Legendary Hollywood director Orson Welles was not a man to be trifled with and had no qualms in voicing his displeasure when a creative process failed to meet his expectations. So when he was handed a poorly-worded ad script for frozen peas, Welles let loose in one of the most impressive tirades ever caught on tape.
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The first full-length trailer for Captain America 2 has been released, and inside you’ll find no shares of the past. While “The Winter Soldier” was at first – for a very short while – suggested to be covering the World War II-era Steve Rogers, we’re set here in the not-to-distant future with mutants, S.H.I.E.L.D., and […]
Vine rolled out an app update today with two new features designed to help users shoot better video. According to the company’s blog post, Vine added features it’s calling Sessions and Time Travel — which are tools to save posts …
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NASA successfully landed six moon missions from 1969 to 1972 — and had one legendary failure
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Take your favorite TV spot, cut out all of the post-production effects, professional actors, props, CGI, production quality, and anything even resembling a budget. What do you have? This collection of unintentionally hilarious clips from director Tony Benna.
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The Apple event in San Francisco today was a big one in terms of just how much stuff Apple trotted out between software updates, pricing bombshells, and new hardware. The iPad underwent a makeover and lost some weight with the iPad Air, and the iPad mini stepped up to the big leagues with an uncompromising 64-bit A7 processor and Retina display. There were new Macs, too, and more details about the Mac Pro.
Apple also updated just about every piece of consumer software it makes, and all those updates were available today, and they were all free for existing users and anyone buying a new Mac or iOS device. That includes OS X Mavericks, the 10th and latest iteration of OS X, and the first major desktop OS update Apple has ever offered for free. Software pricing was probably the biggest surprise here, in terms of something that wasn’t leaked, but it’s a doozy in terms of throwing down a gauntlet for the competition.
It is the time of year when companies’ financial reports come in, and the most recent to dish out its numbers was Netflix, which has had a positive experience across the board. In addition to beating out most expectations analysts had for its third quarter, the video streaming service has achieved a new milestone, hitting […]
It’s difficult for many TV shows make it through a few episodes these days. Television networks in the US are always keen on ensuring significant viewership or they’ll axe a new show before it even has a chance to gain a following. It’s rare for a show to make it 15 or 20 years. It’s […]
This article was written on May 01, 2012 by CyberNet.
Yesterday we covered how to install new skins in XBMC, and today we are going to show you how you can customize the backgrounds skins use for each of the entries on the main home screen menu. When I hover over the movies menu, for example, mine will rotate through over a dozen photos that I downloaded of my favorite movies. You can tweak these settings directly from the XBMC interface, but I actually found it to be faster to change the settings in the appropriate configuration file. So I’ll show you both methods and you can pick the one you find to work better.
If you are looking for somewhere to get images for your favorite TV shows and movies, I recommend heading over to TheTVDB or TheMovieDB. Each has a vast selection of 1920×1080 backgrounds that can easily be downloaded to your machine.
In XBMC navigate to Settings -> Skin, and there should be an option related to backgrounds or backdrops depending on the skin you are using. Select the menu item you want to modify, and then choose whether you want to set it to a single background image or multiple images:
Now just save the settings, go back to the home screen, and you should see that the changes have already taken effect.
If you are updating all of the various menu items it might be faster if you work directly in the guisettings.xml configuration file. Before making any changes to this particular file make sure you close out of XBMC first. After that go ahead and navigate to your profile folder:
And then open up the guisettings.xml file.
Now you need to know what to look for. There is a lot of data crammed in the guisettings.xml file, and the setting names will change based upon the skin you are using. I’m going to provide the names you need for the Confluence skin (the default skin) as well as the Aeon MQ 3.
The portions of the XML file we will be looking for are going to be in this format:
<setting type=”string” name=”SKIN_MENU_ID“>FILE_OR_FOLDER_PATH</setting>
The SKIN_MENU_ID is what you’ll search for in the guisettings.xml file, and the exact name will depend on the background image you’re looking to modify:
Confluence Theme:
Aeon MQ 3 Theme:
Once you’ve found the one you want to update, then you need to put in the FILE_OR_FOLDER_PATH. As you might guess that is the path to a single image or multiple images (if a folder is provided). You can use files that are stored locally on the computer or any one of the remote protocols that XBMC supports, such as SMB, FTP or AFP. Here are some examples of what the paths might look like:
After you’re done making your changes you should save the file, and then start up XBMC. You’ll see the result of your hard work:
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