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- Boxee comes to Apple TV
- USB flash drive creator released
- Install XBMC Media Center on Apple TV
- Apple TV + iPhone = Ultimate geeky car audio system
- Boxee to launch Linux version today
- Today Remote app, tomorrow…
- New Jaman Movies will not work on JamanTV player
- Apple TV 2.1 is now available
- Boxee mini review
- Boxee on Apple TV?
- Hacking Apple TV without a patchstick?
- The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV
- WWDC 2008 - what about Apple TV SDK?
- ATVFlash - playing fair?
- New bootloader to boot Linux
Wednesday October 1st, 2008
Boxee comes to Apple TV
From Apple TV Hacks, 5 days ago,
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Boxee, an open source media center with a focus on UI and social networking is now available on Apple TV!
Boxee will play any non-DRM content, and let users share information with each other and their existing social networks about what they’re watching or listening to. It will also aggregate all your entertainment (video, music, images) [...]
USB flash drive creator released
From Apple TV Hacks, 5 days ago,
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The atv-bootloader team have today launched atvusb-creator, which creates USB flash drive based installers that include patchstick, factory restore and various Linux distributions.
This version is comes with ssh, bin tools, and two plugins (XBMC for Mac and Boxee for Mac). That’s right, two full blown OSX applications with their own AppleTV plugin to launch and [...]
Install XBMC Media Center on Apple TV
From Apple TV Hacks, 5 days ago,
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XBMC, an open source, cross-platform media center is no installable on Apple TV. XBMC supports a very complete spectrum of of audio and video multimedia file formats and codecs right out-of-the-box.
With the built in features and third party plugins, this really is a flexible media center. You can find out more on how to install [...]
Saturday August 30th, 2008
Apple TV + iPhone = Ultimate geeky car audio system
From Apple TV Hacks, 1 month ago,
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If you ever wanted to prove your geek-cred to your friends what could be better than using your iPhone as a graphical remote for your car stereo.
Nels Johnson has done exactly that, and has posted the details for how to do it yourself at his site http://www.quickanddirty.tv/.
We’d point out that you should probably have [...]
Tuesday July 22nd, 2008
Boxee to launch Linux version today
From Apple TV Hacks, 2 months ago,
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Andrew Kippen of Boxee has just informed me that the long-awaited Ubuntu Linux version of Boxee will finally be made available for download today at boxee.tv
Like the OS X version of Boxee, the software will be released as an alpha version. So please keep that in mind.
By the way, if you are working on porting [...]
Friday July 18th, 2008
Today Remote app, tomorrow…
From Apple TV Hacks, 2 months ago,
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By now, you are probably having fun using your iPhone/iPod Touch to control and view media on your the Apple TV with the help of the Remote app. And what a neat app it is.
Now that Apple has shown us what could be done with the iPhone SDK and the new Apple TV 2.1 [...]
Tuesday July 15th, 2008
New Jaman Movies will not work on JamanTV player
From Apple TV Hacks, 2 months ago,
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Jamie Odell of Jaman just informed me that some new movies from the service will not work with the current JamanTV player on the Apple TV. These movies fall under the license policy of 30 days to click play and 24 hours to watch after you click play. (Sounds familiar?)
Anyway, they are working on a [...]
Thursday July 10th, 2008
Apple TV 2.1 is now available
From Apple TV Hacks, 2 months ago,
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So you’ve been dying to use your iPhone/iPod Touch to control your Apple TV? The previous hacks were just way too hard to follow? Well, wait no more. Go do yourself a favor and download the latest software.
Apple TV 2.1 not only supports the newly-launched MobileMe service (well, actually just the Gallery feature), you can [...]
Thursday July 3rd, 2008
Boxee mini review
From Apple TV Hacks, 3 months ago,
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Ever wish that Apple could have done much better with the Apple TV user interface? I had high hopes for it but I have to say I was a little disappointed. The thumbnail view of videos was nice but that floating text menu is quite unsightly; it is so un-Apple-like.
Apple should have consulted [...]
Monday June 30th, 2008
Boxee on Apple TV?
From Apple TV Hacks, 3 months ago,
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Have you tried out Boxee yet? If not, I encourage you to get on their alpha list. You might be able to get in and experience this remarkable social media software.
Based on Xbox Media Center, Boxee not only organizes and plays your local media flawlessly, it also has many web-centric features like streaming [...]
Friday June 20th, 2008
Hacking Apple TV without a patchstick?
From Apple TV Hacks, 3 months ago,
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Wouldn’t it be nice to update your Apple TV with the latest hacks/plugins all without opening it up or using the troublesome patchstick? What if all this can be done by just clicking on the “Update Software” option from the Apple TV menu.
In theory, it is entirely possible. And it will be quite a breakthrough [...]
Friday June 13th, 2008
The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV
From Apple TV Hacks, 3 months ago,
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Josh Lee is not a typical kind of guy so why should his Apple TV be like anybody else’s? Why settle for a 40GB traditional hard drive when there are solid-state drives out there that run faster, quieter and cooler?
And that was exactly what Josh did. He replaced his clunky old 40GB hard [...]
Monday June 9th, 2008
WWDC 2008 - what about Apple TV SDK?
From Apple TV Hacks, 3 months ago,
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iPhone, blah, blah, iPhone, GPS, 3G, iPhone, blah blah.. , Enterprise support, push email, games, blah blah blah. iPhone…
OK, we get it.
Jealous? Yep.
Wednesday May 28th, 2008
ATVFlash - playing fair?
From Apple TV Hacks, 4 months ago,
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By now, you probably have seen quite a bit of coverage of ATVFlash, a patchstick sold by Apple Core LLC to help ease the installation of plugins like Couch Surfer, Media Cloud, nitoTV and many others. The patchstick is sold for $59.95.
I am all for entrepreneurship. People are entitled to charge whatever they want for [...]
Monday April 28th, 2008
New bootloader to boot Linux
From Apple TV Hacks, 5 months ago,
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Scott Davilla of the atv-bootloader project has informed me that a new bootloader for Apple TV to boot Linux is now available. With this version, kernel patches to the EFI are no longer required. Also, atv-bootloader can now boot Linux from any mass storage device (including external USB device).
For more information on this, [...]