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I love Niall’s Big Screen applications such as Big Screen Headlines and Big Screen Photos and for a limited time you can get 40% of his great applications. For the details head over to Niall’s blog
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One of the most popular addins for Windows Media Center is going away, TV Tonic is turning off it’s service while they “restructure”. You will still be able to use TV Tonic to consume RSS video channels but the main services will not be available. Michael Sprague President of Wavexpress (the company...
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MceZone.com have released another useful Media Center application, V-Mail for MCE enables Vonage users to view, play and delete voices mails all from Media Center. The addin is a for Vista Media Center and if you find it useful don’t forget to donate. Donwload from mcezone.com V-Mail for MCE allows...
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Brian Binnerup has added a great new feature to My Movies for Windows Home Server: Extender compatible DVD ripping. This is the ability to rip DVDs into MPEG2 format that a Media Center extender can play. You can configure it to copy to either create VIDEO_TS, MPEG2 or VIDEO_TS and MPEG2. For the MPEG2...
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Brian Binnerup has updated My Movies to 2.48 and released the 1.0 version of My Movies for Windows Home Server , you can listen to Brian talking about his new application on The Media Center Show #176 . For installation and configuration instructions head to the My Movies Wiki which details the installation...
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Olcay Buyan sent me details of a new Windows Media Center application for Germany called moreTV. The addin is a Vista Media Center application for their remote recording server that is already available for STB. The app adds extra services to Media Center like Personalized and Editorial Recommendations...
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There is a new MSNBC addin for Windows Media Center user in US and Canada, I haven’t been able to try it myself but according to Brandon LeBlanc on The Windows Experience Blog it gives you quick access to the latest election news, top stories and weather. I love these kind of addins because you can quickly...
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I have lots of short video clips taken with my camera so I was very pleased to see of clipShow beta for Windows Media Center. clipShow is a Windows Vista Media Center application that provides the ability to view a personal video collection in a slide-show type fashion. It features a "clip"...
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I am always on the lookout for new applications for Windows Media Center and combine a Vista Media Center application with drink and your on a winner! My Drinks is a Vista Media Center version of the XP version from a couple of years ago and it has been re-written in Media Center Markup Language. According...
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Remember the guide on how to stream DVDs to Extenders? The guide works well but it is a pain to create the link files necessary for streaming to work. Fortunately a cleaver developer has created a utility to simplify the process and has created an updated guide on getting started with the application...
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Adam Thursby found an interesting post on Broadcast Buyer saying that there is a new addin coming for Windows Media Center that will offer personalized TV and Internet content. The application will be a free download via Online Media and available in November. This would be a great addition to Media...
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( Via Chris Lanier ) Embedded Automation have announced mHome Power Management Module: New Module Makes Power Monitoring and Control Within Reach of all Homeowners Surrey, BC – August 20, 2008 Today, Embedded Automation announced its mHome Power Management Module. The mHome Power Management Module...
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Anthony Park has updated his MyNetFlix application to make the watchnow feature work with the latest changes to the Netflix website. You can download the updated version from his Software page Anthony now works at Netflix and its good to see him continue supporting his free application
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Chris Lanier posted about a new addin for Media Center called Music Browser Plugin, this application adds folder based navigation of music meaning you don’t have to have the music tagged up with the correct ID3 tags to get a good music experience. I remember being impressed with Microsoft’s Z sample...
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Damian Mehers has developed a BBC Radio addin for Windows Media Center that enables listening of BBC Radio streams directly from the Media Center user interface. It’s a simple app that Damian originally developed for his own use and has made it available for free. Some notes from Damian’s blog Your need...
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A new website has come to my attention for Windows Media Center addins (and useful tools for a Media Center) - http://htpcresource.com/ This site may have existed for a while without me noticing, so this may not be big news for you. But it's got a growing collection of addins that may be of interest...