself and a quick start guide.  The device itself feels very solid and isn't very thick.   For reference, size compared to a Samsung Galaxy S4. Ok so I used this guide to get XBMC onto the Fire TV, it was very straightforward. I opted to go with SPMC for now though there is a stable Gotham build available, will try it out when I get chance. Instructions I followed are here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Fire_TVAnd here it is, I played a 1080p file from my Raspberry Pi over my network to the Fire TV. It handled it quite well.  So far the only issue for me is that there is no way to place sideloaded apps onto the home screen. To access them you have to go to Settings -> Applications -> Installed apps. The workaround right now is to set it to autostart when the Fire TV is turned on. Hopefully root will allow for placing sideloaded apps onto the homescreen. Overall I am impressed with the performance, it is pretty fast and runs silent as it is passively cooled. Definitely would recommend to those looking for a cheap way to stream content over a local network and also from Hulu, netflix, Amazon Instant Video etc. Update: So after some more tests I realize that there is some stuttering occurring in several videos. It doesn't seem to be connected to hardware as CPU usage is well under 60%, also it happens using both wired and wireless connections. I ruled out my raspberry pi server as the culprit since the same videos play flawlessly when streamed to my Samsung Smart TV. After checking out XDA forums it seems as though others are getting the same issue since the XBMC builds for Fire TV aren't quite there yet. I tested both SPMC and the latest Gotham nightly build of XBMC, same results. So my verdict right now would be to hold off on the Fire TV for a few weeks until this is resolved. Will keep yall posted when I get the Fire TV running 100% with XBMC.  
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