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MoodTurn Offers Soothing Full Screen Ambient Effects

3:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Not many workspaces sit on the edge of a babbling brook in an animal sanctuary, but if you’d like to pretend yours does the visual and audio ambience of MoodTurn can help. More »
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Moodstream Streams Music, Images And Video According To Your Mood

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Moodstream is an interesting mashup of several forms of media, designed to bring you music, images and video in sync with the mood you’re in — or the mood you want to be in! — through a simple interface. More »
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My Channel Logos Adds Network Logos To Windows 7 Media Center

3:30AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Tired of bland channel listings in Windows Media Center? Free utility My Channel Logos adds nice colourful logos to Windows 7 Media Center’s channel listings so they look more like what you’d expect from a commercial DVR. More »
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SlingPlayer iPhone App Gets Go-Ahead To Stream Over 3G

2:30AM Kevin Purdy | If you’ve got a SlingBox and an iPhone, you could previously fork over another $37 to get the SlingPlayer app and watch your home TV and recordings … over Wi-Fi, which kind of defeated the whole purpose of mobile watching (aren’t you usually home already when you’re on Wi-Fi?). More »
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Which Media Centre Is Right For You: Boxee, XBMC, WMC Compared

4:20AM Jason Fitzpatrick Kevin Purdy | 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. More »
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YouTube Music Discovery Builds You A Playlist

8:30AM Angus Kidman | YouTube’s most popular feature is music videos, but using it to run a stream of background music requires a bit of work. The newly-launched Music Discovery feature makes that easier, building you a playlist based on artist suggestions. More »
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Install Boxee Beta On Apple TV

11:30PM Kevin Purdy | 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. More »
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Cricket Live Offers Cricket To iPhone Users, For A Fee

2:38PM Angus Kidman | Approaches to broadcasting sports on mobile phones differ. Promising free streaming to users of a particular network is pretty common (see FIFA, for instance). However, charging both for the stream and the application, as Vodafone’s Cricket Live for iPhone does, is a rather less common tactic. More »
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RaopX Streams Any Audio From Your Mac To Your AirPort Express

6:30AM Whitson Gordon | Mac: One of the coolest parts about Apple’s AirPort Express router is wirelessly playing music from iTunes through speakers all over your home. With RaopX, however, you’re no longer limited to iTunes; you can play any system audio through AirTunes. More »
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Boxee Beta Officially Available For All Platforms

6:45AM Adam Pash | 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. More »