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Very handy tip. Note that Xbian 1.0.5a > has this already integrated. http://www.xbmchub.com/blog/2012/04/24/fusion-easy-addon-installation-for-xbmc/

An older post but still relevant. Worked under W8 for me with Windows Movie Maker 2012 version 16.4. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/rotate-video-files-mac-pc/

There are lots of posts about the annoying '@eaDir' directories that are created when you use NFS on the Synology NAS. I've written about deleting them but unfortunately they end up coming back as they are part of the Synology indexing service.

Two excellent resources on that below. XBMC Wiki Rob van Hamersvelds excellent blog for all things Synology and XBMC

An excellent guide that assisted me with sharing a Google calendar between my iPhone and my wife's. The secret sauce is logging on to https://m.google.com/sync/settings/ from the mobile you want the shared calendar on, not from a PC/Mac browser. Try this link if the first one doesn't work https://m.google.com/sync/settings/iconfig/welcome Sharing Google Calendars in iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch)

After reading some reviews, I decided to brave the rooting experience and upgrade my shiny new Tab 2 to Android 4.2.2 using the instructions on the CyanogenMod wiki . While it was fairly straight forward, I did run into a couple of snags namely;

I followed this post but it's now outdated if you use IOS5> as the iSMS2droid app no longer works with IOS5/6 . Instead, upload your SMS database recovered from your PC/Mac by following the blog post but then using the form halfway down this webpage convert it to a XML formatted version which can be imported using SMS Backup & Restore.