Probably one of the best ways to enjoy your favourite game console is via a home theatre system. If you're blessed enough to have an amazing setup already, but haven't hooked up your Xbox 360 or PS3, what are you waiting for?!

Today, I'll be talking to you about hooking up the PS3 to your home theatre system and how it can be done in a pinch! Depending on your TV and sound system/receiver you're using, there are a number of ways you can connect the console to your home theatre and enjoy it to its fullest.  

Landline phone numbers might seem like something from another era, and in many ways, they are, but if you’ve ever liked the idea of being able to port an existing number to a VoIP service like NetTalk, you now have that option. The company announced that it would enable number porting for landlines over to a NetTalk Duo device, regardless of which company the landline is with, and which version of the Duo you have.

Continuing on our journey to understanding the often mysterious world of advanced home networking, lets take a look at QoS. Last time we checked out Port Forwarding; what is is and how it can help you.  It was something that, even if you didn’t know what it was, had likely heard about when trying to troubleshoot your networking issues. QoS is even more obscure though. Chances are you’ve never even heard about it and have no idea what it means. Thats such a shame. Its something that you’ll wonder how you ever did without it once you know how to take advantage of it.

If you’re a Sirius or XM satellite radio subscriber, you may already know what’s coming, but even if you don’t, or even if you’re thinking about signing up, new features and service expansion might sweeten the deal. The new features bring in Internet connectivity into the mix, and make it more possible than ever to listen to content you may have missed.

Welcome to the arena of online media. In the battle for market dominance, two competitors have arisen to duke it out. Today, we’ll be taking a detailed look at the well-established Apple TV – with a great track record, a history of reliability, and a long-standing infrastructure of popular Apple services... it’s going to be tough to beat. It’s up against a strong competitor. Sleek, stylish, and infinitely compatible, we have the Boxee Box – an exciting media device that’s powered by an ingenious open-source programming language. May the best tech win!

Offering a free Canadian phone number and 12-months free service, the netTALK Duo WiFi improves on the netTALK Duo by adding WiFi connectivity which gives users more latitude in how and where they can install the device. netTALK Duo WIFi also brings better security with Call Blocking and Call ID Blocking features.

Home automation controlled from a smartphone or tablet isn’t a novel concept now, but the way it’s implemented certainly varies. You have expensive systems that cover a lot of the home and can be controlled from within, but what if you had a less expensive way to control only the lights and appliances you really wanted to, even if you weren’t home? Belkin’s WeMo looks to be the beginning of such a strategy, especially since it’s designed to work with your iPhone or iPad.

Sony is stepping big into the Internet player space with their new device powered by Google TV. From the pre-release material we’ve been given (we’re getting demo units later in the month—I’m calling dibs now) this looks like it could be a worthy competitor to Apple TV.

Let’s dig into it shall we?

Google and Apple may be competing more heavily with each other, given that Google Maps won’t be standard on iOS devices anymore, and the recently announced Nexus 7 tablet will try to take on the iPad. But there’s still some crossover between the two, much like the Chrome browser for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. How does it fare against Safari?

It seems like just last year that 802.11n networking started proliferating in consumer level products. It's a fairly fast, secure, and reliable standard and a big jump from 802.11g.  Dual-band routers, wireless encryption, and high speed data streaming has become much more common these days. Now theres something new on the WiFi horizon; the fifth generation wireless networking standard, dubbed 802.11ac. 

There are a good few of us here on the Tech Blog who remember the days of the dialup modem. Heck, my dad bought a 2400 baud modem for our Apple IIe (I don’t think he ever got much use out of it though) back in the day. And if you remember the days of dialup you remember the sounds that your modem made when connecting to your ISP.

You may have heard about cloud computing before though even if you haven’t it's something you’re probably already using without even realizing it. It's a growing trend in the computer scene so you can expect to hear about it a lot more. With June being Backup Awareness Month, it's a good time to take a look at this term and what it means for you and your backup needs.

Whether you’re going on a road trip through areas with 3G coverage, or you tend to commute a lot on a daily basis, the right apps on your smartphone can help you tap into a world full of radio stations playing all the music you can imagine. The best thing about them is that they’re pretty cheap (sometimes even free) to download and don’t require any subscription costs to keep the music playing.

Canadians are tired of having to pay outrageous amounts for their monthly home phone service. This is specially true when making long distance calls.

For users with existing high speed Internet service at home or in their home offices, the Ooma Telo ($202.99), available for online purchase at Future Shop, can fit right into their current set-up and quite easily replace their landlines while offering free calls within Canada and cheaper long distance rates.

Earlier this year—and frankly I didn’t remember reading this—Dropbox started experimenting with having the photos you take be automatically uploaded to Dropbox from your camera—Your photos, simplified (Part 1). The idea was simple and elegant, take a picture with your smartphone (then only for Android phones) and have it automagically uploaded to a special folder on Dropbox for you. Slick, easy, and to encourage people to use the feature Dropbox gave the people who tried it extra free space as a bonus. Yesterday Dropbox took the wraps off the final product—Your photos, simplified (Part II)—with updates for OS X, Windows, and Android. I tried the new feature yesterday—and claimed my extra 500 MB of storage thank you—and can say without a doubt that it’s freakin’ painless, awesome, and you should do it. Like now…I’ll wait.