If your PC is running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate, you have a great feature set you may not even know about: Windows Media Center.   Windows Media Center can turn your PC from a “plain vanilla” computer into something pretty powerful and impressive: the hub of your entertainment system.  Surprised?  Well ...

Over the past year, I've really grown attached to Windows Media Center: its DVR functionality, plus extending movies, music and photos to other parts of my home, and then taking that music, movies and photos with me on my (Windows Mobile) device.  It all amounts to a great experience, and one I find I miss, even when on vacation (go ahead -- ...