January 12, 2012
Boxee fans – it’s over. There may be more fun to have with the Boxee Box, but Boxee on the desktop isn’t coming back. It’s time to find something else if you have a computer hooked up to your television. We should have seen it coming. There was an entire year between updates for desktop users, during which things continued to break.
December 29, 2011
If you are a user of Boxee on your home computer, I have some good news and some bad news. I will start with the good news, after all, we all enjoy the happy stuff. They have issued a major overhaul to the service with their latest update. It changes nearly everything about the user interface. The home screen is new, the main menu is new, they added rotten tomatoes ratings, and so much more.
August 12, 2011
Boxee may be best known for its media center, but that’s far from all D-Link has been up to with the brand. Today the company has released a free iPad app to flank the Boxee software that it already offers to PC, Mac and Linux users. The new app, much like the media center, is designed to offer an all-in-one interface that can handle your online video needs.
March 2, 2011
Browse thousands of TV shows, movies and podcasts from one interface, and keep track of your favorites. Navi-X, a plugin you can add to XBMC and Boxee, brings a variety of content from around the web to a single interface you can easily browse from your remote. A content aggregator made up of user-contributred playlists, Navi-X [...]
February 3, 2011
Get access to lots of live streams from across the web, all without picking up a keyboard. StreamFree is a Boxee plugin that aims to make live streaming more accessible from your couch. International news addicts no doubt already know about Boxee’s LiveStation plugin, which gives users access to a plethora of international news stations. [...]
December 15, 2010
After perusing our must-have Windows apps page, a plucky MakeUseOf reader emailed us suggesting that we put together a list for both Windows and Linux users. When I originally switched from Windows to Ubuntu I was very interested in these cross-platform apps. After more than 10 years loyalty to Bill’s operating system, I had built [...]
November 27, 2010
There’s nothing worse than a program losing features, so it’s understandable that Boxee users are upset about Hulu’s latest outage in their favorite media center. Lucky there’s an easy fix. The enthusiastic community over at the Boxee forums found a way to get Hulu working on Boxee, at least for now. By masking Boxee so [...]
October 9, 2010
The upcoming Boxee Box has the tech world buzzing. Will this startup, armed with the power of open source, be able to compete with Google and Apple’s offerings in the TV marketplace? I think so, mostly because of the many amazing things you can make Boxee do. Don’t believe me? Try it out. You don’t [...]
March 10, 2010
Boxee users who also love to play their favorite retro games using emulators have wanted this for a long time: a way to launch ROMs using Boxee’s slick, remote-based interface. With some regularity Boxee’s enthusiastic users will ask about the possibility of a game launcher for their favorite games , including ROMs and native applications. [...]
January 26, 2010
These days, buying a decent plasma is often a lot more expensive than building your own media center. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, a media center is basically a PC that’s focused solely on media playback. Check out our PDF guide on how to set up your own [...]
