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This is a very silly bad use of twitter and the kinda thing that people mock twitter about. But I wanted to try this media centre plugin that tweets what you’re doing on media centre. So it will tweet what tv show your watching, movie your watching or what music your listening too. Since this is rather useless info, I didn’t want to spam my real twitter account so I made a separate twitter account just for this http://twitter.com/trevangie_tv. You can follow it if you really wanna know what tv shows we’re watching, you will see the 50 kagillion wedding shows Angela watches

If your crazy like I clearly am and wanna try out this plugin, you can get it here.

When I download torrented movies I like to rename them so the folder and file names are all neat. I need all my movies in a sub folders because this is the way the “Media Browser” Media center plugin in the post below requires. The AVI file needs to be named the same as the folder as well. This can be rather tedious, so I wrote a PHP script to automate renaming downloaded movies. I then used a tool called “bamcompile” to compile the php script into an executable that can be dropped into any folder and ran.

The script will scan through all the folders in the loation the exe is places, it will rename the folder all nice, format the data in the title and delete anything after the date. It will then rename all the files inside the folder to match, along with deleting any nfo and txt files.

For example a folder named “Tropic.Thunder[2008]DvDrip-aXXo” would be renamed to “Tropic Thunder (2008)“.

Most torrents you download the movie is already in a sub-folder, but if they are not, or if you have a ton of old movies all in one folder, you can use this simple DOS batch script my friend made for me to move each file into a sub-folder. movie_folder_tool

I also see someone recently made a batch file that does the same thing available here.

This is a great plugin for Vista Media Center that i’ve been using for a couple years. I has gone through a couple developers and several names, it is now known as “Media Browser”. Each new release gets better and better, the new version has the cool 3D reflective list mode. It also dynamically fetches attractice backgrounds when viewing a movies info.

Developers Blog: http://blog.manghera.com
Download here: http://code.google.com/p/videobrowser/downloads/list (MCE_Media_Browser_2_0_8_0.msi)