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Flirc – Control Your Media Center PC with Any Remote
I have always been a big fan of having a custom home media center PC, and have used both XBMC and Plex for a long time now. But of course, all the work setting up the perfect home media center is useless if you are still bound to a
Enable Spotify Web Player on Your Surface RT
Many of you may already know that Spotify has a web player in the works, and I’ve heard that some people are able to use it already without any trouble. For the rest of us, paying a visit to play.spotify.com simply redirects you to Spotify’s home page. Apparently, this
Microsoft Starting to Update Core Windows 8 Apps
While we really enjoy a lot of the new things that Microsoft is developing, including Windows 8, it’s no secret that many of the core Windows 8 apps are very lacking to say the least. I know that Brian and I both really would like a more cohesive and
Sort and Manage Your TV Shows with TV Rename
I’ve been working on getting my media collection more organized lately and really wanted to automate some of the tasks I was having to do over and over. I found this handy little program that really helped me out! TV Rename is a small piece of free software that
“Access Denied” Error After Windows 8 Upgrade
During my upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 i received an “Access Denied” error on my secondary storage drive. Easy and quick fix below. Step 1 Right click on your second hard drive and go to properties. Step 2 Go to the “Security” tab. Step 3 Click on
No Sound in Windows 8 Creative Soundcard
If any of you out there have a Creative soundcard and are running Windows 8, you may have run into a few issues audio issues. I’m running Windows 8 Pro with a Creative Sound Blaster Fatal1ty Pro sound card installed. I have noticed two issues. The settings in my
Change Field of View in Guild Wars 2
One of the bigger requests over on the Guild Wars 2 forums has been a FOV (Field of View) fix of some sort, specifically for those with widescreen monitors. ArenaNet have been working on some changes and have posted a beta version of their FOV change for players to
What’s Brett Playing? – LOTRO
Previously… Last time we spoke I was playing the one and only World of Warcraft. This was a little over two months ago and I have since put WoW back on the shelf and moved on to other things. I did enjoy the new Cataclysm expansion and made my
N64oid – Android N64 Emulator
I’ve been waiting a very long time to finally be able to post this exciting news, Android now has its first N64 Emulator application! This brand new app, N64oid, was developed by yongzh who is already known for his work with many other emulator apps for Android. I have
ROM – Project Elite v5.0.2 Update
Good news for anyone running the new Project Elite v5 Gingerbread ROM for the Droid 1! The developer’s of this amazing ROM just released a new update this weekend to v5.0.2. The update comes with a few minor fixes and also the ability to lock your homescreen as well