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Media Center Design and Development 101 (Usually)

February 2005 - Posts

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This will be the last post I make here -- everything from now on will be available at http://blog.retrosight.com . Read More...
eBay Develops TiVO Sample Application
Check out the Java TivoDemo for a TiVO box with the TiVo Home Media Engine (HME) . I think it's great eBay is looking at the living room and ten foot presentations of their service. For you see... I'm a fan of eBay although not a heavy user (I'm cmozen Read More...
An Introduction to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
[Courtesy of my friend and colleague John Canning , who isn't blogging but should be -- especially about his world traveling photographic expeditions...] Here is a resource we nailed for the 2004 version of Media Center and revised for the 2005 version. Read More...
Breaking A Scoble Rule: I'm moving my blog soon (but it will be worth your trouble)
Robert Scoble has a rule ( The Corporate Weblog Manifesto #12) which states 'Never change the URL of your weblog.' Unfortunately, I started blogging before reading The Manifesto. Yes, I know: RTFM. However, I see this as a definite success story about Read More...
HowTo: AutoSync Podcasts in Windows Media Player 10
I've been wanting a way to do this -- and Sean took the time to write up the instructions for all of us. Download & HowTo: AutoSync Podcasts in MP10 Read More...
Could this replace my Audiovox SMT5600? The i-mate JAM is nearly the perfect mobile device for me.
Today I was given the opportunity to use an i-mate JAM PocketPC Phone Edition device to see how it compared to an Audiovox SMT5600 . Wow! All of the features of PocketPC in a form factor not that much larger than the Audiovox -- I'm nearly sold since Read More...
Demoing PhotoStory for Greg Reinacker and Lane Mohler of Newsgator
This was the first time Greg had ever seen PhotoStory (he really needs to get out more :-). Greg says this about PhotoStory... "It's the coolest thing I've seen all day!" Check out the results we accomplished in 2 minutes (and the majority of that was Read More...
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