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July marks a turning point for the OneButton team... our fearless leader has gone East and turned our one-time Boulder, CO based business into a multiple location powerhouse! We're now not only in the Boulder/denver area, but in NYC!

Matt and Erin (of Room214 Social Media Engineers) set up shop in a great location overlooking the river, and I'm sure we'll be seeing lots of Tweets and pics from them both.

We wish them much success and happiness out East... as long as they remember to come home and visit us now and again!

Regarding 3D HDTV

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CES was all about the 3D tv's this year. Personally I'm somewhat torn on the experience. On one hand, it's gotten really good. The experience is pretty compelling, both for movies and for games. However I just can seem to envision a group of people sitting in their living room with the silly glasses on to watch content. People are typically less engaged while watching tv, movies these days (If I'm watching TV at all, its always with my laptop in lap) and this requires more engagement.

Setup Sonos using Network drive

Using your sonos to stream music from a NAS (network attached storage) drive can have its advantages as you don't need to keep a computer on all the time. Sonos makes it pretty easy but on OS X there's a small catch to the drive name. We'll walk through the process here:

Step 1) 

Select "Setup Music Library" from the Music tab in the Sonos Controller

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Step 2)

Click Add to create a new library pointer

Top Tech for your startup

A collection of a few of the tools we use at OneButton on a day to day basis:

Accountancy

Neat receipts [$139] An accountancy app coupled with a receipt/doc/card scanner 

New Cable modem nets 5x the speed

I've had a motorola Surfboard modem on Comcast for a few years now. Ross Carlson gave me a tip about getting better speeds if you buy your own modem instead of renting from Comcast. After installing my own modem, my speeds jumped 5x!

Check the chart below. I went from getting 3900kbps consistently to 13500 to 22500kpbs. The rogue low score in there was done while streaming Heroes in HD. So even while streaming HD I get better throughput than before! awesome!

 

OldSkool vs. Sonos

Steve's NYC's system before... and after our Sonos install. All that gear doesn't provide for any more functionality or features. In fact, Sonos now gives him Wireless/Computer/iPhone based control.

While the old system just provided CD changer and iTunes access, Sonos plays Pandora/Rhapsody/Napster/XM/Sirius/Internet Radio as well as iTunes. 

Mouse Over the picture for the new vs. old size comparison.

OneButton at the Boulder Peak Triathalon

onebutton.jpgEvery year many of us at OneButton ride in the MS150, a 150 mile bike ride over 2 days. Last year the 13 person OneButton team raised over $8,000 to help cure MS.

This year was a bit different, due to my 104.4 temperature from heat stroke we did not do the MS150 ride this year. Instead, I did my first triathalon- The Boulder Peak (which was actually a duathlon for me). The Peak is an Olympic distance with a 1.5k swim, 42k ride and 10k run.

Apple TV vs. Blu-Ray HD comparison

The purpose of this comparison is to notice the visual difference between Blu-Ray disks which have access to as much as 50GB while the Apple TV downloads usually are 4-6GB in size.

The difference in image quality represents a 5x greater compression for the Apple TV. This difference is usually fairly minimal. The most obvious difference is a slightly compressed color pallet in subtle gradations and the lower resolution source file at 720p. When viewed from a distance of greater than 10ft (on the 61" display) the quality differences are not apparent.

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