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A cool feature in Windows 7 Media Center is the ability to listen to local FM radio. But what if you don’t have a tuner card that supports a connected radio antenna? The RadioTime plugin solves the problem by allowing access to thousands of online radio stations. With the RadioTime plugin for Windows Media Center, you’ll have access to over 100,000 online radio stations from around the world. Their guide is broken down into different categories such as Talk Radio, Music Radio, Sports Radio and more

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It’s Friday and you’re sick and tired of the boss telling you about the TPS Reports that are due. Time to have some fun on company time and play the fun flash game Mechanical Commando 2. Mechanical Commando 2 This is a cool game where you are in the cockpit of your mech and visit different planets to obliterate enemies and save civilians. At the main menu you pick the planet where you want to start a mission at. As you progress through levels you’ll have more mission options.

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Do you wish you could just jump right into playing music when you open Media Center? Or maybe just skip that start up animation? Today we are going to show you a variety of startup switches that will allow you to customize the way Media Center opens in Windows 7. Startup Customizations We will be adding all of these switches to the end of the Target , on the Shortcut tab in the properties of Windows Media Center. If you start Media Center from the Start menu, go to Start > All Programs, right-click on Windows Media Center and select “Properties.” If you launch Media Center from a desktop shortcut, simply right-click on the icon and choose “Properties.” On the “Shortcut” tab, you will see the Target box with the text string: %windir%ehomeehshell.exe.

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If you’ve got a pet or toddler, then you know that an unguarded keyboard is a recipe for disaster – deleted files, lost work, and hard-to-explain Facebook status updates are just the beginning. In this article, we’ll show you how to disable your keyboard at the touch of a button – and, of course, how to re-enable it. Keyboard Locker is a small program that does this job well and takes up very few system resources. It’s a small AutoHotKey script that was originally written by an AutoHotKey forum-goer named Lexikos .

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What’s a geek to do with VMware, extra hard disk space, and RAM to spare?

Hide Media Center Strips is a tiny but handy utility for Windows 7 Media Center that allows you show/hide one or more menu strips quickly and easily. This portable tool allows you hide a strip for the current user or guest user or for all users. Download, run this tool and then select the user for which you want to hide a menu strip.

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The Apple iPhone is to get dedicated applications from the BBC for both its news and sports web channels. The apps are aptly titled BBC News and BBC Sports Results and will be updated feeds of what is on offer on the web at the moment, but in an easier-to-use interface. Eric Huggers, speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, said the applications would be accessible one-handed, proving their ease of use, and that they will comprise breaking news, big headlines and, most importantly, sports results. All this content will contain real-time data.

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Sky Mobile TV is now usable over 3G, with Apple allowing the change to the app and giving users the option to stream television shows and live sports over the mobile phone networks. Sky’s subscription mobile offering launched on the iPhone back in November – offering streaming television channels like Sky Sports News, Sky News and live sports channels over Wi-Fi. Now, for the £6 a month fee, Sky’s channels will be available over 3G networks as well as Wi-Fi. Available on 3G “The UK’s largest Mobile TV service is now available on 3G for all iPhone users,” Sky told TechRadar

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Once again, Microsoft has updated its Windows 7 Personalization Gallery by adding Samsung Winter Sports Theme. It can be recalled that the gallery was updated last week with Year of the Tiger and Valentine themes . The Winter Sports theme comes with three beautiful winter sports wallpapers. To apply the theme, download and then double-click on the theme file.

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Four out of the five biggest-selling games in the world last year were for the Wii, with only the top-spot free from Nintendo’s clutches. The Wii has been berated by hardcore gamers for the lack of games which don’t involve using the Wii-mote as a novelty tennis racquet, but its popularity in the mass market cannot be denied and these latest figures prove that. Although Modern Warfare 2 nabbed the top-spot, filling the remaining four places of the top five is some achievement for Nintendo. Worldwide sales The chart was compiled from data crimped from The NPD Group (North America), GfK Chart-Track (PAL) and Enterbrain (Japan) which cover the three largest markets for videogames. The games in order of popularity are: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – 11.86 million copies sold Wii Sports Resort – 7.57 million copies sold New Super Mario Bros: Wii – 7.41 million sold Wii Fit Plus – 5.80 million sold Wii Fit – 5.44 million sold

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