Binary Gamer | Digital Gaming Reborn

You may have noticed all the non Steam content has evaporated from the site, That’s because I have split the site and moved the media aspect to www.OzSource.com.au
binarygamer.com will now remain a Steam fan/info site just the way it has always really been.
What’s new at Ozsource AU?
Printable Home Theater signs and Logo’s
I came across this [...]

The Open Source Itunes killer, Songbird has just had an update.  Along with Foobar2000 it is probably the best free music player available.
New Features
Automatically Organise Library Files
Songbird can now automatically organise the files that are contained in your library. Once enabled, it will consolidate your media in one location. You can customise the structure of [...]

In a refreshingly to the point Internet Explorer 8 promotional stunt, Microsoft has buried $10,000 somewhere on the internet.  Be the first to find it and you keep it.
How?
Visit the IE8 $10,000 competition website and follow tengrand_ie8 on Twitter.
But you will never find it using old Firefox. (So get rid of it, or get lost)

To [...]

The Open Source XBMC fork; Boxee, has been going from strength to strength adding some new “most requested” features and also managing to get Hulu into the front end thanks to a unique legal workaround.  The new version is currently only for Mac platforms at this stage with Windows and Linux soon to follow.
Download boxee [...]

Digital Rights Management, you have heard the term used in many a negative sentence over the years but can it be done well?  Steam sets an excellent example on how to achieve near perfect DRM but how can this model be extended to all publishers?  Valve has kindly updated their Steamworks 2009 Brochure with a [...]

Until recently, using the PS3 as a HTPC device was a tedious and almost pointless affair.  Installing Linux was a possibility though restricting direct access to the PS3’s RSX GPU pretty much reduced the benefit of using a PS3 in this way.
Using software like TVersity was the closest you could get in turning the Playstation [...]

In our second Sourced article the spotlight is on the award winning XBMC Media Center.

What is XBMC?
Originally named Xbox Media Center, XBMC is now a full featured, award winning free and open source software media-player and entertainment hub for all your digital media.  I have been using XBMC since it’s transformation from xbmp (Xbox Media [...]