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Play your Videos on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch

I have been recently watching alot of Video through my iPod touch and was getting fed up converting the videos to the right format and transferring the file to it. I remembered reading an article from my favorite website tested.com about streaming your Video on your computer to your iDevice through an app called AirVideo. I will be using the paid version which is £1.99 but a free app is available here.
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2011 08 29 Martin How To
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Return

So I’m back, sorry for the lack of content recently but I’m now going to try and post something at least once a week. My plans for the next few weeks will include some apps for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, how to DNLA on my Samsung HT-C5500 Home Blue-ray player and hopefully (if I manage to get one) a run down of the HP Touchpad now it has been discontinued.

Stay tuned…..

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How to Download your Pictures from Facebook

How to download your Picture from FacebookFacebook is great for seeing what your friends and family are up to, as well as a handy place to store your pictures online. However with more people uploading pictures straight to Facebook from their mobile instead of through their computer we are not keeping our own copies of the pictures we want to share. This means we are entrusting Facebook with our treasured memories that could be wiped out if our page ever gets deleted. This is where the free software fbDownloader comes in. Instead of manually downloading each individual picture, which will take up a lot of time, once fbDownloader is installed we can do it all in a couple of mouse clicks.
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2011 07 17 Martin How To
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Boxee Box Review

This strange looking cube is the Boxee Box, created by Boxee and D-Link it is their attempt to bring their XBMC (XBox Media Center) offshoot to the main stream. Boxee started by creating a media front-end for your PC.This interface gives you quick and easy access to your local media collection as well as hundreds of online media. As Boxee have being dealing with digital media since 2007 you would expect then to use that experience to a create an excellent media player and boy they have done it. Continue reading ›

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How to Rip Your DVD Collection

If your anything like me you’ll have quite a few DVDs in your collection. To allow you to have instant access to your films and TV episodes we will need to convert these from physical media to digital. The advantages of this are your DVDs are less likely to be damaged as you will rarely be using the orginal disc, you will have a back up in case you lose or break the original and be able to play the film on multiply devices such as media players or computer

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Do You Have: A Xbox 360

Microsoft are a very clever company, by bringing the Xbox 360 into peoples living rooms they have an excellent platform to delivery media content on to your TV as well. Out of the box the 360 has the ability stream a limited amount of content using Windows Media Player, stream music from Last.FM, buy video and music from the Zune market. Recently at E3 (a gaming conference that most new consoles and games are announced), Microsoft announced a Live TV service for the US, but we in the UK already have this facility through there partnership with Sky.
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2011 06 15 Martin Do you have
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Do you have: A Computer or Laptop

One of the easiest ways to watch videos from your computer is plug it straight in to your TV. Once connected you can watch using your usual video player, full screen streaming video (Youtube,etc) or even a dedicated front end like Boxee or XBMC (more on that in the coming weeks). Sometimes all you need is a HDMI cable, HDTV and a computer that’s only a few years old. Even if your computer does not have an HDMI port you can still connect using VGA or DVI port.

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Do you have the Technology?

Putting money down on equipment your not to sure of is a risky business. You may be intrested in playing your media through your big screen TV but are on a tight budget. This does not mean you need to miss the digital revolution. Big companies like Sony, Microsoft Samsung and many other realise the change is coming and have designed their Hardware to play digital media.

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WDTV Live

I bought this as my first dedicated 1080p media player, the ability to stream video from my PC in HD was my only concern.  Once I received this small gray box (and it is tiny) I simple plugged it in to my TV with an HDMI cable, connected it to my network and pressed the power button on the tiny remote control.

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So Why Use Windows Home Server

It started when I was a teenager and the family got this new box and TV that turned out to be a PC. Running MS DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1. Through out my experience with computers my main Operating System has been made by Microsoft. As such I have learned alot about the way Windows operated behind the scenes and how the interface works. This made me confidence I could run a server using a Microsoft product as I was familiar with the basics.
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