For anyone who has not heard of Boxee and you own either a Mac or an Apple TV, I highly recommend you download and install it.  Here is how Boxee puts it:

on a laptop or connected to an HDTV, boxee gives you a true entertainment experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Netflix, CBS,    Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr.

It is basically a software application that you can use on a Mac or an Apple TV to view all sorts of online content including:

• TED
• Netflix Watch Instantly
• Hulu
• PBS
• ABC
• NBC

The company (Boxee) recently made some news after Hulu cut off it’s access – basically blaming the content providers who provide their shows to Hulu.  I totally hear Hulu – and truly believe they have been fighting for their users accessing the site thru whatever means they want.

But it had led to a cat and mouse game of Boxee figuring out a workaround, Hulu blocking that, and so on.  And we think that Boxee has finally figured out a way to keep Hulu on their software for good.

You can read all about the details of what has been added and why Hulu is likely to stay at Lifehacker.com.

Regardless – Boxee is a very powerful tool for consuming online video content from whatever source you want. Highly recommended.

via Lifehacker

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