Plugins

It seems that lately I’ve just been finding more and more Windows Media Center plugins. The latest one I stumbled across (Thanks Ian!) is a way to get Facebook on Media Center. This is thanks to a soon-to-be-released application called Photato, which will be available in beta later this month. It…

There’s a new plugin for Windows Home Server users called TV Manager which copies your recordings from a Vista Media Center PC over to your Windows Home Server for storage and management. The plugin, still in beta, actually has 2 parts to it – one part for the WHS and one for Media Center. After the…

LiveUpload for Facebook is a new plug-in for the Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta that lets you upload your photos from your PC directly into the social networking site, Facebook. Besides making it extremely easy to get photos off your PC and onto the net, the absolutely coolest thing about this…

I sometimes wonder how I even managed to blog before the invention of Windows Live Writer. It is absolutely one of the best blogging software programs out there. No, scratch that. It is the best. One of the greatest things about this software, though, is its extendibility through the use of…

Although many of today’s email programs allow for large attachments, you never know if the person on the receiving end is using an email program that can receive them. This is especially true if you’re trying to send a file to a corporate email account, as most email admins put limits on attachment…

I just read Marcus’s blog post about a newly discovered feature in Windows Live Writer: built-in word counts. He notes that he’s not entirely sure if this is a new feature or if had been there all along. I believe this is a new feature because I used to run a Word Count plugin that did this in my…

If you do a lot of emailing with long-distance friends and colleagues, there’s an Outlook plugin that you’ll probably want to grab: Sender’s Time Zone. Like it sounds, this plugin will display the time zone of the email sender right next to the standard Outlook timestamp. It also calculates the…

WebMynd is a browser plugin that delivers real-time web search results in a sidebar whenever you do a search query on the web. Previously only available to integrate with Google, the latest version of WebMynd now supports Bing integration as well. Once the plugin is installed, after doing a web…

Want to easily add Tweetmeme’s re-tweet button to your blog post? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you have to go check out Tweetmeme.com, a site that tracks the hottest links on Twitter. One of Tweetmeme’s features is a button which website and blog publishers can add to their posts to…

Kylo, the TV-friendly web browser, isn’t brand-new, but a recent update should peak the interest of Windows Media Center enthusiasts: Kylo is now available via Media Center plugin. With the launch of the Kylo Browser Beta 0.7, a new plugin for Media Center lets you browse the web via your HDTV…