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Raymond Wong

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Raymond Wong is a technology reporter with a passion for cutting-edge gadgets, video games and clean design. His writing has appeared on BGR, DVICE, G4TV and Ubergizmo. You may also have seen his videos on Xbox Live (via Syfy app). Raymond can usually be found geeking out over cameras. If you spot him on the streets of New York, don't be afraid to say hello. You can follow Raymond on Twitter: @raywongy, Instagram @sourlemons and visit his blog.

 
Indeed, Apple's $99 AppleTV is a limited box that runs on iOS — it lacks features other than video streaming. As always, the crafty hacking community is stepping up to the plate once again to unofficially make Apple products more useful with a variety of functions — the latest integrating a web browser and Last.fm support.
 
OnLive's vision of streaming video games right into your home using cloud-based rendering is ambitious. Theoretically, it means you can play a graphic-intensive game on a netbook without needing a high-end graphics card to render it. Realistically, it won't be in HD or play as well on a tiny keyboard. OnLive is planning to bring its video game streaming service to your HDTV with its new console box.
 
How do you create a seamless bridge between your smartphone, laptop, desktop computer and HDTV? With Wi-Fi, of course. Techies have been enjoying devices that talk to one another on their home networks for years now, but your average Jack and Jane, who have all their media files sitting on their desktop or worse — scattered across their hard drive in a maze of folders — probably don't even know that it's possible to connect all their devices together, let alone make it as headache-free as possible. That's where Twonky comes in. It's an app for Android smartphones that promises to make accessing your media as effortless as possible. Quite a tall order — it'd be a dream come true if it could pull it off.

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