Monday, November 23, 2009

XBMC 9.11 beta 1, Introducing Confluence

Confluence is the new theme for XBMC. Version 9.11 is still in beta, now at beta 1. It seems like maybe a small update, but this theme is more than just nice! It's fabulous and makes operating XBMC that much more easier. I am running it on my AppleTV and it works great already for a beta. Just having some trouble getting the movie/tv library up to date with all movies on my storage. I'm doing something wrong for sure.

Read all about the new XBMC 9.11b1




Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Virtu-Al VESI & PowerGUI PowerPack

As you can see from the screen shot on the left, this is a first attempt at providing most of my scripts in one PowerPack and adding to the already great management that VESI and PowerGUI give you.



So what do I need to do to install this ?
  1. Install PowerShell V1 or V2 (if you do not already have these installed) V2 Recommended
  2. Install PowerCLI
  3. Install VESI or PowerGUI (VESI Recommended for Virtualization management)
  4. If you have PowerGUI installed you will need to add the ‘VMware Infrastructure Management’ PowerPack which can be downloaded from here.
  5. Click the download button at the top of this post to download my latest PowerPack, and rate the PowerPack while you are there if you like !
  6. Import the PowerPack into VESI or PowerGUI

Car Finder Uses Augmented Reality to Find Your Car

Car Finder is an iPhone application that uses augmented reality to find your vehicle.

You can use Car Finder to locate your car anywhere you are. Once you load the application it uses the camera viewfinder to see an overly of where your car is, the direction it is located, and how far away it is.

The application uses the iPhone camera and compass and thus an iPhone 3GS running at least 3.1 will be required.

You can purchase Car Finder for $.99 from the App Store.

Get it in the App Store

AppleTV 3.0 installed with patchstick applied

Yesterday I installed the 3.0 upgrade for AppleTV. After that I used the patchstick I used last time, containing SoftwareMenu frappliance. Unfortunately SoftwareMenu does not work yet on 3.0. But ssh is available again, so installing NitoTV, XBMC and Boxee was straight forward. To install XBMC and Boxee I needed to install Launcher first. Installing XBMC and Boxee via Launcher somehow doesn't work for me so I copied the apps to AppleTV and then created a symbolic link:

ln -s /Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app /Applications/XBMC.app

So far everything works and the new AppleTV interface looks nice again, it's sort of a mix of the 1.0 and 2.0 GUI.



Sadly, AppleTV still does not support renting/buying movies and tv show in The Netherlands and a lot of other countries all over the world...