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While talking with the Morlocks about their newfangled cable box, I decided to search around for remote scheduling for XP Media Center and found MCE WebGuide. It truely is a dream come true. The author took the time to make the interface mimic the MCE interface so it's easy for anyone familiar with MCE to use it. There's even a stripped down mobile version for scheduling from your phone. If you access it locally, you can also click a recorded program and play it on the computer. This could be done before through simple file sharing, but it's a much richer experience with the full interface. It requires turning on IIS and installing .NET 2.0 framework on the MCE machine, then making it accessible through your firewall if you want to schedule stuff from anywhere. Opening another port was not something I was looking forward to, but the convenience is worth the script kiddies. Oh yeah, it's free! (Although I donated, it's really that good).