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Plex releases Media Server v0.9.7.3 with new Plex/Web client

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 20th, 2012)

The latest update to Plex Media Server allows access to the new Web client, which is pretty sweet. It lets you access your content from anywhere in the world using a fairly recent browser and it works great on Chrome and Safari. Navigation is smooth and quick, and the in-browser media player ...

Boxee Mac media player reaches end-of-life with new version

by Michael Rose (Dec 26th, 2011)

The Boxee project has come a long way from its humble origins as a fork of the Xbox Media Center, bringing easy video playback and a couch-to-screen UI to the Mac, then later to Windows and Ubuntu, and now to the company's own dedicated Boxee Box hardware (soon to support live broadcast TV). ...

Plex 2.0 for iOS ramps up video streaming; Plex 0.9.5 for Mac/Windows released as well

by Mel Martin (Nov 1st, 2011)

[Updated to clarify version numbering. iOS Plex app is at 2.0, Mac app is at 0.9.5 or 0.9.5.1 beta.] Plex is an advanced Media Server that runs on your Mac and manages and distributes your audio and video to other computers, a connected TV and your iOS devices via the Plex iOS app. The Plex ...

Fire Core teases aTV Flash for Apple TV 2G

by Richard Gaywood (Nov 18th, 2010)

The Apple TV jailbreaking scene is maturing at a significant pace. We've already seen our first third-party app following the greenp0ison jailbreak, which was quickly followed by a demo of the Plex media center and some experiments with making it work with Wiimotes. Now, respected hackers of the ...

TUAW's Daily App: Plex

by Mike Schramm (Aug 31st, 2010)

Plex's big tease last week turned out to not be an Apple acquisition, but instead a big release, of both a rewritten Mac client to keep all of your media together in one place, and also a brand new iOS app, available now on the App Store for $4.99. Sure, the app's a little pricey, but if you use ...

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 ...

Plex 0.8.3 brings on the Snow Leopard love fest

by Aron Trimble (Oct 28th, 2009)

If you're rocking the Mac mini -- or any other Mac, for that matter --as a media center, then chances are pretty good that you've had some tough times following the upgrade to Snow Leopard. Anticipating such problems, some of us held off upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6. Now the wait is over. Shortly ...

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 launches update, "App Box" and Hulu RSS support

by Christina Warren (Mar 6th, 2009)

My favorite media center software, boxee, has just released a new alpha update for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 users and Apple TV users. This update, which the boxee team classifies as bleeding-edge (which means, if you don't want to deal with any potential bugs, wait for the more stable release ...

Plex Media Server beta adds plugin architecture

by Mat Lu (Feb 23rd, 2009)

As we've noted before Plex (formerly OSXBMC) is the open-source media center application derived from XBMC (as was Boxee). They've recently announced the release of version 0.78beta adding an interesting new feature: the Plex App Store. The Plex App Store (which actually doesn't seem to be a store ...

XBMC remote for iPhone

by Mat Lu (Sep 18th, 2008)

Following the newly updated Remote application from Apple, there's now a new remote application (iTunes Link) that allows you to control your XBMC Media Center with the iPhone. Obviously to use it you'll have to have a computer (or Xbox) running XBMC, which is available in versions for Xbox, Mac, ...

Boxee media center for Mac

by Mat Lu (Aug 7th, 2008)

Boxee is an interesting new media center application for the Mac based on the XBMC. Separate from the OS X branch of XBMC (now called Plex), Boxee focuses on a social networking experience by allowing you to get (and give) recommendations to friends who are also on the service. You can also share ...

OSXBMC becomes Plex

by Mat Lu (Jul 9th, 2008)

A while back the team behind the Xbox Media Center on OS X (which we covered a while back) announced that they were forking the Mac version from the main trunk. Now they've decided that the Mac version will be getting a new name: Plex (as in 'cineplex' or 'googleplex'). For those of you haven't ...