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Boxee offers sneak peek at iPad app in London

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 8th, 2011)

Boxee showed off its iPad app at a small East London gathering this week. The new app is not yet available, but those who attended the sold out event got a sneak peek of what Boxee has in store for its iPad users. Boxee is home theater PC software that runs on a Windows, Mac, or Linux ...

Oh, Plex. You tease!

by Erica Sadun (Aug 26th, 2010)

All sorts of buzz in the blogosphere this afternoon after Plex, makers of a respected Mac-based digital media center application updated their blog with a cryptic hint that seems to point to next Wednesday's Apple event. Plex provides a centralized way to access your media library from a simple ...

Boxee goes beta

by Aron Trimble (Dec 7th, 2009)

After what has seemingly been a never-ending "alpha" period for the famous XBMC fork, Boxee, tonight the Boxee crew have finally (as expected) unveiled the first beta release of Boxee. For starters, they have totally revamped the user interface especially surrounding the home screen. Up top are ...

Hippo Remote is a great app, now you can win a copy

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 3rd, 2009)

I've become very accustomed to remote-controlling my computers for a while, but nothing ever seemed to get it right. Apple's Remote for iTunes is great, of course, but what about all my other stuff on my Mac, like Boxee or VLC? Yeah, you can get some specific remotes for those apps (frankly the VLC ...

TouchPad turns your iPhone into a remote keyboard and mouse for your Mac

by TJ Luoma (Oct 19th, 2009)

TouchPad [iTunes Link] is my new best friend. It allows you to control the mouse and keyboard on your Mac through your iPhone, as well as Front Row. It is currently on sale in the App Store for $1.99 (50% off) for a "limited time" so you may want to grab it while you can. At the end of most days, I ...

Front Row performance on the mini takes a dive with Snow Leopard

by Aron Trimble (Sep 1st, 2009)

Here's an interesting feature of Snow Leopard that you may or may not (probably not) find particularly useful. Apparently after upgrading to 10.6 several users at the Apple Discussion Forums -- mostly owners of Mac mini or MacBook models with the GMA950 graphics subsystem -- are reporting poor ...

Mac OS X, now HDTV-ready with 10.6

by Aron Trimble (Aug 31st, 2009)

Got a fancy new Mac with some flavor of DisplayPort connector and a shiny new copy of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installed? If you do and you also happen to hook said Mac up to an HDTV via an HDMI adapter, then head on over to System Preferences to check out the latest uncovered Snow Leopard nugget of ...

TUAW Guide: Setting up the Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater

by Christina Warren (Aug 21st, 2009)

The Mac mini has always been the perfect form factor for a media center appliance (often called a Home Theater PC/HTPC). It's extremely small, almost completely silent and it can easily blend into an existing electronics shelf - or be hidden away completely. The lack of a refresh (and rumors that ...

Boxee secures Series B round, plans for more features and more developers

by Christina Warren (Aug 12th, 2009)

Just eight-months after closing a Series A round of financing, media center startup Boxee has just closed another round of financing. The Boxee team has secured another $6 million in funding, led by Boston-based General Catalyst. Given the economic climate (especially for start-ups), two financing ...

Boxee releases new alpha, adds Netflix support

by Christina Warren (Dec 4th, 2008)

It's a pretty awesome day to be a Netflix fan. Not only is the Watch Instantly service officially available for OS X, it's also now working via boxee, my favorite media center application! Boxee pushed out an impromptu update last week for Apple TV owners, specifically to address issues with ...

Mac Mini home theater redux

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 18th, 2008)

A recent post at hicksdesign on turning a Mac Mini into a media center is very serendipitous for me, as I'm currently researching options (and buying hardware) to do just that. I've acquired a Mini, a couple of hardware items that I'm trying to decide between and several software solutions that I'm ...

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