Tutorials

Kickass Hubs for Your DVR

You don’t want to get up and walk to your HTPC everytime the iPod needs syncing, right? A convenient USB hub located near your favorite seat is an elegant solution to the USB port problem.

Rock Classic Games on your DVR

Have a hankering for some Pac-Man, Mario or even the hallowed Street Fighter II? With Mediaportal’s My Emulators plugin, all your favorite classic video games are just a remote click away.

From PC To DVR In 3 Steps

Building your own DVR sounds like a job for a computer engineer, right? Try again. Even PC newcomers can put one of these together. In 3 steps, you can take a plain jane PC and revamp it into a working media center.

Make A Mac Mini DVR

Small. Quiet. Cheap. Damn good-looking. The Mac Mini seems to cry out, pleading to be made into a Mac Mini HTPC.
But are the Mini’s good looks only case deep? Is she worthy to sit next to your TV, pumping out music, videos, and more? Let’s find out…

5 Steps: Move A Show From Your DVR To An iPhone

So like millions of others, you’ve snapped up an iPhone. And you’ve just completed recording all of Season 3 of The Office using Mediaportal. Is there a way to move your lovely DVR recordings onto your even lovelier iPhone? You bet.