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How To: Max Out Apple TV's Potential With Boxee [How To]
gizmodo.com - 11/10/2008
How To: Max Out Apple TV's Potential With Boxee [How To]
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This is a guide that, if followed, will unchain your Apple TV from its cruel iTunes tether, turning it into the useful living room conduit of music, video and web-based content it should have been all along via the media center software Boxee . Boxee can be installed fairly easily via the ATV's ...

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Boxee raises funding as it goes after content, your living room
venturebeat.com - 11/18/2008
Boxee raises funding as it goes after content, your living room
— venturebeat.com — I need to install Boxee . I’ve been putting it off, but it needs to happen — like tomorrow. You see, the media center solution startup has a fairly straight-forward way of getting content from providers like Hulu (the NBC and Fox-backed ... (more) Boxee raises funding as it goes after content, your ...

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More patent evidence of a Wii-like Apple remote?
venturebeat.com - 11/10/2008
More patent evidence of a Wii-like Apple remote?
— venturebeat.com — I’ve had an Apple TV for a few days now; the user interface, speed and content are all amazing. It’s all great except for one part: The Apple remote, which quite frankly, sucks. Rumors have circulated before that Apple was working on a ... (more) More patent evidence of a Wii-like Apple remote?

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The end of TV: Boxee + Apple TV + Hulu
tuxgeek.me - 11/4/2008
The end of TV: Boxee + Apple TV + Hulu
— tuxgeek.me — The Tux Geek got beta invites to Boxee and so can you. [Update: We got more invites and we're sending them on a first come - first serve basis. Big thanks to Boxee and Andrew Kippen from StageTwoConsulting.] People want to do much more with ... (more) The end of TV: Boxee + Apple TV + Hulu

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HOW TO - Max out Apple TV's potential with Boxee
MAKE Magazine — Nice Boxee write up at Gizmodo, how-to max out Apple TV's potential with Boxee... This is a guide that, if followed, will unchain your Apple TV from its cruel iTunes tether, turning it into the useful living room conduit of music, video and web-based content it should have been all along via the media center software Boxee. Boxee can be installed fairly easily via the ATV's USB port to bring Hulu and Comedy Central streaming, playback of any video or music file anywhere on your network in virtually any file type imagineable, and a bevy of internet ...

New Media Links For 11/11
Podcasting News — Here are some interesting new media stories for 11/11: Idols producers creating a show just for YouTube. FremantleMedia, producer of the “Idols” reality-TV show format and soap opera “Neighbours,” has agreed a deal to produce programs to be shown exclusively on YouTube and to split revenues with the video-sharing site. Gizmodo has a Apple TV/Boxee tutorial. We covered BoHow to install Boxee on Apple TV recently, too - it’s a kludge, but it gets Hulu on your Apple TV. Video search site Blinkx is ...

GBTV #462 | GeekBrief.TV
GeekBrief.TV — ... I’ve been thinking about loading Boxee on my Apple TV for a while. I finally got to it, thanks to encouragement from John Mahoney at Gizmodo. He published a step-by-step guide. It’s was extremely easy. The difficult part was finding my missing Apple TV so I could install ...

Apple Releases Software Update 2.3 for Apple TV
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... the Apple TV saw was in early October when Genius Playlists and native HD TV show downloads were added to the device. Additionally, if you have modded or hacked your device — with the Boxee mod for example — you should hold off on upgrading. ...

Boxee Officially Goes Public, Adds BBC iPlayer and Joost Content
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... into private alpha as the rest move away from it. Boxee explains on their company blog: boxee’s private alpha went well beyond our expectations. over 200,000 people signed up.. today we’re opening our alpha to all Mac, Ubuntu and Apple TV users. Windows is also moving into private-alpha (which means you still need to get invited, but we’re going to release thousands of invites every week). bear with us as we scale…) Gizmodo has a handy guide for maxing out the potential of your Apple TV with boxee.

Top 10 Ways to Save Money in a Recession [Lifehacker Top 10]
Lifehacker — ... for more inspiration. Looking for something that doesn't tie up your computer? Our ooh-shiny-savvy sibling Gizmodo has posted a great tutorial on taking a relatively cheap Apple cast-off, the AppleTV, and using the free ...

Create a Boxee Loader for Apple TV from Windows [Apple TV]
Lifehacker — [image] If you're that rare breed of Windows user who also owns an Apple TV, you can max out its potential with the free Boxee media center by creating a USB stick from Windows a hack ...

Watching Hulu (and much more) on Your Apple TV
The Mac Observer — ... Mac and plug it into the USB port on your (currently powered off) Apple TV. Turn the Apple TV on. The software automatically transfers to the Apple TV during its startup. When done, you'll find a couple of new items in Apple TV's leftmost menu: Launcher (it may have another name until after you update the software, as described next) and Software Menu. You're now just about ready to reap the benefits of your hack. [Note: If you want more detailed instructions, check out this great Gizmodo page . Much of what I wrote here is based on what I learned from this article.] Update ...

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Apple TV 2.3 Update Adds Refinements, Kills Boxee [TheAppleBlog]
theappleblog.com 11/20/2008 — Late on Wednesday, Apple released the Apple TV 2.3 software update. This update adds a few refinements to Apple TV, but doesn’t offer any breakthrough new features. If you read my post about boxee and installed it on your Apple TV, you’ll ...
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