I’ve used Netopia’s Timbuktu for almost 10-years to remotely control both Macs and PCs. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked well enough, was easy to set-up, and delivered decent performance. Over the years, the program has started to show its age and updates have been far and few between. The last update, over a year [...]

As I mentioned before, BeyondTV has a decent plug-in community. One of the best has to be AutoXvid. It’s a plug-in that will automatically scan and cut commercials from your recordings and then convert them to Xvid format. Or, only do one of those tasks. I only have it cut the ads. If I want [...]

It’s been a couple of weeks and BeyondTV is still running strong. I’ve added MediaPortal to the mix. Snapstream has their own media product called Beyond Media, but it’s old, buggy, and not being updated. MediaPortal is free and has tons of functionality. I use it mostly for Movies, Weather, Trailers, and Pictures, but it [...]