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Welcome sponsor: Weather Underground

Dec 10, 2011

You may have noticed that for the past few weeks the Weather section of XBMC has become unable to provide updated information due to our default weather provider moving to a fully fee-based API. A brief scramble ensued, and the change provided the kick-in-the-pants we...

Feature Friday: Hidden HTPCs

Nov 26, 2011

For this week’s Feature Friday, we decided to go a bit different in our theme. Rather than focusing on one setup, we decided to pull together as many setups as we could under a common theme, where the winning entries would receive a Pulse Eight USB CEC Adapter or a...

Photo Challenge: Contest Closed

Nov 25, 2011

Community Updates

Quick update: That does it folks! Thanks for your several dozen submissions. Just a quick glance tells me this is going to be a difficult one to judge. Looks like the non-busy members of the Team have some work to do.

Photo Challenge: Hidden HTPC - Update

Nov 21, 2011

As many of you know, we’ve set a challenge for this week’s Feature Friday for you to submit your best hidden HTPC. At present, we’ve already gotten quite a few entries. Keep those coming! We’d just like to update with the announcement that now we can confirm the...

Don’t Look Up

Nov 19, 2011

Thanks to some unexpected freeing up of time (and more news unrelated to Feature Friday), we are happy to announce that Feature Fridays are back on the menu. As always, if you have a setup you’d like featured, feel free to send it in to natethomas AT xbmc DOT org (also...

OpenELEC 1.0 released

Oct 26, 2011

Community Updates

Team XBMC would happily like to congratulate Team OpenELEC on their release of v1.0. OpenELEC, for those who don’t know, is somewhat similar to XBMC Live. The basic concept is that the user interacts with XBMC without once having to visit a non-XBMC screen. The...

One Network to Rule Them All

Sep 24, 2011

Let’s talk about brilliant user Jon from Florida. Jon has two things going for him. First of all, he started using XBMC back in the glory days when “XBMC” wasn’t a recursive name for XBMC Media Center. Second, he doesn’t do things half way. When he decided to install...

A Call for XBMC writers

Sep 19, 2011

Community Updates

As you may have noticed, our blog has often been lacking in content, outside of the occasional Feature Friday. We would like to change that. Starting right now, we will begin accepting applications for up to five XBMC writers. The pay is terrible (i.e. you will not get...

Neat and Clean… and Swedish!

Aug 27, 2011

If you’re looking for clean lines and an elegant use of color and lighting, one need look no further than the living room of Nik from Sweden. Nik's Place Nik was one of the very first people to post his setup on the XBMC Facebook Fanpage . Ever since then, after...

August 2011 Hardware Guide

Aug 16, 2011

As time goes by, it becomes more and more evident that an incredibly expensive computer is not necessary to run an adequate version of XBMC. In fact, assuming you have a server somewhere else in the house that hosts your media, the cost of running XBMC on a modern...

Feature Friday: 24 Terabytes of awesome

Aug 6, 2011

This is Micah’s gaming PC. Gaming PC says hi Often, Micah will play a few quick hours of Star Trek Online with his gaming PC. Naturally, this means he needs some serious processor power, which is why the PC is equipped with a Core i7 3.06GHz quad-core processor and a...

Feature Friday: XBMC Pres Jonathan Marshall

Jul 16, 2011

This is Jonathan Marshall. He’s a New Zealander and the president of the XBMC Foundation, and right now he’s standing in his crawl space. You may note the lack of a floor in his house. Jonathan Marshall in his 2 feet deep basement Jonathan has been with the XBMC Team...

Feature Friday: Pure Imagination

Jul 9, 2011

Hold your breath Make a wish Count to three Where the Magic Happens Come with me to the home of Lutz, one of our Germany XBMC users. Lutz’s home doesn’t have a bat cave or any other kind of man cave. There are no super creative touch screens or repurposed upstairs...

What’s Going On: Solstice Edition

Jun 22, 2011

As it’s been a little while since the Team’s taken a look around the community, it seems high time to do just that. TV Logos (extra credit if you can name all 5 shows on the screen in the comments) First off, chances are, if you’ve used a modern skin that isn’t...

And without further ado…

Jun 17, 2011

A bit over a month ago, Team XBMC started a mascot contest that resulted in a 49 page thread in our forum, so many amazing Mascot contestants that we had to push back the results to get the best vote we could within the team, and quite a few new avatars and forum...

Contest results delayed - just a little

Jun 14, 2011

Hey all, this is only a brief note. As you know, we are currently hosting a contest for a new XBMC mascot, and the results of that contest were supposed to be finished and announced today. Unfortunately (or fortunately), our community went absolutely above and beyond...

Feature Friday: XBMC, easy as 1-2-3

Jun 10, 2011

For this week’s Feature Friday, we turn to AJ Perkins of the UK. AJ has a pretty awesome living room setup, but this week we’d like to take a break from just telling you about how awesome the various homes of users are. Instead, I’d like to ask you to bring a loved one...

Feature Friday: Spending Money to Save Money

May 20, 2011

Jon Barrow is married with four children. An average trip to the movie theater for a family of that size would require two $10 tickets, plus four $8 tickets. That’s $42 $52 before the candy, popcorn, and soda. Most times, they have to leave the youngest with a sitter,...

Reporting from LinuxTag

May 14, 2011

We have been attending LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany since wednesday the 11th. As always it has been a great experience and we have meet a lot of interested people, both current users and hopefully new users. As you can see, we have been pretty busy demonstrating the...

Feature Friday: Doubling Up Halfway Around the World

May 6, 2011

A US service member was living in Great Falls, MT. When the military reassigned him to a base in Turkey, he was met with the unenviable task of trying to squeeze all of the home theater equipment that easily fit is his old house into a much smaller military home...

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Server Issues

If you’ve tried to download XBMC, update an addon, or download a new addon over the past few days,...

Introducing the new Add-on Website

XBMC is a comprehensive piece of software in its own right, but what really gives it power, is the...

Platform Statistics: October

XBMC runs on many platforms and everyone has their favourites, but ever wondered which is the most...

XBMC DevCon 2013 LiveBlog

Good morning, Germany! This live blog is intended to keep users up to date with DevCon...

Beers, Users, and Devs Night

We apologize for the late notice, but for those of you in the Munich area we finally have a date...

The New XBMC Website Look

After quite a lot of hard work, we are very excited to present to everyone the new and improved...

Google Summer of Code Students

As of yesterday, all of those who applied for Google Summer of Code should have gotten their...

This Site is the Only Official Source of XBMC Software

A few months ago, some of you may remember that a number of news sites wrote articles under the...

Students Time to start applying for GSoC

Hey all you students, now is the time to beginning applying to work with XBMC on your favorite...

Google Summer of Code 2013: Students, Get Ready!

We are excited to announce to everyone that we have been accepted as an official GSOC 2013 mentor...

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