Why buy and AppleTV??

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

I have blogged about this several times before but figured it deserved another visit with Apple recently lowering the price on their largest AppleTV and discontinuing the smaller one.  I have been using a last gen MacMini as my media center for the past year and have been super happy with it.  I have it [...]

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Hulu Plugin for Front Row

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Eat your heart out appleTV.  Front Row has a plugin for Hulu.  Now you can stream all the shows you missed or want to catch up on straight to your computer, or MacMini Media Center, as I have set up.  All of this with the ease of Apple’s great Front Row Interface.  This plugin does [...]

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MacMini Media Center vs. Appletv Update

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Ok, so I am still kinda tinkering with my new, old MacMini that I have hooked to my flat panel downstairs.  It has been touch and go at times but I have discovered a few things.
1. The best way to share your itunes content without moving it is by going into preferences and enabling sharing [...]

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Macbook as an AppleTV?

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Now I don’t know about you but I would love to have an AppleTV but do not have the cash for it at this moment.  This link shows a cool way to run AppleTV OS on your laptop.  Its really a pretty simple idea, I personally have been using Front Row, but it can be [...]

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