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Since I first mentioned Windows Vista Sideshow gadgets at Boston Pocket PC, we have received lots of comments from people, that they would love to see some for Media Center Sideshow gadgets. Well guess what, Stuart Thailand over at the Media Center blog found that there are some beta Windows Media Center Gadgets for download […]

Woot! HP Media Center

June 9th, 2008

Saw this HP Media Center Quad Core for $549 on Woot! today. Not a bad deal, not great either. However what really got me was the great write up using lyrics from Suicidal Tendencies song Institutionalized.

Here is the text if you can’t read the picture:
American Quad Core
Take it from me, man: the human race […]

Your Digital Lifestyle

March 2nd, 2008

I saw this really cool video with a cover of Ash’s 1977 album (one of my favorite albums from the 90’s)- Girl From Mars done by the indie-GRLRCK band Magneta Lane and just picked up their album, Dancing with Daggers some of the songs have explicit lyrics, but most songs do or have implied meanings […]

CES 2008: Blogger Bus

January 8th, 2008

Well we actually got to ride on the phantom Blogger Bus while leaving the Blogger Party that we seemed to miss where the pick up was and where it was going to and from during CES and it was the last we saw of it. It was pretty nice, but I wish it was a […]

OK I promised a few pictures of my Media Center in our “great room”- my youngest daughter calls it the “Audition”, that is slowly going into the new addition on our house. As requested from several emails I will also post up how to’s on installing ceiling speakers, mounting TVs to the wall, etc, I […]

OK my wife asked me if she could gift me this year for Father’s Day since I always seem to get her something for Mother’s Day- this year I got her a TMobile Dash with Windows Mobile 6 on it and she loves it. Personally I was embarrassed seeing her pull out my old PDA2K […]

Amazon Unbox Rocks!

October 21st, 2007

I had tried Amazon Unbox when it first came out and wasn’t too impressed by it. I recently went back to it a few months ago for the summer to take advantage of their weekend sales, which generally consists of 6 titles for $.99 each. A pretty good deal for current movies that can be […]

It is now the 5th birthday of Windows Media Center and Brandon Leblanc has a great post on his Velocity MicroSystem and Ed Bott has one on his. I will put up my current system later this week. I will also put together a series of posts on the construction of our home theatre/great room […]

 

So, today I got a very cool package for being involved in the Online Community, Vista Labs, and the Hive - a laptop courtesy of the Windows Vista team and AMD with a most generous offer to try Windows Vista and review the hardware before it is released to the general public. There were […]

Auto Login in Vista

December 21st, 2006

Many people that have Media Center PCs or have a dedicated Home PC want to automatically log in to their computers and not be hassled on every boot/restart up to do so.
For those of you not sure how this can be done, there are several ways to manage do this that has been the same […]

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