I wanted to provide some resources, tutorials and links for those people who want to jailbreak a second generation apple tv (running 4.4.4 or lower) and install XBMC on it. This solution has provided my family and me almost all our media entertainment for the last year at 1/4 the price of cable. I may [...]
ATV Flash (Black) 1.5 for iOS 5.0 is out from Firecore. The untethered jailbreak for ATV2 & ATV3 should be forthcoming anyday. In the meantime, a tethered jailbreak is out for ATV2 w/ iOS 5 (and , of course you can always just stay on iOS 4.4.4 & below until then) http://blog.firecore.com/
The SOPA & PIPA legislation certainly was knocked down and political backing withered away once the public outcry was too much for even Washington to ignore. That didn’t stop the government from overstepping their bounds again. A federal indictment and arrests occurred today and the sites were taken down. NY Times article. It’s surprising the [...]
I’ve been jailbreaking my Apple TV2 essentially from the day I got it. My family and I use two main features on it: Netflix streaming and XBMC. If you are not familiar with it, this add-on available either as an install via zip or using the ATV Flash (Black) makes your Apple TV into a [...]
I was having all kinds of difficulties with XBMC on my Apple TV2 and was trying to remove it and start all over. It didn’t work out even when resorting to SSH through terminal. Then I was able to find a solution over in the FireCore forums. Basically required that I manually remove all [...]
