Tip Of The Day & Daily Button
I must aplogize for the lack of news updates over the past couple of weeks. I have had a couple of business trip and have been plain busy all around :). I should be back in the saddle mid-next week. Thanks again for your continued readership. VMC Plugin News: Druid 1.0.2 has been released @ Chris L. Blu-ray News: Pioneer […]
Read moreAlright, I am kind of cheating by incorporating a Tip Of The Day with a plugin announcement ;). Obvious cheating aside, I just read over at The Green Button that the plugin MceFM has been released that will allow you to listen to LastFM in Vista Media Center. The Green Button Thread: What is Last.FM? Last.fm tracks what you listen […]
Read moreIf you are looking to get a bit more out of your defrag sessions, you may want to take a look at Auslogics Disk Defrag utility. I am certainly not here to sell you some bloated defrag utility that has a buy now screen and is full of spyware. I liken it to some of the free antivirus programs out […]
Read moreAfter getting my HTPC 90% of the way setup I have decided to take a few months off from the site and enjoy it. With that said, John will be taking over operations from here on in. There might be a Linux flavor to the news and Tip Of The Day but (we) need to reach out to the inner […]
Read moreFFDshow got its claim to fame, at least in my little world, for being a DirectShow filter that would allow you to scale DVD content and apply various filters to it. Of course its other great feature is that it will play XviD and Divx with nary an issue. The Sourceforge page linked below has links to the forums and […]
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The whole concept behind a digital home is having your media when and where you want it. Netflix has certainly progressed this concept with their mail order DVD rental business and their "Watch Now" feature. No official partnership, as of yet, exists between Netflix and Microsoft, leaving a void that was filled by a couple enthusiasts of the Media Center […]
Read moreWelcome new & old vistors alike! Are you curious as to what this whole Concurrent Sessions thing is and why is it our #1 most popular guide/article??? Well, today’s tip is for anyone who’s been intimidated by the seemingly many steps involved in our step-by-step guide. The idea of concurrent sessions with Media Center versions of Windows Vista stems from […]
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Getting the most out of your Media Center PC depends on knowing every little in and out of the programs. Little design decisions by the team can really impact the Wife Acceptance Factor. An example of this is using the category function of the EPG. As pictured in the screenshots below, the category is off to the left hand side […]
Read moreWelcome to another edition of The Daily Button. The biggest news to hit the web today is no doubt the official release of the 780 series IGP from AMD. High def playback from integrated graphics is one part of the HTPC Holy Grail that we can finally scratch of our list. Now all we need is Hauppauge to make their […]
Read moreToday’s Tip of the Day is more Zune related then HTPC related. I know it can be tough when I switch gears but I think it is worth while. As a few of you know, I got a an 80GB Zune a couple of weeks back. Up until now I had been hooking it up to my HTPC to sync […]
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