Ian Dixon

Blog moved over to TheDigitalLifestyle.com

isdixon — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:47:09 +0000

Just a quick note to say all my content has moved over to TheDigitalLifestyle.com.

At TDL we have the latest digital lifestyle news, including Windows Media Center, Windows 7, Windows Phone, Zune, iPad and iOS. There are podcasts, video, live chats and twitter

The Digital Lifestyle Show #305

isdixon — Thu, 26 May 2011 09:49:01 +0000

Great show for you this week, Jason Fitzpatrick from The Centre For Computing History joins Garry, Andrew and I to talk about their fantastic collection historic computers and the great job they are doing preserving out computer heritage (including my person favorite the ZX Spectrum)

We also chat about the weeks news including Airplay in Windows Media Center, My Movies, Windows Home Server, Windows Phone DVBLink apps, IPTV in Media Center and Freeview HD Tuners.

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Thanks to DVBLogic for supporting the podcast

ZX Spectrum on show at the Gadget Show Live

The Digital Lifestyle Show No 300–Prizes and Ed Bott

isdixon — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:33:16 +0000

Welcome to the 300th edition of the show that started out in 2005 as The Media Center Show, it been great being part of the community and I love doing the show. So to celebrate we have Ed Bott returning to the show, Ed was last on show 250 last year and we take a look at how Microsoft have performed over the last year and where Ed sees Microsoft going in the future, we talk Windows 7, Windows Live, Windows Phone 7, IE9 and Windows 8 We have ton of prizes to giveaway so Garry and Andrew have come up with some tricky questions to go with the prizes plus we have emails about show 300, using Technet subscriptions and Windows Home Server. I also want to thanks Chris Lux for a great messages about show 300 and you can hear his message in the show. So its a bumper two hour show for you this week complete with new theme music recorded using Garage Band on the iPad You can also notice TDL has had a makeover and a complete new look and feel Listen Here (download mp3) –Subscribe via iTunes – Subscribe via RSS – Subscribe with Zune Links for this weeks show:

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The Digital Lifestyle Show 299–To Busy

isdixon — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:29:04 +0000

Just Garry and I this week as Andrew was to busy playing with this iPad 2 to join us. We discuss Windows Phone 7 updates (again), comments from last week show, tuner splitters, new Media Center addins, Home Server, Amazon Cloud Drive, Windows TV and have a chat about the best way to get Sky into Windows Media Center.

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Podcast: The Digital Lifestyle Show #297– WMA Tattoo

isdixon — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:49:07 +0000

Andrew joins me this week to talk about file conversions for Media Center, tuner cards, watching media on netbooks, new Windows Entertainment clients, death of the Zune (again), IE9, iPad 2, iOS updates and our thoughts on Amazon’s Kindle

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Podcast: The Digital Lifestyle Show #296–He is back and he has a virus

isdixon — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:34:25 +0000

Andrew is back from his trip to Seattle so we have the full team this week. We talk about metadata for TV shows, new Microsoft Slate ads, new Zune type services, Xtreamers, new Windows Media Center addins, Virtual Server on Windows Home Server and My Movies 4.

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Podcast: The Digital Lifestyle Show #295–Mobile Invasion

isdixon — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:22:59 +0000

A special show this week as Garry and I are invaded by the TDL Mobile guys to talk about the iPad 2, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 problems with Media Center, My Movies, this weeks news and as they are Windows Media Center users we talk about how they are integrating Media Center in to their lifestyle.

It’s a bumper show this week running over an hour and half, I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

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The Digital Lifestyle Show #294 – Windows Everywhere

isdixon — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:55:24 +0000

Welcome to show 294. This week Garry and I mull over the weeks digital lifestyle news including, Windows Phone 7 updates, we talk about iOS v Windows Phone development, Plex for Windows, DVBLink, new addins and whether Microsoft have a Windows Everywhere strategy

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Podcast: The Digital Lifestyle Show #293–Death of the Zune?

isdixon — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:44:11 +0000

Welcome to show 293 (wow getting close to 300!) and this week Andrew and I talk about Windows Server 2011 and whether you should install 3rd party drive extender addins, how to get Windows Home Server V1, SSD drives and Windows Media Center, the death of Zune and WebOS tablets, Windows Phone 7, Apple TV, Boxee and Twonky for iOS

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Podcast: The Digital Lifestyle Show #292- Unboxing Andrew

isdixon — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:52:44 +0000

Finally Microsoft have the release candidate of Windows Home Serve Vail (now called Windows Home Server 2011) and Andrew can talk about it, so we let him out of his box for a bit to talk about what is new in WHS 2011.

Garry and I also talk about some of the news items from the last week including GMAbooster for booting netbook performance, BBC iPlayer for iPad, VideoRedeo, new Media Center addins, Android Remotes, and DVBLink competition winners

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