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SoundSwitch Aims To Make Audio Switching Hassle Free
If you find yourself constantly switching between your audio devices, SoundSwitch may be the software you’re looking for, the program aims to make switching devices hassle free and simple. Normally, to switch devices, it involves using the system tray and choosing your playback device. This isn’t a huge amount of…
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Thecus NAS Enhances Multimedia Features with KODI
XMBC entertainment center was originally built for the hacker-friendly Xbox and last year they broke away from that naming. It has long been the go-to media player for HTPC builders and to show the change in direction the app was taking the developers decided it needed a new name. Now…
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YouTube Live Streaming Now Available With HTML5 and 60FPS Support
It looks like the old Flash Player is going to be scrapped sooner than expected. After enabling support for HTML5 video playback, YouTube is now extending that support to live streaming sessions. This means that users can now watch live streaming videos on HTML5-enabled browsers and at 60FPS! The slow…
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3D Robotics Launch DroneKit Open Source API for App Development
It looks like 3D Robotics have launched the DroneKit API for drone app development as a free open source software. The API can be used to develop apps for drones or onboard drone software, having it be completely flexible and multi-platform oriented. “Unlike other APIs for drones, there are no…
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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Can Play 4K Video Files
TUAW reports that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are both capable of playing 4K video files, although not at full 4K resolution. The devices are able to run and play the high resolution video smoothly without interruption, the only limitation being the fact that the displays have resolutions of 1334…
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MediaTek Announces Its Quad-Core Cortex-A7 MT8127 Soc Featuring the Mali-450 MP4 GPU
MediaTek has just announced its newest addition to its SoC empire, the MT8127, which is said to offer full hardware support for the new HEVC or H.265 video playback standard, allowing videos to play with an average of up to 50% less video bandwidth consumption compared to the previous H.264…
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