there will always be some emergency that comes up, but I see a lot of home owners that lost their homes, because they were told 'real estate never goes down in value', and borrowed on them like a personal ATM with second mortgages and did upgrades and all sorts of things and when the housing market crashed, not only…

or you save up for the home improvement, and use straight cash...and not be burdened like a lot of home owners were before 2007 using their house as a piggy bank and watch their house drop in value and then being in a double hole.

well I was not having any success trying to get out debt, until I did the focus thing Dave Ramsey preaches, which got me motivated to continue and finally got me out of debt.

I am not sure I agree with these views, when you try doing multiple things at once nothing gets accomplished. I know I was struggling to pay off debt doing this, then I was introduced to Dave Ramsey with his debt snowball and baby steps which basically tells you to focus on one item(pay off debt, minus mortgage and…

completely agree, watching Oompa Loompas is almost as bad as scratching your fingernails on a chalkboard.

go to xbmchub.com and you will see that XBMC does things that Plex will never be able to do(mostly for legal reasons). Most of them are kind of questionable for legality, but it shows why XBMC is such a strong HTPC platform.

I would suggest the Pivos XIOS DS, which is an official XBMC sponsor, if you are looking at a media center box. They are a tad over $100 dollars and will play any media files you can throw at it.

XBMC, if you have the patience setting up MySQL, works very well for multiple XBMC devices and keeps your libraries in sync. The only downfall, not setting it up on a Roku anytime soon though.

I will say I use both since both have their strengths and weaknesses, (Plex, much better with streaming video and sharing itunes libraries, XBMC, much better plugin support and more customizable HTPC interface).

Not sure if this has been noted in the comments. For the iOS app, I would suggest over the one recommended in the article, instead I would choose the official XBMC remote. It is a free app and the developer is great about putting new functions in the remote to make it better, and it has both an iPhone and iPad…

I am actually using both, but I do prefer XBMC over Plex, but both do have their strengths over the other I will give you that. I am using the PleXBMC XBMC plugin so I have access to my Plex content in XBMC.

I prefer XBMC, because not everything thing has to be scanned into the library, you can just link folders, while Plex requires scanning all your library to have access to it. Also XBMC has a quite bit more for plugins(some questionable for legality) than Plex does.

Since I have started using two monitors, I had a day I had one of my monitors stop working and was forced to use only one monitor and I felt handicapped. I am not sure if I am more productive, but I know I cannot go back to working with one monitor and feel as efficient.

ugh....318 apps on my iPhone 5, I guess maybe I need to read the "breaking your app addiction" article.

Cool, thanks for the tip. I will try this when I get home from work.

I was searching around, and I think it does work with NextPVR(from their forum posts). Thanks again for posting this great article, the reason I keep coming back to Lifehacker.

I have the Mohu Leaf antenna, and easily the best antenna I have used. I had two other antennas before this and I had to move them a certain direction to get certain channels, and with the Leaf I have not had to do that.

I was looking to do a windows machine and use NextPVR, and more interested in taking that route, if it was possible. Don't really feel like stringing another cable across my room to do this with a TV tuner card.

I also got two extra jobs and basically did nothing for 10 months, I had my "I've had it moment", and I was willing to sacrifice life for a short time to pay everything off. It was not easy, and I extremely hated not having a life, but the punishment I went through for the short 10 months, will teach me never to…

Can anyone confirm if you can use a HD Homerun(not the prime version, just the antenna version of it) to replicate these results, instead of using a tuner card?