We’ve all seen the notices Media Center throws up from time to time asking us to disable applications that aren’t responding or are unable to start. What happens when we disable an application we didn’t mean to or maybe a family member does it without knowing quite what was going on. Let’s take a look at enabling and disabling [...]
Are you a Twitter addict? Or, perhaps you just want to be able to send out a few idle tweets from your couch during the commercial breaks? Then TwitterMCE may be just the Media Center plug-in for you. This handy plug-in will let you tweet right from inside Media Center as well as follow your friend’s, follower’s and your [...]
Thanks to Simon at The Digital Lifestyle for this tip on not only checking what encoding your video files are using but also adding that information to Media Browser as well. Unfortunately, Media Browser doesn’t let you sort out your HD from your SD videos but at least you will be able to tell which is which from inside Media [...]
While Media Center has no trouble playing back your ripped movies, videos and music there has been no love lost in the between it and TV series DVDs. The Media Browser plug-in for Media Center eases the situation a bit adding support for TV series’ within the plug-in interface. Once it’s in there, however, it still lacks metadata in most [...]
Setting up your Windows 7 Media Center is easy, making it your own can be easy too. Here are 10 simple steps you can take to make your Media Center experience more complete, more personal, more enjoyable.
Add ClearQAM to Your TV Listings
Add Custom Apps to Your Extras Library
Do It Better – Add Apps with Custom Icons [...]
We all love those boxes, our DVRs, PVRs and Media Center PC setups. The problem with all our boxes are similar: there is never anything on and when there is it has too many commercials. Even our precious DVRs can’t go back in time to fetch that episode we forgot to setup to record. Our precious Media Centers are [...]
Missing Remote has a wonderful write-up and download available to help those who have been lucky enough so far to get in to the Boxee alpha test. Boxee is a media center style application that has gained popularity for it’s ability to stream video from online sources such as Hulu and Joost. These two services provide a wealth of content [...]
One of the few things lacking in Media Center has been an easy way to view your local weather without tuning in a news station. Since support for this is still left out in 7MC we have to turn to a plug-in to fill the gap. Heatwave, originally developed by MCExtended on The Green Button, is an elegant solution to [...]
Yesterday I posted about a simple yet effective way to edit the programs in your extras library. Today I’m going to lead you to a pair of programs that make it simple to add, edit and remove new listings from your program library.
The first is Media Center Launcher, which can be found for download from Mikinhosoft in both x86 [...]
