The Telematics Freedom Foundation has just released their Media Center Comparison paper, where they compared the 10 most prominent FLOSS (for Free/Libre/Open Source Software) Media Center Projects. The projects compared were XBMC, MythTV, Boxee, Elisa, Neuros OSD, Freevo, My Media System, Entertainer, CenterStage+Plex and MediaPortal. The 20 page paper might be of great interest to [...]
Tag Archives: Mac
Plex (OSXBMC) with MediaStream skin demo
August 10, 2008 – 13:27
This new skin was released for XBMC a couple days ago. MediaStream by Team Razorfish is a community effort that has been going on since October 2007. It’s is a very polished piece of work as you can see in the video and need nearly no configuration and tinkering to get it working right.
This skin [...]
Plex (OSXBMC) with Aeon skin demo
July 17, 2008 – 00:44
Plex is an indie fork of the popular Xbox Media Center for OS X Leopard. Aeon is an outstanding skin in alpha stages for XBMC. You might have heard about both of them and you might have also seen many galleries and screenshots.
Well, I’ve got a video demo. And it is in HD if you [...]
Recommended Mac apps for switchers
April 21, 2008 – 17:39
Quicksilver: First thing I install on a new machine. It’s an application launcher, keyboard commands ninja… You might say “Whadda fok?” in the beginning due to the steep learning curve, but you will get used–sorry, married–to it.
Adium: A multiplatform chat client. Skins and plugins galore. Don’t need to look anywhere else, this is the app [...]
Add favicons to Firefox 3 Bookmark Toolbar
April 8, 2008 – 11:50
The default Firefox 3 Mac theme does not show favicons for bookmarks you’ve added to your Bookmarks Toolbar. This is probably a decision that comes with mimicking the Safari theme which doesn’t display favicons either. Put simply, it sucks!
Thanks to Daniel Einspanjer, who wrote a Stylish style called Mac bookmark toolbar favicon, you can have [...]
Marketing the Mac in Turkey: w/ Vista!
March 31, 2008 – 15:56
The photo above was taken in Pupa Apple Store, Mayadrom Shopping Center, Istanbul. They are also bundling a copy of Vista Basic with every Mac purchase. How about selling Pepsi in a Coke fridge?
This one above is from the Bimeks weekend paper insert. It says Virus free with OS X. You can load Windows as [...]
Macbook Air’s build quality
February 16, 2008 – 23:49
photo from iFixit
David Heinemeier of 37signals says on his post titled The MacBook Air could easily be the only machine:
But what I continue to be impressed with the most on the Air is simply the build quality. The MacBook Pro has OK build quality, but the regular MacBook frankly blows in this department in my [...]
