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Archives / January 2010

Mac Mini Media Centre – Boxee


Posted by Ian on 31 Jan 2010 / 7 Comments



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 [...]

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DigitalOutbox Episode 35


Posted by Ian on 27 Jan 2010 / 0 Comment



DigitalOutbox Episode 35 – Apple iPad with Chris, Ian and Shakeel You can subscribe via iTunes, via the podcast feed or download directly the MP3 or the AAC (enhanced) podcast. Click here to view the shownotes for this episode.

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Readability


Posted by Ian on 25 Jan 2010 / 0 Comment



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, [...]

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Mac Mini Media Centre – Plex


Posted by Ian on 24 Jan 2010 / 2 Comments



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 [...]

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DigitalOutbox Episode 34


Posted by Ian on 24 Jan 2010 / 0 Comment



DigitalOutbox Episode 34 – Apple Tablet predictions, Google, Youtube and Open Data You can subscribe via iTunes, via the podcast feed or download directly the MP3 or the AAC (enhanced) podcast. Click here to view the shownotes for this episode.

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Mac Mini Media Centre – Energy Settings and iTunes Library


Posted by Ian on 19 Jan 2010 / 0 Comment



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 [...]

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