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On the Mac mini's passing: not so fast

On the Mac mini's passing: not so fastThe Mac Mini is the only Apple device I would consider buyingThe 2 people I know who bought a Mac Mini are very happy with it although they very quickly replaced OS X with Windows so they could use the far superior MCE....

Tags: Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Microsoft Only, mini, Apple TV, Apple Inc., Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, WMC, TV, MCE

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Media Center Extenders and programmable television

Media Center Extenders and programmable televisionI have a question, and you're the man to know, JohnI've been serving media to my Xbox from Windows Home Server (for which I'm a beta tester). I know the Xbox can play mpeg-4, and I regularly have it do so from thumb drives...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Apple Mac OS, Digital video, Operating systems, TV, WMC, codec, Microsoft Corp., WHS, Media Center Extender, Apple Macintosh, Media Center PC, MPEG-4, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Silverlight

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Network World: New Lotus boss sailing tricky seas

Saw Network World's John Fontana just outsidethe Lotus office in Cambridge last week...knew that something good wascoming up. And here it is...IBM/Lotus chief MichaelRhodin this week will quietly finish his first 100 days at the helm, butit is the coming months that will tell...

Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2005-11-15

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Dell's answer to Apple's Mac mini - The Inspiron Zino HD

People Actually Buy These Things?Almost a $1000.00 for a cutsey, low powered designer computer? Do people actually buy these things? Maybe they should check out your Very Best Kit list.adrian please 959$ you dont put 959 for a low-end entry level machine you can have...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac Mini, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transitionHas the ATSC glitch affected you?If you?re a Media Center user, has this issue affected you? Leave a comment as a reply here. (If you have another coment to make, please start a new thread) I?ll be following up with Microsoft to see if I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, digital television, digital TV transition, TV, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Windows 7 setup secrets

Windows 7 setup secretsGood tip on the File Repository...You learn something new every day :)Gee...more secrets and tweaks....Did we not see too many of these on Vista.Was W7 not supposed to be easy to use WITHOUT all the secrets and tweaking and secrets and tweaking?How about an OS that does...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows 7 setup secret, setup secret, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9150

Many of the networked-media players we've looked at recently rely heavily on interfacing with Windows Media Center, the digital media hub software that's available on many--but not all--PCs running Windows XP and Vista. Some models, such as the HP MediaSmart Connect, can operate in "WMC Extender mode" or via their...

Tags: Home networking, Media Center PCs, Digital media, NetGear

Product reviews 2009-04-21

Easy Windows 7 upgrades could earn Microsoft billions a year extra

Easy Windows 7 upgrades could earn Microsoft billions a year extraThat's assuming they use the same price structurefor the "equivalent" SKU's. But of course if they do, I would expect there to be a lot of whining.I won't whine myself because I have no plans on buying the Basic edition...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Microsoft simplifies the Windows 7 lineup

Microsoft simplifies the Windows 7 lineupThey see this ...... market going to ARM processors.They are going to make a half hearted attempt to satisfy some of it's loyal fans.There is no money in it for M$, they will do better off selling n!ck3l b@gs. :D^o^So don't tell me you're saying.......that...

Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows, 64-bit, Windows 7 lineup, 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7, Home Premium, Microsoft Corp., Starter Edition

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Going back to Windows Media Center

Going back to Windows Media CenterWindows Media CenterI am also a Time Warner customer who quit their DVR boxes in favor of Windows Media Center. For over a year, I've had great controlling two digital cable boxes with an IR blaster and using Media Center as my DVR. ...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Digital media, DVR, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Going Back, Windows Media, digital video recorder, cable, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)

A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)Sad, but Snipping Tool is still the sameIn classic MS fashion, the snipping tool is not able to capture the borders of all aero themed windows neatly, for e.g. the Firefox "About" dialog box. Sadly this has not changed even in Windows 7...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?

Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?This isn't even strictly a Beta Tester issueMicrosoft realised that MCE systems just weren't flying out the door and then correctly perceived that it makes more sense to bundle it with Vista so that OEMs can either make a "home entertainment center"...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Fiji, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., beta tester, Windows future, MCE

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Windows Home Server gets a big bug fix (and much more)

Windows Home Server gets a big bug fix and much moregr8 newsThanks for the update!The next thing i would expect them to update is from WMC 2.0 to WMC 4.0 that would solve all my issues with streaming content to Xbox 360 and will position WHS not only as a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), X64, big bug fix, Windows Home, Microsoft Windows Home Server, server, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Windows Media Center meets cable TV in HD

Windows Media Center meets cable TV in HDBitrate numbers?Can you post the bitrate/codec that the recorded HD shows playback at? The data-rate would be an important factor for some of us as lower bitrates = less quality.ThanksVideo bit rateThis is DVR-MS format, which uses Windows Media codecs. A typical...

Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cable, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, Microsoft Windows, Right Now IT, Media Center PC, CableCard, HD-DVR, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows Media Center, cable television

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

Mobile enterprise? you gotta be kidding!

Mobile enterprise? you gotta be kidding!'True' Mobile Enterprise: Nokia Mobile Web ServerIf it doesn't run as an app on a mobile's web server, then it isn't Mobile Enterprise. That's the future. See [url=http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/mobile_web_server/] and a sample of it running on my mobile server [url=http://dietrich.mymobilesite.net]here[/url]Nokia: [url=http://nseries.com/open]Open to Anything[/url]'True' Mobile...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile, Mobile Enterprise, Formotus

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Android at WMC from a developer's perspective

Android at WMC from a developer's perspectiveEarly ImpresssiionsLong term I think keypads will go out of style and touch screens will rule. The display really needs to be as large as possible on these phones and I am not convinced people want slider phones.The web browsing experience on the iPhone/iTouch...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Telecom & Utilities, keypad, touch screen, phone

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

News to know: Vista SP1 hacks and 551 bugs; Apple patch; RIM outage

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: More information on the Vista SP1 activation hack. Gallery right. George Ou: Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole RIM notifies of 'critical' BlackBerry outage. Russell...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Outage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Android at WMC from a developer's perspective

Android is building momentum at the Mobile World Congress '08 in Barcelona this week. Companies like Texas Instruments have been showing off prototypes running the Android operating system -- and by the sounds of it, people can't get enough. Engadget has some early pictures of what attendees are...

Tags: Developer, Operating System, Barcelona, Engadget, Photograph, Android, Scanners, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-02-11

Microsoft seeks new Windows Media Center testers

Microsoft seeks new Windows Media Center testersIdeaMicrosoft should add support Games for Windows LIVE in the next version in Fiji so you actually launch games within Media Center. So you can use various functions such as play music while perfoming another tasks. Therefore add Windows Live Messenger as an Widget...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Digital media, new Windows Media Center tester, Windows Media Center tester, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

The most disappointing products of 2007

The most disappointing products of 2007Haup & VistaNow my Haup HD tuner is USB, so maybe that makes a difference, but after following the installation instructions to a tee I had a perfectly working tuner/capture card on Vista HP. Now mind you, Haup's software is vintage mid-1990's quality, but with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, security, Haup USB TV tuner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-11