Just thought this may be of interest to Wii console owners, now you can get a mediacenter-extention for your Wii, and at a price of US$ 39,- it should be worth a look. I have not tested this myself as I don’t have a Wii, what is wrong with my good old XBOX 1 which by the way DO have a mediacenter installed 😉
X-OOM Media Center for Wii™
- Direct access to all your movies, videos, photos, music etc.
- Fool-proof installation and navigation
- Optimized for widescreen (16:9)
- Access to more than 1,000 radio and TV channels
- Streaming of multimedia files (audio/video)
- Extensive support of media files: MP3, WMA, OGG, DivX®, Xvid, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV, JPG, BMP etc.
- Common network connection through WLAN or LAN
So your old mother calls and says she cant connect to the Internet, bummer you have to go through hoops to make her open a command prompt, ping this and that and before you know it you have spent an hour or more.
Well Windows today actually has a decent looking utility for testing network connectivity (it may be enough for that initial test), and this may thus be worth a look before getting into the command prompt.
The utility is here;
C:WINDOWSNetwork Diagnosticxpnetdiag.exe
Or you can get it from here;
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ea541e8e-85a3-4d2f-a3a4-b329d03fc2fa
Just heard about this and have thus not tested it myself, but it sound nifty..
From the website;
It is hard to teach a group of people how to use a PC, or even how to use a specific program on a PC or the internet.
Yes, PC or web training isn’t easy. For someone who’s doing something right, there are probably two others doing it wrong, playing games, checking email, shopping…
Classroom Spy lets you see what everyone’s doing – without leaving your desk. You can monitor the activity of all the PCs in your classroom remotely. Plus, you can share your screen with your students’ PCs, making demos and presentations much easier.
http://www.classroomspy.com/
http://www.classroomspy.com/download.htm