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andy herbert has created an xbmc widget that enables os-x users to drag and drop links onto the widget, which then gets played back on an internet connected xbox running xbmc. check it out here thanks andy! xbmc forums discussion

maxconsole interviewed some of team xbmc members. in this interview you get to know that linksboks will be added to cvs after 2.0.0 has been finalized. you also learn that darkie plans to add even more feature’s to xbmc! (shocker) read interview here and here’s the forumdiscussion digg it!

2006 sourceforge.net community choice awards we won! thanks to you – our users, xbmc won best multimedia and also best game(!) category. prize: ‘bragging rights’ and the logo on our projectpage. and while i have your attention, we are in need of assistance to get our wiki manual “up to speed” for…

as you may already know, xbmc (xbox media center) is currently in a feature-freeze and bug-bash stage. we just now heard that we have been nominated for two categories in 2006 sourceforge.net community choice awards. these are the first annual sourceforge community awards; vote for osd (open source…

ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. we are happy to announce that we have once again put the official xbmc cvs into a feature freeze and thus our third official public bug-bash has begun. this is the first step in the process of getting ready for another ‘stable’ point release of xbmc. the cvs…

the day many of you have been waiting for has finally come; xbmc’s built-in dvd-player core is now officially open to the public for general usage. the new dvdplayer-core, which a few of our developers have been working on for almost a year has been enabled in our cvs and is of today the default…

2005-05-15 milkdrop was added to xbmc cvs. nullsoft kindly opensourced this awesome visualization 2005-05-04, and then it was just a matter of time until one of our devs ported it ;) here’s a screenshot captured using our built-in screenshot function, showing one of the 435 .milk presets currently…

quote from chokemaniac.net: i’ve come a long way :) many things happened in the past 12 months. when i started this site, i only wanted a couple of screenshots of the project mayhem skin and a download button. but critikill made soo much more out of it. thanks a lot out to you bud. hope your current…

the contest is now over. we would like to thank all who contributed in one way or another. the standard was very high, and we are really impressed with what you guys came up with. the 5 winners were easy to choose since 5 people entered the contest. each of the winners receive an x2vga-adapter each…

from chokemaniacs website: “it’s finally online. the new project mayhem website. it was about time to give it a general facelift. think it turned out pretty good. there’s plenty of new stuff to check out. new skins, updated gallery, news archive, wallpapers and much more to come. the man, who put…

from arddrive of xform.xbox-scene.com: “hi everyone, arddrive here at xform. i am please to announce that xform [an xbmc skinning tool] is now open source and i am looking for .net c# programmers to help work on xform to work on custom objects and fun stuff like that (you will need a good knowledge…

yesterday, an article with the headline “xbox enthusiasts uncover its versatility” (by daniel greenberg) was posted in the washington post technology section. the article basically informs its readers of the potential in unlocking the xbox to install xboxmediacenter, which makes the versatile xbox…

in an interview yesterday with cnet news.com bill gates outlined multimedia playback as one of microsoft’s primary goals with xbox 2; quote: “this whole story of the windows media connect and how all the formats and rights management and that simple media center menu that’s just got tv, photos…

neoya inc. (makers of the best vga-adapter for the xbox) has kindly donated 5 x2vga+ adapters to the xboxmediacenter project for us to run this screen-saver development competition. the purpose of this contest is to develop new screensaver plugins for xbox media center (and extend xbmc’s screensaver…

apologies for the somewhat delayed news post, by now you’ve probably already heard that we’ve added a major update to our cvs. support for the free multiplayer online gaming service xlink kai has been massively improved. amongst many new features, it has a voice chat function (using team-avalaunch’s…

we have had this idea in mind for a while and were planning to kick of this campaign at a later date but after a recent post in mplayer-dev mailing-list we have decided to bring forward the announcement. the ‘donations for dvd-menu in xbmc campaign’ basic concept is to encourage xbmc end-users to…

xbmc 1.1.0 final point release source code has now been set in our cvs! once again we felt that we had been holding off doing any official release candidates for so long that we now consider the current xbmc cvs to be as stable as a point release should and could be, so we decided that we were ready…

news story from xbox-scene.com: received news from arddrive who has been working on xform (previously called xbmc-skinner), a win32 tool that will allow you to easily make skins for xboxmediacenter: “i know you have all been waiting a long time for xform but the beta release will be coming this…

team-xaddons (addons.com) have officialy announced a generic lcd-mod (adds a parallel and a spi-bus interface to your xbox) and a lcd-con (lcd-connector board) xbox-mod add-ons. the lcd-mod has several pin-headers and sockets to ensure compatability with a wide range of console versions and mod…

we are happy to announce that we have now once again put the xboxmediacenter cvs in a feature freeze and our second official xbmc public bug bash have begun, which is the first steps in the process of getting ready for another stable point release of xbmc. the cvs feature freeze stage implies that…