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Wow this is cool. I just found this with a but of Apple TV searching. You can use your iPhone or iPod touch (or any web browser device) as an Apple TV remote control! Why you would want to I do not know, but here’s the link anyway:
http://www.picpoc.ro/static.php?page=staticATViPhoneRemote
No this isn’t a post about Apple releasing updates to the Apple TV. It’s me asking you guys what you’ve been doing with your ATV lately!?
A lot of you have emailed me or posted questions and comments on the site regarding ATV.
Did you get your unit patched/hacked? Did you get that application running? Can you plug in a USB hard disk, or stream content from your other machines?
Drop me a comment and let me know how your going!
Well on the weekend my wife and I picked up a Craft Robo (vinyl cutter) machine. She’s going to be using it for her scrapbooking, etc. But what else can we use it for? What could I use it for? stickers? T-shirt Transfers?, other stuff?
I might get some more info online later, with perhaps a bit of a demo video, who knows!
enjoy
This thing is really amazing. (im not just saying that for the hell of it)
It looks like a regular SD card that you stick in your camera and take photos with, but it’s so much more! It has wi-fi built in! This means that as you shoot your pics, it uploads the photos instantly (via wi-fi) to your favourite online photo gallery (like flikr, picasa, etc)
Works on both Mac and Windows, doesn’t take much to setup, obviously requires a nearby wireless network to upload images… so cool!
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.
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
Man is nitoTV the bomb or what? I installed it as soon as I had my appleTV hacked. which I’ve written about before, but get this, the latest version has some very important and cool things built in.
Firstly, you can install additional software/hacks from within nitoTV now. Things like smb/afp network mounting (i already did this manually). The best of all. the turbo kext USB hack! I was going to get around to doing this hack manually, one day. But nitoTV just makes it so simple already! I carried out the hack, rebooted the ATV, and plugged in an external hard disk drive. booyah!
I setup a symbolic link in my ~/movies/ folder to point to the mounted hard disk (called laser) like this:
sudo ln -s /Volumes/LASER/ ~/movies
so now when using nito or atvfiles and I’m browsing like I would browse a network share, the external hard disk appears in my files list. I think this will be the way to go. Streaming movies across my wireless “G” network was fine, but not when the microwave was running! stupid 2.4Ghz…. not cool when cooking dinner!
Do yourself a favour, build a patch stick, then install the latest nitoTV, the rest is really simple!
http://www.awkwardtv.org/