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Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 3

Installing and configuring Media Center 2005, the tuner and display setup, and the things the manual does not tell you.

Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 2

The build itself — case, motherboard, tuners and the quiet-running compromises a machine that lives in a living room has to make.

Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 1

Building a Windows Media Center Edition 2005 home theatre PC: what the platform could do in 2005, and choosing the parts.

Digital TV Software

A 2004 APC Magazine roundup of four Windows programs for watching and recording digital television in Australia, reproduced from the Word file as it was sent to the magazine, editorial scaffolding and all.

Digital TV software: APC's edit

The same 2004 roundup after APC's Dan Warne had been through it, a third shorter, with a co-author added, the boxout cut and two of my mistakes fixed.

Remote controls for your HTPC

The third piece of my July 2004 APC batch, a Girder and TIRA tutorial with two boxouts, reproduced from the manuscript as it left my hands — with the draft's self-written brief and what changed between the two versions on the way to the deadline.

The ultimate Windows HTPC

The myHTPC workshop from my July 2004 APC batch, reproduced from the manuscript that went to the magazine — the piece that was commissioned at the highest rate, abandoned on day one under an XMLTV heading, and finished across one long weekend.