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@gduncan411: That's good to hear, thank you for this information!

Lucian, I just finished watching this podcast, and I've got a question for you.  You mentioned that VB11 now doesn't require the ByVal and ByRef keywords on the parameters for Sub and Function declarations.  I think that's great!  I'm wondering if value objects, like Integer, Float, etc are passed by value, by default?  And does that apply to String objects as well?  How about regular objects (non-value objects)?  Are they passed by reference, by default?  And what if you want to pass an value object by reference?  Do you then use the ByRef keyword?

I just watched this today on my Zune HD (yep, got me one of them).  This is great news! I'd rather make my own ringtone, then buy one from someplace else I've never heard of.

Thank you, Laura, for starting this!

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?

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?

@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?

2 days ago, Paul II wrote

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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.

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?

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.

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