Come join Lyfesaver74 DieBagger as MediaPortal takes to the air, live at a California AM radio station on Tuesday August 23rd at 9am PST.

Wake up early or go to bed late, do whatever it takes to take part in MediaPortal’s first live radio interview. Tech Today with Ken May has invited us to sit down and talk with about the various facets of MediaPortal. You can listen live over the air at 1400 AM KKZZ or online at https://kenmay.net/. A pod cast will be available shortly after the show is over.

Listeners are encouraged to call in with questions, tips or just to talk about MediaPortal. If you are in the US and have access to free nationwide calling, then call us live on the air at 805-639-0008. If you are outside the US and wish to participate then simply log on to facebook, navigate to Team-MediaPortal page and post questions for us on our wall.

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Windows – If you’ve just bought a new laptop or pre-built desktop running Windows it’s more than likely you do not have a disc with the operating system. You may have a restore disc or hard drive partition that will restore your computer to factory settings, but having an actual disc to install Windows is good to have if you need to reinstall just your operating system. More

Today we started testing an team internal build of 1.2.0 RC. If no major issue is found in this build, then MediaPortal 1.2.0 RC will be released on Monday 2011-08-29.

In the unlikely case that the release will be delayed, I will inform you with a seperate news.

Extensions:

While we are testing this build, plugin developers and skin designers have time to make their great extensions ready.
Please have a look at the related sections in our wiki, which describe the changes we did in 1.2.0RC, that affect extensions.

• changes which affect skins
• changes which affect plugins

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MediaPortal 1.2.0 RC – Development Update

Dan Russell, one of Google’s anthropologists, conducted a largeish survey of user behavior and discovered that 90 percent of American Internet users don’t know that crtl-F will let them search documents including Web pages. I recently discovered that a smart and technologically literate friend had never heard of alt-tab for application switching; alt-tab being my single most used key combo!

It strikes me that we could probable come up with a list of ten (or even three) things you could teach to the people around you the next time you sit down to help them with a technology problem, “three things every technology user should know.”

One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don’t know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don’t use it at all.

“90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands,” Russell said. “I do these field studies and I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve sat in somebody’s house as they’ve read through a long document trying to find the result they’re looking for. At the end I’ll say to them, ‘Let me show one little trick here,’ and very often people will say, ‘I can’t believe I’ve been wasting my life!'”

Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F

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