Plex is a great media center for Mac OS X.

There seems to be issues with the combination of Plex and the new Snow Leopard release for Mac OS X.

In the Plex Forum there are a number of threads for Snow Leopard issues and workarounds.

The Plex homepage also states a official summary of the issues.

My experience is that some streams in the free App Store, like Joost for example, works fine and some of them, like SVT and ViaSat Play, are not working.

Lets hope for a new more stable release of Plex for Mac OS X 10.6.x..

Check out the App Store feature in Plex:

UPDATE to the Exchange integration:

By chance the Exchange server was upgraded today (!) and the integration from Snow Leopard to Exchange works like a charm!

I’m happy.

Here is a summary of my new Mac OS X version Snow Leopard. This blog post includes some thoughts on the new OS, applications I think are worth while to install on my Mac -which serves mostly as a memory/link list for myself and then some complaining..

I think it’s amazing to create a brand so strong that I can hardly wait for the next update of the OS -and the real treat is that I can read my e-mail seamlessly. What is even more amazing is that the mail integration doesn’t really work but I still think the new OS version is great. It is a bit faster and looks a little bit sharper compared to the prior version.

Having this said I’m sure there are great changes in the OS under the hood and my general experience with Apple to date is nothing but best in class.

UPDATE; exchange works!

The main feature I was looking for is seamless Exchange integration (for work). Unfortunately this didn’t work; so of course I’m disappointed. I guess I have to wait for the Exchange server to be updated to latest patches.

Some essential software to install; most of it is free or open source.

Firefox web browser

iStat pro widget for system status.

Tuna Pitch for easy tuning of my guitar.

VMware Fusion to run virtual Windows 7, XP and Ubuntu (Linux).

Adium for instant messaging.

Skype.

Spotify for my music.

Nicecast for streaming Spotify to my Squeezebox.

Photo library management.

Seashore photo editing; a light open source variant of Photoshop.

Tweetdeck for Twitter scanning.

iWork ‘09 with Pages, KeyNote and Numbers.

Plex for Internet media streaming and media center features.

Handbreak for video transcoding.

JollysFastVNC for remote screen-control of my Linux media server.

Did I miss anything?

VMware Fusion is a virtualization software for Mac. It enables you to run Windows (Office) or Linux within the OS X and without any restarts or compromising the fantastic Mac functionality.

VMware released an updated beta that supports Aero in Windows 7. It looks good!

OpenGL support is still not working in Windows 7 through the Beta 2. VirtualBox is supporting OpenGL.

Sign up for the VMware Fusion Beta program here.

The Windows 7 Release Candidate free download is available throughout August.