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• Stream H.264-MP4/M4V/M4A from Windows Media Player 11 to Playstation 3 & Xbox 360

  This should be of interest to Digital Media fans. I've been trying to work through the incompatibility issues with H.264 in native Vista apps. This might just fix most of it. From Red Herring : This registry patch will tie MP4/M4V/M4A files into Windows... Posted Sep 05 2008, 06:36 PM by pthurrott with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Digital media, Media Center, Vista

• Microsoft AutoCollage 2008

  This one is just cool : What is AutoCollage? Photo collages celebrate important events and themes in our lives. Pick a folder, press a button, and in a few minutes AutoCollage presents you with a unique memento to print or email to your family and friends... Posted Sep 04 2008, 12:55 PM by pthurrott with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: XP, Digital media, Vista

• Amazon launches On Demand video service

  Amazon PR : Amazon.com today announced that customers can now instantly watch ad-free movies and television shows on Macs or PCs with Amazon Video On Demand, Amazon's digital video service offering thousands of movies and television shows. Previously... Posted Sep 03 2008, 10:19 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Xbox 360, Internet, Digital media, Media Center, Mobile, Content, Vista

• There's a Velociraptor in my PC

  A Western Digital VelociRaptor , that is. My desktop PC is almost two years old now. (I purchased it back in October 2006.) It's an HP Pavilion m7690y tower machine with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 processor, so it's getting a bit long in the tooth... Posted Aug 31 2008, 04:45 PM by pthurrott with | with 46 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Home Server, Green computing, Personal, Digital media, x64, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• Bad Windows Update, bad

  And if I could hit you on the snout with a rolled-up newspaper, I would. I get home from Ireland and my desktop PC is asking to install an important update. It's called "Update for Windows Live Photo Gallery (KB 955359)." Now, I do use Windows... Posted Aug 12 2008, 12:27 PM by pthurrott with | with 42 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Digital media, Vista

• Microsoft confirms that Fiji is a joke

  Mary Jo Foley finally convinced Microsoft to come clean on Fiji , the thoroughly uninteresting Media Center update. Here’s what they told her (emphasis mine): On July 16th, 2008, Microsoft released an update to the version of Windows Media Center included... Posted Aug 08 2008, 05:59 PM by pthurrott with | with 38 comment(s) Filed under: Digital media, Media Center, Vista

• MobileMe photo upload finally fixed on Windows

  I check almost every single day to see whether it’s finally possible for Windows users to upload photos to MobileMe using a Web browser. It’s never worked right. But as of today, it actually works. To be a bit more clear, it “sort of worked” before in... Posted Jul 29 2008, 04:26 AM by pthurrott with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, Alt. Windows, Digital media, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• CinemaNow now available through Windows Media Center

  From Microsoft via email: CinemaNow’s library of over 3,400 feature-length movies is now available through Windows Media Center. This means that you can download and watch “Sweeney Todd” or “Juno” tonight, without a cable... Posted May 23 2008, 12:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Digital media, Media Center, Content, Vista

• Windows Rally and the first Vista Feature Pack

  You may recall a while back that there was some confusion over something called the Windows Vista Feature Pack for Wireless. The confusion was two-folder, First, one too many Windows bloggers had never even heard of Windows Feature Packs, even though... Posted May 20 2008, 10:27 AM by pthurrott with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Media, Digital media, Vista

• Zune VideoX: Microsoft’s iTunes killer?

  This comes at an interesting time for me, as I've been updating the Windows Vista Secrets book for Service Pack 1 and am adding a bunch of material on related technologies, including a chapter on Zune. Like many, I'd sort of written Zune off,... Posted Apr 16 2008, 01:37 PM by pthurrott with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, iTunes, Digital media, Media Center, Vista