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One of the problems I have with my digital camera is I take way too many pictures (typical outing fills up two 512MB CF cards). It takes me a while to sort through the ones I really like, tweak them in PhotoShop and order prints. In the meantime, I keep...

A common theme in media applications and services running inside Windows XP Media Center Edition is displaying metadata (Track Name, Artist, Album, etc.). Media Center APIs make it pretty easy to get this information without the use of an embedded Windows...

Just a quick heads up in advance -- myself and several others from the Windows eHome team (makers of Windows XP Media Center Edition) will be at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 6 - 9, 2005. Great opportunity to sit and...

I'm interested to know what topics you might like for me to cover here regarding developing for Windows XP Media Center Edition in the coming weeks. If you read this blog and want to see a particular topic covered, please provide feedback.

Working through some more stuff in purposeful design for the Media Center platform gave me the chance to enhance understanding of the mouse transport and navigation bars... The design template (see the Demystifying Scale in Media Center Hosted HTML Applications...

One of the common areas of confusion I see when working with Online Spotlight partners is the concept of UI scaling for their applications in Media Center. This is a bit of a mind shift for designers and developers familiar with the rest of the Windows...