AwkwardTV

Hello all,

I saw concerns about my lack of time I spend on the AwkwardTV project. And I agree. This and other things made me decide the following:

• I am going to step down as main admin for this project
• The hosting for www and wiki will be moved elsewhere (to be decided on with the new admin(s))
• Since the forum is broken (again) and probably not resurrectable in a timely fashion it will have to be re-set-up entirely
• Mail is on Google Apps, I will help gain control over that where needed since that’s still in hands of one of the other, now-inactive admins

I will maintain control over DNS. This means I will also pay for it. As I have just recently, after an almost-4-month period of downtime, secured a job, any donation is welcome Details can be found on http://mactijn.eu/donate.

Anyone with suggestions or even willing to participate can comment below.

So long and thanks for all the fish,

macTijn

Due to continuous illegal activities surrounding patchstick I’m giving up. End of the line, everyone off. It was a fun year or so.

OK, I think this was enough
Happy april’s fools day!

However, I do want to make a small statement. Patchstick is really not meant for distribution, via torrents or otherwise. I know I can’t stop it, but I can set rules for behaviour on the IRC channel, wiki and forums. Until now, it might not have been clear, but I think it is a big nono to download a torrent of Patchstick and then claim support. Also, linking to any Patchstick torrents is not done.

As an Apple Germany spokesman confirmed today, the price for Apple TV will stay at 299 EUR = 437 USD. That is 1.9 times the US price!

When will Apple stop over-charging international customers?

Rentable movies on the flat screen. Yay! Join the AwkwardTV IRC channel or the Wiki to discuss the new Apple TV features introduced by Steve Jobs on Macworld.

Best thing: The price of our favorite toy drops to $229.

Image: macrumorslive

I just couldn’t let this one slip by. Apparently, someone was bored by his standard AppleTV remote and created this. now you can control your AppleTV from your iPhone or iPod touch (or actually any device with a web browser)!

I myself wasn’t aware of the existence of the IRKeyboardEmu.kext (a bit further down the page), which is used in the ATViPhoneRemote, but it’s something I wanted to have from the start, to create the above remote (although a bit more integrated with my home automation stuff).

Great work, to all involved in these projects!

PS

Thanks for the link, tom!

Despite all the attention that iPhone and iPod touch got over the last few weeks, the list of plug-ins for the Apple TV is growing steadily, albeit slowly. One new kid on the block is channl.tv, an online service that lets you manage your TV channels. AwkwardTV had the chance to interview Bruno Keymolen from channl.tv.

AwkwardTV: What is channl.tv?

Bruno: What Flickr is for photos, YouTube is for video clips, Slideshare is for presentations, that is what channl.tv will become for channels on your tv.
Channl.tv is about creating your own channels on your TV because we believe you should be able to decide what you watch when you want to watch it. Channl.tv makes it possible to add clips from video websites on the internet like YouTube and Google Video to your channels so that you have a very broad choice of what to watch. Upon signup we will create 2 channels for you one of which is called Recommendations and in there we will let you know what might be of interest of you based on the clips you watch and that you add to your channels. Through the AppleTV extension that we provide you are able to bring all of your channels into a commercial of the shelf AppleTV settop box.

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You may all have noticed that the wiki and blog were behaving badly for the last couple of weeks. Sorry about that, technical difficulties :/ We changed servers, and we have thought up a brand new setup for Apache and Squid.

Anyway, I’m happy to tell you that all is well again. Also, I’d like y’all to know that I have no intention whatsoever to stop hosting this project.

I sincerely apologise for any problems that occured during the outages.

macTijn, your friendly neighborhood admin.

Today I have given the wiki captcha’s. I know I shuld have done this a lot earlier, but due to some events I wasn’t able to.

I hope you can all enjoy the wiki again, and my apologies for the delay.

Gizmodo reports: “At last someone has developed a patch to expand the Apple TV’s storage through its USB 2.0 port, using the internal hard drive to boot and one fat external 2TB drive”…

Jump right to the instructions. (Update: Also see the USB patch on appletvhacks.)

AwkwardTV now has its very own shop at CafePress, currently selling some limited edition WWDC-themed T-Shirts. We have three designs at present: a black shirt with a white AwkwardTV logo (pictured left), and white shirts with the plugin logos on the front, AwkwardTV on the back, or vice versa.

So, if you’re going to WWDC this year, pick up a T-Shirt and send us a photo of you wearing it there