Category Archives: Apple TV

There’s a pretty hardcore mod you can use to add eSata support to your AppleTV. This completely replaces the internal hard drive, and is NOT for the faint of heart!

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Neil | Leave a comment

AppleTV & More has an intriguing patchstick product that claims there is “no need to re-create your Patchstick and re-patch after an update.” It leverages a lot of AppleTV plugins and scripts via a menu-driven interface on the AppleTV itself. … Continue reading →

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Neil | Leave a comment

AppleTV & More has an intriguing patchstick product that claims there is “no need to re-create your Patchstick and re-patch after an update.” It leverages a lot of AppleTV plugins and scripts via a menu-driven interface on the AppleTV itself. … Continue reading →

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Neil | Leave a comment

Fooling iTunes to Sync Other Video Formats to Apple TV

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Neil

After dealing with all kinds of hacks and transcoders to get unsupported video formats on my Apple TV, I stumbled across the Apple TV Fooler scripts at Awkward TV. This set of scripts takes advantage of a method of combining … Continue reading →

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The ATV Flash wiki has some useful information for anyone who has hacked their Apple TV using the atvusb-creator patchstick and then installed some additional hacks like NitoTV.

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Neil | Leave a comment

I couldn’t figure out how to install NitoTV on my hacked Apple TV until I found this thread on the Boxee forums. One thing to note — the colons at the end of the scp commands are pretty crucial to … Continue reading →

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Neil | Leave a comment

Reinstall a Working Hulu in Boxee

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Neil

While Hulu’s content owners thought it might be a good idea to cut off Boxee users from accessing the service, it was quick enough for someone to work around and put together a plugin to reinstall a working Hulu in … Continue reading →

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ATV USB Creator

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Neil

atvusb-creator is a new GUI tool to create Apple TV patchsticks — in this case, a USB stick that will allow you to install SSH, some other utilities, XMBC, and boxee on an Apple TV. As of this writing, you’ll need … Continue reading →

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aTV Flash for Apple TV Is Now Downloadable

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Neil

AppleCore LLC is selling a new version of aTV Flash; instead of buying a thumb drive, now you download the software and put it on a drive yourself. Cheaper as a result. aTV claims to add a slew of new … Continue reading →

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iClarified has a list of tutorials on hacking your AppleTV. Or you can buy an aTV Flash and get a USB stick that does it for you.

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Neil | Leave a comment