Gadgetory

hey guys it's joe from pocketnow.com and today i'd like to show you something a little bit different doesn't have anything to do with android but it does have everything to do with how we get android content onto the site so today i'd like to show you my server closet like to show you my computer monitor and keyboard you might get a kick out of that and then my laptop where i render most of my videos let's go take a look at the closet did you ever wonder why they call a server closet a server closet well it's because you put your server in a closet it doesn't need to be out where everybody can see it just needs to be tucked away so there's my server but we'll get to that in just a minute over here you see my comcast cable modem how I bought this so I didn't have to pay a five dollar a month rental fee for it and I haven't had a lick a problem with it since I got it years and years ago moving over I've got a buffalo 802 11 and gigabit router which has served me very well I like it quite a bit but between these two devices it gets kind of hot so i hacked together a nice little hundred and twenty ml case fan hook that into a USB connector and it spins nice and slow sucks down just a little bit of power and it blows right across my buffalo router so keeps things nice and cool it doesn't take up too much power so it's really nice this buffalo moving to my next device has an ass feature so i can plug in a USB hard drive which is what i've done here and have network attached storage so kind of nice it's only 30 gig but this is the drive that i pulled out of my zune 30 when i upgraded my zune to a 100 gig zune back before the 120s were available so i had 100 gig zune in the spare 30 gig drive laying around so i bought this neat little enclosure hooked it up and look at that now i've got a 30 gig nas sitting there for whatever I want to do with it now this has Gigabit Ethernet on it which is really important when you're doing any kind of high bandwidth stuff like uploading videos for example but I ran out of ports quickly that's okay I got this little 10 100 switch gives me an extra five ports so it's pretty good and it's good for my low bandwidth stuff and when I say low bandwidth what do I mean well right next door I've got this neat little linksys VoIP box tried to standardize on linksys and then i went with buffalo and I've been really happy with the Buffalo so and what can I say but back to this this is a VoIP bak now in brandon's video you heard that he had vonage for voice over IP I did too and I loved it but then I heard about this Canadian company called les net le s net and they are wholesale VoIP provider and I found that for about five dollars a month I can get virtually everything that vonage gave me and I could have my own box so in fact I don't even need a box i can type my my sip settings into a sip provider on my android phone for example and use that for my phone provider it's really cool but this little box hooks up to my houses phone lines in fact it wherever that cable is it's hooked up somewhere and it just looks on into the phone line so the whole house can talk through that box over the internet and it's great so let's move down here I've got a little terabyte hard drive right there for backups and it stays on all the time connected via USB so the drives sleep and it takes a very little power except when it's doing backups so I really like that a lot now I've cracked the case open let me see if I can turn the light on here for you light up the inside I've cracked the side panel off so you can take a look inside I run it with it on all the time for better airflow what I've got here is a machine I built myself this is a quad core processor I have we're going to go diagonal or sideways here I've got two sticks of two gig ram so total of four this is a 64-bit system you'll notice something interesting down here I've got a good video card that's a sound blaster and then above that I've got a high-definition digital hauppage video card so this is my media center pc but you'll notice i don't have an extra video card in here i'll get to that in just a second move it on out I've got a whole bunch of hard drives right in there only one of them is hooked up it's a terabyte drive all the others are just standbys I'm going to raid those up one of these days I've got my DVD burner right there I took my power button off because I was always bumping that accidentally multi card reader a zip 250 drive from back when will you zip sand the throw back to floppies because you never know so that's the server now why don't I have a video card well the video adapter in there is pretty high-end it outputs 1080p without a problem so I don't have any problem at all of that and if you look over here on my UPS I'm pulling 92 wats right now recording high-definition on two different channels and running everything in this closet so for basically a little bit more than a light bulb I'm running my entire server closet not too bad and that's what I was shooting for the less power you use the cooler things are the cooler things are the longer your equipments going to last so that's the server closet now let me go out and show you what this is all hooked up to okay so i won't here in the living room we have this connected to my TV and I don't even know how big that is anymore 50 some odd inches but the nice thing about this is it's connected via HDMI so I can go right off of my motherboard into this TV and right now I'm just doing video though technically I could do audio over that hdmi port as well but I get full high-definition screen you can see here we've got pocket now up full width and I still have enough over on the side of the screen to to show you my system information so kind of nice now how do I get stuff into that computer well that's where I have my logitech keyboard in fact I think this is called the dinovo mini what this is just a little bluetooth keyboard various small in fact to show you side-by-side with my nexus one just how small this is it's not bad the keyboard itself is about the same size as the on-screen keyboard on the Nexus and it's got this little track pad on the side that functions either is a mouse or let the flip of the switch over here it can be a directional pad which I actually switch between those two quite often over here I've got my logitech 5.1 surround sound and I've got my subwoofer in the back over there I've got a Microsoft bluetooth mouse charger right next to it and are we and then over here we have my laptop this is a dell 11z i believe it's a dual-core processor it doesn't have an awful lot of power but this is where I do most of my writing and also most of the rendering of the video that i showed in the uploading one thing I found is 802 11 n not reliable if you want to upload half a gig with a video so i take this and i plug it in right over here to one of those at gigabit ethernet ports and it works just fine takes a little bit of time but it works great so that's the setup it works really really well in the future i'm probably going to get a little bit more hard drive space right that together so i've got more than a terabyte of space on the media center but you can tell I'm there's the closet that the computer is in and there's the cables that transfer out all of the video and audio to the 5.1 surround it works great so i can watch netflix on there i can watch DVDs i can stream stuff in from TV calm and i can watch all of the pocket now videos in high definition right there from the comfort of my own couch so taking a look at the hardware that powers pocketnow.com I'm Joe Levi if you thought this was kind of cool give the video a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed to our video channel yet now is the time to do it stay on top of all things in the smartphone arena all the trends all the tips tricks and hacks we cover android windows mobile windows phone 7 we've even got some blackberry some samsung proprietary 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