Wahoo! Got a Slingbox HD for xmas (bought it for myself with my pile of Best Buy gift cards - ended up costing me $3 pre-tax).

Some links and info:

Windows Desktop software. Looks like this is "legacy" software now, in favor of the web based viewer. If you want to use custom remotes, you have to use this desktop software.

30-second advance. Since the actual remote for my DVR doesn't natively support this feature (I assigned it to a dead button with a hack), it's natural that the Slingbox UI remote doesn't have it either. Here is a discussion of a guy that tweaks the BIN files that define the remote. Learn more about this! I have the Motorola DCX3400, so check out this thread.

Building custom remotes.

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Galaxy Nexus vs. Droid Bionic vs. Droid RAZR: Battle of the Verizon LTE Phones | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

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Not sure if WIRNS is still being updated, but giving the newest version a try. 3.0 beta.

Install is much better than before. First run of the service (according to the logs), detects 64-bit OS, and swaps out the SqlLite DLLs. Nice.

Still get crash when the service starts. Debug logs say format exception. Apparently it can't figure out our own machine's IP address.

• Add value to REGISTRY to give WIRNS at clue. Info here. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WiRNS\configuration]
  "wirnsip"="192.168.1.200"

We're up and running.

Configuration

• Instead of using "Configuration" from the system tray icon ("severely limits" the configuration functionality), browse directly to the WIRNS service on the local machine. http://10.1.1.11/manage/index

http://wiki.wirns.com



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Ready to re-install WIRNS after a machine rebuild, and it has to be on port 80 (Replays only talk on that port). Fine - I move IIS to another port. But, WIRNS installer says it's still in use.

Long story short, it's not IIS (it *was* on 80, but I moved it), lots of peeps on the tubes saying various other processes: SQL Reporting Services was the most popular.

For me, it was Web Deployment Agent Service. MS docs about it here.
Even with IIS running on 80, it's somehow *sharing* that port, and sticks around after IIS has been moved. Telnet localhost 80
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:11:43 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 326

Anyway - I'm not remote deploying anything to this box, so this service is now disabled. Port 80 - free again!



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I'm definitely not an iPad fan, but since my kids have one, I have to track a few of these "tips and tricks" pages.

50 really useful iPad tips and tricks




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I repaved our home machine, and I'm struggling to get iTunes back to it's old self. Here are a few reminders on how to configure stuff.

Export purchased songs as MP3
The "export" menu option (select a particular song, then context menu or Advanced menu) is by default "Create AAC version". This is still DRM'd. To change that to MP3, have to adjust "import settings" (stupid that they're related).

Edit, Preferences, General, "When you insert a CD" = "Ask to import CD".
Import Settings, choose MP3 Encoder, and bit rate quality (I do 192 kbps).

Now the "Create ... Version" should say MP3 instead.

Rebuild "Purchased Music" playlist
According to their installed help, it will get rebuilt the next time you purchase music. (lame!)

To see history of purchases, go to your store account, and choose purchase history. This is just an online list of purchases and their music.

Still to figure out:

• How to change the default folder structure of music. I loathe the Album name folder in the structure (just want flat list of music for an artist), but can't find any customization in iTunes.

My Process
After purchasing a song from iTunes, I want it as an MP3, ready to use from the Zune side.

1. purchase song, now it's an m4a in the lame iTunesMedia folder structure
2. find it in iTunes, right click, Create MP3 version (now it's in the same directory as the original)
3. right click the MP3 version, "show in windows explorer"
4. windows explorer, CUT from this spot and put it in the main MP3 directory structure (that zune watches)

Since iTunes is watching the MP3 (non iTunes) directory structure, it *SHOULD* eventually wake up and find those MP3s and show them in addition to the DRM'd crap. Haven't seen this happen yet...

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Always have trouble remembering / finding where the pics are uploaded to.

https://kinectshare.com/Landing.aspx

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http://www.overclock.net/faqs/91945-info-how-play-bots-battlefield-2-a.html

Following these steps, Connor and I got local LAN working with us playing on 2 different machines, same team, against AI bots.

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