Install Boxee On your AppleTV
Boxee is sort of this really cool social network for streaming Video, photos etc. to your laptop or HDTV. I personally enjoy using it in conjunction with my AppleTV to add streaming content and expand it's capabilities.
Sorry but, I'm a true blood Mac dude so my instructions will be for a Mac.
The Windows instructions are available through the links I'm providing.
First you will need to create a patch stick that will allow you to install the boxee as well as a few other resources to allow everything to work correctly.
I use the atvusb-creator. You will need a thumb drive that is at least 512MB by their instructions. I actually used a 256MB drive and all worked perfectly.
Follow the steps for creating your patch stick.
Take your patch stick and place it in the USB slot on the back of your AppleTV and hold down minus (-) and the Menu button on the AppleTV remote
to reboot the device. If this step is done properly, you will see the system reboot. Instead of the Apple during boot you will see the Linux mascot "Tux" sitting
on an AppleTV. Then you will see the output of the installation. Read through the output and check that there were no errors. If not your good to go.
Head over to Boxee and set yourself up an account. You will need to set you credentials before you can enter Boxee.
You will notice that there are some new choices in the AppleTV menu. I always run the updates from that menu to ensure that everything is compatible with the current OS on the AppleTV. Typically when Apple releases a new version of the AppleTV OS Boxee may or May not break. If so then just redo the steps above.
If you need further assistance Boxee has created a more detailed version of this install on their Wiki site http://wiki.boxee.tv/AppleTV_Installation.
Good luck playing with your AppleTV
A year later…
Ok so it's been almost a whole year since I last touched this blog (now go find a stick and beat me with it.) I've decided to resurrect this blog for no other reason than to make another post in maybe a year from now. Not really but, in reality that could happen. With all that has happened over the past year I felt it is my social duty to get my head out of FaceBook and do a tid bit more than an occasional Tweet every now and again. Even though I know you won't read this I wasted part of my lunch typing it up anyway.
After spending a little while looking through what I have I've noticed that I've got a ton of broken images, broken links, random categories and no real focus to this site. I did finally get the blog software I used updated which in return caused problem #1.
More on my progress soon. Time to hit the studio for a few.