Hacking the Apple TV • Register Hardware

— roughlydrafted.com — Daniel Eran Dilger Steve Jobs’ Apple TV hobby, the box that brings iTunes content into the living room, is getting ready for its third revision. What will the company do to leverage the recent spurt of interest in the device and boost sales even ... (more) How Apple TV can score at the big 3.0

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Apple survey to help shape future of Apple TV

— appleinsider.com — Apple has set up an online survey to find out more about how recent buyers of Apple TV make use of their box and what they do and don't like about it in an effort to improve the system. (more) Apple survey to help shape future of Apple TV

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Hacking Apple TV
MacDailyNews — ... latest Apple TV system software from Apple, pull out the important components and add the code that’ll be installed at runtime. The result is a Flash drive [from which] the Apple TV will boot," Hawkesmoor reports. "By default, ATV USB Creator will prep the drive with SSH; some general tools; a software acquisition tool for the Apple TV; XMBC, an open source media manager; and Boxee, an open source media sharing system," Hawkesmoor reports. More Apple TV hacking in the full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Sosumi" for the heads up.] ...

Particle Debris (week ending 2/6) New Hardware for Apple Customers
The Mac Observer — ... uses Linux Based on Scott's download logs and some assumptions about what percentage of Apple TV customers might try this patch, I am inclined to believe the estimate of 2 million Apple TVs sold to date. While Apple sits back and watches, benignly, more and more customers are figuring out how to expand the capability of their Apple TV. For those who may need some additional hints on how to get boxee or XBMC (a media center, similar to boxee) running on their Apple TV, a timely four page article with detailed instruction has been posted at The Register. The author goes into ...

Fire Core’s aTV Flash Brings Internet, More to Apple TV
iPodObserver — ... , one can get lost in technical details that aren't fun for those who just want to get to the good stuff. The Register recently wrote a good article about how to do that from the ground up. Apple TV Apple TV still runs Tiger W hat's important to remember is that one essentially builds a bootable USB flash drive, inserts it into the Apple TV, reboots the unit, then the software installs itself. With that, the user can add extra storage, play DVDs, connect a keyboard and mouse, access the Internet - and watch Internet TV. There are a few gotchas to be aware of. First, while ...