Archive for Michael Lankton
Michael was a bass player in a hardcore punk band in the 80's and spent the 90's building and riding custom Harleys. As strange a combination as it may seem, Mike also has some coder and sysadmin in his history as well. At 42 Mike's now a husband and dad, and works as a Corrections Officer in a maximum security lockdown unit by day, and is admin at AV Enthusiast and contributor to Connected Internet when time allows. Mike is also passionate about food and travel.
Universal Remote Roundup, Part 2
If you are using more than one remote to control your home theater it is time you started thinking about a good universal remote. A good universal is indispensable, and if you’ve never had one, shying away from the expense and sticking to whatever your cable or satellite provider gave you, it’s time to wake [...]
25Sep2008 | Michael Lankton | 1 comment | Continued
Universal Remote Roundup, Part 1
It isn’t just gearheads who have lots of av equipment anymore. Everyone that sees high definition and hears multichannel sound wants to know what they need to do to have that experience in their home. More and more equipment is ending up in mass market users’ homes as people chase better sound and image. One [...]
17Sep2008 | Michael Lankton | 1 comment | Continued
Virtual Fear: 10 Scary Videogames, Part 2
I loved scary movies as a child, and I love them as an adult, for reasons both same and different. Horror captures some communal subconscious memory we’re all connected to. It’s about adrenalin, mystery, and trying to find something out about something that is unknowable.
10Sep2008 | Michael Lankton | 1 comment | Continued
Virtual Fear: 10 Scary Videogames, Part 1
Being a console gamer, I missed the text based pc horror games of the 80s. (I also never found the Alone in the Dark series scary, for all of you who are going to reference that game as the genesis of fear on the videogame console.) Despite the fact that a couple 16 bit titles [...]
3Sep2008 | Michael Lankton | 2 comments | Continued
Playstation 3 Remote Control Solutions
One remote to rule them all
One remote to find them
One remote to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Impressions Of A New Playstation 3 Owner
OK, I was late to the game buying a PS3. I had actually sold my PS2 in anticipation of picking one up at launch, but frankly the combination of excessive price, no software, and no interest in Blu Ray put me off. Fast forward almost two years, and my reluctant acceptance that HD DVD failed [...]
21Aug2008 | Michael Lankton | 51 comments | Continued
Feedback: Protecting Your Tech Investment
An actual conversation between myself and my 15 year old son, 13Aug08:
14Aug2008 | Michael Lankton | 1 comment | Continued
5 Ways To Not Make Any Money Off Your Site
Money. Filthy lucre. Everybody wants some, and if you’ve got a little, you’re trying to figure out how to turn it into more. There are tried and true methods for building a monetarily successful website, and everybody is showing up to claim their piece of the pie.
13Aug2008 | Michael Lankton | 7 comments | Continued
Two Years Later: Sony Playstation 3
I bought Beta. It was better than VHS, but there weren’t as many releases for it, and eventually VHS killed it.
Ok, I never bought Beta, I’m talking about HD DVD. We can argue about the technical merits of HD DVD and Blu Ray, but the fact remains that when I purchased HD DVD it was [...]
Blog Writing: Using Words
Blog writing is communication. We aren’t writing fiction, but neither are we penning instruction manuals for mechanical implements. We have an extremely short amount of time to hook a reader into following through to completion, perhaps only as much as the title of the article. In any event, it’s important that we communicate effectively with [...]
27Jul2008 | Michael Lankton | 2 comments | Continued



