I’ve spent a weekend and a bit with IceGuide (I’m a dirty man) for Windows XP Media Centre Edition, and I think I’ll need at least another week to work out whether it’s something that’s robust enough to pay for, but so far – and this is preliminary – I’m liking it. Installation The installer [...]

Why not make a series? Excellent idea, thanks, don’t mind if I do. After the rather wordy but well-meaning intro to building the MCE, I figured I’d look at some of the EPG options that are available. EPGRunner seems to have suddenly decided that tonight would be a No Data Available night, so it seems [...]

I built a Media Centre PC earlier this year, so thought I’d share the experience. I know the Yanks call it Media Center, but I’m Australian, so please excuse my automatic “re”. I write stream-of-coffee style (like stream of consciousness but more haphazard), so here’s a convenient ordered set of items to keep in mind [...]