For those of you who have upgraded to Apples latest operating system, Leopard, keep in mind that it’s a little harder to hack an AppleTV if your still in the initial phase of using a patchstick to ‘enable’ your ATV.
Creating a patchstick will work on Leopard, however it will package files from your Leopard system which are not compatible with the ATV’s 10.4.x kernel. So the patchstick will not work!
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If you haven’t already checked it out, there’s a new site on the block dedicated to tips and tricks for Apple’s latest operating system, Leopard!
Check it out and install the downloadable widget to get RSS feeds of the site right on your dashboard. Neat.
leopardtricks.com will provide cool tips and tricks for you to get the most out of your Mac. Shortcuts, cool apps, and more!
I’ve been getting comments/emails from people asking for help on hacking their AppleTV. I’m not going to advertise ‘hack services’ on my site as I’m not sure of the legality of such activities!
Maybe we should change the term from ‘hack’ to ‘enable’. Thats just nice.
I will offer advice, consultation if you please, on how to ‘enable’ your AppleTV. This will be particularly useful for those that do not have an Intel Mac which is required to carry out ‘enabling’ of your AppleTV.
I’m happy to assist where I can, and answer questions, and ‘point you in the right direction’. You will need to email me directly with your issues or requirements. Perhaps my services would be worthy of a donation via paypal.
Daylight savings just kicked in! set your clocks forward an hour kiddies! OR, why not sync your computers to a time server on the internet?
Check out www.ntp.org for more information!
I just finished installing Leopard on my Macbook Pro, It’s nice, real nice. I did a clean install instead of an upgrade, I was meaning to do a clean re-install of Tiger anyway! So far so good. loving it, will have some more info up soon (must play more) I have some photo’s of the queuing at the apple store too :)Here’s some pictures of queuing for Leopard for it’s 6pm release last night!
Who doesn’t love T-shirts !? Thanks Ben, you da man
All over! after four days of prep and racing, it’s done and dusted! The biggest states we’ve had so far with 117 entries. Amazing.
I managed TQ and 1st in Mod Truck, 4th in Mod 2wd, and 4th in Mod 4wd, very happy with my results!
Two weeks till the next race meet, the WAORMA Challenge in Bunbury.
Today I upgraded the site to wordpress 2.3, is was fairly painless, requiring just some copying of my old theme/plugs/content and config file from my old wordpress install to the new one.
Thats right, I just installed and can use Skype on my AppleTV. I’ve not tested voice (audio) as yet, but it’s installed and I can text chat to my mates. It was damn easy.
First, I followed the “firefox” install from awkwardtv.org
Then applied the same concept/steps to the Skype.app! I grabbed Skype_2.6.0.151.dmg which i had on my fileserver, mounted it on my macbook pro, then copied the contents to the AppleTV:
scp Skype.app frontrow@appletv.local:/Users/frontrow (enter)
open Skype.app (enter)
hey presto, it beachballs for a sec, opens, and asks for licence agreement then login credentials! TRY IT !
sorry for strange pics. my ATV is on a widescreen CRT so there’s some flicker captured
More AppleTV hacking. Last night I figured I’d see if my keyboard and mouse work on the AppleTV after tinkering with all the new nitoTV enhancements. Indeed they work. I can quit out of the gui and see the system preferences where I can get the keyboard and mouse to work. Only, you cant see the mouse pointer! very tricky.
I followed the instructions on the awkwardtv wiki to enable the mouse pointer, and install firefox.
Worked a TREAT! It’s actually quite good. I’m really impressed. Now when I’m having an argument about a movie with my wife I can stop the movie, jump into firefox and do some quick IMDB research to prove a point 
I’ve also installed the ‘netusage’ extension for firefox so i can see my internet quota usage, and I’ve bookmarked my local weather sites.
Very cool. read it all on awkwardtv.org