All Posts Tagged With: "Media Centers"
WebGuide Addon Available For Windows Home Server
I’ve had my Windows Home Server for around a month now, and although I’ve been very impressed with it, there are two areas where it could be better.
The first is that it can’t act as a Media Center to record TV, so that Media Extenders can be connected to it. I’m in the process [...]
Acoustic Energy AE-26-06B - Amazing PC Speakers
I decided to buy a new set of speakers for my bedroom t go with my laptop Media Center, as my bedroom is actually the biggest room in my house, so I needed something with more power than my TV speakers.
I plumped for some some small PC speakers to plug into my laptop that wouldn’t [...]
Windows Home Server Review
Over the last 2 years I have amassed a quite substantial media library as I have ripped all my CDs and DVDs. The problem I have in sharing this media collection around my home is that no single machine within my home has enough storage. An even bigger problem I faced was creating [...]
9Dec2007 | Everton | 22 comments | Continued
MC360 Skin For Xbox Media Center Out Of Beta
The MC360 skin for the best media centre on the planet, Xbox Media Center (XMBC) came out of beta on Friday and after running it over the weekend all I can say is it is amazing. I have to take my hat off to Blackbolt (who funnily enough randomly left a comment 30 mins [...]
18Feb2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
Ditching iTunes For Windows Media Player And Vista
I think Apple are playing a dangerous game by, in my opinion, deliberately not providing Windows Vista support for all of their products including the iPod and iTunes. My own experiences with iTunes and Vista so far have been so bad, that I’ve decided to stop using iTunes and switch to Windows Media Player [...]
10Feb2007 | Everton | 11 comments | Continued
My HD Plans For 2007
I read 3 stories yesterday that have helped to shape my HD plans for this year. At the moment I have a great setup for music, pictures and normal DVDs and movies with my media center PC which has oodles of storage, and my Xboxs running XBMC which are connected to my my Plasma [...]
6Jan2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Telewest Inheriting ntl’s Bad Customer Service - Bodged TVDrive
I was fuming this afternoon when I got home. My plasma TV had a message on it saying that my Telewest TV Drive was updating, and that I wasn’t to switch off my set-top box while the update was going through. Telewest obviously hadn’t thought through the fact that remotely turning on the TVDrive set-top [...]
16Dec2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Getting Vista, Zune Or Another MP3 Player? How To Migrate From iTunes
I’ve been using an iPod for nearly 4 years, and iTunes every since it became available for Windows about 3 years ago. Don’t get me wrong, I like my iPod/iTunes combination but over the last year or so because of changes in the way I listen to music, this partnership has created a lot of [...]
11Nov2006 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
11 Killer Freebies For Your Pocket PC
I’ve been installing some new apps on my Dell X51V today, thanks to a great article from Lifehacker’s Rick Brioda, who’s appears to be a bit of a Pocket PC expert having written 101 Killer Apps for Your Pocket PC.
I’d already discovered some of the 11 free apps listed such as Orb and Skype for [...]
Hauppauge Nova-T 500 MCE TV Card Has Amazing Picture Quality
I’ve recently left ntl:Telewest and sometime soon I’m going to lose my free Digital TV service, so I had a quick look at the latest offers from ntl:Telewest and Sky to see who was offering the best deal.
I was on the verge of plumping for ntl:Telewest because it was cheaper, even though Sky has a [...]
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