Archive for November, 2009
Building your own Boxee Repository
We have dealt with creating your first simple application and with adding a third party repository to your Boxee setup. The next step is to put the two together to create your own Boxee Repository.
Your repository will list your applications and allow users to download new apps and updates that you release.
Setting up your own [...]
Adding a Repository to Boxee
Boxee provide a great feature called App Box that allows uses to add and remove apps to the Applications Menu. The really great thing about App Box is that it allows the user to specify which Repositories to search for apps.
A repository is basically a directory of third-party applications. Once a repository has been added [...]
Building your first RSS App for Boxee
In this post I am going to show you how to build your first Boxee Application. For now we will keep it simple. This App will use an RSS feed generated by Youtube (just like I used in my previous post, adding an rss feed to boxee)
The first step is to find the directory where Boxee [...]
Adding an RSS feed to Boxee
Over my next few posts I am going to explain a number of ways that you can get the content you love from the web into your Boxee media centre.
I will start with the easier ways and work up through building more and more complex Boxee Apps one step at a time. The first couple [...]
A Little Bit about Boxee
Boxee is a free, mulitplatform, media centre designed for the livingroom TV. Boxee is a fork of XBMC. Boxee adds a social element to the media centre, allowing users to rate and recommend content to friends.
An alpha version of Boxee is available to download from Boxee.tv. The beta version is due to be unveiled at [...]
Welcome to the new Nexthop.ie blog
Thanks for visiting my new blog.
Over the next few weeks I plan to add lots of new content. I will be starting off with a series of tutorials focused around building Boxee Applications.
For now you can follow me on Twitter.
Thanks for visiting and call back soon!
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