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Mac Mini Media Centre – Boxee

In: Mac Mini

31 Jan 2010

Boxee is a media centre application again based on XMBC but more focussed on the social sharing of media. In this, our fifth part of an ongoing series of Mac Mini Media Server articles I’ll review Boxee Beta which is the latest version of the well known software. Boxee, unlike Plex, is available for Windows [...]

DigitalOutbox Episode 35

In: Podcast

27 Jan 2010

DigitalOutbox Episode 35 – Apple iPad with Chris, Ian and Shakeel
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Readability

In: Picks

25 Jan 2010

I read much of my web content in Google reader. However for an interesting or longer article I still prefer to click through to the articles website and read it in situ, mostly to read through any associated comments or make my own. More and more sites though are cluttered with links to other articles, [...]

Mac Mini Media Centre – Plex

In: Mac Mini

24 Jan 2010

Welcome to the fourth in a series of posts on creating a Mac Mini Media Centre. In this article we’ll look at a great media server application called Plex. By default you can use Front Row as a 10 foot interface to access media stored on your Mac and managed via iTunes. Front Row isn’t [...]

DigitalOutbox Episode 34

In: Podcast

24 Jan 2010

DigitalOutbox Episode 34 – Apple Tablet predictions, Google, Youtube and Open Data
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Mac Mini Media Centre – Energy Settings and iTunes Library

In: Mac Mini

19 Jan 2010

With the hardware plugged in and my essential software and codecs installed I was going to crack on with Plex but I needed to sort out my iTunes library and also make a decision – to sleep or not to sleep.
iTunes Library
A quick recap on my hardware setup. I have purchased a Mac Mini and [...]

AppZapper 2

In: Picks

18 Jan 2010

Appzapper 2 is my pick this week and is an uninstaller application for Mac OS X 10.6, with a number of extra features that make it well worth a look.
There are a number of other uninstallers available for OS X. I’ve been using the excellent AppCleaner on my mac for some time now, and [...]


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