If you are having trouble getting XBMC to read the IR commands from your remote from within Windows, I would highly recommend trying IR Server Suite which required little to no setup and got my XBMC setup reading IR signals from my MCE remote in no time.

The remote control (IR system) I purchased was the following:

AVS Gear HA-IR01SV Infrared Certified MCE VISTA Remote Control

I noticed that the traffic coming from search results for 'IR Server' were starting to increase on my other blog post about 'Cheap HTPC with XBMC and IR', so I figured I would add a few more details to this post.

While browsing newegg the other day, I saw a nifty little gadget called a 'nettop' by the name of 'Revo'. A nettop is essentially the desktop version of it's cousin, the netbook. Similar to the netbook, the nettop is designed with lower power consumption, small footprint, and low cost in mind. Surprisingly, the Revo nettop (or Acer Aspire Revo AR-1600 as it's formally known as) makes a decent Home Theater PC (HTPC).

I just saw this on Facebook and thought it was funny. It appears that the facebook ad targeting is working really well. Hell, I'm even thinking about having one now...

Often times when modifying applications or building themes for applications, it may be necessary (or at least part of the requirements) to remove objects that contain links to important parts of a page that you would normally use. For example, you may not want login links displayed on a site that is primarily a read-only site, but you'll still need some way to login to the site.

Because I often need access to certain parts of a sharepoint page which have the links removed, I'm going to start building a short-list of links I commonly need to manually use.