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  • Boxee Remote Widget

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 22:10 in Software, widget, remote, media center, boxee

    The Boxee remote widget is a widget to control Boxee from your laptop. Simple idea but it’s a great one. I am generally on my laptop while I watch TV. Instead of grabbing for a remote it would be great to just use the widget to control. Th...

  • Build a Cheap Boxee Box Now

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 22:11 in htpc, media center, boxee, asrock ion 330

    Even though Boxee is going to announce details about a Boxee Box on December 7th, you can still build a cheap Boxee Box now. Lifehacker has come through again with a great how-to on building a Boxee Box for $350. That’s $150 more than the XB...

  • A Boxee Box is Coming

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 10:49 in hardware, streaming, media center, set-top, boxee

    Boxee said today that it will have a Boxee Box coming. There aren’t any details now but we will find out at the event on December 7th. This is great for Boxee and if the price is right will be great for consumers. Maybe they will just bui...

  • Boxee Beta Coming December 7th with New Features

    Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 09:19 in streaming, media center, boxee

    Boxee is releasing the Beta on December 7th in NYC. The new beta has a bunch of new features including a new look and feel. The Beta will feature: * new user interface * improved navigation * search TV Shows and Movies * a user co...

  • Boxee Gets More Funding

    Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 21:29 in streaming, media center, boxee

    Boxee has raised $6 million in funding for content and CE devices. They have already added MLB.TV to their line-up so now they need to look at a set-top box. In order to make it to mainstream you need to be on the TV not just the computer. I know ...

  • Boxee for Windows and New Features

    Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 21:36 in Software, digg, streaming, tumblr, media center, mlb.tv, boxee

    Boxee has released a version for Windows. The biggest news is probably their partnership with MLB.TV. You can now stream MLB.TV content through Boxee. You have to have the subscription but it will put a really nice interface to the online content....

  • Boxee Adds APIs and New Browser

    Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 22:03 in Software, update, streaming, pbs, pandora, media center, hulu, boxee

    Boxee tonight at the NYC meet-up announced a new version of Boxee. Some new things include Pandora, PBS app, APIs and a new browser based on the XUL framework, which Firefox is based off of. Pandora is really cool and I’m sure people can get ...

  • Boxee iPhone App Approved

    Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 21:36 in Software, iphone, remote, app, media center, ipod touch, boxee

    Boxee finally had their iPhone app approved. It does look basic, which they admit, but it’s a good start to a product that keeps getting better. * the boxee remote app has two modes: Gesture and Buttons * in the Gesture mode you nee...

  • Get Boxee Back After AppleTV 2.3.1 Update

    Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 12:28 in Software, update, patch, appletv, media center, boxee

    AppleTV update 2.3.1 broke Boxee from working. It’s really not that bad. According to the Boxee forum you just have to run the patchstick again. All of your data will still be there. I guess Apple isn’t out to disable Boxee. Related P...

  • Get Hulu Back on Boxee

    Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 18:49 in Software, media center, plug-in, hulu, boxee, tv library

    It wasn’t good news yesterday when we found out Boxee couldn’t offer Hulu content anymore. The good news is there is already a plug-in to get your Hulu content back. Jake Marsh is offering a plug-in called TV Library for Boxee. This is...

  • Boxee Removing Hulu

    Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 18:51 in Software, TV, streaming, appletv, media center, hulu, boxee

    Pressure from big networks has forced Hulu to act and asked Boxee to remove Hulu.  Boxee has agreed and as of Friday there will be no more Hulu on Boxee.  I think this is a big mistake by Hulu and the big networks. I understand they want their rev...