There has been an update to Paralles Desktop for Mac which bring support for new versions of Linux.
Airtight brings Airplay functionality to your Google TV.
It’s Airplay for your Google TV!
Stream videos and pictures from your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch directly to your TV.
If you discover any bugs, please contact us. We’ll be glad to help.
Notes:
– Mirroring is currently not supported
– Movies protected by DRM are currently not supported
– Music is not yet supported (but we’re looking into it)
This app is not affiliated with Apple in any way.
Martin has been in touch to say that he has released a public beta of Service Pack 2 for his Lights-Out add-in for both WHS v1 and WHS 2011.
Release Notes for Public Beta of Service Pack 2 for Lights-Out
A public beta is available for all user of Lights-Out on WHS 2011 and WHS v1. Please read these instructions carefully because SP2 introduces some functional changes.
Download
WHS v1 http://www.homeserve…r1.5.1.1618.msi
WHS 2011 http://www.homeserve…1.5.1.1618.wssx
Installation
Important: Always uninstall any existing version first!
Close WHS Console/Dashboard and download the beta version
Install beta and open WHS Console/Dashboard again
Changed handling of Gateways or Repeaters
Problem: Devices connected via a router (or a repeater or VPN gateway) are not visible to the Lights-Out network scanner because for each IP address we always get the same gateway MAC address. Manually added devices with fixed IP addresses sometimes lost the IP address because Lights-Out wrongly detected an IP address conflict and changed that fixed IP address to 0.0.0.0.
Service pack 2 addresses this problem with two changes: Manually added devices are marked with a “fixed IP flag” and are no longer changed to 0.0.0.0 on a conflict.
The second change is a new flag for routers (and repeaters or gateways). Setting this flag in the device properties (Lights-Out computers tab) allows Lights-Out to handle manually added devices with a fixed IP.
If you have a setup, where devices are connect via a repeater or router, assign a fixed IP address and add these devices manually in Lights-Out. Then run the network scanner and Lights-Out should automatically find and mark the router (or repeater/gateway).
User Action instead of Standby or Shutdown
Service pack 2 introduces a new user action. When you select “User Action” in Lights-Out settings, a new text box is displayed where you can enter a command file. The command or batch file can run several actions but must end with a standby or a shut down! You can use the internal shutdown.exe command or you can use psshutdown from the Sysinternals Suite. If you use psshutdown.exe then the first parameter has to be /accepteula, otherwise the command file blocks. Always use a zero time span to run the command immediately!
A standby looks like this:
psshutdown /accepteula /d /t 0
Other changes since 1.5.1 Build 1555
With the release of the new Mission Impossible film, Bad Robot Productions has released a really fun app for the iPhone called Action Movie FX that enables you to easily add cool special effects to whatever you might film.
Here’s how it is described:
Select a Scene like “MISSILE ATTACK,” film a target and ACTION MOVIE FX adds an INCOMING MISSILE AND ITS EXPLOSION right into your movie!
FEATURES:
• 2 FREE Big-Budget FX! MISSILE ATTACK & CAR SMASH!
• Sound Design By Skywalker Sound!
• Fast, Automated Video Tracking!
• Music, Sound FX and Lens Flares!
• Post to Facebook or Email to friends!
USES:
Look like an action star as you evade a massive CAR CRASH!
Direct a MISSILE ATTACK at that broken office printer!
**Post your videos to Facebook & show the world what you got!
GET CREATIVE! Shoot your movies at ANY SCALE – from toys to life-size!
ADDITIONAL FX FOR PURCHASE:
•CHOPPER DOWN & TORNADO ACTION BUNDLE
Unleash a TORNADO in any weather OR bring an enemy CHOPPER DOWN!
•AIRSTRIKE & FIRE FIGHT ATTACK BUNDLE
CARPET BOMB the bad guys, or RUN FOR COVER as they OPEN FIRE!
MORE FX TO COME – STAY TUNED!!!
Requirements:
• iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or 4S
• iPad 2
• iPod Touch 4th Gen
I had a lot of fun playing with this app – and it was very simple and easy – just point, and shoot!
For now the basic app is free and the two additional 2-packs are 69p each. Why not download this now and blow-up something fun!
Below is a quick video I shot using it:
Firecore today tweeted that an update to their Seas0nPass Jailbreak tools package for AppleTV, including the new iOS 5 untether is in the works and will be available soon.
This is what they tweeted today:
So no specifics yet, but stay tuned, we will bring you more when we know!
We have told you about the new Tranquil PC MMC-12 Media Center, and now you can order one, with a special £100 discount.
SPECIAL OFFER – for a limited period, save £100.00 on the MMC-12 – now only £649.00, normally £749.00
Created for the descerning media centre user, the MMC-12 is the ultimate in HiFi style media centres.
Cut from a single piece of aerospace grade aluminium, and then carefully hand finished to a superb soft textured satin finish – the MMC-12 exudes quality in every way.
There are no fans or other active cooling devices to disturb you, the MMC-12 chassis cools the CPU and other chips – resulting in zero noise (even with a 2.5″ spinning HDD fitted, the MMC-12 is silent).
Ideally suited to work with a Windows Home Server (where TV Recordings and other media files are stored). If you need local mass storage, why not consider hooking up to the SU unit, it’s a perfect compliment to the MMC-12 – you can then store huge amounts of data – the SU like the MMC-12 is a beautiful design (it’s almost silent too).
Use external USB tuners to suit your application – our use network tuners ie:
USB DVB-T2 (Freeview HD)
Network Tuners 1 2
If you would prefer to build your MMC-12 Media Centre with an i5 CPU, a secondary 2.5″ HDD, a BluRay drive etc , then please visit the build your own configurator for the MMC-12
Yesterday we told you about the new Tranquil PC MMC-12 Media Center. Now you can order the bare bones version with £100 off the price.
SPECIAL OFFER – for a limited period, save £100.00 on the MMC-12 BB – now only £278.00, normally £378.00
Created for the discerning media centre user who wants to build his own Media Centre – the MMC-12 is the ultimate in HiFi style media centres.
Cut from a single piece of aerospace grade aluminium, and then carefully hand finished to a superb soft textured satin finish – the MMC-12 exudes quality in every way.
There are no fans or other active cooling devices to disturb you, the MMC-12 chassis cools the CPU and Southbridge chips – resulting in zero noise (even with a 2.5″ spinning HDD fitted, the MMC-12 is silent).
Add your own 35W Intel 2nd Generation Core processor (choose a 35W version, ie the i5-2390T), RAM (DDR3 SODIMM) hard drive and operating system – and enjoy the beautiful silence and performance of your own Media Centre. If you need local mass storage, why not consider hooking up to the SU unit, it’s a perfect compliment to the MMC-12
Install your own preferred Media Centre application (motherboard drivers can be found here)
Use external USB tuners to suit your application – our use network tuners.
If you wish to purchase a complete and ready to go Windows Media Centre, click here.
Order yours from here
Apple’s annual 12 Days of Christmas continues, and for Day 2 it’s Top Gear.
You and your friends can download a fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps and books for free. Each download will only be available for 24 hours. Get our special 12 Days of Christmas app to make it even easier to access your gifts while you’re on the go. Don’t have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch? Don’t worry. Come back 26 December to download gifts from your computer.
You need to download the app and then each day for 12 days there will be something free.
I wonder what it will be tomorrow?
We told you a couple of weeks ago that Apple had finally released iTunes Match in the UK, and now that its out in a number of other countries as well Apple have published a number of guides, FAQ’s and videos telling you all about it.
With iTunes in the Cloud, the music you buy from the iTunes Store automatically appears on all your devices.1 And for music you haven’t purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution. iTunes Match is built right into iTunes on your computer and the Music app on your iOS devices.2 It lets you store your entire collection in iCloud, even music you’ve imported from CDs or purchased somewhere other than iTunes. When it’s in iCloud, it’s available on all your devices. So you can enjoy all your music anywhere, anytime — on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV.
iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to iCloud for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 20 million songs in the iTunes Store, chances are your music is already in iCloud. And for the few songs that aren’t, iTunes uploads what it can’t match (which is much faster than uploading your entire music library). Even better, all the music iTunes matches plays back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality.
Once your music is in iCloud, you can stream it to any of your devices. Just browse the complete list of all your music stored in the cloud. To listen to a song, tap the iCloud icon next to it and your song starts playing. You can store up to 25,000 songs in iCloud (more if songs are purchased from the iTunes Store), but only what you want to play is stored on your device. So you have immediate access to a huge music library without taking up storage space.
Learn more about iTunes Match here
Tranquil have just posted a small preview of their new Media Center PC – the MMC-12 and it’s thin – very thin!
The super thin (35mm), full width, silent, superb new Media Centre for 2012 is unveiled. The MMC-12, possibly the world’s best media centre, is coming soon.
More information when we get it.
B.J. from Intelisan has been in touch to tell us that their Windows Home Server add-in LDisk has been updated to version 2.0.0.5.
LDisk Windows Home Server Add-In adds iSCSI Target Storage capability to your Windows Home Server. Using LDisk, you can create a single appliance to provide all your storage and backup needs.
– iSCSI Target Storage for Windows Home Server
– IP SAN (Storage Area Network)- Block transfer
– iSCSI SAN interface over Ethernet
– Snapshot with schedules, revert, and convert to volume
– Fully protected data using SAN Volume duplication
– Supports all Internal or external drives
– Drive Extender for WHS 2011
– Storage Expansion through iSCSI for WHS 2011
Some of the changes in this version are:
Improvements in GUI:
1- Progress bar for iSCSI Expansion tab
2- Name changes: Snapspace management, Rescan Disks
3- Added Max size to Volumes create popup
4- More clear disk name, location, and status
Fixes:
5- To correct disk Add when all disks were not initialized
6- To correct mirror volume delete
7- Better error handling after disk failures
8- To correct GUI issues with no disks in the system
Apple has started it’s annual 12 Days of Christmas, and for day 1 it’s Coldplay.
You and your friends can download a fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps and books for free. Each download will only be available for 24 hours. Get our special 12 Days of Christmas app to make it even easier to access your gifts while you’re on the go. Don’t have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch? Don’t worry. Come back 26 December to download gifts from your computer.
You need to download the app and then each day for 12 days there will be something free.
I wonder what it will be tomorrow?
Along with showing off some screenshots of the forthcoming 1.5 software update for the Boxee Box, Boxee also released version 1.5 for the Mac, PC and Ubuntu, along with saying this version will be the last version!
This is what Boxee said:
As many of you know we have been working on new versions for PC, Mac and Ubuntu. Today we are releasing a version of 1.5 for these platforms.
You can find this new version of Boxee for Mac, Windows, and Linux below:
- Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
- Mac OS X 10.6+ (Intel only)
- Ubuntu 11.10 (32 bit)
As a platform, we have been able to bring Boxee for Computers to about 85% of the Boxee Box in terms of features and functionality. Due to extensive DRM and certification requirements premium apps will not be available on the downloadable version of Boxee, most notably Netflix, VUDU, and Pandora (click here for a full list).
However, if you are using Boxee for file playback you should be pleasantly surprised with better file support, a new on screen display, better networking support, and a host of other features you can read about here.
This 1.5 release will be the last version of Boxee for PC/Mac/Ubuntu. It will be available on Boxee.tv through the end of January.
We believe the future of TV will be driven by devices such as the Boxee Box, Connected TVs / Blu-Rays and 2nd screen devices such as tablets and phones. While there are still many users who have computers connected to their TVs, we believe this use case is likely to decline as users find better alternatives. People will continue to watch a lot of video on their computer, but it is more likely to be a laptop than a home-theater PC and probably through a browser rather than downloaded software.
To be honest this move to stop producing computer based versions of their software does not surprise me. There are so many set-top boxes, streaming boxes, smart TV’s, etc. out there that people are using actual PC’s less and less to watch content on their TV’s.
Today Boxee have posted some screnshots as part of a preview of their forthcoming version 1.5 beta.
This is what Boxee posted today:
Version 1.5 of Boxee is currently being tested by Boxee Box Early Access users and will soon be available in Beta. We plan to release 1.5 together with Live TV later in January. Here’s some of the new features you can look forward to on the Boxee Box…
Home Screen
We’ve added links to the standard menu to launch the Browser and Live TV (once you’ve attached the dongle). We also gave the featured section a small facelift.
Menu
The Menu is now more accessible, popping up as an overlay that lets you quickly navigate between different sections or search. we also optimized search to minimize the number of clicks.
Movies & TV Shows
We updated the layout of Movies and TV Shows for easier navigation by Genre and Source as well as providing quick access to trailers.
There is also a new Movie details screen with extended synopsis and cast & crew information. For TV Shows it is now much easier to jump between seasons and see which episodes you already watched.
Watch Later & Friends
We expanded the thumbnails in Watch Later & Friends sections and now let you filter between clips, TV Shows and Movies.
I’m looking forward to testing out the new version – we will let you know more soon.
