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Windows MCE
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02.03.06The silence of the fansI have my HTPC and the amplifiers inside a cabinet in the living room. The cabinet is well wentilated and has a specially mounted fan in the bottom to push air though it. I have described the cabinet here and the mounting of the fan here. To put it short the fan is mounted in rubber bands to eliminate vibrations and noise. However, I should have said "was mounted". The problem is that rubber bands need maintenance. Of course I could try to find better quality rubber bands, but I have choosen another soultion. It works fine so far, so ...
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02.02.06Web Browser for Media Center EditionBrowsing standard web pages on a TV screen with a remote is never very comfortable. Most web pages are made for navigation with a mouse and a keyboard. Still, if you have a media center and an LCD screen it can be interesting to have a quick look at some news headlines, a couple of blogs or something like that. Doing that from within media center has been difficult until now. Meet the MCE Browser. An excellent little plugin that gives you a browser with zoom functionallity and easy navigation with the arrow keys, OK and channel up/down for browsing links. (Via Thomas ...
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01.30.06Thomas Hawk reports from a dinner with Microsoft Exec Jim AllchinThomas Hawk has been fortunate enough to be invited to a dinner with Microsoft Exec Jim Allchin and a couple of very interesting bloggers and technologists. As usual he reports with info, thoughts and some excellent pictures.Not a 100% confirmation, but maybe we will be able to upgrade our Win XP media centers with WMP 11 and get better handling of large media collections? I also talked with Jim about Windows Media Player. Last April I complained to Jim at our meeting about how slow Media Center handled large digital media libraries. This of course has more to do with Windows ...
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01.22.06Sudoku for MCEI don't know how it is for the rest of the world, but in Norway there's a complete Sudoku craze right now. A craze that's so evident that I learned to hate Sudoku even before I had solved one single puzzle... But for you Windows Media Center users out there that has joined the craze, this is good news. KMS Software has made a simple, yet excellent implementation of Sudoku. This is a game that is perfect for the TV screen and the remote control. Simply navigate with the arrow keys and enter numbers with the numeric keypad on the remote. They ...
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01.11.06Two good news for the Media Center CommunityThe green button is currently the most popular community for Windows Media Center Users. Unfortunately, the web site has performance issues, browser compatibility issues and problems with their search functionallity. That's bad. So for the good news: 1. The green button gets competition: Remotely Cool. - Sounds like a promising project 2. The green button (TGB) gets a performance and functionallity boost - TGB is a fantastic source of information for MCE users. Firefox support, good search, better RSS support and better performance in the works are lovely! Edit: Seems like remotely cool is gone... Via Thomas Hawk