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Zune HD: How to Locate the Device’s MAC Address

Contributed by shamanstears on September 24, 2009 under Zune

If your wireless router uses MAC filtering, you will need to know the MAC address of your device so that it may connect to the internet.

Zune HD: How To Change the Background

Contributed by shamanstears on under Zune

If you want to customize the look of your Zune HD, you can change the background to any pre-synced pictures on your Zune. To do this, follow this Tech-Recipe.

VLC Media Player: How To Take Screenshots from Videos and DVD

Contributed by shamanstears on September 20, 2009 under Entertainment

Sometimes grabbing screenshots from video or DVD can be a major pain. The VLC Player makes it easy and delivers sharp looking images.

Zune 4.0: Prevent Software From Sending Your Usage Data

Contributed by shamanstears on September 18, 2009 under Zune

By default, the Zune 4.0 software sends the software usage data to Microsoft as part of their Zune Experience Program. If you want to keep your usage private, you can disable this by doing the following.

Sony Playstation3 and PS3 Slim – How to backup your PS3 harddrive to an external harddrive / thumbdrive before upgrading

Contributed by seamonkey420 on August 26, 2009 under Games

The Sony PS3 Phat and PS3 Slim are amazing gaming consoles and a great media center playback device too. One thing that Sony has done right with the PS3 is that they allowed users to upgrade the harddrive using any normal SATA/SATAII, 2.5″ laptop harddrive.

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Logitech Harmony One – Fix repeating buttons on touchscreen / repeating icons for an Activity

Contributed by seamonkey420 on July 28, 2009 under Entertainment

Yes,I am one of those techies/geeks that likes to be able to control everything with one remote. I purchased a Harmony One remote for this sole purpose. However after setting up my PS3, Windows7 HTPC, HDTV, and a few other devices; I started to run into problems with the Touchscreen commands starting to repeat onto later screens for that particular activity.

Sony PSP CFW : Getting purchased Final Fantasy VII from PSN Store working on CFW 5.00x

Contributed by seamonkey420 on June 2, 2009 under Games

This recipe explains how to spoof your CFW PSP’s version.txt file to allow you to play games requiring a newer firmware version. This also lets you your purchased Final Fantasy VII from the PSN store on a CFW 5.00 M33-2 PSP.

Kindle 2: Access Notes and Highlights from Your Computer

Contributed by shamanstears on May 28, 2009 under Entertainment

If you have highlighted some text or made some notes on a Kindle book you were reading and need to access the information from your computer, Amazon has made it easy by allowing access to this information from your web browser.

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