Building a HTPC Part 4

March 8, 2025February 19, 2012 by Vik

It has been a while since I have blogged about my HTPC project. I must say the project has progressed really well and I am happy with my HTPC. There have been a lot of enhancements done to my HTPC. Here are the ones I would like to mention: Hardware Blu-ray drive: My HTPC finally has a blu-ray drive, and it is rocking! Thanks to my generous girlfriend who bought me this for the Valentine’s Day. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151222 …

Building an HTPC Part 3

March 8, 2025December 22, 2011 by Vik

I am very satisfied the way this project has progressed so far. I have successfully upgraded my system to have more RAM and a dedicated Graphics card. With all the upgrades in place, I connected the system to my HDTV using the HDMI cable and also to the router using a CAT5 cable. Sweet! Isn’t it? I am playing around with Windows Media Center software at present which comes standard with Windows 7. I have …

Building an HTPC Part 2

March 8, 2025December 20, 2011 by Vik

So, I mentally calculated how much the upgrades are going to set me back by. RAM – probably $50 or so, Blu Ray drive about the same, graphics card about $60 or above and USB card about $30. Total about $200. I could do that! There was one more thing. I figured from online research, that my motherboard could only support RAM up to a maximum of 2GB. That shattered my plans. However, I was …

Building an HTPC Part 1

March 8, 2025December 19, 2011 by Vik

Few weeks back, during the week of Black Friday, I was thinking of buying an Xbox to play video games on my HDTV. I have a Nintendo Wii but there’s only so much you can do with it. Not that I don’t enjoy playing games on it. I do. However, the type of games you can play is very limited. So, why did I buy the Wii? Well, it is fun to play on it …

Windows Phone has arrived!

March 8, 2025November 30, 2011 by Vik

Just got my Samsung Focus S delivered. It is an amazing phone and the Windows OS is simply fantastic. I am overly excited to explore it further having already configured all email accounts, facebook and twitter on it. One complaint though – I noticed it synced my Purdue Exchange and Google calendar by default. What ended up happening was, I got duplicate entries on my calendar. The reason being the two calendars are already synced. …