Here is the SiK rex a simple six button remote control which works with MacBook Pro, iPod Universal Dock, Apple TV, Front Row and the ipod Hi-Fi. The remote can be stored in the ExpressCard/34 slot of your MacBook Pro and can perform functions like Play, Pause, Stop, Rew, FF, etc for media playback.
On the fence as to whether or not you should buy an Apple TV for your living room? Feeling a little constrained by the device’s restrictions? From upping your unit’s hard drive to getting it to run unsupported video codecs, these hacks will make your $299 purchase worth the splurge.
Install a fresh copy of regular OS X (not the Apple TV version, the Mac version).
Just make sure you have everything backed up.
Download a copy of the patched Finder file.
Now, copy the Finder.app from your Apple TV drive,
and transplant the patch file (which is just the binary part of the app) into it,
and set the permissions:
The race to connect your TV to your computer and the Internet is about to kick into high gear this week when Apple Inc., the company many believe is best positioned to pull off this feat, introduces a slender, wireless set-top box called Apple TV.
This silvery little $299 gadget is designed to play and display on a widescreen family-room TV set all the music, video and photos stored on up to six computers around the house — even if they are far from the TV, and even if they are all Windows PCs rather than Apple’s own Macintosh models. It can also pull a very limited amount of music and video directly off the Internet onto the TV.
Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer spoke in length about the forthcoming iPhone and Apple TV at the Morgan Stanly Technology Conference in San Francisco today. As usual, and not to be expected, Oppenheimer declined to provide specific unit sales forecasts for the new products but expects the numbers to be strong
