Brandon Holland has developed some software that will allow you to make Skype calls using your Apple TV! He has made the software available for free and has some demo videos of it in action on his site.
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Have a look inside the Apple TV, it looks very well designed however not the easiest box to crack open…
Put SSH onto your Apple TV, then some crafty hacks will allow you to play your DivX (and other format) movies.
Video after the jump.
“In this season finale episode of Hak5 Paul cracks open the Apple TV for a little hacking, Wess shows us how to virtualize physical servers, Mubix joins us to show off some goodies for your USB drives, Darren benchmarks budget home servers, and we tread into web two-oh mashup territory. Plus more janky products for your rofling enjoyment, deets on the LAN party, trivia, poll, web 1.0 fan site contest, and info on a new show pilot.”
Yes you can run your Apple TV system on your PC!
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For this hack you don’t even have to crack open the Apple TV box.
Video after the jump.
“We can now boot an unmodified and unopened AppleTV from an external USB hard drive. We’re running the same modified OS as in my last video, but this time it’s on an external USB hard drive with a modified partition type and one small file change.”
A bit of customization allows you to use your PC as an Apple TV.
Video after the jump.
“Apple TV on Hackint0sh PC controlled by keyboard using IRKeyboardEmu.kext IR emulator for osx.”
Turn your XBox into an Apple TV like experience.
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“First off, let’s go over what you need to already have in order to properly pull this off.
* A Modded Xbox - There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. XBMC just won’t run on a stock console.
* Xbox Media Center - I can not provide a copy of this due to legal reasons, but you should be able to find the latest edition of it here.
* The xTV Skin - Download this here or grab the latest copy from SVN from here.
* Apple TV Intro Movie - mayamaniac over at the Xbox-Scene Forums has modified the official Apple TV intro movie to fit the theme of this mod.”
If you have a MacBook why not use it as an Apple TV? Have a look at the video, it shows a MacBook streaming iTunes using the Apple TV OS
Video after the jump.