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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BlackBerry squeezed out of Enterprise say stats
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RIM's new CEO faces a dual-challenge, Apple in North America and the ascendence of Samsung in Europe, according new research, though BlackBerry is a surprise hold-out in the UK. “Android and Apple together are eating BlackBerry's lunch” Forrester ...
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Apple wrestles with its 'China problem'
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – Apple began last week by basking in record quarterly profits, but then ended the week in a public relations retreat after reports of exploited workers in factories in China assembling its hot-selling iPads and iPhones.
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Chicago Tribune

Kindle Fire sales strong in Q4, but no match for iPad
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by Don Reisinger January 30, 2012 5:00 AM PST Amazon's Kindle Fire has been called the iPad's best competitor. And if one analyst's estimate on the tablet's sales is true, it might just be. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan wrote to investors last ...
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Google fired cheeky recruiter who peeved Steve Jobs with poach attempt
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Samsung reveals Advance-d Android ringer
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By Caleb Cox • Get more from this author Samsung sent its latest Galaxy handset into orbit today, unveiling the Advance S, an Android blower that apparently strikes a balance between style, power and performance. Of course it does.
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The Hindu

Google spews out 'privacy' email to Sky punters too
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By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author Sky users have joined Virgin Media subscribers in receiving emails directly from Google about its new privacy policy. Sky customers received the email from the Chocolate Factory warning them about the ...
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Google Earth 2.0 Flies Onto Honeycomb Tablets
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Google has launched a new version of its Google Earth application , tailored for Android 3.0 “Honeycomb“, and designed to make use of larger tablet screens. The free Google Earth for Android software lets users click on an icon to see photos and videos ...

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Apple sells 350000 e-textbooks in 3 days
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Feds: Megaupload user data could be gone Thursday
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(AP) Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. US prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other ...

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Should any Internet freedom ever be sacrificed to fight piracy?
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Larry Dignan: The Internet has grown up with this somewhat ludicrous idea that there's this heavy dose of freedom and anything goes. The reality is that every entity that plays on the Internet---advertisers, content providers, information producers, ...
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