Kindel Systems

Dan Fernandez is the lead product manager for Visual Studio Express . He just blogged about developing tools and applications for Windows Home Server using Visual Studio. + As I mentioned in my Channel9 video I'm super excited that WHS is going to enable geeks, makers, hobbyists, or whatever you want...

I built MCE Controller as something that would be useful for my own home. I had minor aspirations of making it do more than it does, but the reality is that I don’t really have the time nor the inclination (it works beautifully for me as is). Until today I have resisted making it open source for...

I’ve released an update to MCE Controller that fixes a bug where it would prevent Windows logoff and shutdown. Head over to http://www.kindel.com/products/mcecontroller to download it. MCE Controller allows the Media Center application of Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) to be integrated into...

Check out these great Channel9 videos on Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) . If you’ve ever wondered what all the fuss over MCE is watch John Canning and Charlie Owen expose it all. Media Center exposed, Part I Media Center exposed, Part II There’s about an hour of video here, but if...

Rick Hallihan presents a really nice vision of what a Windows based home server would look like in Blobservations: Windows Server, Home Edition . At my house I use Windows Server 2003 to manage all of my client PCs. For example I can easily change all machine's IE security settings (and prevent my kids...

Via Ethan Zoller, the Media Center 2005 SDK is now on MSDN . http://msdn.microsoft.com/mce . Via this I also discoved Michael Creasy's blog which focuses on MCE. Cool.

According to the press release , "...Dilbert's Ultimate House"(DUH). DUH is a virtual web-based home that the famous icon of the workplace Dilbert, his fans, tech geeks, the environmentally conscious, and those who just plain love the comfort of a good sofa, will covet." He's got a pretty clean looking...

I recently built a really small and quiet home server that ran Windows Server 2003 based on a mini-ITX motherboard. It turns out you can build a great system in a very small package. The only down-side is that the really nice cases are pretty expensive compared to larger cases driving the total cost...

I forgot to mention a key (pun intended) command that MCE Controller supports in the 1.0.3 documentation. The "key:" command allows you to simulate any alphanumeric keyboard key press. For example "key:3" is the same thing as pressing the 3 key on the keyboard. This command is implemented internally...

When I built my house a few years ago I installed several video cameras for security monitoring. Until recently I was only capturing still images from these. I archived the still images and published the most recent via a URL on my website allowing me to see “the latest” while away from home...