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Boxee makes your AppleTV better
CrunchGear —
... Installing Boxee isn’t easy. You need to boot the install from a USB drive and hope for the best. However, once it’s up and running you have social media functions - playlist sharing, for example - and the ability to bring in desktop and online media onto your TV. You can also add services like Twitter, FriendFeed and Tumblr. ...
Boxee on the Apple TV
Hack a Day —
... Boxee, the social XBMC, is now easy to install on your Apple TV. We first covered Boxee in June when the alpha was released. It’s great to see how much the project has advanced to this point. To install on the Apple TV, you first download a USB “patchstick” creator. The program puts a mac partition on the drive and copies over the necessary files. You reboot the Apple TV with the stick installed and it patches in both Boxee and XBMC. When you restart the the device it will have two new menu items and the rest of the ...
How To Sustain Your Gadget Addiction In the Next Great Depression [Geeks, Getting By]
Gizmodo —
... Installing anything on the locked-down Apple TV used to take some serious finagling, but there are now tools that will create an automated Boxee installer on a flash drive. Just plug the drive in, restart and you're good to go. ...
Zero-Dollar Gadget Upgrades For Surviving The Next Great Depression [Geeks, Getting By]
Gizmodo —
... Installing anything on the locked-down Apple TV used to take some serious finagling, but there are now tools that will create an automated Boxee installer on a flash drive. Just plug the drive in, restart and you're good to go. ...
Zero-Cost Gadget Upgrades For the Next Great Depression [Geeks, Getting By]
Gizmodo —
... Installing anything on the locked-down Apple TV used to take some serious finagling, but there are now tools that will create an automated Boxee installer on a flash drive. Just plug the drive in, restart and you're good to go. ...
Apple and My Living Room
GeekBrief.TV —
... so that Apple TV could replace something in the living room. I’ve hoped for that since day one. He also brings up how Boxee, with some hackery, will add much appreciated functionality (Hulu and CBS TV shows, in particular) to Apple TV. I haven’t tried the hack because of time, but I plan to give it a go this weekend. ...
Ad Supported Movies - Back To The Future
A VC —
When I was a kid we used to watch movies on TV and they'd have commercial breaks in them. That was when we'd run to the kitchen for a drink, head to the bathroom, or just chill out for a minute or two. I have fond memories of watching movies that way.
That's what we did this weekend in our home. We've got Hulu hooked up to our big screen TV two ways, via the browser on our mac mini and via boxee, also running on our mac mini (but you can also run Boxee on Apple TV).
On saturday afternoon my oldest daughter was scrolling through the films in Hulu ...
Boxee Media Center App Gets $4 Million in Funding [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... . Boxee users can watch and share everything from Hulu videos to CBS.com content, and hacks have already appeared for doing compelling things like watching Hulu on Apple TV. Boxee also works very well on HDTVs, with a remarkably slick interface that looks like it was created at Apple. Instructions on running Boxee on AppleTV are here. ...
Boxee Media Center App Gets $4 Million in Funding
OStatic blogs —
... . Boxee users can watch and share everything from Hulu videos to CBS.com content, and hacks have already appeared for doing compelling things like watching Hulu on Apple TV. Boxee also works very well on HDTVs, with a remarkably slick interface that looks like it was created at Apple. Instructions on running Boxee on AppleTV are here. ...
