Cinema Mac » Internet http://www.cinemamac.com Get the most out of media on your Apple Mac Thu, 13 May 2010 04:38:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Skype on AppleTV http://www.cinemamac.com/apple/skype-on-appletv http://www.cinemamac.com/apple/skype-on-appletv#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:14:50 +0000 James http://www.invertedreality.com/?p=135

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 !

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sorry for strange pics. my ATV is on a widescreen CRT so there’s some flicker captured

]]> http://www.cinemamac.com/apple/skype-on-appletv/feed 2 Firefox web browser on AppleTV http://www.cinemamac.com/apple/firefox-web-browser-on-appletv http://www.cinemamac.com/apple/firefox-web-browser-on-appletv#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:09:14 +0000 James http://www.invertedreality.com/?p=134 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

]]> http://www.cinemamac.com/apple/firefox-web-browser-on-appletv/feed 13 AppleTV nitoTV plugin http://www.cinemamac.com/apple/appletv-nitotv-plugin http://www.cinemamac.com/apple/appletv-nitotv-plugin#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:49:49 +0000 James http://www.invertedreality.com/?p=133

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/

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