Xbox Apps

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1. Xbox Media Center

   By iBotPeaches

   Xbox Media Center
    
   XBMC, recursive acronym for XBMC Media Center, is an award winning free and open source software media-player and entertainment hub for all your digital media.
   Multi-platform, Internationalized, and Localized
    
   XBMC is a cross-platform software available for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Microsoft Windows operating-system, as well as the original Xbox game-console. With translations to over 30 languages for a worldwide audience. All versions of course completely free of any adware or spyware.
   
   XBMC for Linux XBMC for Mac XBMC for Windows XBMC for Xbox XBMC Live
   Community
   Over 50 developers have contributed to XBMC, and over 100 translators have worked to expand its reach. XBMC was created by created by a group of like minded back in 2003. XBMC Community Forum today have over 30,000 registered members, nad XBMC had already an estimated userbase of over one million daily end-users when it was only running on the the Xbox platform, and now that XBMC runs nativly on several other platforms as well we estimate that that the userbase have growed exponentionally.
    
   User-friendliness that is Next To Godliness
   XBMC is easy to install and setup, and its many beautiful custom user interfaces offers simple very intuitive navigation which are very convenient and flexible, adding to great price verses performance ratio when installed on cheap hardware to this best in class software. With and experience surpases all retail media center systems.
    
   Superb Format and Codec support
   XBMC supports a very complete spectrum of of audio and video multimedia file formats and codecs right out-of-the-box, and include features such as playlist playback, audio visualizations, picture viewing, slideshows, and weather forecast functions, RSS feed scroller on your home screen, together with a ever expanding array of community driven third-party add-ons and plugins.
    
   Endless playback capabilities for All Types of Media
   XBMC can play most audio and video file formats as well as display images at resolutions up to 1080p FullHD and over with no software limitation from virtually any source, including
   your local harddrive, CD/DVDs, USB flash drives, the Internet, and network shares, up-scaling any lower resolutions videos to the maximum of your displays capability. XBMC can also playback DVD-Video movies with menus from ISO/IMG-images on-the-fly, even when they are in an RAR or ZIP archive. For music playback XBMC offers ReplayGain, gapless,
   crossfading, cue sheet, and pre-amplification playback option, as well as advanced smart playlists, and chapter support. XBMC can download or stream Internet video
   and audio streams, and play Internet radio stations (such as Podcasts and SHOUTcast), and listen to your favorites and discover new music with free, streaming music from Last.fm, among others. XBMC of course handles all common digital picture formats with the options of panning/zooming, and slideshow with Ken Burns Effects. XBMC also handles CBZ and CBR comic book archive files, this feature ets you view/read, browse and zoom the pictures of comics pages these contain without uncompressing them first.
    
   Online Powered Media Management
   XBMC has a database driven video and music library view modes which help organize and filter all of your media straight out-of-the-box in. The video library allow you to easily browse your video content by things like; genre, title, year, actors, and directors, as well as carry our extensive searches on casts and related information. Similarly, XBMC music library allows the
   organization of your music collection by information stored in your music file ID meta tags, like title, artist, album, genre and popularity, as well as having access to powerful search and Smart Playlists features, helping you find exactly what you want in a fast and simple way.
   Album and Cover Art
   XBMC takes full advantage of broadband Internet connection if available, Artwork is automatically fetched for posters, artwork, fanart, synopsis and reviews on movies, plot, cast and episode information for TV shows, also album covers and artist information for music.
   Extendable and Flexible Add-ons
    
   XBMC features a Python Scripts Engine and WindowXML application framework (a XML-based widget toolkit for creating a GUI for widgets) in a similar fashion to Apple Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets and Microsoft Gadgets in Windows Sidebar. Python widget scripts allow normal users to add-on extensions with new functionality to XBMC themselves, using the easy to learn Python scripting language, without the need for knowledge of any complex programming languages or the inner workings of XBMC. Current plugins and scripts include a multitude of added functions like Internet TV and radio streams, podcasts, movie-trailer browsers, and cinema guides, e-mail clients, instant messaging, train-timetables, peer-to-peer file-sharing downloaders, IRC, also casual games (sometimes also referred to as mini-games or party-games) such as Tetris, Snake, Space Invaders, Sudoku, and much more.
    
   Fully Skinnable and Customizable Interface
   XBMC is noted and highly regarded as having a very flexible GUI toolkit and robust framework for its GUI, (now also proven by the fact that several other software projects have copied it). Users can create their own skins, or choose one of the many already available skins. XBMC uses a standard XML base, making theme-skinning and personal customization very accessible to everyone. Users themselves can create their own skin (or simply modify an existing skin) and share it with others via public websites dedicated for XBMC skins trading. Colors, controls, navigation, positioning of elements, animation, even adding additional functionality can be achieved with a skin. Project Mayhem is the official skin from Team-XBMC; which is now in its third version, commonly know as PM3. Many third-party skins exist and while many are of original and unique designs, a few skins are almost exact replicas of other multimedia software, with skins clones of Apple TV and Front Row, Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition (MCE), MediaPortal, Meedio/MeediOS, HDeeTV, Kaleidescape, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and others. Each skin provides a totally different and unique user experience, all showing just how flexible XBMC's skinning engine really is.
    
   FOSS (Free Open Source Software)
    
   XBMC Media Center software is distributed as open source under the GNU General Public License, (with a few sub-libraries licensed under the LGPL), and as a non-profit project XBMC is run and developed by volunteers in their spare-time without any monetary gain. Team-XBMC encourage anyone to contribute to the project, submit their own source code patches for new features and functions, improve existing ones, or fix any bugs in XBMC that you might find.
    
   Technical Summary
   XBMC is written in the C++ program language (and some Assembly code), XBMC uses the SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) multimedia framework and OpenGL for graphics rendering the Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows based operating-system platforms, and the Xbox version of XBMC uses Microsoft DirectX multimedia framework and Direct3D for graphics rendering, (as the Xbox does not support OpenGL).
   

   728 downloads

   Updated January 22, 2011

2. 

   SID 5.1 (SoftMod Installer for xbox 1)

   By iBotPeaches

   Softmod Installer Deluxe is a program designed for the Xbox Console, to unlock the full capabilities of your Xbox. It’s similar to what a Modchip would do, except there’s no hardware required.
    
   This program will allow the Xbox to run programs and code which are unsigned by Microsoft, which means that made by normal people at home instead of the big game companies who will send their code and programs to Microsoft to be properly signed. With SID installed on your Xbox, you can easily run programs like Linux, Xbox Media Center, and a large variety of other Applications and Emulators. Auto-Installer Deluxe is recommended to be used with this, because it has been designed to work alongside this system.
    
   The History of Softmod Installer Deluxe
    
   The original SID 1.0 was written around January 2005, mainly for the fact that I was performing a Softmod on a friend’s console (which was a 1.6 Xbox and didn’t like to run Linux Applications for the obvious reasons). After that didn’t go to well, I decided to write my own, trying to avoid using any Linux Applications that would not be friendly with the newer consoles.
    
   Version 1.0 was put together, and from memory had lots of bugs. Version 2.0 was released very shortly after and was a stable release, using the Phoenix BIOS Loader (PBL) System as the exploit to hack the Xbox.
    
   In March 2005, Version 3.0 introduced the NKPatcher exploit, which is a lot newer, and a lot smarter. It had the capabilities of blocking the console from going on to Xbox Live, therefore saving the console from being banned due to having a hacked console. The PBL system was still included, mainly for the fact that PBL can be used to turn the console into a Debug (Development) Xbox, which is handy for home developers. This version also focused on dual-booting, which allow the user to have two ways to boot the Xbox, either with the Power on Button, or the Eject button on the DVD. Around December 2005, version 3.1 was completed, which is the most current version of this type of exploit.
    
   Around this time, the AID / SID team was approached by a developer named Nknave, who was interested in working with the SID team in developing a new exploit. This came around, and in February 2006, version 4.5 Nknave Edition was released. This is an NKPatcher only system, which worked two ways. It would block Xbox Live when running unsigned code and applications, however it had a dual boot which would allow a user to put in an original Xbox game and still be able to play on Xbox Live.
    
    
   Features
   
   Softmods your Xbox using the NKPatcher exploit.
   Allows you to backup your Eeprom.
   Allows you to backup your C Drive before and after modding.
   Single or Dual Boot installations.
   Allows user to play Original Xbox Games on Xbox Live.
   Installs EvolutionX or UnleashX as a dashboard.
   High Definition Patch available for the user to apply.
   Allows user to remove the softmod.
   
   NOTE: The install PDF is included in the download.
    
   That PDF should help a ton, if not here is the post regarding SID 3 (outdated)
   Tutorial for SID 3
   

   1162 downloads

   Submitted May 18, 2009

3. 

   LinksBoks

   By iBotPeaches

   Full internet browser built for the modded xbox.
   
   Easy and quick user control via pull-down menu in both text and graphics mode, in 25 languages.
   HTML 4.0 support (without CSS)
   HTTP 1.1 support
   Tables, frames in both graphics and text mode, builtin image display in graphics mode
   Builtin image display for GIF, JPEG, PNG, XBM, TIFF in graphics mode
   Anti-advertisement animation filter in animated GIFs?
   Javascript support with full user control over script run
   Bookmarks
   Background file downloads
   Automatic reconnection in case of TCP connection breakdown
   Keepalive connections
   Background (asynchronous) DNS lookup
   48-bit high-quality image gamma correction, resampling and * Floyd-Steinberg dithering in all color depths.
   Font resampling (antialiasing) for virtually unlimited pitch range, LCD optimization of fonts and images.
   Builtin fonts in the executable without reliance on any fonts installed in the system
   User-adjustable menu, HTML font size and image zoom factor.
   User-adjustable display gammas (red, green, blue), viewing-condition correction gamma and precise calibration of both monitor and Links on a calibration pattern
   Screenshots
   http://ibotfiles.com/files/linksboks2.png
    
   http://ibotfiles.com/files/linksboks3.png
   

   537 downloads

   Submitted May 12, 2009