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Who doesn’t have a piece of hardware or two at home that hasn’t received updates in years but continues to do its job quietly in the background?! Aside from devices that appear in the news because they’ve been misused in bot armies, their usefulness is also hampered by the advancing technology they’re supposed to support. I’d like to share one such example today: A Western Digital MyBook Live NAS,...
The Xbox Media Center (XBMC), which evolved from several media players for Microsoft’s Xbox starting in 2002, was an early alternative to Microsoft Media Center—which could be optionally installed with Windows. Although it required a bit more configuration, it offered many additional features and codecs. With version 14 (Helix, March 2015), the project was renamed Kodi. It was...