Nerd Stalker

All things MacWorld/iWorld 2014 total recap of the show, apps, vendors, events and more lots more.

(8mins) Nerd Stalker kicks the 2009 door down with a very special first interview of the year. We attend an exclusive SF New Tech meet up at Dolby Digital Labs where we have an information packed talk with Product Evangelist Dave Mathews of Boxee . Boxee is in closed Alpha (until 1/8/09 for Mac & Ubuntu) but Nerd Stalker viewers get in if you sign up within the next 48 hours. On a laptop or connected to an HDTV, boxee gives you a true entertainment experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Hulu, Netflix, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr. Boxee is the best media center solution i've seen hands down, you ask why? Open Source (xbmc) Amazing Codec Support Social Network Support (Twitter, Friendfeed, etc) Partnerships (See list above)

Well I finally did it, I pulled the trigger on a computer to "build" a home theater personal computer (htpc). After a ton of research I finally decided to go with the Apple Mac Mini, comes with Leopard, remote, front row, etc. Reason is I want the family to have a really easy to use music, photo, and video viewer. I also plan to throw a giant usb 2 external drive on it then get some sort of pvr solution for it like that from Miglia or El Gato . I looked at buying or building a computer from scratch and throwing something on it, the front runner was Windows Media Center . But i've been running a very unstable xp box for years and as a result I've been pushed to Ubuntu Linux which is a fantastic desktop solution for me. Anyhow all the virus/trojans one can get so easy on windows is a challenge let alone how often one has to reinstall the os. I think windows mce was a bit more than my family needed although I will keep an eye out when the vista version is released but t...