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Ian Dixon has released a beta V2.0 of his useful backup tool for Media Center schedules, settings and recordings...

"mceBackup is a tool for backing up and restoring Media Center settings and content. The application backs up TV guide assignments, scheduled recordings and series recordings as well as recorded TV. The backup can be automated to run in the background and will backup to network devices. The tool can be used transfer recorded TV, Series and scheduled recordings to another PC...

HomeLife is Home Automation software that allows you to control your X10 devices via the Web, or interestingly with your phone using spoken menu options. A free version is available for download (limited to 4 devices)...

"Lifetime Software has released their latest version of HomeLife, their X10 Home Automation Software which allows you to take full control of your X10 devices. The Software includes an easy to use .Net Client interface, built-in web server for web access and an answer phone allowing access to X10 devices via a series of spoken menus...

IDomus have added a raft of new features, plugins and extensions to their Harmony home automation software suite. The three new areas now covered by Harmony are Voice Recognition, Infrared Control along with a new PDA Interface...

"Voice Recognition
Harmony Voice Recognition is a software package that allows you to use speech commands to control your Harmony system. It is unusually simple to use in that it is speaker independent. ie you don't have to spend time training it to recognise individual voices. This also means that the system can be used by multiple people within the same household. The system defines a set of commands to allow you to control Harmony, such as "Set Scene Away". To prevent accidental triggering the system defines a "trigger phrase" that you can use before issuing commands - so you can be sure that you won't accidentally turn things on and off when you didn't mean to...

The latest build of the excellent WebGuide 4.0 for Windows Media Center 2005 and Vista, includes the ability to stream live TV over the LAN or WAN...