May 14, 2013
by ianforrester
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I was in Amsterdam for the Quantified Self conference (blog post coming soon) and the whole conference was in a hotel called Casa 400. It was a good conference but what was strange was the TV in my hotel room … Continue reading
April 3, 2013
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Yatse my favourite xbmc remote just launched a new plugin, which makes streaming locally to the android device, super simple… If you have enabled UPnp in your Xbmc installation and are Wifi connected to the same network as Xbmc you … Continue reading
February 17, 2013
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Thanks to @richard79d – for dropping me a little pointer to Yatse the xbmc remote. I’m thinking about paying for the complete version already and removing the official xbmc remote. It has all the same features but its just well … Continue reading
February 10, 2013
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Just about to make a number of changes to my ageing network. First up, its time to upgrade my XBMC box in the living room, to something more modern and smaller. Right now I’m using a Lenovo Thinkcentre A55 mini … Continue reading
December 25, 2012
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I recently bought a Raspberry pi from RS and it actually came before Christmas, so during the holidays I hooked it up and installed OpenElec after reading about the different XBMC versions you could install. I decided to replace my … Continue reading
September 8, 2012
by ianforrester
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My Samsung LCD gave up the ghost recently and although its fixable with a soldering iron and new capacitor. I pretty much decided a while ago that its time for an upgrade. I bought the Samsung almost 6 years ago … Continue reading
July 14, 2012
by ianforrester
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I always wondered why XBMC wasn’t available on Android, its been on iOS for a long while now. I assume its the different types of hardware which might have caused the massive delay? Well its happening and today there was … Continue reading
June 16, 2012
by ianforrester
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In the old days it was kind of clear… XBMC was the original and was a lovely but a little rough around the edges, maybe the kind of person you have to explain before taking him home to meet the … Continue reading
May 22, 2012
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Ever since the microsoft kinect was hacked to work with non xbox machines, xbmc hackers have been messing or modifying there setups to support gesture control. So popular was the idea of controlling media with gestures, even the BBC adopted … Continue reading
April 9, 2012
by ianforrester
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I know theres tons of blogs and views beating up Android for its different device capabilities and how un-developer friendly it is (sure I blogged about this before?) but I’m calling ball on it all. Ok I’m not a developer … Continue reading
April 9, 2012
by ianforrester
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Plex has always been on my horizon as its part of the future change in home entertainment, however Technicalfault shared a link to a blog post from the Plex media server team. In this aint your grandfathers DLNA (Digital Living … Continue reading
April 6, 2012
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Talking to Adrian late last night… He mentioned something to do with weight and video. Then today, I started thinking wouldn’t it be interesting to apply a weight model to films/media based on their attention required? For example: Tinker tailor … Continue reading
January 10, 2012
by ianforrester
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Ubuntu TV was launched at CES yesterday and frankly I wasn’t that surprised by the move (rumors for a while) but to see it actually live with Unity was actually quite impressive. There is no doubt Ubuntu really has thought … Continue reading
January 2, 2012
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Interesting news that Boxee will be going Hardware only from this year… To be honest I never really used Boxee on my TV except for BBC iPlayer. Interesting news about Plex on Google TV too
August 22, 2011
by ianforrester
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At last the almost perfect TV tracker has been realised by the guys behind Trak.tv. I say almost perfect because it doesn’t seem to support the social aspect of what tioti was planning. Trak.tv isn’t far off and i’m not totally … Continue reading