Add to Boxee Bookmarklet
I’ve been using this for months and now find it somewhat indispensable. Oftentimes I come across videos while at work and with this bookmarklet I can send them to Boxee for later viewing with one click.
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Boxee Widget
Just found out about this via the Boxee blog… It’s perfect for me! Usually Shaya’s using my iPhone to play Scramble so I’m rarely able to get to the Boxee app expediently.
TouchPad
A few days ago I blogged about an iPhone app called Wifi Touchpad that I use to remote control my media center machine. It’s great but I just discovered a better app called TouchPad. It doesn’t require a receiver application because it works over the VNC protocol or Apple’s built in screen sharing. It’s more polished, works in horizontal mode and supports 1-3 finger gestures. And it has a built-in media controller screen that mimics the Apple remote. But the main feature I want to try is the wake support with Snow Leopard and an AirPort Extreme Base Station since it connects via Bonjour.
Wifi Touchpad
Discovered this app thanks to a tip from Hoodean. I may be overreacting slightly but to me it’s a quintessential example of the power and utility of the iPhone platform. Here’s a $1.99 app that is good enough to replace a $125 dedicated device. I use it in concert with the Boxee remote to control my home theater PC at home and for on-the-go control of my mobile media center (17″ MacBook Pro.)
Update: Found a better app called Touchpad!
TSConverter
This tool is baller! It converts mpeg2 transport streams directly into DVR-MS! (It also has some simple editing features and support for h264 transport streams, though that is kind of useless to me because it can’t convert them to DVR-MS.) Now all you have to do is edit the metadata and download a dvd cover image and you can fill your Vista DVD Library with movies in high definition! A nice added bonus is Media Center can fast forward and rewind DVR-MS files where it could not with transport streams. To get this tool working you’ll need to follow these instructions to set up the mpeg2 muxer, and you will also need an ac3 analyzer. Vista comes with one but AC3Filter would also work. And if you haven’t already you can enable the DVD Library using MCE Customizer.) Awesome!
MCE (2005) Standby Tool
Great tool for configuring standby settings and mce specific options.
Share Recorded TV in MCE
A nifty app to help share recorded tv from one media center to another. This guy and this guy seem to have figured out a solution as well. And here is a thread that covers everything.
ATSC-Only Media Center!?
So according to this thread, there is a way to trick MCE into thinking you have an analog NTSC tuner with a hardware encoder. Basically per this MCE devs explanation, you must have an analog tuner to set up Media Center. But I don’t, I only have a Dvico Fusion5 HDTV Gold ATSC tuner. (As an aside, this tuner can receive analog television but its software-based encoding is not MCE compatible.) And since I am pretty much going completely OTA, I don’t need analog because all of the local networks broadcast everything on their digital channels, per FCC mandate. (Not only that but by Saturday they’re all required to be driving their antennas at full strength.) So get these drivers and try this out.
