Mac Mini

Mac Mini Media Centre – What Else?


Posted by Ian on 21 Mar 2010 / 3 Comments


Our last few posts on using a Mac Mini as a Media Centre device have focussed on using Media Centre software like Plex and Boxee to playback locally stored content. While this is my main reason for buying a Mini there is a lot more you can do with it – listen to radio, stream [...]

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Mac Mini Media Centre – XBMC


Posted by Ian on 20 Feb 2010 / 2 Comments


Welcome to the seventh of a series of posts on setting up a Mac Mini Media Centre. This post will look at the daddy of open source media centre app’s, XBMC. When reviewing Plex and Boxee I mentioned that both were forks from XBMC, or Xbox Media Centre to give it it’s full title. In [...]

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Mac Mini Media Centre – Remote Controls


Posted by Ian on 06 Feb 2010 / 5 Comments


Our last posts in our Mac Mini Media Centre series looked at Plex and Boxee, two great media centre applications. However one issue I haven’t covered is Remote Controls. What is the best way of controlling your Mac Mini? There are a variety of options and hopefully one of them will suit your needs. Keyboards [...]

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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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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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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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