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The Xbox 360 remains the holiday season’s most elusive gift. If you’ve got one already, you know why. The games look and play better than any previous console. Integration with Windows Media Center is phenomenal, although you don’t need a Media Center to stream music and browse your digital photos, Windows Media Connect will handle [...]

Over the course of the year I’ve made a ton of posts to the Lockergnome Media Center Channel. Some are warmly received, others achieve only passing interest. In theory, the cream rises to the top and the best stuff is what everyone is reading. In a very unscientific fashion, I’ve determined that of all the [...]

If you purchased one of about 20 CDs from Sony/BMG over the course of 2005, including the latest from Celine Dion and Neil Diamond, it’s possible your computer may be at risk. Those of us who immediately rip every CD to our hard drive following a purchase should double check for the existence of a [...]

Few things annoy me more than Windows telling me a file can’t be deleted because it’s in use. I know the file is just sitting there idle and yet something is tying the file up keeping me from deleting it. You’ve probably seen the associated error message at some point: Error: Cannot Delete File or [...]

I seem to get tons of mail from people with hard drive crashes wanting to know how to save their files. Starting with my days as a network geek, I have more experience with this stuff than I care to remember. It’s no fun to lose your data. The most recent posting was someone who [...]

Having your file associations go nuts can be frustrating. I recently received a question from someone wanting to know why their .JPG files no longer displayed the little sunset icon that is the default for images associated with Microsoft Windows and Fax Viewer. Apparently something changed on their system and .JPG files no longer had [...]

I am a news junkie. I love MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and NPR. I just don’t sit in front of a TV all day. I have been hunting for a good source for streaming news so I can keep up on things audibly rather than relying on the news channel RSS feeds. [...]

We at Tribune Media Services and Zap2it.com have been privileged to offer a
TV listings service to the Open Source and freeware communities so that the
many innovations in electronic program guides, digital video recorders, and
recommendation engines could continue to flourish. This free-of-charge
service is at risk, however, due to the actions of several businesses
seeking to exploit our [...]

I’ve received tons of emails from readers over the last month or so about the latest thing, freeiPods.com. As with most others I’ve talked to about this, I was sure that it was just another Internet scam. I turned on CNN that night, to find that there was a report of freeiPods.com. They said that it [...]