Category: Windows OS
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How To Connect Windows 7 Media Center To an Xbox 360 and Stream Media
If you’re new to Windows 7 and own an Xbox 360, you might want the ability to watch the Media Center Content from Your Xbox. Here we take a look at how easy it is to set it up using Media Center Extenders. The cool thing about Windows 7 Media Center is you can access your movies, music, and other digital media from it with your Xbox. Here we’ll walk you through the process of adding media to the Windows Media Center (WMC) Libraries then setting up your PC and Xbox to talk with each other so your Xbox 360
Click for more / Podcast Player>How to Configure Windows 7 Updates
If you’ve been a Windows user since XP, you probably know the importance of keeping the OS up-to-date. If you’re new to Windows or more specifically Windows 7, here we’ll take some time to go over the importance of making sure you have Windows Updates configured properly. If you want to help make sure that your PC is is more stable and less vulnerable to malicious attacks, the 2 main things to keep up-to-date is your Antivirus software and Windows Updates. The 2nd Tuesday of each month Microsoft has what’s called “Patch-Tuesday”. This is the day when Microsoft releases patches
Click for more / Podcast Player>Getting Started with Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011
Over the past few weeks we’ve been covering the different offerings available in Windows Live Essentials 2011. Another program we’ll take a look at this week is Live Photo Gallery 2011. Photo Gallery is a set of tools for organizing, sharing, touching up you photos and publishing them online. It has a lot of features not included in previous versions such as the ability to create Panoramas, movies, slideshows, and actually has an interesting search feature using Facial Recognition. Install & Setup Live Photo Gallery 2011 Installation is simple and very similar to any of the other Live Essentials programs
Click for more / Podcast Player>To The Cloud! How Do You Really Do That?
What does that really mean? In a very catchy ad campaign, Microsoft touts some of it’s newest technologies (and some old one’s too!) in an attempt to impress you enough to move “to the cloud!” The only problem is that they don’t really tell you how to do it! Our crack team of technologist get to the bottom of each commercial and tell you how it’s done. We have imbedded each one for you to review. Software applications needed are listed below each video. Sharing a Youtube Video (Most likely made with Windows Live Movie Maker) through Windows Live Messenger
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