XBMC Home Theather - All the Media in the World with an "Open Source" Home Theater solution

Please click here or on the image above for more information about XBMC.  

XBMC is an amazing, open source home theater software that goes beyond simple "media management: offering functionality to not only all of your stored media (purchased videos, music, photos) and online accounts (e.g. Yahoo! Amazon Prime), but providing you a centralized platform to discover media (movies, TV shows, music, and much more) providing access to content all over the world. 

Device Support*

XBMC support installation on a wide range of devices, from PC to MAC, to Android and iDevices**. I have copied the list of supported devices from the XBMC.org website. 

Click here or on the image above to be taken to the XBMC.org website. 

Installation and Configuration Instructions

After Installing, and configuring XMBC was once a bit more complicated, with the nearly endless array of options and add-ons available.   Now, thanks to XBMC HUB WIZARD which provides a very simple, quick utility to install the most popular add ins. 

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Tech Tip: Need to Visualize Your Hard Drive for Cleaning it Up or Maintenance?

Visualizing Your Hard Drive

June  13, 2013 (Originally Posted)
Ever wonder where the files taking up your hard drive? Recently I began wondering after I found myself frustrated that I had filled up nearly the entire terabyte on my laptop, and having lost the cord to my 2T external... :-)I started thinking... how difficult is it in this modern world to figure out where your large files are?  I mean, we know the files that we don't want to delete are usually stored (pics, videos etc) but to have to go to each folder on the computer and to view the size, I figured there had to be something better, figured that it had to be "visual" and did some digging.

I will be adding this to my TOP TIP category...  check it out! 

Click here to read a review by tech a writer who reviewed Graphical Hard Drive Interface programs that can help you "road-map" your hard drive, so you can make freeing up your hard drive (and your life)... a little easier. 

My Recommendation:  WinDirStat: Windows Directory Statistics - WinDirStat (WDS) is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows. It shows disk, file and directory sizes in a treelist as well as graphically in a treemap.  It's fairly simple to use, and get's the job done! 

Website for WinDirStat:
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