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Top 5 things you didn't know you could do with your Vista Media Center PC

Posted By: Steven Kerr Lindsay | Mar 14th @ 11:27 AM

Here I present my top 5 things you can do using your Vista Media Center PC.

Enjoy! I hope you like this one guys!, Let me know what you think on the forums. Take it easy!


And if you like my video, make sure you rate me and digg it :)
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Soapbox Now on MSN Video

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Sep 27th, 2007 @ 1:17 PM
Soapbox is now no longer a stand-alone site, but has been fully integrated into MSN Video beta. The integration is part of a refresh of the MSN Video site that brings several new features including a Video Showcase of videos of interest & the most watched videos, quicker processing speeds, new navigation, an expandable screensize, support for more codecs & extensions, updated RSS feeds that display Soapbox videos in feeds via an embedded player, and better sort filters for narrowing down your searches.

Search has also been improved on the new MSN Video, as it now a combines results for MSN Video, Soapbox User Videos, as well as web video results, all on one page. Now that Soapbox videos are available on MSN Video, you will see that "Soapbox User Videos" has its own tab in the upper-right, right there alongside the site's premium content offerings. When you're uploading a video to MSN Video, you have the option to make the video "hidden," a feature that will hide your video from the search results.

However, uploading videos doesn't have to be done on the website itself. With the tight integration of the Windows Live services, you can manage your video library in Windows Live Photo Gallery (yes, Photo Gallery!). A new feature in the latest version of photo gallery provides you with a "Publish" button that lets you easily upload your videos to Soapbox. Once uploaded, you can post videos to your blog, websites, or Live Spaces using Windows Live Writer and its handy "Insert from Web" option. (Via the Soapbox blog)
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Organize Your Media with Photo Gallery & Spaces

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Sep 26th, 2007 @ 12:40 PM
Windows Live Photo Gallery beta, one of Microsoft's new Windows Live Services, improves upon the built-in Photo Gallery in Windows Vista. The software, available for both Vista and XP users, offers many new features like better tagging, sorting, and image editing, including the ability to do panoramic stitches, histograms, image sharpening, cropping, exposure adjustments, color adjustments, and red eye fixes. You can add captions, turn your photos into screensavers or slideshows, and publish your photos and videos online. Videos can be easily uploaded to Soapbox (see how here).

The new Photo Import Tool automatically groups all the photos taken on your digital camera by date and time as you copy the files over to your PC. You can also select specific individual photos you want to import instead of being forced to import the entire batch of photos (like in the previous version of Windows Photo Gallery). RAW format is still supported, and additionally, Windows Live Spaces users will be pleased to find that high-res photos are now supported up to 1600x1600, if uploading from the Live Photo Gallery client.

Downloading from Spaces is easy, too. With the Photo Enthusiast Template, the integration with HP's Snapfish service for ordering prints, and the ability to point a Windows Live Domain to your Spaces page, Spaces becomes a great way to organize, manage, and showcase your digital photography. The easiest way to get the software is via the Windows Live Installer.
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Part 2 of my Halstead York Interview: VC-1 and Silverlight

Posted By: Ben Waggoner | Jul 18th, 2007 @ 1:39 PM
Part 2 of my Halstead York interview is now up, wherein we discuss VC-1, Silverlight, frame rate unsampling, and many other things. Part 3 talking about DRM (save the most contentious for last!) will be up soon.
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MSN Soapbox Demo and Invites to the Private Beta

Posted By: Laura Foy | Oct 13th, 2006 @ 1:06 PM

There is more than one way to share a video online. :-) We sat down with Rob Bennett from the MSN Soapbox Team where he answered our questions and gave us a demo of the web site and device experience.

You are most likely saying, "We’ve heard of all the online video sharing sites before, what makes Soapbox so special?” Well you can find out for yourself. Even though Soapbox is currently in a private beta, we've secured 10,000 invites just for the folks that come and visit 10. Visit our special beta registration site, supply your email address and you're in the beta.

Its time to create your own videos for 10 on Soapbox. Create your own video showing how you are using Technology to change your world, upload it to Soapbox and tag it with on10. We'll profile the most interesting videos here in the future!
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