Category Archives: Media Center

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 →

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 →

Two internet TV stories in one day, whodathunkit?  Channel 4 in the UK have announced that they’re going to start putting all their content on YouTube.  That’s got to be some kind of coup for YouTube as Channel 4 is actually a public serv… Continue reading →

How you backup your PC is becoming increasingly important, especially for those of us that keep EVERYTHING on there.  Thousands of family pictures and memories, not to mention TV series and that massive movie collection are amongst the most import… Continue reading →

Today BSkyB in the UK is launching their new subscription based music model carefully named Sky Songs, but I wonder how long the idea to call it SkyTunes was banded about in the office?  The subscription model they are introducing looks quite simi… Continue reading →

So folks I’d really like to know what you think about this.  As everyone knows, in England, we’re passionate about this game called football (the real one, the one that girls play in the US, what you call “Soccer”) [p.s. I actually couldn Continue reading →

This is an interesting one.  I’ve just come across [thanks to @whatleydude on twitter] a way connect to the media on a Mac from your Xbox 360, which brings it into the box of interesting things to do. The software is called Connect 360 and it Continue reading →

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has just been released so I thought I’d throw up a quite guide on how to get it and do the install (this is very basic folks, as the product is really simply put together, but some people like this stuff).

Go … Continue reading →

The folks at TwonkyMedia have just released an IE plug in that lets you do something very similar to PlayTo in Windows 7 from a web page and unlike the other PlayTo features, Windows 7 isn’t needed. 
The eHomeUpgrade article covers everythi… Continue reading →