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CouchPotato, is an awesome automatic movie downloader and organizer and a perfect companion for your XBMC media center. A new update (5af8fd0b) is now available for CouchPotato. This post describes the changes in the new CouchPotato 5af8fd0b update and provides instructions on how to update your CouchPotato. What’s New in … read more
Raspbmc is a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian that brings XBMC to your Raspberry Pi. While Raspbmc offers great features, it has been found to fall behind on speed and fluidity compared to other media center OSes. This post introduces the recently released Raspbmc September update. What’s New in … read more
Raspbmc is a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian that brings XBMC to your Raspberry Pi. While Raspbmc offers great features, it has been found to fall behind on speed and fluidity compared to other media center OSes. This post introduces the recently released Raspbmc August update. What’s New in … read more
May 21st marked the first birthday or htpcBeginner (formerly LinuXplained). Truly though, it has been 2.5 year since I started a tech blog on WordPress on my first Ubuntu Server back in December 2010. With nearly 1200 likes, 600 followers, and 120 plusones/followers, we are slowly but surely growing to … read more
First of all, we wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. 2012 was a very significant year for htpcBeginner. After being virtually non-existent from April 2010 to April 2012, we revamped the site and re-launched it as LinuXplained in June 2012. Since then its growth have been mind-boggling … read more
XBMC 12 Frodo Release Candidate 1 is now out. The Frodo release comes with several exciting updates, which includes: HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine Live TV and PVR support h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime 64bit support in OSX … read more
XBMC Frodo Beta 2 has been released! The original announcement from XBMC.org, is available below: XBMC Frodo Beta 2 We are excited to announce Beta 2 of XBMC Frodo 12 today, as it brings with it many fixes and one long awaited major update. As you know, XBMC Frodo currently … read more
FreeNAS is a free network-attached storage server, supporting: CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, and software RAID (0,1,5), with a web-based configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 64 MB once installed on CompactFlash, hard drive or USB flash drive. FreeNAS is currently distributed as … read more