XBMC/OpenELEC: Getting started

A while back and after years on Windows Media Center I switched to XBMC. More precisely, I installed OpenELEC on my mediacenter PC. It’s a small Linux distribution that does only one thing, but that it does well: Boot insanely fast and launch XBMC. Continue reading

Creating a reliably working USB key or DVD from a (Windows) ISO

The title says it all – check out Microsoft’s USB/DVD download tool. Even though the title says “Windows 7” it works equally well with a Windows 8.x image.

Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 8

Recently I took the plunge and updated my main PC and notebook to Windows 8 Pro. So far I’m very impressed with the speed of the system and the level of hardware recognition. Gone are the days where after installing Windows you couldn’t connect to the network because the network adapter wasn’t recognized (of course we’ll see what happens with really new hardware, my notebook and PC are 1-2 years old).

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