The Analog to Digital Changeover

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As you are likely aware of by now, the United States is about to go through a changeover from analog Over-The-Air (OTA) broadcasts to Digital.  We at MissingRemote.com would like to make sure that all of our affected readers are prepared for this to happen.  If you are receiving your TV signals OTA and if you are tuning them with […]

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Where did I leave my MP3 Player?

It seems that these days, in one form or another, most of us have portable MP3 players.  Whether they are 1 or 2 gig players or larger 120 gig players, audio only or video and touch screen, MP3 players are everywhere today, especially with the younger crowd.  For a long time, I’ve been watching the MP3 player market waiting for […]

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Soon, you’ll have to pay for Hulu

I don’t think this would really surprise anyone given Hulu’s actions in the past year, but still dissapointing. Nothing is set in stone yet, but you kind of knew it would not stay free forever.   Jonathan Miller, News Corp.’s newly-installed chief digital officer, said he envisions a future where at least some of the TV shows and movies on […]

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Last.FM Coming to Xbox Live

Well, it seems more and more stuff keeps getting added to the xbox 360 dashboard while the extender portion gets no love. Just announced at E3: Last.FM support. Seeing as how development on the only Last.FM plugin I know of for VMC died quite awhile ago, this is welcome news.   Microsoft and Last.FM are making sweet, sweet music on […]

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Using EventGhost to Integrate a 3rd Party App with Your Front End

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  Most people in the HTPC community have a preferred media center application that handles 80% to 90% of the capabilities desired. Unfortunately, integrating an outside application to add functionality to your main front end and get to 100% seamless integration is not always easy. This is where automation tools can help. Automation tools are a class of software applications […]

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Hulu Desktop Fine Print – Non-Computers Not Welcome

Brent’s got some great information on the terms of service for the recently released Hulu Desktop application and what it might infer for the future. Apparantly as long as it’s for Personal Computers, you’re fine, but unfortunately that doesn’t leave much hope for extender users.   So I’ll take that to mean we won’t see Hulu officially supported by Extenders […]

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How to Integrate Hulu Desktop to Media Center

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UPDATE 8/20/2009: This guide has been confirmed working on Windows 7 and will place the shortcut to Hulu in your Extras Library. Click the Comments post for user tips on getting the icon on your start menu.   If this article sounds familiar, it’s because I have previously written a similar article on integrating Boxee into Media Center . With […]

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Hulu on the Desktop, Remote Friendly…Officially

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When Hulu started shutting down Boxee and other addins that utilized its service for a 10′ experience interface, people assumed one of the following–either the big content providers were uncomfortable blurring the line for television shows on their computers via a remote interface, or that they were working on something themselves and wanted the market to themselves. For better or […]

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Thermaltake DH-104 HTPC Case Review

This is a rather light review as it omits any reference to the noise factor of the author’s build.  The author did mention his disdain for the included imon software but not a whole lot else.  On the other hand there are lots of nice pictures of the case scattered around the article for folks to check out these pics […]

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