DigitalOutbox Episode 44 In this episode the team discuss Politics and the Regime. Playback Listen via iTunes Listen via M4A Listen via MP3 Shownotes 1:43 – Bye Bye Broadband tax – a 50p-a-month broadband tax, which would have been applied to all households with a landline telephone, has been shelved. – The Conservatives said they [...]
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So it’s Thursday for the details on iPhone OS 4.0. What I’d like to see, not what I expect to see: Multitasking. Let me run programs in the background. Make it easy to swap between running programs. Let me kill the battery life if i want to. To be fair, there’s probably only a handful [...]
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DigitalOutbox Episode 43 In this episode the team discuss iPad, iPad, iPad. Playback Listen via iTunes Listen via M4A Listen via MP3 Shownotes 0:37 – Digital Britain – Drafted on Tuesday, Clause 18 will allow courts to grant injunctions against websites that aid copyright infringement. That sounds fine, I hear you say – well not [...]
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Mac Mini
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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DigitalOutbox Episode 39 In this episode the team discuss BBC cuts, broadband…plus our best pick ever! Playback Listen via iTunes Listen via M4A Listen via MP3 Shownotes 1:31 – BBC Cuts – Websites to half – online budget cut by a quarter – Six Music and Asian network – six music is great! – Cut [...]
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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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