Roxio®, a division of Sonic Solutions®, the leader in digital media software, today launched Roxio Creator™ 2009, the latest version of the company’s market-leading suite of photo, video, and music authoring, burning, and online sharing applications. Creator 2009 introduces a range of pioneering audio features, integration of family-friendly online services, and advanced support for High Definition (HD) video. Creator 2009 also offers a streamlined workflow that enables consumers to complete a broad range of media creation, editing, sharing, and management projects more efficiently. Taking the guesswork out of evolving technologies and complicated formats and enabling users to take full advantage of all of Creator’s capabilities, Creator 2009 offers direct links to informative tutorials and how-to articles that provide guidance and creative inspiration. Roxio Creator 2009 is available today at www.roxio.com for $99.99 and will be introduced early next month in retail stores worldwide. MORE »

Lava Software is now shipping Kenbushi v7.4, their free digital media jukebox software which puts your library of movies, TV shows and music at your fingertips for easy browsing, fast searching and instant playback (video demo). Kenbushi can be used to manage and play media on a Mac or PC, sync media to all non-Apple portable media players, and convert any computer into a media center with Internet TV which connects directly to an existing TV or home theatre system. It includes a secure data backup system and easy file-sharing over LAN or Internet. Versions are available for Windows and Mac OS X (Linux version coming soon). MORE »

Orb Networks today announced that it has added support for Intel® Atom(TM) processor Z5XX series-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) to its award-winning media access service. Orb is making it easier for users of Moblin-based (http://www.moblin.org) mobile linux devices to find and enjoy content from their PC while on the go. MORE »

Got a Creston, AMX, or Control4 home automation system? If yes, iViewer from CommandFusion is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that lets you control your whole home automation system (control: lights, curtains, climate, A/V gear, etc.), as well as, a variety of PC applications wirelessly. But what’s even more incredible is that iViewer can be tweaked and customized to your needs using the publisher’s guiDesigner application (video demo). Pretty much anything you can think of creating a custom control interface for can be designed with guiDesigner (great for home installers and DIYers). [via]

Message from CommandFusion to automation system owners: To integrate iViewer into your home automation system, your system integrator will need to make changes to your automation programming. This means iViewer wont work until your system integrator has updated your system.

Yup, you read right. Melloware has created an iPhone client for their PC Intelliremote Server application that allows users to control just about any PC application (i.e. Windows Media Center, XBMC, SageTV, etc.) without line-of-sight. Of course, this is accomplished by iPhone and iPod Touch’s ability to network with a PC via TCP/IP socket communication over Wi-Fi. To get things going, users must download/install a copy of Intelliremote for their PC ($24), pick up the Intelliremote iPhone client from Apple’s App Store (FREE), and then point the client to the correct IP address and port configured by the server software. Note: Intelliremote provides 56 button actions, including the 48 standard MCE remote functions. [via]

Today, Embedded Automation announced its mHome Power Management Module. The mHome Power Management Module, which provides real-time energy usage information and control functionality, is available as an add-in to Embedded Automation’s mHome products, including the award-winning mControl Digital Home Software and soon to be released mPanel Digital Home Portal. Initially supporting the TED (The Energy Detective) energy monitor, the mHome Power Management Module will scale to support other power measuring devices and future technologies such as “Smart Meter” solutions. MORE »

HAI (Home Automation, Inc.), a leading manufacturer of integrated automation and security products since 1985, has announced it is now shipping a new software product called WL3 for Windows® Home Server (HAI Part Number 1112). WL3 is an Add-in for a Windows® Home Server that allows you to monitor and control your HAI Home Control System from any device with a web browser, such as a computer, PDA, Smartphone, BlackBerry™ , iPhone 2.0™, iPod Touch™, etc. MORE »

One of the major selling features of the Inteset media server has been its ability to store, search, and play back movies seamlessly within the Windows Media Center interface using the proprietary Movie Collection module. Inteset has offered this feature to its dealers for years and has now improved the capabilities by adding full Blu-ray support. In addition, movie profile lookups are simpler than ever. The system will scan the inserted DVD or Blu-ray disc to identify it, and then retrieve full profile information from Inteset’s all-new movie database. Lookups can also be performed based on UPC code and movie title. MORE »

Looks like people like the idea of being able to tap into their home music collection as well as their friends via their iPhone or iPod Touch. Simplify Media states that their newly released app is now listed in the Top 5 most downloaded free applications. Congrats guys! Unfortunately for us, the app was only free for the first 100,000 downloaders and has since been re-listed at $3.99. Below is a bullet point feature list of the app – requires installation of the FREE Simplify Media Windows / Mac / Linux desktop client application to work. MORE »

Many of you love your MythTV PVR, but one of the features that’s missing (well, not really missing but would be nice to have) is the ability to bring in Internet video content. Enter MythNetTV, a command line application that allows you to subscribe to your favorite video podcasts (RSS/Atom) and pull the latest content into your MythTV recordings menu (see screenshot). MythNetTV also has the ability to transcode video to your preferred format using MPlayer/MEncoder. All in all, it’s a great way to access new content through your familiar interface. [via]