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Boxee adds Pandora Radio and hints at the future. The open source media center application's Pandora feature is brilliant, and there's more in a new alpha.

Awesome Tweet: Peter Rojas says Flash coming to Android. The development house BSQUARE has been hired to port Flash to the Android platform.

Shifty answers from Microsoft at OSBC? Some of the company's answers to open source questions sounded like mumbo-jumbo.

Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind. Some people miss OS/2.

Launching a Linux startup: no funny business. Hackett and Bankwell is a series of cartoon manuals that teaches readers how to get started with Linux.

?Sun crams the Internet in a box. Three petabytes of archived web pages.?



Boxee Remote Arrives--for the Ultimate Open Source Couch Potato

If you've seen our coverage of the Boxee open source media center application and tried it, you know that one of the big benefits it offers is that you can break away from your computer when you want to watch online video content, and even enjoy it on a big screen. Now, Boxee is out with a remote control application for the iPhone, which is an available in the iPhone app store. For Boxee couch potatoes who have iPhones, this is a great convenience.


10 Free, Open Source Digital Entertainment Resources and Roundups

Most users of proprietary software arm themselves with arrays of digital entertainment applications, ranging from iTunes to Windows Media Player to RealPlayer. That's due to big improvements in the bandwidth everyone gets, attention from content providers, and more. The good news is that for open sourcers, digital entertainment applications have matured -- big-time -- for Windows, Linux and the Mac. Even if you use proprietary applications such as iTunes for music, or Windows Media Player for videos, there are many open source applications that can complement and add to your libraries, collections and players. You'll find 10 good roundups of open source digital entertainment resources here, and more than 50 total free applications.?


Hulu Content Back on Boxee--In a Roundabout Way

Last month, we covered the news of online video powerhouse Hulu's removal from the open source Boxee media center. Boxee has become a very popular and flexible media center application, allowing people to break away from their computers and watch online content on big screens with remote controls. It's especially popular for use with AppleTV. However, under pressure from large broadcaster content providers such as NBC, Hulu was forced to reluctantly request that Boxee remove support for it. In a blog post, Boxee officials lamented that Hulu was the most requested content provider on Boxee. Now, you can get Hulu on Boxee again. Here's how.


Open Source Media Center Apps Are Growing Up

Back in December, MediaPortal 1.0, an open source application that turns a PC/TV into a sophisticated media center and digital video recorder, arrived. Originally based on the XBMC project, version 1.0 was a nearly complete redesign, and has gotten quite a bit of notice, despite a few bugs. On March 15th, the folks behind MediaPortal plan to release a 1.0.1 version with usability improvements. Along with the Plex media center for Mac OS X (MediaPortal is Windows only), Boxee for Linux and the Mac, and MythTV for Linux, the open source community is pushing strongly into video and rich media content management. Here are some good resources if you're evaluating these media center apps.?