Archive for December, 2009
Happy New Year 2010
Happy New Year from Multimedia-PCs. I hope you have a happy and healthy 2010. And don’t forget it’s twenty ten, not two thousand and ten. twentynot2000.com Thanks for visiting the site and for keeping me going at it. Keep your questions and comments coming. I’m planning for a bigger year [...]
Bring the Web to Your TV
I talk a lot about different streamers and ways to get Internet content on your TV. Digital Inspiration has put a lot of those services in one handy list. It’s broken down by extenders, media players and blu-ray players. Lots of good information in the article. If you are new to [...]
DirecTV is Launching a 3D Channel Next Year
DirecTV will be launching a 3D channel next year. They will make the announcement at CES this year. This goes along with their new satellite launch last night that will bring over 200 HD channels and HD locals in more markets. 3D doesn’t really get me excited but I love to see [...]
XBMC 9.11 Camelot Released
The XBMC team has released 9.11 Camelot. There is a huge list of new features, new skins and plug-ins. One of the new skins that works with 9.11 is Xperience which is in beta. There was also a new version of Transparency. They have been really busy at XBMC, especially since [...]
Home Server Show – Podcast 69
I was mentioned in the Home Server Show Podcast and thought I should share it on here. I believe it was around the 20 minutes mark but I listened on the 24th so I might be a little off. They didn’t say much but they were talking about my update to getting time [...]
CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server
CloudBerry Backup allows you to create online storage of your Windows Home Server to Amazon S3. HP bundles a service that works with S3 in it’s MediaSmart servers but for the DIY crowd you can have that same security with CloudBerry. It’s only $29.99 and there is a 30-day trail. They do [...]
Merry Christmas 2009
Merry Christmas from Multimedia-PCs. I hope everyone has a great day and gets to enjoy time with family and friends. The video above is of my Christmas lights synced to music. I did two houses this year with a total of 48 channels and 15,000 lights. If you want to see [...]
Get a Kindle by Christmas
Amazon has free one-day shipping on the kindle. If you’re a late shopper there is still time. I am just imagining Kindles in boxes scattered all over the world ready to be sent to their final destination. If you are in the market, having it tomorrow at no extra charge is great. [...]
Waving Goodbye to 2009
This very cool video sums up the events of 2009 in Google Wave. Either people have lots of time or are a lot more creative than me. Either way it’s a great video and it’s nice to see the new Google Wave put to good use.
(via Mashable)
Run the Boxee Remote Widget on Windows
I talked about the Boxee Remote Widget previously on the site. It allows you to control Boxee from another computer. The problem was it was only available for Mac. With a program called Kludget you can run the Boxee Remote Widget on Windows. I hadn’t heard of Kludget before and it [...]
