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Welcome to the 2010 Home Media Center Overhaul and Documentation Festival

November 29, 2010
Two kids fix a TV

Cyber Monday marks the arrival of my annual Home Media Center Overhaul and Documentation Festival. It’s the ideal time of year to revamp your home media setup because the high-profile markdowns on select items at your local Best Buy provides the perfect opportunity to identify must-have additions to your current setup, which will inevitably appear [...]

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Ingredients for a Mac home media center (or two)

November 30, 2010
TV in cardboard box

As part of my 2010 Home Media Center Overhaul and Documentation Festival, I’ll begin by summarizing the current components of our all-you-can-watch emporium. I’m actually documenting two media centers here: the main living room setup, and then a similar setup in the bedroom (albeit on a smaller scale, with no videogames). Hardware Mac Mini + [...]

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How to automatically organize your Mac’s bittorrents with Plex, Transmission, Automatic and Hazel

December 1, 2010

You may want to begin by reading this list of ingredients in our home media center setup. If you’re new to Bittorrent, this blog post isn’t going to make a lot of sense. Start by reading this 101 guide. Plex is Mac-only software that makes your home media center look — as David Drucker puts [...]

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Why on earth would you want to watch TV?

December 2, 2010

Blogging my incredibly elaborate efforts at The Perfect Tech-Enabled TV makes me conscious of all the people who are wondering why I care so much about watching TV in the first place. After all, most of my friends are highly evolved creatures who divide their time between meditating, cooking vegan meals and reading the latest [...]

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