Recently i setup my own Media Centre in the family room. It is running MediaPortal, this post is designed to explain how the Media Centre is setup and how it all works.
If you are interested in setting up your own media centre this hopefully will be a great post to get you started.
This article is pretty big but i have split it up with heading to hopefully make reading it easier.
Air Mouse is a remote control application that allows you to control and execute commands like you would with a keyboard and mouse from your iphone or ipod touch. Aitmouse works over your wireless network so if your phone has a signal to the router you have a connection to the computer.
Air mouse works with both windows and mac and is perfect if you are running any kind of MediaCenter application. I cam across AirMouse when i was building my MediaCenter i didnt want a keyboard and mouse cluttering up the lounge so i was looking for other ways to manage this AirMouse was the perfect soloution.
When you load AirMouse the appication will search for the server application which you will need to have installed on your mac or pc, it will detect that it is running and connect automatically, when the application has connected to the server the cogs in the top left will turn green. (see below)
Google Chrome has been something i took a back seat on when it was first released, not sure what to make of it and i was happy with Firefox but i decided to give Chrome a whirl and now have it installed on every computer i use, home, laptop and even work, what really pushes the boundary for me is the speed and the massive amount of quality extensions available for it. Below is a list of the extensions i use and why i use them some of them are really cool.
Over the last couple of months we have been interviewing some of the web’s best we designers, this month we get the chance to speak to John O’Nolan owner of Lyrical Media you can also view his personal blog here.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for my blog i really appreciate it;
Hello John, Thanks for taking the time to talk to us, what have you been up to recently?
My pleasure, thanks for having me! At the moment I’m working on quite a variety of things, I’m doing another piece of big work for Virgin Atlantic Airways, but I’m also focusing on a side project of mine which I’m trying to get off the ground and doing a lot of writing too.
The next book in my review series is Chew, written by John Layman illustrations and ink by Rob Guillory.
Chew is very different to The Walking Dead which was the last book i reviewed firstly you get colour artwork and the artwork is really crisp and clean a kind of beautiful in fact the story is also really gripping but at the same time strange.
In this day and age every GB is so cheap and with technology booming and the cloud taking off there are lots of different options for backing up your files, this can be really confusing for people who are just starting out with a backup strategy, we are going to take a look at some of the options available to us.
Dropbox has become very popular over the last year many designers & developers are now using it not only to backup their files but also to share their work with other people who may be working on the project . When you sign up for a dropbox account you are given 2GB worth of space free of charge, you can earn 250MB by referring your friends to dropbox and then the pricing plans start at $9.99 a month for 50GB.
The Walking Dead is a black and white comic book series published monthly by Image Comics, it first came into circulation at the beginning of 2003.
In January 2009 6 years after the first issue was released The Walking Dead sold twenty three thousand three hundred and ninety five copies.
The Walking Dead is a book I picked up by chance I found it on a list of good book on a popular comic book forum, I ordered the first couple of issues as singles and really liked it so I then started to get it in trade paper back form which is currently up to issue number 11 and can be purchased from your local comic book store. Trade paper backs are a collection of single releases all compressed into one book.
oooo bootleg quality nothing official, this has been taken direct from Comic-Con.
Exciting.
Well today we created the Stop Motion video here is the result;
I wounder if this will inspire the kids to do other such films?
Over the next to weeks i will be posting some updates from my day with the kids and today was the very first day of the school holidays and we had some real fun creating the stage and characters for the stop motion film we will be recording this week.
Here are some pictures of what the kids created
The Stage in all it’s glory, this is going to be where the stop motion is fimed.
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