For a while now I’ve been watching less and less actual television and turning to the internet to get around old fashioned media distribution methods. In this article I’m going to show you how I have finally gotten the right home theater system setup that I am 95% happy with, which will ...

You've got a mind-blowing picture, surround sound, and streaming content set up, but it wasn't cheap. Heal your wallet with ten upgrades, fixes, and setup tips that take your system to 11 on the cheap. Photo by chunkysalsa. 10. Hide away your discs in style Not everybody wants their CD or DVD collec...

We've featured gobs of great Mac freeware over the course of the year—now it's time to check out the best. Keep reading for a look back at the 10 most popular Mac downloads of 2008. NOTE: This list is based on the popularity of posts we've published in 2008 only, regardless of the original rel...

Popular cross-platform media center XBMC emerged victorious from this weekend's hard-fought Hive Five Best Media Center Applications with a commanding 43% of the vote. XBMC spinoff Boxee secured the second spot, while Windows Media Center took home third....

When like-minded hackers come together to unleash the true power of seemingly simple gear, it's truly a beautiful thing. We've featured a good number of how-tos and hacks over the years that make expensive upgrades unnecessary and unleash seriously cool features in your gear, and 2008 was no excepti...

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Video, Mac mini, Apple TV It's a pretty awesome day to be a Netflix fan. Not only is the Watch Instantly service officially available for OS X, it's also now working via boxee, my favorite media center application! Boxee pushed out an impromptu update last week for...

One of the toughest things about building a home theater PC is finding the right case, one that doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb in your media center. This guy gutted out an old TiVo he had laying around and jammed in all the components required to get a PC up and running. He added a copy o...

Filed under: home entertainment hacks Boxee is the latest piece of software to enter the home theater PC space. It's recently become available as a public alpha. The first build is only for OSX 10.5, but Ubuntu is coming. Built on the XBMC code base-they even hosted the XBMC developer con last weeke...

Filed under: Audio, Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux XBMC is a media center suite that was originally designed for the original Xbox. But over the last few years XBMC has taken on a life of its own and has been ported to run on OS X and Linux. And if you don't happen to have a PC running either oper...

We've shown you how to turn your classic Xbox and Mac into a super-powered media center using Xbox Media Center, but what about everybody else? Well, if you've got at least a 1 GB USB drive and a computer that can boot from it, you're in luck. LiveXBMC, a blend of the XBMC and Ubuntu Linux, lets you...