All Posts Tagged With: "addons"

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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
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Yougle: Watch Youtube Videos In Vista Media Center

I’ve spent some time this weekend trying to improve the brilliant Windows Vista Media Center.  One feature that VMC is lacking is the ability to watch Youtube videos.  The problem was easily solved with a few google searches and I found Yougle Vista.

12Apr2008 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
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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 [...]

15Mar2008 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
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WebGuide Available For Windows Home Server

My buddy Everton has been raving about his Windows Home Server over the last couple of weeks, and I’ve been seriously tempted to buy/build one so that I can have an always-on-box serving all my music and other content.
One significant piece of functionality that WHS was missing has just been solved by the release of [...]

15Jan2008 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
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Remove Clutter From Firefox Menus With Menu Editor

Sometimes one just isn’t enough. Plugins that is. Adding plugins to Firefox can be addictive, and once you start sometimes you can’t stop.  After a while Firefox installations can end up getting very bloated and hard to use.
Luckily you can regain some control of your browser by installing the Menu Editor Firefox [...]

10Jun2007 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
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Stop YouTube Videos Playing Automatically

If you are a Firefox user you may occasionally open multiple YouTube videos in separate tabs to queue them up for viewing. The problem is that by default YouTube videos autoplay.
A way to stop this is to install the new TubeStop Firefox extension. The TubeStop firefox extension disables the autoplay feature of YouTube [...]

3Jun2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
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Screen Capture Complete Web Pages With Picknik Firefox Add-on

This tip is great for people who want to use create thumbnails of their website, or have to use screen captures in documents or presentations.
One of the annoying problems with the Screen Capture function on PCs is it only captures what is visible on the screen. This is ok most of the time, but sometimes [...]

26May2007 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
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Snap Links - Open Multiple Links At The Same Time

CyberNet have uncovered a great Firefox extension that is great if you want to open several links on a page in one go. Snap Links allows you to open multiple links on a page in separate tabs, just by dragging a box around the links you want to open.

10May2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
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Top 10 Firefox Extensions To Avoid

Firefox is a great browser which allows almost anyone with minimal coding experience to create plugins and addons to make Firefox even better.
However, sometimes letting someone with basic coding skills near your browser isn’t a good thing, and adding certain firefox addons can actually make the greatest browser worse.

15Apr2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
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FoxTorrent: Download Torrents From Within Firefox

Tech-buzz.net have just shared details of a new torrent extension for Firefox caled FoxTorrent, that has been leaked by Redswoosh. FoxTorrent does all the usual things we have come to expect from a torrent service. However it has one feauture that I think many people will find useful.

5Mar2007 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
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