Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Apple TV Updated

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Last week in the midst of the iPhone 3G release, apple snuck in an apple tv update as well. Here's what's new: Changed .Mac to Mobi...
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Getting Started with ATV Hacking

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For those of you just joining us, there is a fairly involved process for hacking an apple tv that requires you to make a special boot drive ...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Play YouTube Videos on ATV

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The big news this week is the release of xdog's plugin "A Series of Tubes" which is able to play youtube videos from the Apple...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

XBOX Media Center (XBMC) headed for Apple TV

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An extremely interesting post was put up on the XBMC forums earlier this week. Two developers from XBMC have set out to port XBMC to Linux! ...
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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Applications Menu on ATV

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Someone has posted a new plugin for the Apple TV that adds an Applications menu to the interface. From this menu you can launch other apps s...
Saturday, May 5, 2007

Launching 3rd party apps from the ATV menu

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Lots of people have talked about being able to do this, but so far I have not seen it done. We need to create a plugin that will launch anot...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Patchstick Working - Unlocks ATV in minutes

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I was finally able to get my patchstick working last night using the instructions on the AwakwardTV Wiki . It's actually a lot easier th...
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Apple TV Emulators

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Pretty simple hack to accomplish. Just enabled shh. Then VNC, AFP and USB. Then installed Nestopia and Emulator Enhancer. Easy only because ...

Apple TV IR Port Hacks

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Hackers have begun to exploit the IR port of the Apple TV. Currently they have created a keyboard driver that emulates the IR sent from the ...
Saturday, April 7, 2007

Apple TV Dual Boot

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This weekend the hackers are trying to fit multiple Operating Systems on the little Apple TV. Arodd on hackint0sh forums is reporting that...

Apple TV RSS Reader

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centic has released a frappliance for the Apple TV that will read RSS feeds. This is great work so far. I'm curious to see the source c...
Monday, April 2, 2007

H.264 Hardware Encoder

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Oh what fun we can have with something like this: ElGato h.264 USB encoder stick. I don't see any plugs on it, but I'm guessing it h...
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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Modify the Apple TV Menu

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EricIII has released ATVFiles which adds a 'Files' Menu to the Apple TV Default Interface. The files section can be mounted to an N...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Bounty $ for Installing Asterisk on ATV

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AppleTVHacks.net has put out a $500 bounty for the first team who can successfully run asterisk on the Apple TV. Asterisk is a complete IP ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Hack the Apple TV without opening the case

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It's still a work in progress, but Quangdiggity on the Awkward TV wiki is compiling instructions on how to install SSH on your Apple TV...

Apple TV OS running on Macbooks

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I'm not sure why anyone would really want to do this, but you can run the Apple TV OS on a macbook, and probably any other intel mac by ...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Helpful Commands for Apple TV Hacking

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Unload Watchdog (should put this in a startup script) kextunload -v -b com.apple.driver.AppleTCOWatchdog Disable Ripstop: (part of watchdog)...

HOWTO Convert DVDs to Apple TV format (h.264)

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Mike spent 8 hours yesterday figuring out the correct settings needed to convert DVD's to be played on the Apple TV. He is using the sof...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

HOWTO Open the Apple TV to access the Hard Drive

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So your ready to void your warranty and start hacking your Apple TV? Make Blog has detailed directions and photographs on the process of tak...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

HOWTO Enable SSH and AFP on Apple TV

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Jonathan Bare's Guide to installing SSH on the AppleTV : Step 1 Firstly, copy the sshd binary from your Mac to the AppleTV drive: cp /us...

Apple TV Wiki online

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Awkward, the man behind most of the Perian developments we've been posting about, has put up a wiki to begin collecting information abou...

Apple TV OS is called 'Backrow' - Replace Boot Movie

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Jonathan Bare, who was mentioned yesterday for replacing the Apple TV Hard drive with a larger one has continued searching through the files...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Upgrade your Apple TV Hard drive to 120GB

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Jonathan Bare has posted information about swapping the hard drive in the Apple TV for a bigger one. He gets the $100 bounty provided by App...

Desktop Apps / Finder running on ATV

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The folks on the somethingawful message boards have figured out how to launch apps on the Apple TV. This means having an OSX box hooked up t...

Perian quicktime component for Apple TV

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Some new info about the Apple TV Hacks: The software used to allow the Apple TV to play other video formats is called Perian. This means tha...