http://tommynation.com/blog a tech blog Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:25:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By installing the Media Control Plugin for Vista Media Center by Damien Bain-Thouverez, you can finally play back video files with subtitles, especially files using the Matroska container format (MKV). Multiple subtitles support, multiple audio streams support, FFDShow settings tweaking, and much much more is enabled. The plugin can even hook ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/05/13/expand-your-vista-media-center-options/ To be able to access administrative shares and shut it down remotely, I added another user to my media center computer (HTPC) matching my usual username and password. Upon next boot, I discovered that instead of being logged on automatically, I was now presented with a logon screen, where I ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/05/13/enable-automatic-logon-in-vista/ Even if your Windows Vista user account is a member of the Administrators group, you are still asked to give applications permission to access your system in different ways. To enable the hidden Vista Administrator account, and become free of these hassles, just follow these directions: In the search field of ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/05/08/enable-vista-administrator-account/ When you have more than one computer in your local network, you may want to be able to access all your files on all your machines, whichever one you're sitting at. Here's how you can accomplish that in Windows: To be able to access all files you will be using something ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/05/01/administrative-shares-in-windows/ A few months ago, Futuremark announced their next generation benchmarking tool 3DMark Vantage. Today it has finally arrived. I like 3DMark because it gives good indicators on where you could improve your system if its not quite up to par, and because its easy to compare your system performance with the ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/04/28/benchmarking-tool-3dmark-vantage-released/ When getting into overclocking your rig - whether you just want more frames per second out of your old 6600 GT in Call of Duty 4, or to be able to brag about a score above 20k in 3DMark06 - you'll need the right tools for the job. Here's an introduction ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/04/26/overclocking-tools/ The first Beta version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 has just been released publically. Improvements include default mode interpreting web pages much more correctly according to W3C standards. A button to "Display as IE7" is available for debugging. The big news that MS is touting is something they call Webslices. Essentially ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/03/06/download-internet-explorer-8-beta/ I daily enjoy the possibility to access the files on my other computers at home directly, without having to share the root of the harddisk using normal file sharing. I recently built a HTPC (Home Theatre PC), and as fate would have it, chose Vista for its fresh new ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/03/06/c-how-to-access-admin-shares-on-a-vista-machine-remotely/ Robert Scoble had a talk with RJ Owen, Senior Developer at EffectiveUI. He discusses how to create great user experiences for Web apps. Click here to go to the original post on ScobleShow (new window). http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/02/20/killed-user-interfaces/ According to SEfanatics, there is a reference in the latest edition of the official Sony Magazine, to a PSP-style phone possibly being released as soon as this month. I'll believe it when I see it, but the fact remains that Sony has filed a patent for such a device, and they ... http://tommynation.com/blog/2008/02/19/sony-psp-phone-imminent/