The Writings of a Freelance Infrastructure Consultant
For quite some time I’d been looking forward to building a decent media centre, and after rearranging my flat recently I had a great lounge area, so I went ahead and built it. I’ve read quite a few blog entries about other people’s Mac mini-based media centres over the last few months, and now that [...]
So, the iPad turns out to be a shiny new thing that’s somewhere between an iPhone and a Mac… but (perhaps unfortunately) rather more iPhone than Mac. I was personally hoping it would turn out to be a desirable alternative to a netbook. In some ways, I can see that it has achieved this. It [...]
Front Row isn’t too bad as media centre software goes, but it doesn’t do a particularly brilliant job of displaying collections of movies and TV shows which you have on your hard disk. It also doesn’t allow plugins (although a couple of hacks have tried to get around this) and it doesn’t have a mechanism [...]