Following on with our round-up of VPN hosts that take your privacy seriously and maybe more importantly those that would give us a free trial we’re gonna have a look at BlackVPN. Hmmm maybe Professor Griff from Public Enemy’s S1W’s has got into the VPN business. Alas I was mistaken. Although we’ve not looked at [...]

PrivatVPN are a Swedish VPN (Virtual Private Network) host. So what’s a VPN and what good is one to me? VPN’s create a secure tunnel between your PC and your host. Be it a place of work or in our case an internet host. If you used a VPN to connect to your place of [...]

It’s all about the add-ons. They are what make XBMC such a great media center platform. The very fact that anyone can just go out there write a bit of code and release the next de facto media streaming badass scraping script is the very thing that gives our XBMC’s such flexibility. Of course some [...]

Accidents happen. To us all. Although often to me as I struggle to RTFM. I’m pretty happy with the FreeNAS. We’ve upgraded the drives (more on that another time) a couple of times now and have a full complement of 4x2TB which Lefty seems to be trying to fill as quick as he can. I [...]

For the best IP PVR experience it’s gotta be usenet. The grand daddy of the internet. Old skool, mofo. Many years ago work gave me a p90 with 8 meg of ram and a 4x speed SCSI CD. At the time I was lucky enough to be on UA cable so had free local calls. [...]

The latest addition to our home entertainment system is a freeNAS box. It’s actually an old Acer Power F6 from work. Which is where this project is born from as I’ve promised to provide an alternative to our current backup system (Removable USB drives). The plan is to have two freeNAS’s one in the server [...]

Edit: 29/12/11: You can use this guide to upgrade to the latest Eden Beta 1 but I wouldn’t say this is the de-facto or “proper” way to do it. For the brief moment I had it working there were there were two splash screens. The old logo with the dots appeared first followed by the [...]

We’re loving this. Massive thanks to @paddycarey, Machine-sanctum and Putneyj for their hard work. Extra Fanart Downloader will enable you to display multiple fanarts for your movie and TV collections providing your skin supports it. Skins using this Add-On:     Eden 11.0     - Aeon Nox (made by Big Noid)     - Cirrus Extended (made by Butchabay)     - [...]

Well I spent 4 hours this morning testing pre-eden on an xbmc live install only to fail at the last hurdle installing the wiimote. Big thanks to my German twitter buddy @largewhiteguy for his support as I pulled my hair out. Anyway, long & short, I failed. The glory post I was expecting to make [...]

This article should tie up all our previous work with the sabnzbd+ suite of apps for Usenet automation. Massive shout to Steve over @ nzb.su for giving us kind permission to hack the shit out of his article on nzb.su & sabnzbd+ integration. You know what it’s like. Your sitting in the office and someone [...]

XBMC’s default weather app/addon is pretty good. With the addition of Weather Plus we can improve on it in a couple of ways. Aeon Nox has the ability to display weather backgrounds based on current weather conditions. So lets do it, download a weather pack. The official one is here but I managed to find [...]

Well, I’ve spent a good few weeks now trying to get a decent pre-eden build of XBMC working on the Revo 3700. Without resorting to putting XBMC on top of a win 7 install. After messing around with some of the pre-eden add-ons that have been floating around for the windows builds it seemed logical [...]