Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)

For a long time I had resisted converting my DVD and Blu-Ray disks into any other format because I didn’t want to lose any quality.  I had lived by this rule for a long time, and thankfully companies like QNAP and Thecus came to my storage rescue.  However, the day has come where the cost of storing all the extra garbage that comes along with these movies has opened my eyes to benefits conversions.  With that, I have began converting my movie collection to a format that allows me to lose all the excess fat, but keep my movie loss-less. Read More…


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Latest iPhone 5 Rumors: '4G' Speeds, Voice Recognition?
PC Magazine
This time next week, the iPhone 5 rumor frenzy will be over and we'll finally know what Apple plans to release. I imagine there will even be an iPhone 6 rumor or two floating around. But until then, we still have several days to ...
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Lawmakers ask FTC to investigate Facebook privacy issue
msnbc.com
The co-chairmen of Congress's Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus want the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook for potential privacy violations. The new interest is due to a researcher's discovery of how Facebook has collected ...
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V3.co.uk

Samsung Targets Exynos 4212 CPU for High-End Devices
Tom's Hardware Guide
Samsung stays with dual-core processors in ultra-mobile devices for now and does switch to quad-cores anytime soon. The company's Exynos 4212 application processor is based on a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 architecture with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz. ...
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Fox News

MobileMe Outage Hits Mail, Apps, Find My iPhone
PC Magazine
Days before the expected launch of iCloud, Apple's MobileMe service experienced an outage Thursday that affected access to email, apps, and Find My iPhone. Trouble started around noon Eastern, with the MobileMe support page ...
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Cellphone Carriers Keep Personal Data Up to 7 Years, Report Says
Fox News
| AP AP Photo/Seth Wenig NEW YORK – A document obtained by the ACLU shows for the first time how the four largest cellphone companies in the US treat data about their subscribers' calls, text messages, Web surfing and approximate locations. ...
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New York Times

Will Amazon Buy Palm for Its Patents?
New York Times
Paul Sakuma/Associated Press and Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesLéo Apotheker, left, Hewlet-Packard's former chief, with the Palm Pre, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, with the Kindle Fire. Shares of Amazon fell about 2 percent in the ...
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The Independent

Spotify Launches 'Private Listening' for Your Guilty Pleasures
TIME
Sometimes you need to listen to a particular song that's in your head, just to exorcise it. And sometimes that song is so embarrassing—"I Think We're Alone Now," by Tiffany, for example—that you'd really rather ...
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Times LIVE

From private life to public knowledge
Sydney Morning Herald
The consequences of Facebook's pervasive nature are prompting users to question its values, writes Tim Dick. One morning this week, Facebook told me a friend had used a dating application the night before, one called Are You Interested? ...
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AFP

Nokia Completes Accord to Contract Out Symbian to Accenture
BusinessWeek
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj, the world's largest mobile phone maker by units, completed a deal to contract out its Symbian software development to Accenture Plc as the manufacturer shifts to Microsoft Corp. as a platform supplier. ...
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eCoustics.com

No Moment Missed with Kodak's Newest Small and Affordable PLAYFULL Waterproof
Sacramento Bee
By Eastman Kodak Company ROCHESTER, NY, Sept. 30, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) today announced the launch of the new PLAYFULL Waterproof Video Camera, a pocket video camera that is the perfect size to have on hand for any ...
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