Archive for December, 2009

Merry Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas from Multimedia-PCs. I hope everyone has a great day and gets to enjoy time with family and friends. The video above is of my Christmas lights synced to music. I did two houses this year with a total of 48 channels and 15,000 lights. If you want to see more videos you can [...]


Get a Kindle by Christmas

Amazon has free one-day shipping on the kindle. If you’re a late shopper there is still time. I am just imagining Kindles in boxes scattered all over the world ready to be sent to their final destination. If you are in the market, having it tomorrow at no extra charge is great.


Waving Goodbye to 2009

This very cool video sums up the events of 2009 in Google Wave. Either people have lots of time or are a lot more creative than me. Either way it’s a great video and it’s nice to see the new Google Wave put to good use. (via Mashable)


Run the Boxee Remote Widget on Windows

I talked about the Boxee Remote Widget previously on the site. It allows you to control Boxee from another computer. The problem was it was only available for Mac. With a program called Kludget you can run the Boxee Remote Widget on Windows. I hadn’t heard of Kludget before and it sounds like a great [...]


Use Windows 7 Themes in XP and Vista

Windows 7 has a lot of great features that aren’t found in the previous versions of Windows. While themes might not be high on your reason to upgrade, they look a lot better than XP and Vista themes. With directions from Digital Inspiration you can get those great looking Windows 7 themes in XP and [...]


Update: Time Machine Backup to Windows Home Server

UPDATE: Version 3 directions have been posted on the site. It’s easier than using the Applescript that has been failing for people that had a Windows partition. You can find the version 3 here. I thought it was about time to revisit an earlier post, which has been quite popular, on how to backup your [...]