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Last.fm Vista Media Center Plugin
Vista Media Center just gets better and better and in my view a media center PC is the best thing you can connect to your TV. The latest addition to the growing list of useful VMC plugins, is MceFM which allows you to listen to songs streamed from Last.fm.
With MceFM once you’ve typed in [...]
Startup Delayer: Speedup Windows BootTimes
Do you have applications that startup when you boot windows? You probably have some that do various things in the background without you realising. The time taken for every one of these applications to start and do their thing adds vital seconds to your PC boot times, which can make it unresponsive while your PC [...]
16Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
TweakNow: Tweak Your XP Or Vista Machine Safely
Many PC tweaking utilities can be risky to use as they present you with dozens of options at a time, and when you change a dozen things at once something is bound to go wrong. The problem in this situation normally is, how do you roll back so many changes?
16Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
10 Essential Free Vista Media Center Addons & Tweaks
I’ve had a lot of fun customizing Windows Vista Media Center over the last couple of days. Here are the best 10 free tweaks and addons I’ve found for VMC that will allow you to get so much more out of your Windows Media Center.
15Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Give Your Hard Drive A Spring Clean With CCleaner
If you’re a lazy user and don’t fancy spending a lot of time giving your PC a spring clean, then one utility that will be right down your alleyway is CCleaner. This amazing piece of freeware will in a flash spruce up your hard drive by removing files you no longer use, that are taking [...]
11Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
How To Remove Annoying Sample Music Folder From Vista Media Center
If you’re a Windows Media Center user, then you are have probably given up trying to remove the annoying Sample Photos, Sample Music and Sample Videos folders. It took me ages to find a way to find out how to remove them permanently from MCE, and the solution I found in the end was very [...]
10Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
AnyClient: Browser Based FTP Client
If you don’t know what an FTP client is then stop reading now. If you do know what an FTP client is, then you’ll really find AnyClient, a browser based FTP client useful.
AnyClient can be run from any PC browser that supports Jave, perfect for if you are at work or on a friend’s PC [...]
Remove Backgrounds From Photos For Free With Fotoflexer
Photoshop is an amazing picture/photo editing program, but it costs an arm and a leg to buy. One of Photoshop’s many neat tools is a photo background eraser, and now you can do this for free online with Fotoflexer.
To sharpen up your portrait pictures:
Upload your picture to FotoFlexer and click on the ‘Geek’ tab. [...]
16Mar2008 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Add My Movies To Watch DVDs In Windows Media Center
One of my most popular posts explains how to enable the DVD Library in Windows Media Center. However, I’ve just found a better way to add and play DVDs within Windows Media Center.
My Movies 2 is a free addon that automatically adds new movies that you add to your PC to your Windwos Media Center [...]
Windows Home Server Add-In List
Although it’s still early days for Windows Home Server, it’s showing a lot of promise. If you haven’t come across Windows Home Server yet, it’s a new Operating System that you can install on a low-spec machine which allows it to act as a server for your files, a Remote Access solution and a way [...]
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