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Amazon Fire TV software update makes finding your apps easier (even sideloaded ones)

Amazon is rolling out a software update for its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices, and while most of the changes in software version 5.0.5.1 are bug fixes, there is one new feature designed to help you get to your apps more quickly. The new software lets you jump straight to the My Apps […]

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Kodi media center fork SPMC for Android is back (and may eventually be your only option)

Kodi is a popular, open source, cross-platform media center application that started its life as XBMC, a project aimed at turning the original Xbox game console into a media server for your TV. These days Kodi can run on all sorts of devices, including Linux, Windows, and OS X computers as well as Android and […]

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Kodi media center gets a new look with new default skins for Kodi 17

Kodi is a cross-platform media center application designed to make your media look good on a TV that’s 10 feet away. Plug your computer into you TV, fire up Kodi, and you get a remote control-friendly user interface for navigating your music, movies, photos, and online media, among other things. But Kodi doesn’t offer just one […]

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Cross-platform media center Kodi 16 released

The developers of popular, cross-platform media center Kodi have released version 16. While a lot improvements in the new version are technical, there are a few things you might notice. For example, there’s better support for 4K displays if you’re using Kodi on an Android device. There are improved tools to let you stay up to […]

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Lilbits 311: The Samsung Galaxy View 18.4 inch tablet cometh

The Samsung Galaxy View is expected to launch sometime this month, and while Samsung still hasn’t officially unveiled the 18.4 inch tablet, SamMobile happened upon some promotional images that give us a pretty good idea of what to expect. We still don’t know the price or the official launch date though. Here’s a roundup of […]

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WeTek OpenELEC Box is a $91 Kodi media center

OpenELEC is a Linux-based operating system designed to basically run one app: the Kodi media center. You can install OpenELEC on a PC to turn your computer into a multimedia device with a full-screen user interface for watching movies, streaming online video, listening to music, and performing other tasks. Now the folks behind OpeneELEC have teamed […]

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Kodi 15 beta 2 released with better support for Android

The latest version of the Kodi media center application adds support for 4K video playback on select Android devices, features better support for storage on Android devices, and includes a number of other bug fixes and improvements for Android, Windows, Linux, OS X, and other platforms. Kodi 15 beta 2 is also the first release of the app […]

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Alternatives to Windows Media Center (Make your own Home Theater PC)

Want to turn your PC into a digital video recorder and media center box? For more than a decade Microsoft has made that by offering Windows Media Center. But when Windows 10 ships in the summer of 2015 it won’t include Media Center. The good news is that there are still some good options available […]