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		<title><![CDATA[mediacenterhouse - Forum - Site news]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mobile sub-forums]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Mobile-sub-forums</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:14:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sub-forums now added for Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian.<br />
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Geez, eveything I do now seems to be mobile related... <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Rolleyes" title="Rolleyes" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sub-forums now added for Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian.<br />
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Geez, eveything I do now seems to be mobile related... <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Rolleyes" title="Rolleyes" />]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Spam!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Spam</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:59:08 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Whoops, let a few slip through the net! I've been away this week on hols but am back today, and now with a Samsung Galaxy S in my palm to keep this forum on track and swat away those cheek spammers, however fruity their attempts!!<br />
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<img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/spam.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Spam" title="Spam" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Whoops, let a few slip through the net! I've been away this week on hols but am back today, and now with a Samsung Galaxy S in my palm to keep this forum on track and swat away those cheek spammers, however fruity their attempts!!<br />
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<img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/spam.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Spam" title="Spam" />]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mobile devices forum]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Mobile-devices-forum</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:47:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[There's now a new forum section for <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Forum-Mobile-devices" target="_blank">mobiles and mobile devices</a> (which I guess one day in the not-too-far-off-future will cover pretty much every piece of kit <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Rolleyes" title="Rolleyes" />)<br />
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I'll be adding my own little something there when I get rid of my of stupid WM6.1 brick and move to something a little more svelte...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There's now a new forum section for <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Forum-Mobile-devices" target="_blank">mobiles and mobile devices</a> (which I guess one day in the not-too-far-off-future will cover pretty much every piece of kit <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Rolleyes" title="Rolleyes" />)<br />
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I'll be adding my own little something there when I get rid of my of stupid WM6.1 brick and move to something a little more svelte...]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[100 members!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-100-members</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Woohoo, break out the champagne, we have 100 members! <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/clap.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Clap" title="Clap" /> (congrats <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/User-Navillus" target="_blank">Navilus</a> <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/wink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />)<br />
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Not bad for a little unpromoted site. It's even starting to index high on Google for 'media center forum' and the such. <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/thumbsup.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Thumbsup" title="Thumbsup" /><br />
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Time to kick start proper promotion me thinks and get a minimum of 500 members by the end of this year with at least 10 featured installs... <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/blink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Blink" title="Blink" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Woohoo, break out the champagne, we have 100 members! <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/clap.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Clap" title="Clap" /> (congrats <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/User-Navillus" target="_blank">Navilus</a> <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/wink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />)<br />
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Not bad for a little unpromoted site. It's even starting to index high on Google for 'media center forum' and the such. <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/thumbsup.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Thumbsup" title="Thumbsup" /><br />
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Time to kick start proper promotion me thinks and get a minimum of 500 members by the end of this year with at least 10 featured installs... <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/blink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Blink" title="Blink" />]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Site update]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Site-update</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Things have slowed down around here in the last month for me 'cos I am now the proud (but knackered) owner of a puppy!<br />
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Great fun to play with, but has taken up the 1 - 2hrs a day I spent developing this site so not great in that respect.<br />
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She is slowly becoming less time consuming so there'll be more good things to come on here <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/thumb.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Thumb" title="Thumb" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Things have slowed down around here in the last month for me 'cos I am now the proud (but knackered) owner of a puppy!<br />
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Great fun to play with, but has taken up the 1 - 2hrs a day I spent developing this site so not great in that respect.<br />
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She is slowly becoming less time consuming so there'll be more good things to come on here <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/thumb.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Thumb" title="Thumb" />]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wiki]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Wiki</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE:</span> OK, I've had my time tinkering with the wiki, the pages off the main wiki page are now unlocked for any member to edit should they wish. <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/thumb.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Thumb" title="Thumb" /><br />
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A red link means a page doesn't exist, but by following the link you can start typing then saving your work creates the page.<br />
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A few things to note: square brackets indicate an internal link to another page, so the [square&#93; brackets in this sentence will create a link to the page 'square'. An html link followed by a space enclosed in square brackets creates a link to an external site. So [http://www.google.com search&#93; engine, will create a link on the word 'search' to Google. Simple.<br />
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If you want to know more, you can read the MediaWiki instructions <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages" target="_blank">here</a>, or ask me a question in this thread.<br />
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Over time of course I'll be filling it up myself, but if anyone wants to contribute or suggest any links to add to the main index, let me know.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The mediacenterhouse.com <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/wiki/" target="_blank">wiki</a> has now launched. However for the next week it will remain locked while I populate the Main Page content.<br />
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I'm still getting my head around the MediaWiki software so it'll take me a while to iron out any oddities <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/blink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Blink" title="Blink" /><br />
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Your usernames/passwords for this forum also work in the wiki, but unfortunately due to limitations in the MediaWiki code no underscores are allowed, so any any users with underscores will have to have them removed if you want to login there. If you want you username changed, PM me and let me know.<br />
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With time, I hope the wiki, this forum, and the galleries to fill to bursting with information <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/thumb.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Thumb" title="Thumb" /></span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE:</span> OK, I've had my time tinkering with the wiki, the pages off the main wiki page are now unlocked for any member to edit should they wish. <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/thumb.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Thumb" title="Thumb" /><br />
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A red link means a page doesn't exist, but by following the link you can start typing then saving your work creates the page.<br />
<br />
A few things to note: square brackets indicate an internal link to another page, so the [square] brackets in this sentence will create a link to the page 'square'. An html link followed by a space enclosed in square brackets creates a link to an external site. So [http://www.google.com search] engine, will create a link on the word 'search' to Google. Simple.<br />
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If you want to know more, you can read the MediaWiki instructions <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages" target="_blank">here</a>, or ask me a question in this thread.<br />
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Over time of course I'll be filling it up myself, but if anyone wants to contribute or suggest any links to add to the main index, let me know.<br />
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The mediacenterhouse.com <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/wiki/" target="_blank">wiki</a> has now launched. However for the next week it will remain locked while I populate the Main Page content.<br />
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I'm still getting my head around the MediaWiki software so it'll take me a while to iron out any oddities <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/blink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Blink" title="Blink" /><br />
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Your usernames/passwords for this forum also work in the wiki, but unfortunately due to limitations in the MediaWiki code no underscores are allowed, so any any users with underscores will have to have them removed if you want to login there. If you want you username changed, PM me and let me know.<br />
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With time, I hope the wiki, this forum, and the galleries to fill to bursting with information <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/thumb.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Thumb" title="Thumb" /></span>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Account activation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Account-activation</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've been alerted to the fact that newly registered users may not be getting the activation link via email.<br />
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If you're one of them (and I think there may be 10 of you or so), then I'm very sorry and have activated your accounts for you.<br />
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I shall look into the issue, but in the meantime, I have deactivated the feature for any other new users.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been alerted to the fact that newly registered users may not be getting the activation link via email.<br />
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If you're one of them (and I think there may be 10 of you or so), then I'm very sorry and have activated your accounts for you.<br />
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I shall look into the issue, but in the meantime, I have deactivated the feature for any other new users.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Related Threads]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Related-Threads</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[At the bottom of each thread now appears a 'Related Threads' section.<br />
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Hopefully as the forum grows it'll become easier to track/follow certain subjects. <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/smile.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><br />
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EDIT: except for this one, 'cos there are no related threads!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At the bottom of each thread now appears a 'Related Threads' section.<br />
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Hopefully as the forum grows it'll become easier to track/follow certain subjects. <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/smile.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><br />
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EDIT: except for this one, 'cos there are no related threads!]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[New host]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-New-host</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[After several weeks of bottlenecks (due to other sites sharing the server) this site changed host today to its own VPS (Virtual Private Server), giving a more secure and reliable service.<br />
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The DNS change can take up to 24hrs to filter through the internet so apologies if it's interrupted your browsing.<br />
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BTW there have been a few minor losses in the process such as System Specs in the UserCP, so apologies again if you have to re-enter them.<br />
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Here's to the future <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/wink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[After several weeks of bottlenecks (due to other sites sharing the server) this site changed host today to its own VPS (Virtual Private Server), giving a more secure and reliable service.<br />
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The DNS change can take up to 24hrs to filter through the internet so apologies if it's interrupted your browsing.<br />
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BTW there have been a few minor losses in the process such as System Specs in the UserCP, so apologies again if you have to re-enter them.<br />
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Here's to the future <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/wink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Your HTPC system spec]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Your-HTPC-system-spec</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[You can now add your HTPC spec under your profile in the User CP and it will appear in each of your posts under this icon: <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/computer.png" border="0" alt="[Image: computer.png&#93;" /><br />
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It only supports one machine at the moment so if you've a house stuffed to the rafters with computers, you'll have to pick a favourite <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/wink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You can now add your HTPC spec under your profile in the User CP and it will appear in each of your posts under this icon: <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/computer.png" border="0" alt="[Image: computer.png]" /><br />
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It only supports one machine at the moment so if you've a house stuffed to the rafters with computers, you'll have to pick a favourite <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/wink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Twitter]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Twitter</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Love it, hate it or 'just don't get it', you can now add 'tweets' to your profile <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Rolleyes" title="Rolleyes" /><br />
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Edit your profile to add your Twitter username then it'll appear in your profile like <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/User-elootos" target="_blank">this</a>, and also a 'Twitter' button will appear under each of your posts.<br />
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Great! (I think :s )]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Love it, hate it or 'just don't get it', you can now add 'tweets' to your profile <img src="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/images/smilies_new/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" alt="Rolleyes" title="Rolleyes" /><br />
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Edit your profile to add your Twitter username then it'll appear in your profile like <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/User-elootos" target="_blank">this</a>, and also a 'Twitter' button will appear under each of your posts.<br />
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Great! (I think :s )]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Classifieds section added]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Classifieds-section-added</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[There's now somewhere to flog the bits of your AV/Media Center setup that you get to upgrade over Xmas, <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Forum-Classifieds" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Just make sure you read the rules etc before using the forum.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There's now somewhere to flog the bits of your AV/Media Center setup that you get to upgrade over Xmas, <a href="http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Forum-Classifieds" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Just make sure you read the rules etc before using the forum.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Colour!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Colour</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've had some feedback about the look of this site and they seem to negative about all the green, hence the blue today. Any preferences anyone?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've had some feedback about the look of this site and they seem to negative about all the green, hence the blue today. Any preferences anyone?]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thanks!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Thanks</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[You can now show your appreciation for someone's help by clicking the 'add thanks' button at the bottom of other peoples posts.<br />
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This works alongside the already implemented 'reputation' system this board has, but that's a bit fiddlier in that it requires you to go to the other user's member area to give 'reputation' (positive <span style="font-style: italic;">or</span> negative, eek!)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You can now show your appreciation for someone's help by clicking the 'add thanks' button at the bottom of other peoples posts.<br />
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This works alongside the already implemented 'reputation' system this board has, but that's a bit fiddlier in that it requires you to go to the other user's member area to give 'reputation' (positive <span style="font-style: italic;">or</span> negative, eek!)]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Image attachments]]></title>
			<link>http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/Thread-Image-attachments</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Due to the board code blocking security holes in IE, image attachements appear as downloads to open rather than just opening themselves automatically. This can be avoided by using other browsers such as <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox</a> or <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/chrome" target="_blank">Chrome</a> (or even Safari).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Due to the board code blocking security holes in IE, image attachements appear as downloads to open rather than just opening themselves automatically. This can be avoided by using other browsers such as <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox</a> or <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/chrome" target="_blank">Chrome</a> (or even Safari).]]></content:encoded>
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