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It is time for the HTPC Guides Christmas giveaway, sponsored by LeMaker who have kindly donated a Banana Pi Pro to a lucky user. I've also purchased some MK808b Plus devices as second prizes. The winner will receive the LeMaker Banana Pi Pro unit, a case with space for a … I'm curious
Jackett lets you use additional torrent providers with Sonarr. It turns your home media server into a Torznab API server. Jackett enables searching popular torrent providers using Sonarr, the list of compatible providers can be found here. This guide will walk you through installing and autostarting Jackett with systemd … I'm curious
IPVanish is a great VPN service growing in popularity. IPVanish provides plenty of bandwidth to allow fast downloads while being secured with encryption for maximum privacy and anonymity. IPVanish don't keep any logs so they take your privacy seriously. This guide shows you how to configure OpenVPN with IPVanish on … I'm curious
Varnish is a refresh proxy that serves your WordPress lightning fast. Varnish will cache your WordPress site as compiled html pages so users avoid making PHP requests from the web server (Apache2 and nginx). It is very simple to set up WordPress Varnish cache on your VPS or dedicated server.… I'm curious
There are so many HTPC devices out it is hard to find devices that differentiate themselves. There are Android boxes all very similar but where it gets interesting is the devices running x86 of amd64 CPU architecture because it opens the possibility for multiple operating systems we are used to … I'm curious
The Orange Pi is a great media server or NAS . With a variety of models to meet any user's lower powered server needs, it runs Plex on its quad core processors. For these tests, I used loboris's images (the mini releases), I have a ready compiled one here for … I'm curious
BitCannon enables you to create a personal archive of .torrent files from KAT and other providers. You can search in its database, download torrent files as if you were browsing the torrent site but instead it is right on your own machine. The idea is that even if torrent sites … I'm curious