Doctor Who

• Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC

  Jan 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM

  I've gotten Soluto, which was one of the Picks of the Week, on this episode.  I was hoping that I could use this at work, to help diagnose problems users are having, but after having it on my PC for over a week I am really surprised at how often Soluto requires updates, which invokes the UAC.  I know my users would hate that.  Is there any way of having it not invoke the UAC, but only this application?

• Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC

  Jan 12, 2012 at 7:48 AM

  I started watching this episode today (haven't finished it yet), and am really loving it!  I think I'm going to archive it, for future reference, because I'm learning a lot!

  One of the new things I learned came very early in the episode when Gov mentioned that when he's uninstalling the crapware, he always uninstalls 1 app, then reboots, then uninstalls the next 1, then reboots, etc.  I know I haven't done that for lots of machines I've worked on.  Makes me wonder how many machines I've messed up, by not rebooting after uninstalling each application.  I know that in some cases those machines always behave oddly, during their whole lifetime.

  I've got a question, though, for Gov.  If uninstalling a crapware app and then rebooting after each uninstall should be the SOP, then should you always doing that, whether you're first setting up a machine or uninstalling something from a 2 year old machine?

• Ping 126: Windows Phone Demo, Nokia Lumia launch, FPS & Kinect shoot back, NeverWet!

  Dec 21, 2011 at 9:16 PM

  @Paul II: Well, I tried, but it didn't work.  I'm in Windows Media Player.  I cannot click on Turn on home media streaming, because it's not there, so I guess that means I've already turned that feature on.  I've going into More streaming options... and selected Media programs on this PC and remote conenctions, and changed it to Allowed.  then I got onto my HTC Trophy and brought up the Connected Media app from HTC.  I tried going to the Music | media servers, but it doesn't find my Windows 7 machine.  (It finds the Seagate NAS drive fine, as I mentioned before, but now my PC.)

  So, I give up; what am I doing wrong?

• Ping 126: Windows Phone Demo, Nokia Lumia launch, FPS & Kinect shoot back, NeverWet!

  Dec 20, 2011 at 5:44 PM

  2 days ago, Paul II wrote

  *snip*

  I use my phone to control my Windows 7 PC's Windows Media Player.  Just open up Windows Media Player and enable "Allow remote control of my Player"... and then open up the Connected Media app while you're on the same network and voila.

  Here is the help documentation for more details: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Getting-started-with-media-streaming

  If this isn't enough to get you started, let me know and I'll write up some more details.

  -Paul

  Thank you, Paul, I'll give it the ol' college try.  If I have any problems, I'll get back to you.  On a related note I wish that the same thing would be possible with the Zune software, but I guess it isn't.

• Ping 126: Windows Phone Demo, Nokia Lumia launch, FPS & Kinect shoot back, NeverWet!

  Dec 15, 2011 at 4:08 PM

  Hey,Paul, I've got a question for you.  I also have an HTC Trophy.  When I watched this episode you mentioned that you got something from HTC called the Connected Media app.  It sounded good and so I downloaded it.  I've gotten into it, but am not entirely sure how to use it.  For example, when I get into it and look at anything, like photos, music, videos, etc, one of the things listed there is "media servers".  In my home network all I have is a NAS (a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home external HD).  This is OK, and I see things on my NAS, but I guess I was expecting more.  In this episode you mentioned being able to control the music playing via the Connected Media app.  I just don't see how I could do that with what I've got.  In your situation do you have something like an XBox?  What is it, exactly, that you're controlling through that Connected Media app?

• Mango Jump Start (01): Building Windows Phone Apps with Visual Studio 2010

  Oct 14, 2011 at 6:55 PM

  Sep 08, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Duncanma wrote

  @Mike:sadly it wasn't made as a series, but instead as individual one-off posts, so it doesn't have a RSS feed

  That's way too bad.

• Ping 111: Mango Refresh, Could Server Heat, Avatar Kinect, Microsoft donations

  Aug 12, 2011 at 6:49 AM

  I just watched this episode. I like the idea of broadcasting an episode using your XBox avatars.  I'd like to see it, once.

• Pranking Softies: The Faces of Microsoft campaign

  Aug 10, 2011 at 6:15 AM

  Loved it!

• Ping 104: Sir Richard Branson, Intelligent healing on Kinect, WP7 to take the lead, Bing & Glee

  Jun 30, 2011 at 8:03 AM

  Hey, I just watched this show today, on my commute into work.  Congratulations on a double deck (104) show!

  I'm like Paul in the sense that I, too, am with Verizon.  And I've just recently gotten my first smartphone, the HTC Trophy.  I love it!

• The Niney Awards

  May 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM

  I finally got around to watching this yesterday.  A bit cheesy, but considering that its the first Niney Awards, hey, that's to be expected.  Over all, I really liked it!  It introduced me to other podcasts and blogs that I wasn't aware of and will check out.  I hope this continues.

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