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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Visiting the XBMC website you’d be forgiven for thinking that there are only builds for Windows, Linux, IOS, Live and ATV. Theres is though another way. “Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center, or OpenELEC for short, is a small Linux distribution built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a complete XBMC media [...]

****Monday 29.08.11 – Article Retired. Icefilms currently workin in xbmc on both www and vds sites**** Had a quick look at the Icefilms addon this morning after Mrs Arnie failed to watch Project Runway (shame) lastnight. We are currently using version 1.0.11(Modified) which was aquired from the xbmc forum. I think this is uptodate. The [...]

OMG not a fucking Star Wars post. Slow day at the office is it? Well frankly, yes! So, big fan of the original trilogy, hate te re-imagineering Lucus has performed over the years and loathe the new movies. There, my cards are on the table. However when I saw the first movie way back in [...]

Stumbled on this while trawling through the plugins thread on the xbmc forum. Written by gpun “Furk.net is a file-sharing site with one unique feature – BitTorrent proxy. You upload a .torrent file – you get a direct http link. “ Intrigued, I then found and article on torrentfreak.com (incidentally a very good site, worth [...]

Due to a stock error I now have surplus stock of Radeon HD5450 cards and I passing the savings onto yoooooouuuuu! Last year in work we bought 2 Radeon HD4350′s of which I promptly stole one. Nice little cheap PCI-e cards. The model I have is an ASUS. In work we have a lot of [...]

Yet another in what is becoming a long list of what I’d consider to be essential plugins. Install it out of the box from the XBMC.org repo. A great addition to our usenet PVR setup. XBMC Library Auto Update will update your movie (and or music) Libraries at regular intervals. Thats it. No bells or [...]

Now Heres a good scraper for getting your movies in order. Written by Mortstar and living in his repo (see our repo guide here) this script has a wealth of settings including, for us brits BBFC classifications. Which is a nice addition. It will also average out a films score across both sites, also a [...]

It’s Thursday, which means it must be wallpaper day. This will be the last in the xploitation series unless anyone has any suggestions. OK so this first one isn’t exactly sexploitation. It’s just porn. I’ve included this because Debbie Does Dallas was the first and by far the best porno I’ve ever seen. “ohhhh Mr. [...]