We received a very nice external drive unit from OWC (Aka macsales.com). It is the Guardian MAXimus RAID 1 drive enclosure. You can order either just the enclosure itself or with a variety of drive sizes. The unit holds two drives and sets up a mirror between them. Mirroring across two drives ensures your data is still accessible if one of the drives fails. It is also kinda fun watching the synchronized drive activity lights when dumping large amounts of data onto the unit.

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Originally an app for a Hacked Xbox (original), some hard working hackers have brought the XMBC (Xbox Media Center) to the Mac as a replacement for Front Row. Feature full and works with the Apple Remote too..

XBMC For Mac: XBMC Turns Your Mac into the Ultimate Media Center

You don’t have to mod your classic Xbox to run the best free media center application around anymore: Dedicated developers have ported the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software to the Mac, and its killer features will convince you to abandon Front Row forever. The latest XBMC on OS X beta dropped last week, and it’s as stable and useful as ever. Dubbed the “throw out your Xbox” release, XBMC for Mac 0.5 beta 1 adds the key feature that finally puts your media center Mac under the TV where it belongs: remote control support. Let’s take a look at how you can (and why you want to) replace Front Row with XBMC on your Mac.

Well I have a brand new Chat Room via IRC available 24X7 to all TMUP Listeners. You can log on to the server right here from the web site. Just look on the left hand side and you can join in right now. Or you can use any IRC Chat client like Colloquy which is free.

You can also use the web-version here. So here is a new place for you guys to hang out. Thanks to Steve Riekeberg from thinstack.net for providing the server.