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SSD-equipped AppleTV
It’s June, you’re bored, and you’re looking at that 40GB AppleTV sitting on your media center. The next thing you know, you’ve bought a solid-state drive (SSD) and created the world’s first (as far as we know) SSD-equipped Apple TV.
Josh Lee modded his original AppleTV not to increase the size of the drive — he’s using a 32GB Transcend SSD since he stores most of his media on NAS — or speed it up. In fact, it sounds like he did the mod just for the hell of it. The benefits of the mod include less heat generation by the AppleTV and almost silent operation.
Josh reports in his email to AppleTVHacks that all he had to do was take an image of his AppleTV drive, mount it, resize the media partition, DD the image to the SSD , do a factory restore, use the patch2stick, and the SSD was quickly up and running. Whew!
Your challenge, TUAW reader, is to nab one of those fast 256GB Samsung SSD’s when they ship this fall and use the Josh Lee method to create a fast, cool, and silent FrankenAppleTV. If you’re the first, tell us about it.
A big thank you to Luck for the pointer to AppleTVHacks
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Apple TV gets the SSD treatment
Well, it had to happen eventually: someone cracked open their Apple TV and transplanted the 2.5-inch drive with a 32GB SSD by Transcend. That’s pretty much it — just a bit of hacking, partitioning, re-imaging, and off you go. Do you really even have to ask if putting an SSD in something was worth it?
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PyeTv, EyeTV FrontRow Plug-In
So… we’ve been looking for someone to develop a Plug-In to bring EyeTV into FrontRow, and PyeTV does just that. We were hoping just to see a simple launcher, but Jon Christopher took it a step further with access to EyeTV’s recordings, previews, metadata and even channel jumping. The project is a GoogleCode project, and was recently updated to version 1.1 Read the rest of this entry
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Apple TV Junkie: Know what’s going on in the movie world
If you find yourself looking at your Apple TV every Tuesday to learn what new releases Apple and the movie studios have blessed us with, then you might find Apple TV Junkie really useful. That’s because Apple TV Junkie posts all of the new releases of High Definition rentals — along with other important Apple TV news.
In one glance of the page you can find out:
- The $.99 movie rental of the week
- How many HD movies grace the iTunes shelves
- Top 10 movie purchases
- Top 10 movie rentals
So, if you’re always looking for the hotest new movie rentals on the Apple TV and iTunes, you can make Apple TV Junkie your first stop.
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Airfoil 3.2 adds basic remote support
Rogue Amoeba has announced Airfoil 3.2, the latest release of their audio utility which allows you to play any Mac audio over your Apple TV, AirPort Express, or other Macs. In addition to improving support for the latest generation Expresses (”including full password support and better synchronization”), the big addition with version 3.2 is remote control support. With either the Apple Remote on the Apple TV or the Keyspan Express Remote for an Express, Airfoil now allows you to play/pause and move forward/back on tracks playing through either iTunes or QuickTime Player.
The upgrade is free for registered users, while new copies of Airfoil for Mac are $25; a demo is available.
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