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Apr 27 2009

Build a Mac mini Media Server

When Steve unveiled the Mac mini, most people thought they were looking at the most inexpensive Mac Apple had ever turned out. For those of us used to beating the most out of our machines the Mac mini represents a whole new application for the best OS.

This week I’m featuring freeware that will help you in your quest to turn your Mac mini into a home media server.

First, there’s plenty of freeware that will allow your mini to interface with your video recorder of choice.

mu Build a Mac mini Media ServerDreamStream – For your Dreambox

mu Build a Mac mini Media ServerEyeTV Remote and eyetv RPM – For your EyeTV

mu Build a Mac mini Media ServerTiVo Desktop and TiVoFerkey – For your TiVo

mu Build a Mac mini Media ServerDVArchive – For Replay TV

mu Build a Mac mini Media ServerEarphoria

Remotely control iTunes via Rendezvous. Perfect for running a music server from another Mac on the network.

mu Build a Mac mini Media ServerRomeo

Use this Bluetooth app to turn your phone into a remote for your media mini.

mu Build a Mac mini Media ServerQT XList and ClipLinkViewer X

These solutions are different, but both will play a series of QuickTime files in a playlist fashion. Perfect for queuing up video clips.

mu Build a Mac mini Media ServerVLC Media Player

This Open Source media player will play just about anything, and is a must for your media server.

If you’ve read Apple’s documentation on the mini you should know that the mini will interface directly or via adapter with most new TV’s. Have fun!

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Browser Bonanza

Opera (recently made free), Firefox and Flock have all released new versions, and they all come with great new features from feed handling to eye candy.

Firefox 2.0b1

firefox2b1 Browser Bonanza

New in 2.0:

  • Inline Spell Check (not shown) checks spelling in input boxes
  • New Feed Interface supports different feed readers including Google Reader and Bloglines
  • Search While You Type suggestions
  • Close Tab Buttons on the tab

Opera 9

opera9 Browser Bonanza

New in 9:

  • Widgets! Cool, but I wish you cold resize them
  • Integrated Bittorrent
  • Hover-over Tab Previews show you thumbnails and page info
  • Improved Richtext Formatting

Flock beta 1

flock07 Browser Bonanza

New in .7:

  • Drag and Drop Flickr integration
  • Search Auto-complete from history, bookmarks and more
  • RSS News View with a newspaper style layout and nice feed management
  • Better Support for Firefox Extensions

Wow. Unless you’re still hung on IE 5, there’s at least one cool new browser to try out. Have fun.

Brian

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