Archive for the 'multimedia' Category

Sonos adds Aupeo streaming music service

June 15, 2011

Sonos recently added Aupeo’s music service to its streaming audio players. Aupeo, a Pandora-like service, offers an impressively wide range of music genres, subgenres, moods, and personalization features.
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Boxee v1 for PC, Mac, Linux due this Fall

June 13, 2011

Boxee CEO Avner Ronen has tipped plans for an upcoming update to the Boxee software for PC, Mac, and Linux desktops. Ronen says the update will bring the free Boxee A/V player more into sync with what’s available on D-Link’s Boxee Box device. Although, the downloadable Boxee software for desktops will continue to lag behind new releases of Boxee for devices, he notes.
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Aupeo review: great music, disappointing app

June 1, 2011

Aupeo, a Pandora-like music streaming service, has just rolled out its first smartphone app for iOS and Android devices. Although its wide range of music, genres, subgenres, and preference-tuning features are impressive, Aupeo’s eye-candy-rich smartphone app is frustrating to use.
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What’s inside the Boxee Box?

May 28, 2011

Ever wonder what’s inside that unusually shaped D-Link Boxee Box? iFixit has published a pictorial Boxee Box tear-down, so now you don’t need to disassemble your own device to find out.
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Setting up network shares on the Boxee Box

May 28, 2011

A comprehensive post on Boxee’s user forum provides tips for setting up and troubleshooting network shares on the Boxee Box. The thread, started by Boxee engineer Dan Conti, is one of the top resources for learning how to setup and trouble Boxee Box network shares and currently has over 300 comments.
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