xbox media centre

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Aeon Gives Your XBMC Style

7:30AM Adam Pash | Any platform running XBMC: AEON transforms your Xbox Media Centre with a beautiful new and friendly interface. Installing AEON is simply a matter of dragging it into your XBMC’s skins directory and then getting started. Whether your running XBMC on your Mac (a fork of which has just been renamed to Plex), your classic Xbox, or your thumb drive, AEON is an excellent tool to improve the look and feel. If you’d like to try XBMC on your Mac with a more social flair, check out previously mentioned Boxee. More »
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Run Xbox Media Centre from a USB Drive

2:00AM Kevin Purdy | We’ve shown you how to turn your classic Xbox and Mac into a super-powered media centre using Xbox Media Centre, but what about everybody else? Well, if you’ve got at least a 1 GB USB drive and a computer that can boot from it, you’re in luck. LiveXBMC, a blend of the XBMC and Ubuntu Linux, lets you do all the same big-screen media playing, file sharing, DVD ripping, and other media centre goodness without installing a thing, but with saved settings. Let’s get started creating a portable media monster with XBMC after the jump. More »