I love my Raspberry Pi but like I said in my first review the board feels a little vulnerable and so when I saw a case design at the Blackpool Linux User Group I had to get one. The case is made in Telford here in the UK by the Shropshire Linux User Group and [...]
A couple of years ago I started using Simple.tv a service for Media Center that would automatically convert recorded TV shows to a format I could use on other devices like the iPad, it worked very well but I haven’t used it for some time. Today I got an email from them explaining that they [...]
In the latest post on the Building Windows 8 Blog Microsoft have talked about the fast boot process in Windows 8 and with the use of UEFI firmware you don’t have to desperately press F8 to try and get in to the boot loader. It looks like things like booting from a USB stick are [...]
Samsung promised Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) for the Galaxy Note and it looks like it’s finally here (at least for UK owners). I had given up checking for the update each day but today my phone prompted me to download the 318mb download. Once downloaded the Note rebooted, installed the update and after about [...]
Watch this video in HQ WMV (I am testing a download service from Blip.tv so let me know if you have any problems) Subscribe to The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show Specialtech.co.uk sent me a Omaura TF8 Home Theatre PC chassis to look at, and it was interesting to compare it to the Sony Xl302 Media [...]
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Watch this video in HQ WMV (I am testing a download service from Blip.tv so let me know if you have any problems) Specialtech.co.uk sent me a Omaura TF8 Home Theatre PC chassis to look at, and it was interesting to compare it to the Sony Xl302 Media Center PC I reviewed a couple of weeks [...]
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James Senior on his blog is giving away a copy of my book "Using Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center" (co-written with Tony Campbell). James is partof the team running the Vista After Hours events coming up over the next few weeks where he will be featuring Media Center, Home Server and other great stuff. So [...]
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Sean used to be the Group Product Manager for Media Center back in 2005 but since has moved on to different teams and moved away for using Media Center. He has a nice post up today on how he has switched back to Media Center with CableCard. At first I was apprehensive. I knew how [...]
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I blogged on Thursday that Embedded Automation have released version 2.0 of mControl their Home Automation package for Windows Media Center. This is a full Vista Media Center version of mControl and they have added support for hundreds more devices to the application too. The guys at Embedded Automation have been kindly allowed me to [...]
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Congratulations to Steven Harding, also known as IgnoranceIsBliss on becoming a Community Dev Expert over on MediaCenterSandbox.com. Steven makes a fantastic contribution to the Media Center developer community and it is great to see him getting recognition for that. You will also know Steven as the author The Digital Lifestyle Developer Blog and the developer [...]
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By Ian Dixon (14.3mb 41mins 36sec) Vote for the show on Podcast Alley Direct Download Link – Subscribe via iTunes – Subscribe via RSS There was a lot of news around this week from CEDIA and I had a heap of email so there is no interview on the the show this week as I [...]
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Back in October last year Microsoft announced Windows Live for TV (code named Orbit , previously Nemo ), a 10 foot application for reading Windows Live Spaces, making calls and a 10 foot version of Windows Live Messenger. There was a lot of interest in the project when it was first announced and I managed [...]
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Embedded Automation have released v2 of mControl, the home automation software for Windows Media Center. This is a great home automation package for Media Center and the new version is completely written in MCML (Media Center Markup Language) which means its a true Media Center application as smooth and rich as the rest of Media [...]
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By Ian Dixon (14.3mb 41mins 36sec) Vote for the show on Podcast Alley Direct Download Link – Subscribe via iTunes – Subscribe via RSS There was a lot of news around this week from CEDIA and I had a heap of email so there is no interview on the the show this week as I [...]
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