Media Center Plugins And Skins
Ian has played with and approves this newest remote record application! I’ve often said I have no idea why Microsoft dropped their Remote Record application, but luckily the community is here to help! TDL An app I have been remiss in talking about is Remote Potato, its a remote record tool much like Webguide that enables you to schedule recordings […]
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This is some pretty cool development, assuming it sees the light of day. Maybe some of our Linux faithful here can give us a review when it gets out…and hopefully stays working. Hack A Day Although not yet available, the designers have built the plugin in two parts. The frontend is a fully skinnable user interface that parses RSS […]
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This is pretty cool for SageTV users, and man Plucky has done quite the work here. The interface looks beautiful and allows users to leverage the massive MyMovies database. GeekTonic If you’ve ever used Windows MediaCenter, you are likely familiar with MyMovies a popular Movie metadata cataloging and management add-on for MediaCenter. SageTV has some of these capabilities now with […]
Read moreIan has updated his snazzy little app to monitor the health status of your Media Center. Go grab it today, it is free after all! TheDigitalLifestyle I have release an update to Media Center Health Monitor. This is the applications and web service that monitors the health of your Media Center systems. The main changes to this version are some […]
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Brian sure hasn’t been getting much sleep I suppose, and has already added a wealth of new features to MyMovies, with his 3.10 pre-release. Ian’s got a ton of screenshots and information up. TheDigitalLifestyle The next new feature is user created cover profiles, which allows the user to select between different looks of the movie covers. The system will […]
Read moreNot resting on just launching, Ian and Andrew are continuing their progress with the MadeForMediaCenter.com idea and have updated the design of the site to a nicer look and feel. He also lists some of the top apps, with TunerFreeMCE surprisingly coming out on top, edging out TDL Reader and MyMovies. For those that missed the announcement, the idea of […]
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Two new MCE plugins have been released for your enjoyment, one for monitoring your twitter and the other for managing the stock market. TheDigitalLifestyle Two new Media Center apps have been released in the last couple of day from OABsoftware. Media Center Twitter is a twitter addin for Windows Media Center that enables you to tweet and keep up […]
Read moreWe’ve covered Commercial Skipping with cablecard and Windows Media Center, and here Brent covers the specifics of getting the awesome commercial skip functionality ready with his SageTV setup. GeekTonic In the video I press the play button on my remote to show you the status bar during playback of a show. Then the show gets to a commercial – at […]
Read moreRemember that review of the ION we did, and that nasty issue it had with Hulu flash content that Adobe and Nvidia promised to fix? Looks like they have made good on that promise and have a pre-release version of the new 10.1 Flash software available that remedies that problem! Kudos to both companies on working quickly on this resolution.
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One of the most difficult parts of Media Center for Windows has been the amount of effort it takes to find the proper plugins you need (hence why I started the Life with a Plugin series, to try to help). Well, with the help of fellow MVP Andrew Cherry, Ian Dixon has released a wonderful app which will make this […]
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