MP3 & Video
5GHz 802.11n - Has Wifi Finally Come Of Age?
I’m in the middle of a house move that is taking forever to finalise. At the new pad I was intending to install network cabling and ethernet ports in each room, as in the past I’ve found that WiFi connections just aren’t good enough to stream HD video.
However, I’ve been reading up on new [...]
Start Vista Media Center In Media Only Mode
Windows Vista Media Center is a very good media center, and best of all it’s free. One nice feature within Windows Vista MCE is the media-only mode which gets rid of the windows minimise/close buttons in the top right so that your full screen is dedicated to your media.
Unfortunately there isn’t an option within [...]
Auzentech HDMI X-Tension First Card To Support HDMI 1.3 And Dolby TrueHD
I’ve been beating myself up a bit this week as I thought I’d wasted my money on a Auzentech Prelude 7.1 videocard in my new media center PC, as it wouldn’t help me play the new HD audio formats like Doly TrueHD and DTS HD, that offer superior sound quality over older Dolby formats.
However, after [...]
GoldMail’s Overly Loud Mouth
Quick. What’s the internet’s killer app? Social networking? Beep! Wrong. Despite the flurry of Web 2.0 and other shiny net gadgets, email still dominates as the most used web application. I’ve tried the pedestrian Outlook Express with it’s no frills mail management system. Nothing can get more hohum than that. On the other end [...]
27Mar2008 | Joseph Plazo | 3 comments | Continued
New PC And Media Center Spec
I pulled forward yesterday building a new media center, because my main PC died. I’m moving into a new flat soon with a bigger ‘office’ that I’m also going to use a games room, hence the need for a second media center PC to go with my current media center PC in the front room.
24Mar2008 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
