Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Plex Nine Released along with iPhone and iPad Apps

Plex, the popular Mac-fork of the XBMC project released their long-awaited version nine today.

If you have a Mac and a desire to make that Mac be a Media Center, you’ll want to check out Plex.  Plex is a very nice Mac-based HTPC software program that continues to have a healthy amount of software updates as well as plugins and themes as well.

Plex nine brings a completely revamped media server that makes things easier to use and setup.  Many, many additional features have been added as well so head over to PlexApp to get the download and run through the complete changelog.

Another important, new capability of Plex is it’s new iOS apps.  There is now an iPhone and iPad app available that lets you use your iDevice as a remote AND even stream your media over your wireless network to your devices. This is

Crunchgear has a nice first-look video that includes a hands-on with Plex Nine as well as the Plex App for iPhone & iPad:

 

via Crunchgear and the Plex Blog