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Stream movies, music etc. from your MediaCentre to your iPhone.Remote Potato has finally come of age. Here’s the blurb:-Imagine having your entire library of TV shows, music, pictures and videos with you wherever you go - without having to sync. With the Remote Potato app for iOS, you can connect to your Windows 7™ Media Center from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, and stream content direct from

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“L.A. Noire” Rockstar’s latest trades the graphic violence for facial expressions.L.A. Noire is a gritty detective thriller set in the 1940s. Rockstar have gone for something very different this time. Instead of blatant graphic violence as it’s no.1 selling point, this genre-busting game will be a lot more subtle.Using MotionScan technology the game will depend on the user being able to read the

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How the HTPC is becoming mainstreamWindows 7 is a raging success. Microsoft have come up with an operating system with all the usability and stability that was so often lacking in some of its previous efforts. One of its finest features is the mainstay of MediaVue products: the innovative Media Center.Media Center has brought the industries of TV/movie entertainment and computing into the same

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New Windows 7 Phone App for HTPC Media Centre integration.Twist On:Tech are working on a new MediaCentre app for the Windows 7 Phone. This will allow the user to control aspects of the Media Centre experience form their phones. This is the latest info from the developer: Hey guys, just a quick note to let you all know about an app for WP7 that I'm working on called Media Center Manager. More

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Kiefer Sutherland switches to major new web-only series.Digital Broadcasting Group have produced a web-only series staring 24’s Kiefer Sutherland and the UK’s very own John Hurt. Entitled “The Confession” it will have 10 webisodes each 7 minutes long.This is a proper “A-list”, big money series that will surely spawn a hundred other such mini-classics. Some good, some rubbish. “The Confession”

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Is dumping dead fish the answer?In September of last year TV’s maverick chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall set out on a quest to save our fish and our fishing industry. This boy doesn’t do things in half measures. Two years ago he set the country on fire with his “Chicken Run” series of programs, urging customers and suppliers alike to change the way we produce chicken for food, giving the chickens

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Sick of your work PC? This could be the answer...IT provisioning can be one of the most expensive and dynamic areas of internal business. It’s ok for one of us to upgrade our laptop/tablet PC every couple of years but for a company that has 200+ that’s an expense to make any resource department hide under their desk.It’s a sticky subject because often times the programs used at work may be

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No one else will tell you this.And so the long winter nights begin to shorten slowly but surely. The days lengthen and the holiday hangover is made all the more painful by the financial debts of gift-giving excess. Is it really “the most wonderful time of the year”?Businesses rely on the winter holiday period for the boom in sales that it provides. They overstock knowing that when the January

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Website makeover in progress!Here at MediaVue we’re always looking to improve. Our website has been serving customer’s needs for almost three years now and has done so very efficiently. Our online shop has had many positive comments and customers have found it easy to navigate and browse. However, we’re not content to sit on our laurels. Within the next couple of weeks we’ll be unveiling our new

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Twiddling our thumbs in the office - when all our suppliers are shut!Mediacentre PCs come in all shapes and sizes to fit any requirement. With the holiday period closing all our suppliers it’s given us a chance here at MediaVue to take a good look at our product range. Of course our Engineers are constantly looking at our product range, making suggestions and recommendations. We take an active

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What is the Sony Xperia Play?1GHz Qualcomm CPU, with 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and a screen in the range of 3.7 to 4.1 inches. Yes it’s the Playstation Phone! Of course it’s all rumours and gossip at the minute as Sony hasn’t announced anything yet. Although a Japanese newspaper quotes anonymous sources that the gadget will be released in April 2011.Designed on the PSP this will be an Android 3

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Delay in Release of Google TVThe search giant has been branching out for some time, lending their considerable weight behind an operating system, a browser, a notebook etc etc…..but one of the biggest projects they’ve been working on is the Google TV.It’s basically a huge LCD TV with all the speed and functionality of a PC. Oh and a price tag of $1400. Oh and they’re struggling with the software.

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Nokia is suing Apple. Apple is suing HTC. Microsoft is suing Motorola.All because of Smartphones.Formerly the sole property of office types who needed to check their email at all times of the day, Smartphones have now become the norm and the iPhone was the catalyst.But the everyday functionality of Smartphones which may be common to each one is the subject for multiple lawsuits. Swiping the

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Motorola slams the iPadMotorola’s new ad campaign for its forthcoming Tablet PC pulls no punches in its negative comments on the competition. It hails all the way back to an Egyptian Hieroglyphic tablet commenting that although it’s got good graphics it has difficult portability! Working its way through the ages when it reaches the iPad the advert says “it’s like a big iPhone.” Maybe we’d all

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It’s “Choose your own Adventure” with a difference.The idea of writing a book in conjunction with someone else is hardly a new concept. Although writing a story with the rest of the world is certainly a different take on it. It’s a bold and novel(pun intended) project. Libboo.com is getting a professional writer to pen the first chapter of what’s to become the first globally written book. Then

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Watson is hoping it’s Elementary - IBM looks to Game Show as next step in supercomputer evolution.Watson, IBM’s latest supercomputer offering is going to test it’s metal in a specially arranged version of Jeopardy on US TV in February.It’s being pitted against two of the most successful contestants in the Game Show’s history. Watson is going to attempt to buzz-in and answer as many questions as

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Chrome OS - a storm in a teacup?The Chrome OS notebook is set to take the market by storm. Designed and built like a great big web browser, Chrome OS is being marketed as the future of mobile computing. Every machine running Chrome OS, whether laptop or desktop, will be a true cloud client. As for social media or real time feeds…..er….well let’s just ignore that part of it.When disconnected from

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Facebook – Bigger than big.Facebook is officially the most visited website on the Internet, overtaking Google by some margin. Their traffic increased by 60% in one year from Nov 2009 to Nov 2010. Upwards of 500 million users isn’t too bad, but what is it actually accomplishing?People use Facebook for all sorts of things. It isn’t just used for updating your friends about the mood you’re in or how

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The Must-Have Technology for 2011In a recent blog we spoke about the extensive use of NFC (Near Field Communications) in Asia. The e-Wallet was becoming the payment method of choice. As long as you’ve got credit then you can pretty much pay for anything on the High Street. It’s used in much the same way as London’s Oyster card but now it will be in mobile phones. One of its possible uses is

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More choice for the MediaCentre enthusiast Land Dolphin is not some new experimental hybrid chimera gene-splicing monster. No, it’s a group of talented guys who’ve got together to produce a very fine little app for Windows Phone 7 called Meteor. This handy little program seems to be just the ticket for all you Windows Phone 7 owners who are also nuts on MediaCentre PCs!Their website has an

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The Death of the Newspaper in sight?Why buy a newspaper when you can go online and get all the news you could ever want for free?It seemed an obvious eventuality that newspapers would slowly decrease in importance and popularity as the Internet generation became more attuned to the Web’s capacity for filling the gap. The BBC news website is a prime example. It’s an incredibly well maintained site

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The APP that completes the integration of you and Windows 7You know that feeling at 4-430ish when you realise your not going to finish work on time? There is just too much to do and you’re going to have to work later to do it. But you’ve not set you MediaCentre to record your favourite shows tonight! In fact the footie is on tonight and you’ve been looking forward to this match for ages! Fear not

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Some irreverent thoughts on Social Networking Virus and Malware creators are finding new and innovative ways to get to you! Their new playground is social networking sites like Facebook. This week the stunning statistic was exposed that one fifth of Facebook users are exposed to Malware through their news feeds. It’s certainly a clever way to reach you. The dodgy apps are designed to send links

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Protecting our Children from PornographyHere at MediaVue our business is at the cutting edge of the Home Entertainment industry. We embrace all sources of this entertainment whether it’s Freeview digital, satellite or Internet based. However there is an area that has recently been commented on in the press that clearly shows that dangers involved especially when your main entertainment source is

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Online Shops v High Street Shops - Part II……and another thing…..so much stock in High Street shops is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) (not sure why I used the acronym when I was just going to type it out anyway.) You are limited by the stock they have on hand. Admittedly you’re usually happy with the product you buy, but that’s because the sales person has convinced you that’s what you

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How the Online Shop is better than the High Street Shop - Part IWe’re all familiar with the annoying feeling when you’re having a look around a High Street shop and an assistant starts following you, trying to look like they’re not really stalking you. Then they pluck up the courage and say, “Is there something you’re looking for in particular?”“No just having a look thanks……”“OK, that’s fine,

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Three words, one year!A Chinese citizen has been sent to labour camp for one year for one tweet. The BBC News Website reports that she had retweeted a comment urging nationalist protesters to smash Japan's pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, adding the words "Charge, angry youth". The offending tweet posted in the middle of last month has landed 46-year-old Cheng Jianping with a year of re-education

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Walk the walk or don't bother talking the talk!In the changing face of marketing, social media has become a devastating tool either for skyrocketing companies and products or for wiping them off the face of the Earth. The insights that social media gives into the inner workings of the customers mind is really proving to be a revolution in buyer/seller interaction. Instant feedback from potential

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HD Streaming on rubbish broadband? Oh yes!Sick of a stuttering stream? Fed up waiting for your broadband provider to increase your bandwidth? Microsoft may have come up with a nifty little program that can make your online streaming experience a whole lot more pleasant experience. It works by constantly monitoring your bandwidth and connection speed and downloads in HD when that is available and

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What can you afford to lose?How much do you spend each year on gadgets and downloads? On averages we spend £483 each per year in Britain on all things techy. No wonder the IT industry is growing and moving forward even through what is not an insignificant financial reversal. Not that all the gadgets we buy are really useful in the long-term or entirely necessary.The advantage of MediaCentre PCs

Media Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07967691013441467337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677289173388754040.post-32516817615894344662010-11-15T12:25:00.002Z2010-11-15T12:29:46.635Z

The end will come in 2012……of IPv4.Once again the rest of the industry is playing catch up to the MediaCentre PC. Fully equipped with Microsoft Windows 7 even the budget range of Media PCs come with IPv6. Google took two years to get it’s IPv6 network up and running, and your ISP is still running on IPv4!IPv6 is a new addressing system that will increase the number of IP addresses available and

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Shred is not dead, but it’s not what you think.The BBC news website has an article about “shredders”- people who take the video of a well-known musician and overdub it with their own music, usually to hilarious effect. Some of the funniest ones are famous guitarist doing their stuff, but overdubbed with someone just faffing about on a guitar. There is a skill to it because there has to be some

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A New Browser for a new Internet?Rockmelt has arrived. Requiring a Facebook login this new browser doesn’t try to hide it’s social networking intentions. This is a browser that needs you to be a social networking junky. You can surf and browse to your hearts desire. When you find something of interest that you’d like to pass onto your friends you just drag and drop it into you Facebook/Twitter

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Convert your old brick into a smartphone! The App that bridges the gap. (see what I did there?)Not everyone can afford a smartphone and with most people and their granny showing off their touchscreen technology it was only a matter of time before some clever programmer came up with an app that bridged the gap. The clever techno bods are Input Dynamics. They’ve come up with an app that monitors

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The Return of the BBC Micro! This time it’s…..tedious.The first computer games that ever got me really excited was an early adventure game called Granny’s Garden on the BBC Micro. I must have been 9 or 10 years old and I’d never imagined anything like it…..it was truly mind-blowing. It was also frustrating because I was one of 20 kids crowded around this one computer that was only in our

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Get ready for the e-Wallet!If your one of the hundreds of thousands that uses an Oyster card everyday in the Big Smoke, you’ll be very aware of the convenience of the “swipe and go” system. It’s speeded up the commuter experience to such an extent that the vast majority of people now do it without even thinking about it.In Japan and Korea there is a very similar system except that it is used for

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Where does the PC go from here?When the man who took over Bill Gates’ job (as chief software architect at Microsoft) writes a memo about the future of computing, you pay attention. Of course he’s not in the job anymore, but it’s still worth a read. Dubbed the “Dawn of a New Day” memo this is a scathing but at the same time constructive criticism of Microsoft’s reliance on ye olde PC.Apart from

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FAO Amazon…..lovely, lovely Amazon.What is the best selling item on Amazon ever? What is their fastest selling item ever? What item gets the most 5-star reviews? The answer to these questions is the same: the Kindle.Released in the US in 2007 the Kindle has been a revolution in e-book based entertainment. The Kindle 3, one version of which has 3G and WiFi connectivity, has a battery life that

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Flash – Saviour of the universe?The new MacBook Air has no HDD. To create more room for longer-life batteries Apple have removed the HDD from their notebook. The OS and all your precious data will be stored on a flash drive. Much smaller, much cooler, much faster and also much more expensive.Price isn’t the only problem, flash memory can degrade over time, depending how it’s used. It’s a fact.

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RIM takes a bite out of Apple.Mud slinging isn’t pretty anywhere, never mind in the high-tech world of tablet PCs. Apple and RIM are having a right old ding-dong. “7 inches is too small!”“No it isn’t!”“Yes it is!”…and so on. Steve Jobs’ little rant about anyone who would dare try to make it a competitive market was surprising to say the least. Did it smack of desperation? Maybe a little. He also

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Clean Your GadgetScientist say that “you should be fairly disgusted to share the Apple tablet without sterilisation.” It seems glass is the perfect medium for transferring infectious diseases. Which magazine discovered after a test of 30 mobile phones that on average they were 18 times more packed with harmful germs than a men’s toilet handle. Disgusted? So you should be!We use these marvels of

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Save the World, buy a gadget!There is an app for everything. Now there’s even an app to tell you that you need to stop using the app because you’re using too much energy. Yes the iPhone app that connects to smart meters to tell you how much energy you’re using in your home is the new green initiative to save the world. These smart meters will communicate directly with your energy supplier to tell

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Evolution of Home Cinema Part IIThe advent of the home projector has a very obvious evolution. Slide projectors were the sole domain of dads, and dad’s friends who loved to embarrass us all with colourful photos of the past. (Hmmm, paddling pools just aren’t as popular as they used to be.) Whether you found that annoying or entertaining there is something special about turning down the lights,

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Microsoft think they’re smart.Smartphone and Microsoft. You just don’t tend to hear those two words in the same sentence. Unless the sentence also includes “left behind,” “dragging their heels” or “out of touch.”That may be set to change with Microsoft’s release of the Windows 7 Smartphone OS and with well-known Smartphone buff Stephen Fry endorsing it they may actually be in with a shot.

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Anything on TV tonight? Yeah, everything.Over Five Billion people watch TV. Yes, that is billion, not million.It’s in every living-room, kitchen, bedroom and even some cars! TV is the most successful information medium ever! And now your living room is becoming the battle scene the biggest merger of entertainment media ever. TV + Internet.Wait a minute, didn’t we do all that stuff in 2001??

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Sixteen Times SharperWatched Valencia V Manchester United on a 46” LED TV last night with surround sound, in full HD. I thought I’d reached the pinnacle of a TV sports entertainment experience. Until I read the BBC news website this morning that the BBC had just trialled their new baby in association with NHK, a new broadcasting medium that is 16 times sharper than HDTV.16 times sharper. That’s a

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Keep Taking the TabletsResearch In Motion has announced the Blackberry Playbook, it’s answer to Apple’s iPad. While RIM dominates the business sector with it’s smartphones, the Playbook will surely target the same customer base. RIM’s reputation in the business sector is unmatched and a tablet aimed at such a captive market could be a serious blow to Apple’s ambitions for the iPad.The Playbook

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Game, Set and PatchSo more gamers are buying games online rather than going to a shop in the High Street? Shock! Horror! The sheer inevitability!With Steam, EA, Blizzard and the likes plying their trade so effectively online it is little wonder that customers prefer an online environment. Social-networking demonstrates that if you can do something virtually from the comfort of your own sofa

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Teletext V MediaCentreDo you remember when Teletext was the bomb? Instant news, instant sport…..even games and quizzes! Weather, travel…..it was almost like the WWW without the pictures. It was certainly faster than the “Information Superhighway” when 14.4 modems were the cutting edge. (Although 28.8 modems started leaving teletext behind when it came to speed.;) How do the modern-day

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To customise or not to customise…..is that a question?In one of the fastest moving industries in the world the customer knows what he wants. It’s no use churning out standard spec systems on some sort of production line. The customer is way ahead of you! Their individual needs are as unique as their proverbial fingerprint so one who needs a quad TV-tuner may not want your WiFi or the customer who

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What is Sandy Bridge?Well here we go again…..it’s the next big thing in PC architecture…..it’s a competition killer! It’s the future…..it’s called……wait for it…..Sandy Bridge.Sounds like a nice place for a picnic! So what is it? Sandy Bridge is Intel’s baby. It’s a chipset that combines a microprocessor and a graphics processor in one silicon chip. Why? Simples. Processing images is the most

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Evolution of the Home Cinema SystemRemember when VCRs were the size of cow and you had to keep them in a separate room? Remember when you needed help to carry home a couple of hired vids, which you’d never heard of before, but you got them because the front cover looked good?Home Cinema – it’s a simple concept. Get a big TV, get a media player (whatever’s current- not Betamax) stick up a couple

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Our obsession with size reaches it’s logical conclusion within the combined industries of confectionary and gadgetry! For several years now all the big confectionary companies have been producing king-sized bars of chocolate. Of course the king-size bars of yesteryear have now been replaced by “Duo” bars which sound a lot more healthy to those of us watching our weight! Our overactive appetites

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