![]() Media screens include a sidebar (which you can hide) that let you do things such as view photos as thumbnails or in a list filter movies, TV shows, and music by genre and search for specific hunks of media within that category-all your Michael Jackson music, for instance. When you select an icon at the top of the Home screen and press Return, you’re taken to a screen devoted to that kind of media. Boxee’s developers have set out to change that by making it easier to move from place to place within the interface while maintaining a graphics-rich environment. Plex’s hierarchy-focused interface is both functional and beautiful, while portions of Boxee’s interface were ungainly. And when they do, Boxee’s interface generally comes up short in comparison-and rightly so. Plex, another XBMC-based media-center application. Those who revel in Mac-based media-center applications are prone to compare Boxee to ![]() I’ve had an opportunity to play with the new Boxee for a week and these are my impressions. With that consideration comes a reworked interface, consolidation of local and Web-based content within that interface, more content, expanded social networking options, and big plans for the future. Boxee is now open to all and has matured to the point where its developers consider the Mac, Windows, and Linux versions worthy of the “beta” name (a beta version hasn’t yet been developed for the Apple TV). XBMC, was available only to the invited and bore the “alpha” label. ![]() Boxee, the social-media-centric media-center application based on the open-source
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