Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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WebGuide kicks the pants of Orb IMHO. The Vista SideBar Gadget lets me control my media center (view scheduled recordings, watch tv, listen to music, remote control my media center) from within my home on our kitchen PC or remotely at work.
This is a really well done piece of software. It's the holy grail of local, remote control, and streaming support for Media Center (Vista and MCE 2005).
For example, here is me controlling the audio on my MCE box from a web browser on my Kitchen PC. I can play files locally or control the Media Center via the web based remote control.
Here is a screen shot of the Vista SideBar with a list of my current recordings:
And the show playing in Windows Media Player
The setup software will configure your UPnP router to open the correct ports though. Nice.
[via Chris Lanier]