In the coming week I will be providing my experience in building a Xbox Media Centre home theatre PC. Outlining the equipment/parts I used to overall performance, configuration and use. All I can say is look out WDLive and O’Play!   In the meantime whet your appetite on the following links: XBMC Sapphire AMD Fusion Motherboard/XBMC Aeon MQ3 skin for XBMC ReFocus skin for XBMC

Check out Apple and update your device today. With over 200 new features, the free iOS 5 Software Update takes the world’s most advanced mobile operating system and moves it even further ahead.

Here is an article from Josh Saddlers blog about his decision making process for either a building your own or buying a NAS device. In this article he reviews file serving types, filesystems, interface, and media serving capabilities.

A look at the new customized “Windows 8″ user interface. You can customize almost any thing in Windows 8. You have no limits! Preview of the Windows 8 metro user interface.  In this concept video, the author has updated from  Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 to the upcoming windows 8 as shown in the video by Microsoft. This mode has a tile metro start screen and other tweaks. Watch the video and look for yourself.

The next iteration of Microsoft’s iconic operating system will be optimized for smartphones and tablets. Too bad it may not be launched until next fall.