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The home of one of the best multi platform media centers is still down due to an unfortunate lightening strike at its datacenter.
Hope this inconvenience doesn’t cause too much trouble for the XBMC team.
From xbmc.org:
Site down due to lightning strike at datacenter. Back soon.
You can still download the most recent xbmc nightlies from one of [...]

Australia’s premiere Technology and Gaming show, Byteside have a healthy discussion in regards to the FPS genre and its impact on gaming culture and the perception of FPS gamers as a whole.  The console shift in regards to this genre from my perspective, has had the negative impact of actually dumbing down FPS games in [...]

Not content with integrating only Boxee, Teknowebworks have made the same integration possible with the project that started it all, XBMC.
BMC Integration 1.0 provides an easy way for users to go back and forth between Windows Media Center and XBMC. When clicking on XBMC in Windows 7 Media Center, the software automatically closes Windows Media [...]

If you have a Windows 7 powered HTPC, Boxee Integration 1.0 provides an armchair viewers way to control the excellent Boxee app directly within Media Center.
Boxee Integration 1.0 provides an easy way for users to go back and forth between Windows Media Center and Boxee. When clicking on Boxee in Windows 7 Media Center, the [...]

See any movie at Hoyts Cinema for just $8.50 until the 28th February 2010 with this printable voucher.  You can find more Australian Vouchers and coupons here.
$8.50 voucher PDF

Justice Cowdroy’s final decision has been revealed today in the iiNet vs AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) case and has found that “”It is impossible to conclude that iiNet has authorised copyright infringement” and “iiNet did not have relevant power to prevent infringements occurring,”
Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, [...]

XBMC has been progressing at an incredible otherworldly pace and tonight’s latest Changeset is no exception. From Revision 27376 Onwards, XBMC now supports dxva2 decoder support for vc1/h264 courtesy of the Boxee DXVA implementation.  Thats right, my aging Athlon 4400XP now barely hits 20% CPU usage with most 1080p material.
This is for the Windows [...]

To be honest I am not sure what to make of the Apple Ipad.  In Steve Jobs speech at today’s Latest creation event, he declared the Ipad “WAY better than a laptop” and regarded the device to be a better experience than a Netbook.
At a basic level, the Ipad is an upsized Ipod, running a [...]

I have been searching for a phone to replace my aging N95 which is finally out of contract.  Even with all the hype, The HTC created Google Nexus looks like the biggest contender for my hard earned dollars . Unfortunately for now, the Google Nexus page quite specifically states: Sorry, the Nexus One phone is [...]

The Great Australian Internet Blackout is a combined online and offline demonstration against imposed online censorship otherwise known as CleanFeed.  This Filter will impose blanket filtering for all web connections at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level and has officially been given the go ahead after completely ridiculous trials with minor ISP’s.
What does cleanfeed mean [...]