Zenith 5-s-29 Radio Case Mod

1930s Zenith 5-s-29 Radio Case Mod

Amazing Zenith 5-s-29 Radio Case Mod is demonstrated on the bit-tech.net. Stylish design, wooden case, water colling, highlighting and more. See the step by step case building process. That kind of PC will fit very well into antique style living or study room in the house.

Look! The good example of TV installation

LCD TV and sound installation

Just found that picture on the Unplggd web site. Probably this is the best TV installation I seen ever! No any visible wires and stylish audio components. I’d like to know more about that installation. So, if you have some info, please, drop the comment.

UPDATE: The installation is used KEF KHT 3005 5.1 surround sound system (thanks to Paulo Hoppe for info!).

How to hide your TV

8 Ways to Hide a TV

If you think that modern TV doesn’t fit design of your house you may want to hide it somehow. But it should be easy to access it when you’d like to watch it. ElectricHouse gives you an idea how to do it by demonstrating 8 ways to hide you TV. You can find there expensive solutions as well as simple and cheap. I like an all-in-one solution from VisionArt called the Trio (on the picture above), which comes with an LED HDTV, frame and retractable artwork.

Wooden case for HTPC

nMedia PC HTPC 8000

nMediaPC offers to HTPC enthusiasts and professional installers absolute special case – HTPC 8000. It’s completely wooden. Just has a metal plate on the front. The case is suitable for ATX and Micro ATX motherboards and offers four 3.5″ and one 5.25” bays. Up to seven full size expansion cards can be installed in the HTPC 8000. To chill equipment inside it’s used 140mm case fan. The front panel hosts optical drive door, VFD display (optional), e-SATA, HD Audio, couple USB ports and card reader. And, thank goodness, there is no any blinding lights there!

The HTPC 8000 is too big to fit into ordinary A/V stand – 500mm(W) X 365mm(H) X 280mm(D). But the stylish antique red wood design helps to integrate it into your interior. I’d like to mention that case is not a concept for some exhibition. You can buy it just for $120! Moreover, the wooden case makes less noise than ordinary metal one.

Not sure that I’d buy the wooden HTPC 8000. But it can be right choice for some non hi-tech interiors.

New design for LinuxMCE UI1

orbiter-titanium

LinuxMCE 0810 will have new design of its user interface called Titanium (see UI1 – SLD based GUI, on the picture above). In my opinion it looks more professional then old one. Moreover, users will be able to choose one of the several variation with different data grid colour.

All changes were done without special tool for designing LinuxMCE GUI HADesigner. Instead of that the graphic files were modified in the directory /usr/pluto/orbiter/skins/Basic. A little bit earlier I changed background for media file browser UI2 (OpenGL GUI verion) using the same approach. Because it was difficult to read movie titles with black letters on the dark green. By the way, Titanium will be also available for UI2 soon.

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