At the Windows Media Center event at CEDIA this week, Microsoft announced what many enthusiasts have been waiting for with baited breath: a relaxing of restrictions which made Windows Media Center less attractive to existing PC owners or enthusiasts building homegrown PCs. The announcements included: Digital Cable Tuner (DCT) support for all. Up until now, …
Mike Garcen of MissingRemote has a good article about integrating the new Hulu Desktop application with Windows Media Center. Thanks to support for appropriate WMC keymappings and a little XML ingenuity, you can directly launch and navigate the Hulu app from within Windows Media Center. I’ve confirmed this works (mostly) with Windows 7 as well, though …
As I’ve switched our main media room DVR over to Windows 7, I’ve been increasingly interested in finding new add-ons. After messing around around with Seesmic Desktop and searching for MediaCenter tweets by other users, I stumbled upon the Media Center Status Application by Jussi Palo, an add-on for Facebook and/or Twitter that serves two …