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For episode 123 of the Entertainment 2.0 podcast we see the return of James Montemagno! James joined Josh and Craig primarily to announce the winners of the Tron Giveaway Extravaganza, but he decided to stick around for the whole show despite it being 3:00am in Romania! The show started with two...
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It’s taken some time for those of us used to the regular updates, but the Media Browser team has reached a major milestone with version 2.3.0 today. Since its inception, Media Browser has always updated your library each time you opened the program. While this provides you with an up to date...
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Merry Christmas, happy holidays and welcome back! We’re back with Craig Sholle and James Montemagno this week and it’s a fun show. As always we cover myriad topics and generate some great discussion. Between James’ Windows Phone 7 app reviews and the FCC voting on Net...
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After several weeks of covering the news, we finally move on (mostly) from the WHS Drive Extender debacle and straight into metadata and getting your Recorded TV sorted the way you want. There’s no one good way to handle this situation if you want to use a different system. Most are...
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In part one, we covered how to lock down native Media Center applications so that you you didn’t have to worry about whether or not your family is being sneaking and trying to watch things they shouldn’t. For many of us however, this is only half the story. With several third party Media...
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Seriously, I won’t judge you if you have content you don’t want me to watch. While our minds immediately wander to some lonely guy trying to hide his extensive adult collection, our focus today is parental control. My sons have reached an age where they’re old enough to use our Harmony...
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Just because we’ve broken through 100 shows doesn’t mean we slack. We’re back for number 101 this week and while there isn’t a lot of news, we have a great show for you. If you are interested in getting online content to your extenders, you’ll want to hear what we have to say about...
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Yes, no matter what you read up above or what you hear during the show, this is a Media Center show and we won’t be changing. That said, GoogleTV did make the news this past week so we take some time to try and figure out what it’s all about. Really, it’s more of a speculation/it’s...
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a huge Media Browser fan. I’m always happy when a new version comes out and this morning, I just got happy. Version 2.2.4 of Media Browser is a small step but it looks as though the developers are continuing to push to make it a faster and much smoother...
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Back for the first week of March and while news is slow, we’ve decided to take a look at some of the great plugins that are available both within the 10 foot interface, and that simply compliment Media Center. Whether we’re talking about metadata retrieval, content management or adding new...
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Most people know that I’ve been using Media Browser to manage my collection for a long time now. I’ve always enjoyed the Media Center plugin, but there were always things that frustrated me to no end. The biggest one was speed! May other media cataloging apps out there use an...
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The guys from Media Browser have been hard at work and it shows. Though I’ve only had a few hours to toy around with version 2.1.3.0, there’s a full list of new features and bug fixes which are detailed below. So far I’ve noticed that once the initial cache is built, it is a bit...
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