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XBMC 9.11 Alpha Improves Playback And Skinning Powers
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: XBMC media centre has dropped a 9.11 alpha release for all platforms, with quality fixes on all three computer platforms and more powerful skinning abilities. If you’re not afraid of a bug or two, it’s yours to grab. More »
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Build A Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Centre On The Cheap
3:00AM Adam Pash | You won’t find a better media centre than the open-source XBMC, but most people don’t have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a standalone XBMC set-top box. Here’s how. More »
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XBMC Installer Deluxe Makes The Most Of Your Modded Xbox
9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Read over our coverage of XBMC, but not quite sure if you’re ready to take the plunge? XBMC Installer Deluxe makes tinkering with your freshly modded Xbox a breeze. More »
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XBMC Releases Maintenance Update With 9.04.1
1:30AM Adam Pash | Earlier this month the cross-platform media centre phenom XBMC released version 9.04, jam-packed with cool new features, and now the quickly developing app has released a small maintenance update to squash a few bugs that made it through. Check out the brief changelog for specifics, or just point your browser to the download page to get the latest. [XBMC Download Page]
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Boxee Founder Avner Ronen On The Future Of Your Living Room
10:00AM Kevin Purdy | Avner Ronen and his friends turned an interest in the XBMC media centre into the headline-making, TV-transforming media centre Boxee. We rung him up to talk about streaming media, software development, gadgets, and Boxee’s future. More »
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XBMC 9.04 “Babylon” Updates For All Supported Platforms
3:30AM Adam Pash | Almost any platform you could want: XBMC has updated to version 9.04, codename Babylon, available now for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Apple TV, the classic Xbox, and bootable CDs or USB drives. More »
XBMC Babylon Beta 1 Available For Download
6:30AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux/Etc: XBMC has just released the first beta of XBMC 9.04 (codename Babylon), packed with several impressive new features and fixes. More »
Customize XBMC With These Five Awesome Skins
9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac/Linux/Xbox: What could make the already awesome Xbox Media centre even better? An infusion of eye candy, of course. Read on to see some awesome XBMC skins and learn how to install them. More »
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MediaPortal 1.0 Released, Brings Open-Source DVR To Windows
5:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Open-source application XBMC has received all of the attention in the media centre arena lately, but it still can’t replace your TiVo. MediaPortal can, and it just hit its official 1.0 release. MediaPortal is a Windows-only media centre application that was originally spawned as a fork of XBMC almost five years ago. Today the application has been entirely redesigned, and apart from offering much of the same functionality of other popular media centre applications, MediaPortal works with hardware TV tuners to add DVR functionality to your PC. We showed you how to roll your own DVR and media centre with MediaPortal a couple of years back, but now the full featured MediaPortal is better than ever. As an added bonus, now that MediaPortal has hit that official 1.0 release, the MP developers are starting to ramp up for MediaPortal II, which aims to bring a better design and more stable architecture to MediaPortal. MediaPortal is a free download, requires .NET 2.0 or higher. I haven’t used MediaPortal extensively since we last covered it, so if you’ve got more experience with it, let’s hear your thoughts in the comments. MediaPortal [via GeekTonic] More »
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