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Category Archives: Media Center
Developing in MCML
I’m about to start trying to write a little addin for Windows Media Center to let me make better use of the Y-CAM. I’ve applications, like MCENetCam, but they just aren’t doing it for me. What I want to have … Continue reading
Posted in Media Center, Y-CAM
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The snag list
Ok, it is time to admit it. All is not well in the geeky home. There are little niggles, everythings working but it’s not slick and it’s not well integrated enough. It’s time to start finding some solutions. Here are … Continue reading
Y-CAM
For a while now I’ve been looking at some home monitoring systems and how I can best integrate them into my digital experience. Previously I’ve used Yawcam with some pretty great results but currently I’m trying to reduce my carbon … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Home automation, Media Center, Mobile, Windows Mobile
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Manilla 2D and SideShow for Media Center
Tonight I’ve had a bit of a geekout and got two really cool things done. Both are on my Windows Mobile. Firstly I’ve just installed Manilla 2D from XDA_Team over at XDA Developers. Its superb, it’s an amazingly good home … Continue reading
Posted in Media Center, Windows Mobile
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Lovin’ the Home Server experience
Gotta say I’m really loving the experience of Home Server. It’s got to be one one the best products MS have put out in years! It’s so simple, so well thought out. I’ve got the client “Connector” software installed on … Continue reading
Posted in Home automation, Media Center
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Windows Home Server
It’s been a long time since I had something work actually blogging about but I just had to talk about this. I’ve finally got around to setting up my old PC as a Windows Home Server, it’s taken me this … Continue reading
Posted in Home Server, Media Center
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Squezebox part 1: Squeezebox Duet Installation Experience
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Posted in Cool geek stuff, How I Use..., Media Center, Technology, squeezebox
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iPlayer on MCE – very promising indeed
I picked up on this from Ian’s blog but this has got to be one of the best Media Center plug-ins in development at the moment. If you’re in the uk you’ll have heard of the BBC iPlayer, basically we … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Media Center, Technology
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Freesat is comming…finally, oh and a recommendation for a FreeView aerial
Stuff-em-up-the-hill-backwards has an interesting piece with links etc, on Freesat’s launch today in the UK. From my point of view I can’t wait to see support for this in Media Center, there are some codec changes that need to occur … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Media Center, Technology
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Killer Web Services
I’ve posted in the past about what’s on my phone, what’s on my Media Center, and what my Media Center hardware is. In the same theme this post is about the killer web services that I use. First up I … Continue reading
Posted in Cool geek stuff, Media Center, Mobile, Social Networking, Technology, Windows Mobile, web
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