Quick update for Apple TV owners who heart Boxee. You can now update your Boxee Alpha release to the latest Boxee Beta via ATV’s Installer/Launcher, according to Boxee Blog today. However, if you’ve never installed Boxee using ATV USB Creator, download atvusb-creator from the project page and then follow these instructions to get Boxee up and running — just don’t tell Steve J. that you went AWOL from his walled garden, ’cause he might not like it.

Today Boxee is announcing the availability of a new internet content app powered by Redux, an online community where users promote the best photos, videos, and links found online and associate them to user-created niche channels. Some of the popular channels on Redux include: 110% Awesomeness, Best Music Videos Ever, Art, WTF?, Fail Moments, Top Gear videos. But what’s great about having a Redux application on Boxee, is that it allows Boxee users, especially those using Boxee on their TV, to discover and view/rate highly-rated, crowd-sourced content at the press of a button. In addition, the new Redux app offers up two viewing modes for your enjoyment: Standard and TV (fullscreen — shown below). MORE »

Yes, we’ve seen various ways to add a Boxee / Hulu Desktop launcher to Windows Media Center before — usually requiring the use of a menu editing tool. This time, however, we’ve got a script designed for Windows 7 Media Center that will do all the work for you and even make it so that when you exit Boxee or Hulu Desktop you’ll land back into Media Center. Just download and install the free/donation-ware Boxee / Hulu Desktop MSI files from Teknowebworks.com and you’re good to go. Enjoy! (UPDATE: XBMC launcher available)

We all got a preview of Boxee Beta back in December ‘09. Well, today it’s officially available to the public on all platforms (except Apple TV) — Windows, Mac, Linux. If your curious about what Boxee Beta is and how easy it is to setup and use, have a look Howcast’s latest video on the topic (attached below). And now for the really big news… Boxee’s Box graphics and processor specs have today been posted on the Boxee Blog. Drumroll… Boxee Box leverages NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 (T20) chipset which combines the graphics processor and dual-core ARM Cortex A9 1Ghz processor on a single chip (additional details @ AnandTech), thus making the Boxee Box an energy efficient HD video processing powerhouse capable of outputting 1080p video to your HDTV. What’s more, the Boxee Box will have full support for Adobe Flash. MORE »

The folks at Boxee are teasing fans with computer renderings of the remote they plan on shipping with the Boxee Box by D-Link. Being that the images posted are “first drawings [...] of Astro’s original idea,” it’s probably fair to say that the final remote will be slightly different — but we’re hoping not too much. Inspiration from the remote comes unabashedly from Apple’s 6-button remote, but with a QWERTY keyboard twist. UPDATE 1: Gizmodo has pics of the Boxee Box and Remote in the flesh direct from CES. UPDATE 2: Avner Ronen on the Boxee Blog says the QWERTY remote will be sold separately, but will also work with other devices (I’m guessing he means other computers) running Boxee.

Attached here are images of the upcoming Boxee Box set to be released in the second quarter of 2010. The 5-inch wide device will exclusively be manufactured by D-Link (model DSM-380) and offer HDMI (1080p capable), S/PDIF, composite audio out, Ethernet, built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, RF remote, 2 x USB ports, 1 x SD card slot, and, of course, the latest Boxee Beta software release which was unveiled this evening. Price: around $200. See the attached video below for a demo of the software in action. MORE »

One of the big problems with web, and web video in particular, is locating content. Google has done a great job of indexing web pages, but a fairly new startup called Clicker has set its sights on web video. Clicker bills itself as “one part directory, one part search engine, one part wiki, one part entertainment guide, and one part DVR.” The Clicker database contains more than 450,000 episodes, from over 6,000 shows, from over 1,200 networks, tens of thousands of movies, and 50,000 music videos from 20,000 artists. There’s even support for Netflix and Amazon VOD content! And now the service will be a part of Boxee’s core applications located in the App Box. MORE »

Wow, I think we might have a winner here. The folks at Myka have created a hybrid HD media player / HTPC that’s based on Ubuntu. The Myka ION provides a custom media dashboard that one boots straight into on top of a fully configured and optimized PC that supports Hulu, Boxee, XBMC, and other popular services. The Myka ION as the name suggest leverages the NVIDIA ION (9400M) graphic chipset with a power sipping Intel Atom N330 processor. In other words, it can handle full 1080p HD video with ease. MORE »

The folks at Boxee have put together a Dev Challenge that invites any and all programmers to submit innovative Music, Video, or Photo apps that leverage Boxee’s new, open API (deadline: June 14). The great news is that you can participate in the voting process from June 15-22 and even attend the main event on June 23rd in San Francisco (RSVP here) where judges will choose a winner from the 10 most popular apps in each category and announce the People’s & Judge’s Choice Awards. Additional details posted at Boxee Blog.

Obviously, the beauty of having an open API for a platform like Boxee is that anyone can develop an app for it and create a dedicated channel page in just a few hours. Being the case, Next New Networks jumped on the Boxee app bandwagon and created a dedicated channel for their well produced video blog properties — which I must say are pretty entertaining. Next New Networks distributes: Fast Lane Daily, Indy Mogul, Thread Banger, TMI Weekly, Channel Frederator, and few others. You can find the new Boxee app in: Video > Internet. [via]