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The Nexthop.ie Boxee Repository

The following Apps can be added to your Boxee install by adding http://dir.nexthop.ie to your repository list:
League of Ireland TV – 1.0 – “Videos from loi.ie”
Movies.ie – 1.0 – “Interviews from movies.ie”
Irish Music Television – 1.0 – “Videos from irishmusictelevision.com”
Balcony TV – 1.0 – “Daily videos from balconytv.com”
RTE Radio Podcasts – 1.0 – “Listen to [...]

Posted by daniel on January 18th, 2010

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Boxee Beta Unveiling

The Boxee Bata was unveiled last night in New York. I have to say it looks slick. I know we were promised improvements in the UI, but it looks completely different. I can’t wait to get my hands on the beta and give it a test run.
Also unveiled was the new Boxee Box by D-Link. [...]

Posted by daniel on December 8th, 2009

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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 [...]

Posted by daniel on November 30th, 2009

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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 [...]

Posted by daniel on November 26th, 2009

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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 [...]

Posted by daniel on November 26th, 2009

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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 [...]

Posted by daniel on November 19th, 2009

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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 [...]

Posted by daniel on November 19th, 2009

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