BuzzCorps is now Ivy Worldwide – Logo Design Contest
Many of you will remember the 31 Days of the Dragon and HP Magic Giveaway Contests. BuzzCorps was the magic behind the curtain for both. As a start-up company, BuzzCorps used the power of the Internet...
View ArticleMicrosoft to discontinue MS Money per C|Net
I’ve been a Quicken user since the beginning of time. DOS version 3 I think. I’m sad because competition is always good. Anyway, C|Net states notices will go up on the MSFT web site within the next 24...
View ArticleiPhone Envy? (Well maybe a little..)
My personal cell phone these days is a Blackberry Curve 8330 (yeah, it’s pink). Mostly because it is the twin on the one I was issued at work so I don’t need a whole different set of accessories...
View ArticleWindows 7, Play To, and a Samsung DLNA enabled TV
This is a love story. Sometimes diving off the technology cliff means you follow your heart and take a chance on emerging/converging standards. When my nine year old once upon a time bleeding edge...
View Article802.11n Now Officially Ratified – No longer a Draft!
“Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:01 AM To: STDS-802-11-TGN@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: [STDS-802-11-TGN] Standards Board Decisions today- 11w and 11n approved All, 802.11 had two items under...
View ArticleRAW Image Support – W7/Media Center 32/64 bit
I feel like I just hit the jackpot. I’ve been bemoaning the lack of support for Nikon NEF 64 bit support for as long as I can remember inside Windows Explorer. And I’ve been wishing for RAW support for...
View ArticleWindows Media Center Dual Tuner and Set Top Box Setup
This article was originally written for Media Center Edition 2005 for the Microsoft Windows XP Expert Zone Community. With the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft is apparently retiring the older content....
View ArticleHP Includes Crapware with Printer Driver (I like the printer)
Ok, it hasn’t been a happy holiday season this year. Comcast held a Comcast Doesn’t Care Day and my entire department was eliminated. A few days before Chanuka and two weeks before Christmas. So, I...
View ArticleIntel Wireless Display is a Happy HTPC Experience
Intel’s Wireless Display fills the big gap in my Windows Media Center home theater experience. This technology, first demo’d at CES 2010, may be one of the bigger successes in the HTPC and networking...
View ArticleiPad +WHS + RDP
This isn’t a half bad experience. In fact, it mostly works. I can read word docs, excel files and pdfs on the server. And I get gorgeous displays of Power Point pptx files.. I can’t edit or create new...
View ArticleComcast DTA MCE Setup Steps
Many cable operators around the country are reclaiming analog space (separate from the over the air digital transition). If you have a cable set top box, nothing should change. If you connect coax out...
View ArticleSway, Microsoft Office’s Newest Application
I as luck enough to receive an invite to “preview” this really new and cool application called Sway. You can read about it at http://www.sway.com. Sway is basically a jquery driven web tool to...
View ArticleiPad + Comcast + myDVR
This has been one of those strange weeks where nothing has gone as planned but has ended up in the right place. Through some strange alignment of the planets, I’ve ended up with the beta of Comcast’s...
View ArticleLooks like Netflix MCE HD is Rolling Out
Fired up a machine that never had Netflix installed previously (W7 x64 Ultimate) and installed Netflix. I’m streaming Stargate Continuum in HD 3800/3800 (screen shot below) over 802.11n 5GHz wireless...
View ArticleiPad + WHS (Vail) + Air Video + Recorded TV = Internet Streaming
Air Video (Free) for the iPad just made my non DRM’d MCE Recorded TV mobile. A few simple hoops to jump through and a couple of gotcha’s, but for me, well worth the effort. I’m streaming recorded TV...
View ArticleEye-Fi & iPad
If someone knows where I can buy the Apple iPad Camera Connector, PLEASE let me know. I just grabbed another brass ring off the iPad carousel. Eye-Fi on its own is cool enough. Send digital photos from...
View ArticleIntel WiDi – Wirelessly view your PC screen on your TV
There is a lot of interest in this technology and naturally, accompanying confusion as to what this is and how to get it. Some of this has been driven by a recent Windows 7 was My Idea commercial. That...
View ArticleStupid Toshiba Advocates Lagging Edge Standard for SD Cards
June 22 press release from Toshiba announces an effort to “ promote a new SD card that integrates Wi-Fi wireless communication with data storage capabilities. The forum, the "Standard Promotion Forum...
View ArticleWiDi and Push2TV–Get the Updates and Install Them
I’ve been blogging about the WiDi Home Theater experience off and on. Last night, I was checking something for a friend and and realized that the Netgear Push to TV site pointed to updates for both the...
View ArticleBlackberry Desktop, Office 2010, August Support, but not x64
I can’t imagine why Microsoft didn’t work harder to get RIM to offer timely support for Office 2010. (And I hate the iPhone+Apple+ATT monopoly that locks me out of getting an iPhone because AT&T...
View ArticleApple MobileMe Stops Working for (Some? All?) Windows Users and Apple Says...
I appear to be one of the users afflicted. Existing computers that were syncing fine stopped and don’t show as registered. New computer never before synced also can’t register. Apple Support forums...
View ArticleMS, I’m *Paying* for Office Live, How about some Priority on the new Push...
Wow, after waiting all this time for PUSH email for my Office Live enabled domain on Hotmail (hey MS, I pay you for this, it isn’t a FREE Hotmail account). I read that Active Sync for iPxxx devices is...
View ArticleConnecting Multiple IP Cameras to Windows Media Center
After publishing a piece on how to connect an Internet enabled camera to WMC, iPhones and iPads yesterday, I received a couple of emails basically saying, “great, but I want to monitor more than one...
View ArticleComcast Xfinity iPad App is Amazing
If you are a Comcast customer, have a compatible DVR and an iPad (or iPhone), you have access to a free app in the iTunes store that is definitely a game changer. I’ve used myDVR on my iPxx devices to...
View ArticleHow to Fix Missing Netflix and Internet TV on WMC
You may have the issue that surfaced recently (December 2010-January 2011) that the standard FAQ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977116 steps will not fix. First, you will need to change yours DNS...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....