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Why Mac open source gets no respect

"Since Macs generally cost less than PCs"THEY ARE? Since when? And that doesn't jive at all with "Macs are upscale"... and cheaper. Mmmm no.No counterpart to XBMC?There are a ton of Media Center applications for windows, including Windows Media Center, which is fairly adept at just about...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Mac people, Apple Macintosh, XBMC, MCE, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

How-to: Install boxee and XBMC on the Apple TV

How-to: Install boxee and XBMC on the Apple TVOr Spend the extra money on a Mac MiniThat's what I did and I love it. I went Plex though as it seems a little more mature and is VERY girlfriend friendly.I think Boxee is the future but it is not...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, XBMC, Plex, How-To, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TV

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Additional Resources

XBMC 9.11.b1 (Mac)

XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community. Try it now! XBMC supports viewing and playing a vast library of audio,...

Tags: Team, Apple Macintosh, Media Center PC, Media, Team XBMC, Media Center PCs, Team Management, Apple Mac OS X, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-22

News to know: Yahoo, Windows 7, Palm, AMD, Blackberry Tour, Netbook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Yahoo: Showtime for shareholders this morning ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-26

How-to: Install boxee and XBMC on the Apple TV

If you have an Apple TV and you're tired of transcoding your media to H.264 you owe it to yourself to check out boxee and XBMC. They take the Apple TV to the next level allowing it to play video in AVI, DivX, XVID formats and even stream content from...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-25

From Starter to Ultimate: What's really in each Windows 7 Edition?

From Starter to Ultimate: What's really in each Windows 7 Edition?Alternative media centersCan free alternatives for media centers like XMBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC) or Boxee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee) serve the purpose on the lower Windows 7 versions lacking Windows Media Center?RE: From Starter to Ultimate: What's really in each Windows 7 Edition?Seriously, a comprehensive...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Edition, Starter, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

XBMC 9.04 beta 1 (Windows)

XBMC, recursive acronym for "XBMC Media Center", is an award winning free and open source software media-player and entertainment hub for all your digital media. XBMC is a cross-platform software available for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Microsoft Windows operating-system, as well as the original Xbox...

Tags: Team, Beta, Entertainment, F/OSS, Team XBMC, Team Management, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Software, Apple Mac OS, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-04-24

Sirius XM: We're developing an iPhone app for second quarter launch

Sirius XM: We're developing an iPhone app for second quarter launchcrippled xm is of no use to meIf it is just another way to deliver XMOnline, which they now charge for, it is of no use to me. I want the talk channels, specifically Channel 164 Radio Classics, which they...

Tags: Wireless and Mobility, iPhone-App, Sirius, XM Satellite Radio Inc., XMOnline

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

ShoutScan 2.0 (Windows)

ShoutScan works like a spider crawling the web www for you. Download many thousands PLS files in a matter of minutes or save in ASX or M3U format for easy play back in Windows Media Player! This easy-to-use tool very solid and you get lots of features to find...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox, Media Player, StudioZ, Media Players, Game Players, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-11-07

Shout Scan PLS ASX M3U Radio 2 (Windows)

ShoutScan downloads many thousands PLS, ASX, or M3U files to a local list of MP3 or ACC+ stations. Ideal for building a local list of shoutcast MP3 stations suitable for use with the XBOX Media (XBMP/XBMC) and Windows Media player. Download all genres in a single run. Specify the number...

Tags: Windows Media, Station, Genre, StudioZ, ShoutScan, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-10-20

Asus Eee Box a thick white slice of cheap computing heaven

Asus Eee Box a thick white slice of cheap computing heavenOne billion = One thousand millionI want that one billion right where that little arrow is!I was already planning on getting an Eee laptop...but now I'm thinking of holding out for this machine. The only thing I'm not too crazy...

Tags: Linux, Games, white slice, thick white slice, Asus Eee Box, cheap computing heaven, computing heaven, ASUS, Eee, Asus Eee

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?

Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?dvd collectioni have also been thinking about doing this, i have found that depending on how you are planning to stream the media you have to format it different ways. if you are using a windows media extender (xbox360) the vob files have to be...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, DVD Collection, entire DVD collection

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Google and Apple "in talks" about iTV

Google and Apple "in talks" about iTVThey SHOULD include it.With all of the competing products out there, they probably should add this feature - with Windows having TVidea, Media Center having Yougle, the XBox Media Center XBMC having access to a whole range of community video, it's a feature they...

Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, iTV, Google Inc., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-17

Intel, Microsoft join forces for entertainment PCs

Intel, Microsoft join forces for entertainment PCsIntel, Microsoft join forces for entertainment PCsIntel and Microsoft are going in the wrong direction with entertainment PCs. People don't want to watch tv on their PCs, they want their PCs to connect to their existing stereo and tv. LCD/plasma TVs are...

Tags: Desktops, 64-bit, MythTV, LCD/plasma TV, Entertainment PC, Intel Corp., PC, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-01-04