Media Center Plugins And Skins
Thursday, so time for Ian's Media Center Podcast! This week up is Ian McCarthy from Orb, the makers who intend to stream your media across the world to you. Show times 00:54 Coming up this week 01:23 Email on show 100 04:55 Email on Vongo 05:23 New feature "Ask Charlie Owen" 07:07 Charlie Owen on MCMLPad 08:00 Softsled.net 09:38 How […]
Read moreChris Lanier posts a blog about a new website dedicated to the awareness of Softsled and it's reasons. Personally, I don't see the point in such a site. Microsoft is aware of the demand and not sure what yet another group of forums is going to help with. One thing they do have right is that Webguide is as close […]
Read moreEMERYVILLE, Calif. – March 21, 2007 – Orb NetworksTM announced that starting today more than 17 million households with gaming consoles worldwide can now enjoy and share all of the digital entertainment on their home PCs directly on their living room TV screen, using the company's free MyCasting software as the bridge. The announcement comes as Apple begins shipping its […]
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If the 3rd part plugins for Vista continue as is, I may never have to leave my couch. The latest stroke of genius is from MCEDev who has developed Media Center Cutter. This plugin will allow you to visually edit and cut your recordings from within Media Center. The icing on the cake is that it is programmed in MCML […]
Read moreNot really Media Center related, but the NY Times Reader is a great example of how to stay on the leading edge of digital content delivery. The reader will be availble for $14.95 or free for the folks who get the home delivery. From the article: Product Page:Â Features of the Times Reader software include navigation of the day's news […]
Read moreSideShow came in with a boom. Everyone was excited at the possibilities of what SideShow could offer. However, here we are several weeks later and nary a device in site. I would have expected home automation to be one of the features to take advantage of SideShow, but Sperna is here to prove me wrong. From the article: Gampel said […]
Read moreBeing the lazy guy I am, I decided to link Aaron Stebner's post that links to three different MCE plugins that came out recently. MCE Mailbox, MAMECenter and Harmony 2007 automation plugin all came out recent. Aaron's Post: MCE Mailbox: MAMECenter: Harmony 2007: Steven Harding posted a blog post about a week ago. In it, he introduces an alpha version […]
Read moreOne Voice Technologies, Inc., developer of 4th Generation voice solutions for the Telecom and Interactive Multimedia markets, today announced the availability of its new Media Center Communicator(TM) version 3 for Windows Vista Media Center. Media Center Communicator allows users to simply speak to play music, view photos and videos, watch TV, place Skype calls and control your Xbox 360. Media […]
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Some might say Sage is due for a major UI overhaul, however, skins like the new iSage should keep people happy in the mean time. Based on Apple's Front rows, this is truly a skin and not a major change in functionality for SageTV. iSage:
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Ian's got a post about a new feature of Orb which provides an MCE-like interface you can access from any computer, and thus stream your content. Personally, I think the design is awful. Considering all the different plugins I've seen, and considering the designs Orb's interface normally has, I'm surprised. I wonder if some developer just designed this in his […]
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