Christopher Craig

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Sapphire or Plex?

I’ve been using the Sapphire plug-in for Front Row as a media centre application for a few months now. I like it because it creates virtual directories of TV shows for me. So, I just dump whatever I’ve downloaded into the TV directory, and Sapphire organizes it in a coherent way for me [...]

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Share an iTunes Library Between 2 Macs

Having a Mac mini as a home theatre PC is great because it allows me to listen to my music collection on my living room sound system. Doing this requires an iTunes library though, so I’ve been looking for a way to synchronize the library on the mini with the library on my iMac.
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Mac Mini HTPC

In an earlier post, I was looking for ideas for a home theatre PC. I had no preference at that time, I just wanted something elegant that played all of the popular video encoding formats.
Sean suggested I take a look at the Apple TV, and I remembered hearing that it was easily hackable, and [...]

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