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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 [...]

So I have been playing around with sharing my iTunes and iPhoto libraries from my main computer to my MacMini that is hooked up to my TV downstairs.  I have had some successes but many more failures.  While if you treat the MacMini as an AppleTV you are fine but you do have to keep [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have been fighting myself over whether to buy an AppleTV, which my dad has and loves, or just get a MacMini and hook it to my flat panel TV.  Well I have finally given in and am awaiting delivery of my MacMini! I will be putting it into my living room with my TV [...]