Great news for anyone looking for a tiny, cheap standalone XBMC box: You can now install XBMC on an Apple TV 2. Here's how it works. First, the great news here: The ...

For all intents and purposes, the original Xbox, with its NVIDIA GPU, 8-10GB hard disk and custom Pentium III processor was a high-end PC for its time -- albeit, one that connected to a television.

We give a lot of attention to XBMC here, and with just cause. It's an open-source, cross-platform, highly-customizable media center solution that outperforms just about every commercial option out ...

Your Apple TV just got a lot less boring with the help of nifty new tools that override its restrictions and add powerful capabilities. Launched Friday morning, the XBMC app for Apple TV 2 — which ...

[Andrei Istodorescu] has been hard at work building a 7″ touch-screen rig which runs XBMC. It may be upside-down, but the Raspberry Pi board which is front and center is still easily recognizable.

With all of the online and digital content we are consuming these days, media center PCs are quickly becoming a staple in households worldwide. Some prefer large purpose built PCs with tons of storage ...

We've been expecting something interesting to happen to the Apple TV, but with nary a peep out of Cupertino it seems that atv-bootloader creator Scott Davilla has been busy. We've posted about Boxee ...

Is there anything preventing me from doing a full Ubuntu installation for an HTPC without a spinning-disc hard drive? Is it possible to just install it on a USB drive and boot straight to ...

Here’s how you can add the XBMC media center to your Ubuntu system. 1. Open the Ubuntu Software Center. 2. Type xbmc into the search box then hit enter. 3. Click on XBMC Media Center in the search ...

The MK802 is a tiny PC-on-a-stick with an Allwinner A10 ARM Cortex-A8 processor, Mali 400 graphics, up to 1GB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. It ships with Android 4.0 software, but it can also run a ...

Plus given that my XBMC hardware configuration was a Zotac e5300 with 2GB memory, running it on W7 is a bit slower than I hoped. Not sure if bumping it to 4GB will see a drastic change in performance.

Apple TV update 2.3.1 came out last week – my Apple TV suddenly reset itself on Sunday and blew away my Boxee/XBMC installation – but fear not: it’s easy to fix ...