Microsoft escaped the wrath of the UK advertising watchdog (Advertising Standards Authority) after complaints that a TV ad for Windows 7 which showed off the TV features of Windows 7 were misleading. If you remember the advert featured Windows Media Center and had the characters saying “suddenly with Windows 7, you can watch and record [...]
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Hear we go again, CES is coming and there are Microsoft Tablet rumours again. Last year there were rumours that Steve Ballmer would be showing off a Windows 7 Tablet, it turned out to be HP’s rather disappointing Windows 7 Slate. This time the rumours are that Microsoft will once again show off Windows 7 [...]
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Once again there are rumours of a revised Windows 7 UI based on Windows Media Center specifically for Tablets. The story is that Windows 7 Tablet Edition will be a new UI based on Media Center and Metro and move away from the current explorer UI. Having use Tablet PCs for years I can see [...]
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Later today I should have my hands on a Freeview HD tuner card for the Windows Media Center, the Blackgold BGT3620 is first DVB-T2 card that will work with Windows Media Center and it will bring Freeview HD’s channels to Windows Media Center for the first time. As we speculated on the podcast a couple of [...]
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Check out this video of Windows 7 being controlled by an Xbox 360 Kinect, you can see Windows Media Center being controlled by a Kinect with gesture controls and pictures being manipulated with the device. It’s great to see some of the hacks being developed for the Kinect, I like the idea of being able [...]
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I have been really impressed with the MacBook Air, its probably the best notebook I have ever had. The hardware is really nice, light, solid and has really good battery life. I am getting on well with OSX but its the Windows 7 and Windows Media Center performance that I really wanted to test and [...]
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For years and years I have been trying to get the ultimate lightweight mobile PC, I have tried UMPCs, Netbooks and Tablet PCs and never exactly found the right devices for me. The closest that I came up to now was my HP 2710 Tablet PC which has served me well for the last few [...]
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I have tried various DLNA apps with the iPad and iPhone with various degrees of success but Barb Bowman has got a nice solution for streaming music from Windows to an iPhone/iPad/iPod using Play To. I have been able to play music on the iPhone that is stored on my Media Center PC from the [...]
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The strange situation of the mystery HP leaker continues and this time he shows off some more features of the HP Slate. The Video shows the packaging of the business edition and even lists all the specs. I have to say the hardware looks great, as well a having the capacitive touch it comes with [...]
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Since seeing the HP Slate at CES in January I have been looking forward to seeing this device in action and while HP have not released any details yet a video of a prototype unit has surfaced on youtube. The hardware looks quiet nice, it has a SD card slot, keyboard activation key, camera etc [...]
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