Version 2.0 of the XKCD app brings only one new feature and it’s a great big one. This release brings the xkcd ‘Archive’, the entire back catalogue of over 700 comics, going right back to the 1st one ‘Barrel – Part 1‘. Now you can view every comic that was ever made, on your TV.

Feature Rundown

• Using left and right on your remote/keyboard you can flick through all the comics one by one.
• As there’s over 700 comics, these don’t all get downloaded all at once (you’ll be glad to know). The comics get downloaded in batches of 10, so you’ll notice a small pause, and the working dialog appear, every 10 comics viewed.
• There’s 2 buttons in the top right that allow you to skip to the very 1st or very latest comic.
• It’s in beta for now as there’s a few kinks and improvements required.

Now the bad news, for those of you that already have the xkcd app. There’s a bug in Boxee that means that this update wont appear for you automatically. The good-ish news, is there’s a workaround. If you already have the app in ‘My Apps’ in Boxee, remove it from ‘My Apps’ and then re-add it. For anyone that is new to the xkcd app, you’ll just get this version 2.0 of app. Please give your support and vote up the bug to get it fixed. Thanks.

To get XKCD in Boxee add our repository http://dir.greatboxee.com in repositories under Apps.

XKCD is an award winning webcomic from Randall Munroe, a former contractor for NASA. The comics feature stick figures and subject varies widely but the tagline pretty much says it all “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language”.

What’s Coming Next For XKCD

• I’d like to get it to use the player so people can recommend and rate the comics but I gave up in the end it, couldn’t get it to work. Although I think it looks quite neat without.
• I might have to do some work with scrolling if the comic height is quite large. I’ll see how they are as they turn up.

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To get XKCD in Boxee add our repository http://dir.greatboxee.com in the App Box.

Welcome to Great Boxee and our first app. Great Boxee hopes to create some apps with UK content, to try and even out the balance between the US (they’re great, I just can’t watch most of them because of my UK geographical location) and UK apps and for purely selfish reasons too. Well that’s the plan but to start off with here’s our first dev app offering.

DimeCasts

Being a .NET developer I’ve watched many of their vids at work (during lunch times of course). What makes DimeCasts unique from other developer teachings is that they all come in under 10 mins*. You know you should watch these other vids but I just have a huge list of TODOs for watching vids but you never get that block of time to watch them. This makes it great for the big screen because the boss girlfriend is never going to allow you to hog the TV for an hour while you watch something on Mocks aren’t Stubs. So when you get 10mins to yourself you can kick back on the couch and be educated in 10mins before you have to do your next chore.

What’s Coming Next for DimeCasts

• Play the better quality screen-casts – the wmv files might be better quality.
• Display all the vids, probably by Tag/Subject Eg ASP.NET, Unit Testing, etc.

Want anything else? Leave some comments. Ta.

To get DimeCasts add our repository http://dir.greatboxee.com in the App Box.

* Mostly