Archive for October, 2008

Drobo Just Got A Lot Better With DroboApps

DroboApps has been released for your Drobo.  That means that your really expensive backup solution just got a whole lot better.  I’m not saying that the Drobo wasn’t great before, out of my price range, but now you can really put all those stored files to good use.  There are already a lot of applications [...]


Hulu and Netflix on Your Popcorn Hour

Play Netflix/Hulu on Popcorn Hour (and Xbox/PS3) – Click here for more home videos Watching Hulu and Netflix on your Popcorn Hour is pretty simple with a program called Play On by The Media Mall. MediaMall’s PlayOn software is a DLNA/UPnP media server and browser that pulls RSS feeds from content providers, and presents them [...]


Hulu Now on Boxee

quick intro to boxee from boxee on Vimeo. Boxee now has Hulu streaming as part of it’s media center application.  Well it’s not just Hulu, you can stream CBS and Comedy Central too.  Another feature that they added was you can manually add RSS feeds to boxee.  Don’t forget that Boxee and can installed on [...]


Ecobee Smart Thermostat

Ecobee has a new thermostat coming out that has some smart features.  It is a programable thermostat that has a wizard to help set it up to work with your schedule.  It can be programed to turn on before you wake up and will set at a lower/higher temperature when your not at home.  One [...]


2 Years of Keeping Stats

It’s been another year of keeping stats.  I don’t really know when the site birthday is so I treat it as when I started keeping stats.  I have been surprised by the numbers of the past year.  This site has always been a hobby, as you can tell by the days that I don’t post.  [...]


MyMovies for Windows Home Server Available

MyMovies Version 1 Pre Release 3 is available for download.  The pre release version will expire on November 1st but the new version will be out before that.  It was also said that the disk copying feature will require a small donation before it is enabled.  I think that’s a really cool idea for a [...]