xctechs attempted to pool together some packages that he used and genuinely liked on AppleTV2. In order to process and ready to use it, you need to Jailbreak Your Apple TV 2 first.
NitoTV is a standard set of tools to enhance the functionality provided by the Apple TV Platform.The 5 best nitoTV deals are:
XBMC Media Center – For Streaming Your Movies and TV shows from Your PC or Laptop.
Overflow – To categorize your Menus to thoroughly clean up the Main Screen.
UpdateBeGone – to stop your Apple TV 2 to get update OTA.
Rowmote Helper – Use your iPhone or iPod as remote with a software which you can download from App Store.
MainMenuSlideShow – to place Personalized or Customized Background
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According to 9to5Mac, Jailbroken AppleTV 2G owners can now enable a VNC server on their black boxes with a new Brandon Holland’s VNC server hack. This will allow you to control the device remotely using apps like Screens running on your PC or Mac.
“Finished a quick and dirty VNC server plugin for the 2G that I call “Exposed”. It’s method for getting screen data isn’t great and lacks some effects and animation, but it does work without HDMI plugged in. So if you want to try it out, grab Exposed and place it in the Lowtide Appliances directory. I think it is also important to note that this does require a jailbroken AppleTV 2G running Dustin Howett’s beigelist.”
Ijailbreak member Dusty has shared a nice tutorial that will help you to successfully install Plex, the popular Mac-based and iOS media solution on your jailbroken Apple TV 2G. Once you will have Plex server running you can play any Plex content on your AppleTV.
Instructions on how to install the Plex plugin are posted on the Plex forums and your Apple TV 2G must be jailbroken using the latest version of PwnageTool.
What if you have an FTP server in your Apple TV? Don’t you think it will be great to have a server sitting in your AppleTV (with Mac/Windows OS) that will take care of all your file transfers easily and quickly.
Appletvhacks member Ruben has brought out a nice tutorial the help of which you can install and Configure a FTP Server in Your 1st Generation Apple TV. Ruben presumes that you are having SSH access to your Apple TV. If you are not, you can find more details in our How-To category.
Note that this tutorial is only applicable to Apple TV1, since the Apple TV2 lacks a hard drive and FTP needs somewhere to store the files.
Visit Ruben’s Tutorial here and add FTP feature to your AppleTV1 now.
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Chiphazard presents a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to jailbreak Apple TV 2 iOS 4.2.2 untethered using Sn0wbreeze 2.7.3 for Windows.
The tutorial begins with the downloads from: iOS 4.22 for Apple TV 2G and Snowbreeze 2.7.3 (Windows). Following the next few steps as mentioned in the tutorial you’ll be able to jailbreak Apple TV 2 iOS 4.2.2 as untethered.
In the next step you simply need to connect your Apple TV 2G to your TV set and you will notice nitoTV in the main menu. It is advised that you go in Settings and update nitoTV.
aTV Flash (black) is a user-friendly software package from Firecore that supercharges your new black AppleTV 2. It is available in both Mac and Windows version. This software package is very simple to use and safe for your AppleTV.
Installing aTV Flash (black) is also easy. More details on the installation process can be seen here.
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Teamdroid member John reports The mega toy company Hasbro have unveiled a 3D viewer that’s designed for Apple’s second, third, and fourth generation iPod touch, iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPhone 4. Hasbro has a number of applications available on the Apple iTunes app store, games and immersive 360 degree pano stuff.
I can’t wait to see what Apple comes up with when they start to dabble with Apple TV systems, I can imagine that this type of technology will be at the top of their wish list though.
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SeasOnPass lets you perform an untethered jailbreak to your Apple TV, allowing you to SSH into your set top box and play otherwise unsupported media. The current version of SeasOnPass by default supports to an untethered jailbreak for the 4.3 (iOS 4.3 – 8F455) software.
The released version of SeasOnPass can even supports a tethered jailbreak of the current 4.4.4 (iOS 5.0.1 – 9A406a). You can find out the details on using Seas0nPass to perform a tethered jailbreak of the new 4.4.4 (iOS 5.0.1) AppleTV software here.
“A hacker installed the Couch Surfer browser on a jailbroken Apple TV and was able to demonstrate an HTML5-based game, Casino BlackJack. Now, the game is fairly bare bones and although it may not be the most impressive of feats, it does remind us of Apple TV’s potential beyond movies and TV shows.”
