I have spent the past week moving 100′s of terabytes of data from disk to disk, trying to find the best solution for the central storage of my media. Let me back track a little and give some background, at home we run a Windows 7 Media Centre, my main desktop and two laptops also …
Tag Archive: windows 7
Oct
30
Labgear Dual Brushed Media Faceplate
I have been looking for a solution to tidy up the media wires behind the television in the new Orangery Kitchen extension. The television will be wall mounted at about 1300mm off the ground, we will also have a media centre PC running windows 7 media centre tucked away under a cupboard in the centre …
Aug
04
3 Must Have Windows 7 Media Centre Plugins
I have been adding some additional functionality to our media centre over the weekend. I used to run many plugins on Vistas Media centre, but after the upgrade to Windows 7 some of these did not work and others I just have not got round to installing. I thought I would post about the three …
Jun
14
Amazon S3 Sync App For Windows
As you will have recently ready I am backing up all my media to Amazon S3. My photographs are stored on my Western Digital MyBook World which I have hacked to open up the Linux shell, and as such i use S3Sync on command line to back up my photographs. I have even written a …
Feb
10
My View On Windows 7 – I Like It
I recently bought myself a top spec PC, it came installed with Windows Vista, however, I had bought within the free upgrade to Windows 7 period so I sent off for the free copy. It took some time for it to arrive, and then some time for me to get round to doing the upgrade …
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