Cheap Media Centers, Smarter Notifications, and a Less-Annoying YouTube

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week on the podcast we're talking about building an amazing but cheap media center, upgrading your phone's notification system, and making YouTube less annoying. We're also answering your questions about BitTorrent privacy, converting audio files, sharing to-do lists, and playing loud music without annoying the rest of the world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to LifeHacker for August 23rd.
0:28.0	It is Thursday.
0:29.2	With me is Wittson Gordon.
0:30.8	Hello.
0:31.4	Adam Duchess.
0:32.3	Hello.
0:32.8	And I am Adam Pash.
0:35.3	We're going to be doing the same thing as always, running down some top stories and news,
0:39.0	answering some questions, delivering some downloads.
0:41.7	So let's jump straight into top stories.
0:45.7	Whitson, Monday, Tuesday, sorry, Tuesday, you posted about your new awesome $500 media center,
0:52.9	which may sound expensive on first blush for a media center
0:56.7	however this media center does absolutely everything everything so um we i think we all kind of
1:04.3	use different media centers just as a google tv fan past uses the the what is it 99 dollar apple
1:10.1	tv sometimes and yeah no i use i use a home-built one too
1:14.1	i just have both of them but but see it is you can make you can make these media centers really
1:17.3	cheap but all they really do is is play movies maybe netflix and some stuff like that and what i wanted
1:23.2	to do was was build something that could do everything it can play my home you know the movies that
1:28.5	i've ripped it can play netflix it can play hulu it can play any other streaming media i want it can
1:34.2	play video games from from old school video games to brand new sky rim on high settings video games
1:41.7	with my xbox controller and it rocks at it.
1:45.5	I built a few media centers over the years.
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