CyberSurge

That’s right, I am the one who wanted one. Over the weekend my family was in town and we exchanged gifts for Christmas a little early (some of my family members live a few hours away so now was the time). What did I find under the Christmas tree this year? An Apple TV.I have [...]

The item on the top of my list this year is the AppleTV, although I’m fairly sure that I’m in the minority. The AppleTV was the other big product that was launched this year by Apple, you may remember it from MacWorld, it was released the same time Steve Jobs decided to let everyone know [...]

One of the coolest things about the new Zunes is there ability to playback DVD quality video (up to 720×480 at 30fps, or 720×576 at 25fps). So this begs the question, why doesn’t the iPod? The iPod probably has the horsepower to play it back but why is it still stuck with 640×480 maximum?No one [...]

Engadget asked a simple question yesterday, I never really gave the question much thought but the problem is, it was hard for me to come up with answers. “How would you change the AppleTV?” The first thing that came to mind after a few minutes of thinking was the addition of Joost. Yes I know [...]

Gizmodo has a hands on tour with YouTube on the AppleTV. A Little AppleTV YouTube Tour [Gizmodo]

The Register talked about Joosting being installed on hardware out of the box. Ok, this sounds awesome. The first thing that comes to mind is the AppleTV. It has already happened with YouTube and will be rolled out sometime in the next month or so. Joost could be what makes me actually buy the AppleTV. [...]

Apple TV’s will soon be able to watch YouTube videos on there widescreen TV right in there living room. It will be streamed from the internet to the AppleTV. Apple will also begin a build to order option for Apple TV’s with 160GB hard drives for $399. Press Release

  AckwardTV is reporting that an AppleTV development kit has been released. Alan Quatermain is the creator of the kit and you can find out info about it here at the AckwardTV wiki. There is also a video of it here at the Internet Archive. Head to AckwardTV to find the download link.

Mark of markandjo.com/markblog demonstrates how to boot OS X from an external hard drive without ever opening up the AppleTV. This is exactly what Leo Laporte said (if you listen to his podcasts you will remember him talking about this, twit.tv) All of the AppleTV hacks will move to going onto an external hard drive [...]

According to AppleInsider, Apple said that they would be adding software features to the AppleTV and iPhone free of charge.This is a pretty awesome little bit of information. All of the people who said that they are going to wait for the second version of the AppleTV may change their minds after Apple begins coming [...]

A plugin was released recently to select beta testers. It is a plugin that will download and install all 3rd party plugins that are available. Check out the video: