Waterstones are to sell Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader in it’s refurbished stores. At first glance it seems a bit of a strange move as Amazon seem to be one of the companies helping kill sales of books at Waterstones but with it’s refurbished stores Waterstones are dedicating areas for ebooks and will have free wifi [...]
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On Friday Microsoft in another very long post on the Building Windows 8 blog talked about the history of the Windows desktop and changes coming to Windows 8. The transparent Aero theme has gone and has been replaced by a squared off while look. In the post I noticed that they say the Vista theme [...]
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I have a had a lot of questions about supported video formats on the Raspberry Pi so I thought I would try some and see what works and what doesn’t work. The little board could make a great media extender if it will play the required video formats. Using the Debian install for the Pi [...]
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There is now another version of XBMC for you to try with your Raspberry Pi. Raspbmc is a XBMC project designed for the Pi and today it’s gone in to beta. As with the other projects you download an image and then use an image tool to copy it over to an SD card. I [...]
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Since getting the Raspberry Pi I have been doing a lot of work with OpenELEC an embedded Linux build of XBMC and today they have released beta 4 of version 2. The new build has fixes for the Eden version of XBMC and adds support for WinTV amongst other fixes. I am not sure if [...]
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There is a lot of interest in the Raspberry Pi at the moment and it looks like we are going to see a camera module for the Pi soon. On the Raspberry Pi blog they have details of a prototype camera module that plugs into the Raspberry Pi board. It all adds to a great [...]
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As well as the Windows Media Center version of My Movies being updated the Windows Home Server 2011 edition and My Movies Collection Manger have been updated as well. Details from MyMovies.dk: My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 2.11 Pre Release 4 Added: Meta-data storage for MediaBrowser (Requires 500 points).Added: Option to specify target [...]
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My Movies for Windows Media Center pre-release 4.03 has been released. There are new box set features, new Media Browser options and lots of other changes. You can get the download from My Movies.dk Details from the changelog: My Movies for Windows Media Center and My Movies Collection Management 4.03 Pre Release 3 Added: Box [...]
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When you get your new Raspberry Pi and download one of the images you will find that even though you may have 16GB card the Raspberry Pi is only use a small part of it. This is because the downloaded image is of a fixed size and so most of the space goes to waist. [...]
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Plex have been busy and updated their Media server and client applications. The beta version has a new media analysis feature that scans media and works out where it needs transcoding or not, there is support for iTunes videos and iTunes U and lots of other fixes. In the client there are plenty of fixes [...]
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