There is a new Media Center system for Linux users called Plasma Media Center. It’s from KDE the graphical desktop for Linux and is built on KDE’s Plasma and KDE technologies…

I have an OrigenAE M10 HTPC case which has a SoundGraph IR/VFD unit – Model: VF310 15c2:0036. This is the LCD display on the front of the HTPC case. Before…

Skype have released version 4.1 of the Linux version of the Skype client. This version follows the Windows and Mac version with Microsoft account sign in and you can instant…

The OpenELEC team have been working towards releasing OpenELEC 2.0 for some time now and today the final version has been released. OpenELEC is an appliance type build of XBMC…

I have become a bit of a fan of XBMC due to it’s cross platform support especially the Raspberry Pi. There are lots distributions of XBMC available and one that…

The OpenELEC team have released beta 7 of version 2.0 of OpenELEC the embedded XBMC media center application. This build fixes issues with networking and Samba shares. You can download…

Skype have released version 4 of the Skype Linux app. The pervious version 2.2 beta was pretty limited so its good to see an update for Linux. You can get…

We chatting about the Raspberry Pi on the recording for this weeks podcast (out tomorrow) and I mentioned that I found every time I got my Raspberry Pi setup 100%…

As we are featuring the Raspberry Pi at the user group meet up I have been reaching out to some other tech communities and on Saturday I visited the Blackpool…

Since getting the Raspberry Pi I have been doing a lot of work with OpenELEC an embedded Linux build of XBMC and today they have released beta 4 of version…