As many have likely noticed the Media Center Studio site has been down for quite some time and doesn’t look likely to make a reappearance. Due to the web-based application installation procedure used by MCS this puts us in a particularly hard position as there isn’t a simple installer to redistribute. A few guys (Josh3693, JoshFink and Assassin) at the [...]
Today we’re back online and ready to give you a couple of new themes to download. Apologies for the recent downtime, the server seems to always know just when I’m leaving town for extended periods of time. I’ve put top men on it and hopefully we can get the problem fixed soon. To brighten things up you can find a [...]
Welcome! Today we’ve got another theme available for download. This theme, derived from the original wallpaper available here, is another piece from the venerable collection of wallpapers at perfecthue.com. For those who have yet to check out previous entries from this collection be sure to pick up the Crowd and Platform themes as well. These works are thanks to the [...]
Hello again, today I’ve got another theme that I was keen to transfer over to a Media Center theme from perfecthue.com. This particular one is based on the wallpaper ‘Crowd’ which can be downloaded as a matching background from the artist, Jason Benjamin, right here. Once again I’d really like to thank him for allowing the use of his work [...]
Greetings internet denizens and media center fans! I realize it’s been quite some time since the last update but today there’s a new media center theme available for download. Thanks to Jason Benjamin of perfecthue.com for allowing the conversion of his work over into Windows 7 Media Center themes. This particular theme is based on the Platform wallpaper available on [...]
Thanks to Dave Bryce, a Hack7MC reader and AVForums member, we have a new theme available for download today. Dave sent us this theme via mhealy@hack7mc.com and you can send your themes in as well if you’ve got them! Just attach the MCT file from Media Center Studio and we’ll post it here for our users to enjoy. Dave’s theme, [...]
In case you hadn’t noticed previously we’ve added a pair of new Media Center themes to our Download Center. Future themes and updates will appear in the Download Center section and users can email their themes as attachments to mhealy@hack7mc.com to have them added to the section. This new pair of themes comes from a Hack7MC reader, Steve Firestone (thewarm). [...]
There are a number of other media center solutions that provide the ability to have a different background for each area of media. Movies, Music and TV all come with various different backgrounds to represent their different content. Now, thanks to bill24 of the Australian Media Center Community, Windows 7 Media Center users can as well. The end result is [...]
Today we’ve got a special surprise set of downloads available. First, the popular Brokeh theme has been updated with a modified background to make reading text on the screen slightly easier. The theme has also been converted into a Media Center Studio theme package. This should make it much easier to install for everyone. Finally, we’ve got four additional themes [...]
Let’s face it, after a while Windows 7 Media Center’s background image can become rather dull. Luckily, sprucing it up isn’t exactly rocket science. We can use Media Center Studio to quickly and easily change the default background to one of our choosing. All we need is Media Center Studio and a high resolution image from someplace like interfacelift.com. Make [...]
A new program we’ve all been waiting for quite some time to get our hands on, Media Center Studio, has finally arrived allowing even the most novice users the ability to create their own custom Media Center themes and Start Menu arrangements. Media Center Studio, created by Advent of the Australian Media Center Community the author of Media Center Menu [...]
Adding colorful channel logos to the default Windows 7 Media Center guide has quickly become one of those features many users can no longer live without. Using the My Channel Logos program to add colorful channel logos to your guide listings is simple enough for even the most novice users and provides wonderful results. For users in the United Kingdom [...]
If you’ve ever bought an OEM computer from a company like Dell, Gateway or HP you’ll know they love to brand every piece of software that comes preinstalled with their own logo. If you’d like to get rid of this logo on your Windows 7 Media Center software or maybe add some personal branding of your own then we’ve got [...]
If you’ve participated in the Windows 7 program for some time now you may have noticed in more recent versions that the animated waterfall album art background that is displayed while playing music has slowed down considerably. Almost to a “glacial rate” as one user put it. This was done to accommodate lower performance PCs that were having trouble rendering [...]
It’s been available for a little over a week now on Theme7MC and pictured in quite a few of the guides recently here on Hack7MC but I though we would do a short feature to highlight the new Midnight Magic theme for Windows 7 Media Center. Featuring stock artwork from FractalAngel of DeviantArt the background provides an excellent contrast between [...]
With the final release of Windows 7 coming ever closer we are stating to see a number of very nice tools being released gear toward the new platform. For Media Center users some of the most useful programs being developed are in the area of codec support. With Windows Media Foundation and the new pipeline used in Media Center it [...]
You may have noticed recently the inclusion of a link to the newest offering from Hack7MC, Theme7MC.com, in the sidebar. This new area has been created to fill a growing gap in the creation and distribution of downloadable Media Center theme content provided on Hack7mc. In addition, this new site provides a central location where users can also submit their [...]
