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Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion. -
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NY Times on TV through Xbox360
The New York times has an interesting article on how Microsoft are positioning Xbox360 with major content providers, like Disney an ESPN to be a TV device in your living room. Nothing new there. Interesting that it’s popped up in the Busi… Continue reading
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HP’s Slate, the best PMP ever?
At the CES keynote yesterday Ballmer unveiled the “beautiful” HP slate and gave it a brief demo using the Amazon kindle application. Cool stuff. One thing worth noting is that it’s running Windows 7 and that naturally (de… Continue reading
Posted in CES 2010, Media Center
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Stream Spotify to your Squeezebox or WMP
Now that Martin has released the beta of Spotify MCE I thought I’d explain quickly how you can stream Spotify all over your house. I use a Squeezebox for this, which is where the solution comes from, but equally anything that can play a HT… Continue reading
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Media nirvana, buy once use in any format
According to the New York Times a group called DECE (Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem) is planning an announcement at CES about their plans to make content (Movies specifically) available in any format you choose once you’ve bought a single li… Continue reading
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WTV watcher update
Last week I blogged about a new project I found on codeplex called WTVWatcher that delivers a fantastically simple process for decommercialising TV shows recorded in Windows Media Center with Windows 7. Well a weeks rolled on and thanks in tiny … Continue reading
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Super-simple, no config commercial removal in Windows 7
I think I’ve found something too good to be true. I was just looking about on codeplex and came across this project WTVWatcher by Paul Bruce. It almost has me shaking in my seat for it’s simplicity and ease of use.
What Paul&rsq… Continue reading
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WindowsMediaCenterExperts Twitter list
In the last few hours Twitter has made a very cool feature available to all, lists. Yep, a list. Why is that cool? Well it makes it really simple to share tweets from people who know something cool about a subject, like er Windows Med… Continue reading
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You can watch the Live Windows 7 launch right here
To make it easy for everyone I thought that I’d throw up a post with the stream in it. Enjoy. Silverlight is required.
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Wired UK on Home Automation
I was travelling back from a meeting yesterday on the train and decided to grab the UK edition of Wired to read to pass the time. In it there was a good, short and to the point article on home automation perfect for anyone looking to understand w… Continue reading
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Xbox Beta with Facebook, Twitter and Zune, sign-up now!
The Xbox beta program is looking for more participation according to Major Nelson. Requirements etc. are located here, and as always there’s no guarantee that you’ll be accepted to the Beta (Gold Members have a better chance) but there’s so… Continue reading
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