All Posts Tagged With: "windows media player"

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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
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How To Watch Football Online For Free

The new football (soccer in the US) season kicked off this weekend, and already I’m very excited. My beloved Man Utd are playing Reading today. If you’re not rich enough or lucky enough to be able to watch games live on TV, either because you the games no being broadcast in your country [...]

12Aug2007 | Tony Williams | 13 comments | Continued
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Share iTunes Library With SimplifyMedia

SimplifyMedia is a new iTunes plugin that lets you share your music library over the internet. This free plugin allows you to play and browse your friend’s libraries - all within the iTunes interface.
The SimplifyMedia plugin works with both PC and Macs. Don’t worry if you use Winamp or Windows Media Player to [...]

21Jul2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
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How To Play Xvid And Avi Files With Vista Media Center

I’ve spent a lot of time this weekend finally setting up Windows Vista Media Center, and I suddenly realised that Vista Media Center won’t play Xvid and Avi files even if Windows Media Player will. If you want to add support for third party codecs including Xvid and Avi files in Vista Media Center then [...]

28May2007 | Tony Williams | 21 comments | Continued
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Windows Media Player Plugin For Firefox

The popularity of the internet browser Firefox continues to grow by the day, but it still has a few annoying quirks. One of these is that it can be difficult to watch Windows Media Player videos within Firefox.
Luckily, thanks to Port 25, who are the team at Microsoft who look after interoperability, there’s a [...]

22Apr2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
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Guide To Watching Champions League, Premiership And UEFA Cup Football Online

Update: I’ve just published an update to this guide that also covers American Football, NBA, NHL and Baseball.
I was stunned last night by how many people came to my site looking for ways to watch the UEFA Champions League games. I guess it was because the Wednesday night matches aren’t on free TV. [...]

8Mar2007 | Tony Williams | 20 comments | Continued
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Great iTunes And iPod Plugins

Originally iTunes was used by most PC users because it came bundled with an iPod, but over the years its become a great application for playing mp3s. But, did you know you could make iTunes even better by adding plugins? Although there aren’t hundreds and hundreds like with Firefox, there are enough [...]

25Feb2007 | Tony Williams | 5 comments | Continued
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Top 10 FREE MP3 Utiliites That Money Can’t Buy

I can’t remember the last time I played a CD - in fact I’ve given away most of my CD collection to a friend who had no music. All of music is stored on my computer, which I play either on my iPod or I stream onto my Xbox 360.
One of the problems with [...]

8Dec2006 | Tony Williams | 5 comments | Continued
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