Filed under: Audio, Video, Windows, Open Source
Media Portal II: Open source Windows Media Center replacement take 2
by Brad Linder Dec 18th 2007
But if that's not a good enough reason for you to "upgrade" to Windows Vista, there are plenty of other applications out there that let you turn your PC into a media center, including commercial applications like BeyondTV and SageTV and free software like GB-PVR and Media Portal.
Media Portal isn't just free, it's open source. But it hasn't always been the easiest application to install and configure. So the developers behind Media Portal have released the first preview of Media Portal II. Right now Media Portal II actually has fewer features than its predecessor. For example, while you can enjoy music, movies, and pictures, there's no way to watch or record live TV using Media Portal II.
But the program uses a new framework that will make it much easier for developers to issue updates. Members of the Media Portal community should also have an easier time writing plugins and skins for the application, so we're hoping to see big things from Media Portal over the next few months.
[via floppyhead]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
