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11.17.06When will this media center thing catch on?Friday bonus video. Bill Gates from CES 2005 on YouTube. Okay, so everybody and your grand mother still have no media center at home. Where are they? By now, all of us should own such a magic box. With music, images, movies, broadband and TV in a nice simple interface where everything is available at the touch of a button. True media centers are still something for the people that are way above average when it comes to interests and knowledge about computers. I have already published my recipe for when gadgets break through. Let's have a reality check on media centers: Engineers ...
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09.27.06Sage TV looking for Mac beta testersSageTV is a very interesting media center software for Windows and Linux. Now they're looking for beta testers for a Mac version as well. Sage is turning into a true cross platform media center software. My early experiments with Sage was very promising and now it seems like it's time to give it another go. The SageTV placeshifter and SageTV media extender is very interesting. Now, if you can start combining boxes and operating systems you have a very nice media server that can stream your media around the house to thin clients, windows, linux and mac boxes. ...
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09.26.06Adobe Photoshop Elements and MCEI am using Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 to administrate my images. To make collections, simple editing, tagging and organizing. I have more than 30 000 images in my collection and Photoshop Elements is one of the programs that actually handle that amount of pictures. The picture module in Windows Media Center is pretty limited. And it does not support automatic rotation based on EXIF info. That is extremely annoying. And, when I have tagged a series of images with "The best pictures from the summer of 2006" I want to be able to run that exact collection ...
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09.18.06neave.tv – a flash wizard’s frontend to YouTubePaul Neave is a complete genius that have made amazing stuff like the wonderful flash based frontend for Google Maps and Windows Live Local. He has also made a very nice frontend for YouTube, blip.tv and Google Video. It's called neave.tv and it's close to a service that you would want on your media center. Slightly better keyboard control and it would have been perfect. As far as I understand the content is selected by Mr. Neave himself. It's a very nice collection of good stuff from the three video sites mentioned. Including a video that I put out there ...
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09.08.06Yahoo Go for TV just updatedThere's a new beta of Yahoo Go for TV out. The update includes: Picture in picture viewing capabilities (sounds cool!) View personal Flickr photostreams Support for more tuner/capture cards Overall user experience improvements (responsive and consistency of menus and navigation, video player and network experience) Movie recommendations Ability to access shared music from your local network I haven't had the time to check it out, and I really would like to see a version that would work in Norway as well, but I'll give it a go and anyone with a working US proxy: feel free to contact me! ...