I was hoping all you gHacks readers could help me out with some feedback on one particular topic; Music jukeboxes. I have written up my thoughts, but I would genuinely like to hear all your opinions.
I’m sure we all have our favourites, so I would love to hear exactly what it is that has made [...]
The Complete Media Player Review (Part 1)
Media Converter
Online media converters have several advantages over their software counterparts: They do not bog down the system and do not require software to be installed on the local computer. They are usually also easily accessible and convert media rapidly due to servers in the background that are used for the process.
One of the best, or [...]
Songbird – the extendable Media Player
The great thing about Firefox (sorry, one of the great things) is that by being open source other developers can use the code as a starting point to create their own more specialised browsers from.
Flock is one very good example and I’ve written about it on gHacks before. Songbird is another, and I have only [...]
5 Great Media Center Extenders
Windows Media Center really is quite a decent application to use for media management and Microsoft doesn’t get enough credit for the steps it’s taken to establish the PC as the home entertainment hub.
One of the lesser known features of WMC is that quite a large number of third party plugins are available, and I’ve [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 25th, 2008
- Comments: None
Amarok – The music player
Martin posted back in December about switching to a tripple-boot, having XP, Vista and Linux on the same machine. I myself installed Ubuntu a while ago and am recently switching near full-time to it. One app I really love is Amarok, one of the media players in the repositories.
Amarok is just like any quality Linux [...]
Geexbox Linux Distribution to play multimedia
I’m currently still using my old Microsoft Xbox as my media center and it’s working fine so far but I do have thoughts about the future. The Xbox will not last forever and the new Xbox 360 cannot be modified to do the same yet. One alternative that I investigated was building a computer for this purpose and I’m almost sure that I would use the Geexbox Linux distribution as the operating system.
Download songs, videos, and images with DownloadHelper
Thanks to Martin, I was introduced to Orbit Downloader and its nifty little assistant Grab++. It has helped me immensely to save certain files to my hard drive. However, not everyone uses Grab++ so how would you manage to perform the same functions without it?
The answer is the Firefox extension DownloadHelper. This was one of [...]
