Category: Featured

The Best $5 You Can Spend on your Media Center: USB Extension Cord

October 27, 2011 No Comments by ADmini
Mac mini with Cord

If your Mac mini is tucked away in a dark media rack like mine (see above), nothing is more aggravating than having to blindly fish around the back of your Mac mini in a weak attempt to connect a USB cable/thumbdrive/etc. You don’t know if your cable is facing the right way, you can’t see [...]

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Lifehacker’s Wallpaper Wednesday… on Friday

October 7, 2011 No Comments by ADmini
wallpaper-wednesday-43-autumn

I haven’t mentioned it on the site yet, but I love Lifehacker’s Wallpaper Wednesday. Every Wednesday they serve up a delicious sampling of high definition wallpapers, perfect for your Media Center. In short, it’s something that I expect to post on a weekly basis. However, this week my Google Reader feeds overwhelmed me, and here [...]

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The Holy Trinity: SABnzbd+, SickBeard & CouchPotato (with Video)!

September 24, 2011 No Comments by ADmini
The Holy Trinity

This mega tutorial will walk you through installing three separate programs which will work in unison to deliver all your favorite TV shows and movies. Each section has it’s own text tutorial as well as a video walkthrough, so no matter what you WILL be able to get this up and running! And once you [...]

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OSX Emulation Guide

August 29, 2011 No Comments by ADmini
Emulation680

One of the coolest and least talked about features of having an Apple Media Center is the ability to emulate old video games and play them on your high definition display. However, while there is a ton of information scattered throughout the web on how to do so, there really doesn’t seem to be one [...]

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Blu-Ray on OSX Lion (10.7) Guide!

August 18, 2011 No Comments by ADmini
Blu-Ray-on-OSX-Lion

PC users, for decades, have loved to hold things above Mac users heads. The latest item of note has been the ability to play and manipulate Blu-Ray movies, and sadly, they were correct for a long while. Blu-ray drives are almost standard on most high end PC desktops and laptops. And if you don’t have [...]

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