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Using Corel WinDVD Pro 2010 to play Blu-ray Movies on Windows 7

Over the weekend, I picked up Terminator Salvation (I love the Terminator movies!) in Blu-ray. About a year ago, I added a Blu-ray player to my custom built Velocity Micro Windows Media Center PC (the CineMagix Grand Theater Entertainment System). The Blu-ray drive was a great addition to a PC that essentially controls my whole home entertainment experience in my living room. I noticed that the application I used to play Blu-ray movies was in need of an update. I decided to go out and look for an application that is Compatible for Windows 7 and I came across Corel WinDVD Pro 2010. WinDVD Pro 2010 is listed in the Windows 7 Compatibility Center and uses new Windows 7 features I think a lot of you will enjoy. It’s a great example what’s possible when developers want to make PC apps simpler and more fun.

First off – WinDVD Pro 2010 comes sporting a brand new look and feel with its UI. Corel takes advantage of Aero Glass for the look of the application. The layout is similar to Windows Media Player. The playback controls at the bottom of the application are in similar positions as they are in Windows Media Player. This is great for folks who are already comfortable with Windows Media Player today.

In Windows 7, WinDVD Pro 2010 introduces integration with the Windows Taskbar and utilizes Jump Lists.

With the WinDVD Pro 2010 Jump List – you can quickly play your DVD and Blu-ray movies right from the Windows Taskbar in Windows 7. It literally fires up WinDVD Pro 2010 and plays your movie without any need to fiddle with controls to setup your movie.

If you are using WinDVD Pro 2010 on a Windows 7 PC that has multitouch capabilities, WinDVD Pro 2010 also supports Windows Touch! You can control playback of your movies with the touch of a finger. My setup in my living room is not with a PC, TV or monitor that supports multitouch unfortunately.

WinDVD Pro 2010 also has Windows Media Center integration for quick access to WinDVD 2010. This comes in quite handy for Blu-ray movie playback and used this option to start playing Terminator Salvation.

Corel offers 2 versions of WinDVD 2010 today – Standard and Pro. I chose Pro due to the wanting Blu-ray movie playback. For more on the features in WinDVD 2010, click here.

For Windows 7 PCs with Blu-ray drives, this app is certainly worth looking at for Blu-ray playback.

Know of any other great apps you want to share with people that work great in and take advantage of Windows 7? Post a comment and let me know!

Written by Brandon LeBlanc on December 9th, 2009 with no comments.
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Aero Hilled Theme - Free Download

Aero Hilled Theme
You don’t see to many green colored designs for Windows 7 but now we do. There aren’t too many mods to this theme other then the massive amount of green and some slight color changes but I still like it. I can’t wait until Windows 7 comes out of beta so we can have more wonderful themes like this one.

Are you still using Windows XP? If you are then visit our FAQ page to download our XP Theme Patcher. If you’re using Windows 7, you don’t need the Theme Patcher.

Title: Aero Hilled
Author: alkhan
Download: Windows 7 Aero Hilled Theme

Written by MyVistaThemes.com on April 13th, 2009 with no comments.
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Aero Diamond Win 7 Theme - Free Download

Aero Diamond Win 7 Theme
After trying out Windows 7 I’ve discovered that it is lightning fast. Putting on this awesome theme will makes your desktop come alive. I love the small changes that were made to the taskbar and start panel. Overall this theme is light and great to look at.

Are you still using Windows XP? If you are then visit our FAQ page to download our XP Theme Patcher. If you’re using Windows 7, you don’t need the Theme Patcher.

Title: Aero Diamond Win 7
Author: alkhan
Download: Windows 7 Aero Diamond Win 7 Theme

Written by MyVistaThemes.com on April 6th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Aero Diamond Theme - Free Download

Aero Diamond Theme
With so much hype surrounding Windows 7 I thought that I’d start adding some awesome Windows 7 themes. This beautiful blue and soft theme really start this category off nicely. I like the minor modifications like the new glassy start menu, the blue progress bar, the blue close button and the cool start orb. Also the creative wallpaper changes every five minutes so you’ll never get bored of your new Windows 7 theme.

Are you still using Windows XP? If you are then visit our FAQ page to download our XP Theme Patcher. If you’re using Windows 7, you don’t need the Theme Patcher.

Title: Aero Diamond
Author: alkhan
Download: Windows 7 Aero Diamond Theme

Written by MyVistaThemes.com on February 24th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Aero Clear 2 Theme - Free Download

Aero Clear 2 Theme
Here’s another grey theme for the world to enjoy. It seems like grey is a popular color these days. I think the icons on the right are really cool and really add a neat visual to this theme. The background could use some sharpness but overall this theme fits nicely into anybody’s desktop.

Are you still using Windows XP? If you are then visit our FAQ page to download our XP Theme Patcher. If you’re using Windows Vista, you don’t need the Theme Patcher.

Title: Aero Clear 2
Author: jjoul
Download: Vista Aero Clear 2 Theme

Written by MyVistaThemes.com on February 10th, 2009 with no comments.
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OpenSUSE 11.0 — The Long and Short of it

I haven’t been using my blog much over the ast few months. I have generally been very busy with life in general. Not least of course with work which has been a great player in my life this year. Not in a negative overtaking way but apart from my photography and walking, it has been my main creative output. So, trying to get things back on an even base before I leave once again for a weeks (for Christmas and New Year) it’s about time I updated this blog on my exploits with OpenSUSE 11.0.

OpenSUSE 11.0 Desktop with Firefox 3 and LyX

I think about 3-4 months ago I decided to give the distribution a go to see how it was compared to Ubuntu (which I was getting somewhat disenchanted by with its somewhat sloppy approach to testing it seemed, and the general default aesthetic looking like arse — don’t get me wrong I know it can be changed but first 8.04 was meant to be featuring a new theme, then 8.10 and I can’t see any real difference… Way to go! Especially with so may talented theme makers throwing their ideas into the pot.)

The only thing I have changed since switching to OpenSUSE 11.0 is not the distribution, but I have dropped KDE 4.1 for Gnome. I think KDE has come a long way but to make the most of it, it does need something a little more juicy than a Radeon 7500 (which is what my ThinkPad T40 has, and that chip was out of date when it was put in this notebook in 2003, and yes — I still have the T40 and no I don’t need a new laptop.)

The main thing that I like about OpenSUSE is the way it really does just work. I have had no problems with media, video, general office applications, networking (wired and wireless), sharing files with Windows/Mac OS X… It all just works. Granted on almost 6 year old hardware, the compatibility should be pretty good now

With Compiz, the equivalent of Vista's Aero, you can get snazzy desktop effects. The difference is they run, and quite well at that, on very modest hardware like an ancient Raden 7500 Mobility GPU!

So where does this leave me in the future? Well in 4 days I understand OpenSuse 11.1 is released and I shall upgrade to that as well. But the bottom line really does seem to be that as an OS, it works so very well. And if you have a fairly well established system (i.e. not bleeding edge) — I cannot see why unless you have to connect to a Windows managed domain and you need specific applications which only exist on Windows — OpenSuse is just about great for everybody. Even complete novices.

Note: Yes I have skinned my OpenSUSE system to look somewhat like Vista with OS X’s Leopard default background. I like it like this, it works well, aesthetically pleasing and it looks quite professional, which quite a lot of themes for Linux[1] don’t.

[1] : I’m well aware that Linux is a bad turn of phrase here with there being KDE, GTK, Metacity etc. etc. themes but for simplicities sake, this makes sense.