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Building the Ultimate Media Center, Part 3: Backup
Describing what I’ve been working on so far as a media center may not be quite sufficient. Now a days term “home server” seems to do it a bit more justice, and if a home computer is on full time you’ll certainly want to get the most out of it. If you’ve ever wanted to [...]
Building the Ultimate Media Center, Part 2: Plex
If there’s a killer app out there in the media center world, it’s Plex. Built on the long running XBMC, Plex is a fork of the project optimized to run on the Mac. XBMC has been around since the first Xbox, making one of the most established media center platforms out there. It’s long outgrown [...]
Building the Ultimate Media Center, Part 1: Hardware
If you’re a geek, chances are you’ve dreamed of having an amazing media setup that gives you a movie theater at home feel while providing all the options to extend it with your media. Well, thanks to the recent release of the Apple Mac mini, hardware and software (specifically Plex) are at a great point [...]
A Good Way to Catalog Movies?
Why is so difficult to find a good, feature rich way to catalog movies? It seems like there are two camps applications focus on — either ownership or viewership, but few applications do both well. On one side there are applications like Delicious Library that allow you to scan in barcodes with a webcam (very [...]
Sharing Links the Easy Way With Del.icio.us
Chances are you’ve been to some social bookmarking site in the previous two or three years. The idea seemed to come out of nowhere and change the way many of us interact with the web. Before sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit or DZone I honestly can’t remember how I found half the stuff out there. [...]
Google Quietly Adds support for Multiple Email Addresses
For those of you pained with having multiple Google Accounts, you might be able to associate some of them now! From any Google account you can now add any non-Gmail email address you want to your account. By default your account might have a gmail account associated with it already — but now you can [...]
New Office Setup!
The number one thing I wanted to get done in January was change up my office setup. I wasn’t using it enough and always felt a little cramped or unable to concentrated, so much of the month was spent taking trips to Ikea to pickup furniture and supplies for a new office.
It turned out [...]
