HTPC
Article: Control Your HTPC With A PS3 Remote Control
Having recently reviewed the SilverStone Grandia GD08 and loving it, I was looking for a way to satisfy the one need SilverStone left me with. The case design didn’t allow for a standard 5.25 inch bay device to be used ...
Article: Yammm vs Meta Browser vs Media Center Master
If you have a large multimedia library you have probably been looking for a good way to keep everything organized. There are a number of software packages out there that can help, but which ones are the best? Hopefully, we can ...
Article: Share Your Library with XBMC using MySQL
Recently, we featured an article on sharing your playstate and watched status with MediaBrowser for WMC. One of my main reasons for using the software was the shared library features. Today, with XBMC you are able to perfor...
Article: Best XBMC Skins
Lately, it seems that my HTPC has been getting most of my attention. With the changes in front end software, I have finally settled, for now, on XBMC. One of the best features is the ability to skin XBMC to your liking. After...
Share “Playstate” using MediaBrowser for WMC
Lately, I have been experimenting with various types of front ends for my HTPC from the likes of PLEX, XBMC, MediaPortal, and more. For some reason though, they all seem to fall short, in their own ways, of Windows Media Cent...
Review: Lian Li PC-C60
If you frequent C.O.D. you will realize that I am a fan of Lian Li. I have had many of their cases over the years and it seems that they always seem to set the bar just a little higher every time they come out with something ne...
Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)
For a long time I had resisted converting my DVD and Blu-Ray disks into any other format because I didn’t want to lose any quality. I had lived by this rule for a long time, and thankfully companies like QNAP and Thecus...
Review: SilverStone GD06 Home Theater PC Case
There is no doubt that the HTPC enthusiast has some options when looking for a chassis to fill the void in their entertainment center. It seems like so many of the options are either too small, too big, to ugly, or too expens...
Turn an HP SFF Computer Into a Great HTPC
Face it, most of us like the idea of having an HTPC (Home Theater PC) hooked up to our TV. The flexibility we get with an HTPC over just a DVD player or a gaming console is enough alone to justify the cost. I have built a b...
Goodbye Mac Mini, Hello Shuttle X350 / XS35
Ok, so my days of wandering through Microcenter’s Apple area pondering whether to buy a NEW Mac Mini are over. It was a short lived dream… or nightmare; I haven’t figured that out yet. Apple almost had me ...
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