Archive for the 'Software' Category

distantDVD, I’ve found my DVD launcher

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Well after my ‘The sad state of Mac HTPC front-ends’ post, I’m happy to report I’ve found my full-screen Video_TS launcher. As you know I’ve mentioned distantDVD here several times before, but the early versions only supported 1360×768 which made testing the app out on my projector somewhat difficult.
Not to worry however as Tom [...]

The sad state of Mac HTPC front-ends

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Yesterday I ran a little experiment. I wanted to see what functionality the popular Mac HTPC front-ends offered through the eyes of a first time user. Obviously this took a bit of imagination as I’ve used them all in some degree or another. What I found was a bit disappointing.
Basically starting from scratch I [...]

equinux MediaCentral

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Earlier this week I ran across yet another media-center front end for the Mac and wanted to share a bit of what I discovered with you. MediaCentral has many of the features you’ve come to expect in media-center software including: DVD/video-file playback, movie trailer integration, iTunes functionality, live TV interface and photo viewing.
Version 1.2 also [...]

DistantDVD

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

I just ran across a slick looking VIDEO_TS launcher named DistantDVD on our forums. The app has a nice clean dark look to it that would lend itself well to the home theater environment.
distantDVD is a program that lets your organize, browse and watch your DVD collection, without having to find the DVD.
Your ripped DVD [...]

Front Row, of course

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Pretty clever if you ask me, Apple introduced a media center without actually having built one. The new iMac’s come bundled with Apple’s

Mac OS X Tiger Update 10.4.1, all 37MB worth

Monday, May 16th, 2005

10.4.1 Hit software update, and

iTunes on the PS3?

Saturday, May 14th, 2005

MacDailyNews is reporting a rumor that Sony may be working with Apple, on

iTunes 4.8, dont get all hot and bothered just yet

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

While reading all this

CenterStage Functionality Demo and Walkthrough

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

The guys over at CenterStage have

Obligatory Tiger review

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

OSX 10.4 Tiger has graced both my mini and iBook, for about 72 hours now, overall I couldn’t be happier with 10.4, with one exception, but I’ll save that for last. I opted against the whole Apple store at the maul routine, for one I wasn’t feeling very crowd’y and secondly Fry’s electronics was selling [...]