So I’ve become a big fan of RadioParadise. It’s a listener supported, commercial free radio station which plays a great mix of new, old and eclectic rock, with a random mix of everything else when they feel like it. Actually, it’s best explained if you just go there and listen. I also have a shortcut… Continue reading RadioParadise HD Plugin for Windows Media Center
Category: Windows
Replacing the ATI Radeon 5450 with an NVidia GT 430
So I had reached the end of my rope with the MSI ATI Radeon card on a couple fronts. I had HDMI bitstreaming working with Arcsoft TMT (as long as AnyDVD was running), and I could even put up with the flaky Catalyst UI and drivers. But I was stymied trying to get the refresh… Continue reading Replacing the ATI Radeon 5450 with an NVidia GT 430
Hulu update and quick Media Center Studio fix
I just received a comment on an old Hulu/AutoHotKey fix I had done sometime ago to get a better resolution for Hulu streaming. Seeing this, it occurred to me that since then, Microsoft made some changes that broke Media Center Studio. Searching the Australian Media Center Community (which has a couple interesting projects you won’t… Continue reading Hulu update and quick Media Center Studio fix
Windows 7 Performance Tricks
Just stumbled across this blog posting. Pretty good stuff.
Windows 7 Sleep Debugging
So after I added the SSD to the HTPC and moved my hard disk into the NAS drive, I began to notice the machine no longer automatically goes to sleep. If I hit the power button (set to sleep) or run it from the command line (%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Standby) the machine goes to sleep just fine,… Continue reading Windows 7 Sleep Debugging
Jumbo Frames, iSCSI and Disabling Nagle
So the new project (which I get to spend about 15 minutes a week on) has been to remove the mechanical harddisk from my HTPC and have it run completely silently off the SSD. The first stage was purchasing the ReadyNAS NV+. 2TB drives have dropped below $100 so a NAS device with 1Gb networking… Continue reading Jumbo Frames, iSCSI and Disabling Nagle
Open Apple Pages .pages files in Windows
Quick fix for Grammie. Someone had sent her some .pages files and she couldn’t open them on Windows 7. Turns out that they are a Winzip compatible file archive with a PDF preview in them. Since she doesn’t even have Winzip installed, I simply exported, edit, and imported the .zip registry entry so the Windows… Continue reading Open Apple Pages .pages files in Windows
CPU Envy
When I first started working for SCO in 1989, Xenix was the ONLY 32 bit operating system available for the Intel 386 platform. In fact, in 1983, when Linus Torvals was 14 years old, SCO had Xenix running on two platforms: the Mac Lisa and the Intel 8086. Yes, years before Tanenbaum’s Minux was released,… Continue reading CPU Envy
Simple document scanner program
Ever needed to scan a document using a manual scanner? I used to go through this painful process using the scanner wizard and pasting the images into a word document. With a quick search, I found Documalis Free Scanner It’s written by a French company, so depending upon your language skills, you may have… Continue reading Simple document scanner program
Every SSD could use a little TRIM
So I was an early adopter of a Corsair P128 SSD drive for my media center machine. I was extremely pleased with the fact that it eliminated 95% of the disk noise, even though I left the 1TB HD in the machine. Even when recording to the HD, it barely makes a noise since the… Continue reading Every SSD could use a little TRIM