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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

10.4.1 Hit software update, and

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

While reading all this

The guys over at CenterStage have

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 [...]