Erica has a special treat for Perl folks with Apple TVs! On Sunday, with a hundred better things to do but no incentive to do them, I put together an Apple TV plug-in that allows you to run any Perl script you place into a folder in your home directory. (/Users/frontrow/perlbin). The idea is this: […]
Here’s a pretty good DIY alternative to AppleTV, Jkx@Home write – This year, for my birthday I have a very nice Media Player M3100. This stuff is really usefull, no need to use a noisy computer to watch recorded Divx. It’s pretty kool to watch films from beds you know.. The only issue: I need […]
Jason @ Hackszine had a great AppleTV hack weekend, check out all the projects and how-tos! The Internet tubes have been chock full of AppleTV hacks this last week. This weekend, I’ll be collecting links and posting everything on the subject I can find, hopefully recapping at least a portion of all the cool things […]
We posted Erica’s “warranty voiding” of the Apple TV and less than 24 hours later it looks like there’s a already a way to play xvid and replace the drive with a larger one, good work! We’ll keep an eye on this space and as always send us your hacks. xvid working on the Apple […]
Ilya points to a really cool (and free) commercial detector – Comskip is a free mpeg commercial detector. It is a windows console application that reads a mpeg file and analyses the content based on a large amount of configurable parameters. After analysis it generates a file in various possible formats containing the location of […]
Walter sent is this fun way to control your music, he writes – “Today I hacked my christmas present. A Wii remote controls my xmms mp3 player in linux now. Shake the remote and it switches to a new song. To get this working in ubunto linux you need the following packages: WMD driver 0.1.2 […]
Andy shows you how to build a simple IR remote stereo volume control – pictures, schematic and firmware source included.” – Link.
