More Media Center for the Masses

Microsoft has released to manufacturing (RTM) its new version of Windows Embedded Standard 7. Not jumping up and down? Well, this product when incorporated into your TV’s and other desktop devices will enable them to be better integrated into all of your media centric systems in your home including, well, your Windows 7 based PC’s through the magic of Windows Media Center. Read on to see what else it can do.

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Windows + Key Keyboard Commands

I have always been a big proponent of keyboard shortcuts going all the way back to my Windows 3.1 days…. I love moving around quickly and getting things done whether I am in an application or just bouncing around the operating system. Here are a list of short-cut keys that may make your life easier when using Windows 7 and your keyboard.

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Office 2010 RTM became available on Friday

The Released to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Office 2010 is available to MSDN participants as of this past Friday. I have installed on my primary home system and so far I have a big smile. Take a look at this article to see my preliminary findings and what you need to do to prep your machine for installation.

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Adding the finishing touch to your backed up movies in Media Center

I pretty much have it down to a science on how I can backup my movies to my Media Center Movie Directory so that all of my DVD’s are now available on demand from any of my Media Center Devices. The one piece that was missing was the addition of all of the Metadata about the movie that Media Center allows you to access if it has been collected for the movie.

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