If Boxee is your main media interface, you don’t have to shut it down to enjoy some old-school emulation gaming. A clever Launcher app and some command line tweaking lets you jump right into Zelda, Mario and other ROMs.
The shiny new Boxee Beta didn’t launch with Apple TV support, but there was a geeky hack to load it up. Now it’s much, much easier to install, or upgrade, the Beta onto Apple’s would-be HD media centre.
Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’ve been using the recently released Boxee Beta media centre but found it to be a bit on unusable side of buggy (at least one Lifehacker writer felt that way), good news: Boxee just released an update to Boxee Beta, and while the update doesn’t have any new features, it’s overflowing with bug fixes (over 500 resolved issues in total). A few highlights among the fixes:
Want all your downloads, streaming video and other techie media stuff on your TV? Wondering which media centre works best for you? Here’s a look at the biggies in chart and Venn diagram form, followed by some lengthy breakdowns of each.
The shiny new Boxee Beta is out for every platform except Apple TV. Some intrepid hackers have, however, created an unofficial installation method for that shiny, slim box.
Windows/Mac/Linux/Apple TV: Boxee – the XBMC media centre spin-off that took web video by storm – has just released its first public beta into the wild. The new release comes with a new look, improved features, and a few new tricks up its sleeve.
If you liked what you saw when Boxee previewed their new private beta release and don’t quite have the patience to wait for the beta to officially open up to the public in January, you can now grab Boxee Beta from BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay. [Boxee Beta BitTorrent Download via Gizmodo]
You’ve seen what Boxee’s beta media centre software will look like. Now you can peek at pictures and specifications for D-Link’s official Boxee Box, a small computer with HDMI outputs made specifically to run the open-source media centre.
