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OSXBMC is free open source media player for the Mac.  It's a port of the popular XBox Media Center (XBMC) that was developed over a number of years by a large group of talented programmers.  With its "plays anything" philosophy, beautiful user interface and ability to pull info for your movies and music straight off the web, it provides an unrivalled experience.  If you've ever used FrontRow you need to check this out!  In our interview with the project developer - Elan - we find out where the project is heading, we get the skinny on the new remote control features about to be released and we hear what special additions are planned for the future...  

Ozzy smart home company Future Touch have released v3.0 of their MyServant system. The windows software is an add-on for HAL and provides touchscreen support complete with floor plan style graphics as well as occupancy tracking, security system control and weather display...

Melloware Intelliremote 2 is a Windows (98/NT/2K/XP,Vista) program that gives you control of many windows apps - think iTunes, VLC, GOM Player, Windows Media Player etc - all from your MCE remote.  Many other remotes are supported too (including X10).  Check it out...

Idratek have just released v23 of their home automation software, Cortex.  The new features include the ability for the system to estimate actual energy savings made from its intelligent heating and lighting control.  Other notable additions in this update are a new lighting automation engine and the inclusion of support for the xAP protocol...