Chris Lanier's Blog : Andrew Grant Runs Down Reasons to Stay with Media Center 2005

Chris Lanier's Blog : Andrew Grant Runs Down Reasons to Stay with Media Center 2005: "Andrew Grant runs down his Five Reasons to Stay with MCE 2005 today. Cost, Extenders (or lack of), Remote Desktop, Functionality (or lack of again), and Stability (or instability) are among the reasons why he is currently staying with MCE 2005."

Windows Marketplace: Media Center Plug-ins

Have you visited the MCE page to see the listed plugins? Nice collection, sorted by price.

Windows Marketplace: Media Center Plug-ins: "Discover a wide assortment of software plug-ins for your Media Center PC right here. Once you install a program on to your Media Center PC, you can access it through the 'More Programs' section of Media Center. Find a few you like, then press the green button and navigate to 'More Programs' to try these useful and creative programs."

mceWeather Overview - show weather in Microsoft Windows XP Media Center

I just installed this on my system... and it works great. Easy to install, looks good, and easy enough to set up. Try it!

mceWeather Overview - show weather in Microsoft Windows XP Media Center: "mceWeather shows weather for your region on your TV or PC. The plugin provides data from all over the world (many locations can be shown, please just try if your next larger city can be found by the program). It shows the forecast for the next days and also shows you a satellite image of your country. "

How to Skip Commercials in Media Center with DVRMS Toolbox

Wow cool... I need to try this out.

Missing Remote: "For those of you unaware, ever since XP Media Center 2005, there has been this fantastic application called 'DVRMS Toolbox,' which had a bunch of tools to analyze DVRMS files recorded by Media Center and cut/edit/compress/etc. The only feature I use but found difficult to live without is the Commercial Skip Feature. "

Chris Lanier's Blog : My Movies 2.20 Released | Contribution Competition Launched

MyMovies is the greatest Media Center Add-on... I have well over 400 movies indexed in it, all that I can start at the press of a button.

Chris Lanier's Blog : My Movies 2.20 Released Contribution Competition Launched: "Added the ability to add titles from UPC/EAN barcodes.
Added scanning of barcodes via. WebCam.
Added queue functionality in 'Manage Collection'.
Created database backup and restore features.
Added the option to have both a front and back cover for the movie titles.
Changed the appearance of the page loader on windows Vista."