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Archives / 2005 / May
  • My Media Center Experience

    A few weeks back I decided that it was time to move on to the next era of watching TV: having a Media Center PC. Since we already have a couple PC’s at home, I had to find a budget solution to convince my wife, so I “transformed” an “old” PC into a state-of-the-art Media Center. The configuration of the PC is pretty straight forward: a Pentium IV running on 3Ghz, 1GB of RAM, and a 75 GB hard disk. The only hardware that I had to buy was a TV tuner card and a remote control. I went for the Hauppage WinTV-PVR 500 MCE which has 2 TV tuners, so you can record something and watch something else at the same time (a must have feature in my opinion).

  • SharePoint Style Designer

    [Via Daniel] The SPSkin Designer can be used to quickly and easily create style sheets (CSS) for SharePoint Portal Server and Team Sites. The Designer provides a GUI interface to modify the look and feel of SharePoint. Once a Style has been developed you can copy the style sheet and apply it to your Team Site or Portal.