Items Tagged With mac

The AppleTV is such an "almost there" device.  It's in-ability to play popular codecs like DivX and stream from shares on your network have always left users wanting more.  Now Scott Davilla has released a USB patchstick image to add all that missing functional by installing Boxee, the media center software based on XBMC...

Sand Hill Engineering have released the new v6.0 of their Mac home automation software - XTension.  With many new features including the X2Web web interface, a new database and graphic charting package XTdb plus new Video Pitcher...

The speed of development for the open source media centre Plex continues a pace.  This weeks surprise announcement sees a partnership formed between Plex and the beautiful skinning engine from CenterStage.  Check out the Flash Demo of the graphics after the jump...

We've updated the iPhone to V2.0 and installed a few apps to play with.  Of most interest to Home Automators will be the new free Apple "Remote" application.  Here's a quick two minute video tour showing just how quick and easy it is to install and use...

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Yes, it's another iPhone remote do-hicky, but this one is really interesting.  Created in the UK by Steve Moore the system comprises of two parts.  An iPhone / iPod touch application and a hardware base station that recevies the commands from the iPhone app and converts them to IR and Serial commands allowing you to control anything from a TV to an entire AMX home automation system...