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Boxee Beta Revealed

December 8, 2009

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Boxee Beta Revealed

The popular xbmc fork with a social networking twist, has just had its impressive beta unveiled at an event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The Boxee team will open up this Beta to the public on Jan 7th (at CES) and over the next 4 weeks will gradually release invitations to our early access [...]

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The ABC backtracks statement over Junglist, Hole gets deeper.

November 2, 2009

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The ABC backtracks statement over Junglist, Hole gets deeper.

Thanks to this Whirlpool post, the ABC has been found out once again to be lying directly to the community.  Good Game production co-ordinator, TheGog changes his tune by editing this statement here:
The original quote:
TheGog (Production Co-Ordinator)
“You’re all smart enough and have heard enough to know that it wasn’t Jung’s choice and I can [...]

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The ABC in damage control over Junglist GG sacking

October 30, 2009

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The ABC in damage control over Junglist GG sacking

What a torrid few days it has been for the ABC with a massive community backlash in regards to the original silent axing of Good Game TV favorite, The Junglist.  The mainstream Media has also caught wind of the events unfoldng at the ABC with The Age announcing “Good Game presenter claims ABC gender bias [...]

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Junglist Axed from Good Game

October 28, 2009

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Junglist Axed from Good Game

I Just saw the latest episode of ABC 2′s Good Game and was a bit surprised at the apparent axing of one the shows hosts, Junglist replaced by a female presenter going by the name of Hex. No mention of Who, what or why either,  just a dodgy Character Generation Stunt with Margaret Pomeranz ironically [...]

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Power DVD now with HD Audio.

October 7, 2009

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Power DVD now with HD Audio.

I have been using Power DVD  for a while on my HTPC mostly due to the ability to hardware decode High Definition content like h264 using only your Graphics card – utilising next to no CPU cycles.  This method works with Xp & Vista Media Centre and Open Source HTPC frontends such as Mediaportal.
For those [...]

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Cheapest Australian online Store for CD’s DVD’s and Games.

October 2, 2009

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Cheapest Australian online Store for CD’s DVD’s and Games.

I have always been on the lookout for a decent yet cheap Australian based online store for Music and Movies and at long last I have found my new favourite.  CDWOW.com.au offers CDs, DVDs, Games and even cosmetics at significantly discounted prices. You can find a great range of products sourced from the major media [...]

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ProjectM Visualisation in XBMC

September 25, 2009

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This is ProjectM, an opensource alternative to Milkdrop running on the XBMC front-end.
The hardware is powered by an Athlon 4400 Windows XP HTPC based system with a cheap ATI radeon 4350 HD HDMI graphics card.
I set the visualisation playlists to change every 5 seconds which highlights the different results each ProjectM preset can achieve.  I [...]

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Lily Allen vs Piracy and Techdirt

September 24, 2009

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Lily Allen vs Piracy and Techdirt

In the few days since I posted about Matt Bellamy’s chat with Lily Allen on Lily’s Myspace page, it appears Lily’s now defunct blog has been the target of a internet slagging match with absolutely no purpose or concept of the actual issue other than to find fault with Lily Allen’s views and methods of [...]

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Stargate Universe Spotlight

September 24, 2009

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Unlike previous Stargate episodes, SG:U looks to to draw heavily from the extremely successful Battlestar Galatica in terms of style, gritty visuals and mood.  The trailer is very reminiscent of BSG and is devoid of the camp factor previous Stargate’s are infamous for.
Not a bad thing at all, hopefully it fills the void left by [...]

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Muse take the piss on Quelli che il calcio

September 21, 2009

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This is what happens when you force a talented band to mime, The look on Matts face is priceless and be sure to check out his drumming style.
Quelli che il calcio is an Italian variety show from what I can gather.

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