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Onkyo TX-NR616

For the past 20 years, I have been impressed with Onkyo products.  Not only from a feature perspective but value as well.  It is difficult to find receivers that offer more features and better performance for the cost.  I am happy to report that something’s never change.  Recently my 10 year old Onkyo started giving [...]

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Storage Spaces Performance-Server 2012 Essentials

Near and dear to my heart has been all the discussion on Storage Spaces.  I have tested the Server 2012 and the Window 8 versions for performance as compared to a hardware solution, and have consistently seen lower performance, especially from Windows 8.  Now that they have released the beta version of Server 2012 Essentials, [...]

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IOS Podcast APP

Apple Released a Podcast app today.  Rumored to be available only when IOS 6 was released, I was surprised to see it this early.  Here is short run through of the application and how it looks on the iPad.  Features on the iPhone are the same but screen layouts are obviously a bit different. The [...]

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