Defaults & symbolichotkeys in Mac OS X
Front Row is awesome. Hot keys are awesome. Typos are not. While zipping along, typing my fool heart out, I tend to fat finger about enough to drop my words per minute in half at times. Occasionally, my typos will land me in an annoying spot, with some application opening: often that application is Front [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: Command line, defaults, expose, front row, hot keys, Mac OS X, map hot keys from command line, map shortcut keys, plistbuddy, plutil
Running SSH on AppleTV
Sometimes it can be really useful to have an SSH connection into your AppleTV. If I need to explain why then you probably won’t want to do it. Unless of course, you’re just after getting something like Boxee running, which we’ll look at as well. Before we get into doing anything to your AppleTV, when [...]
In: Home Automation, Mac OS X · Tagged with: Apple TV, AppleTV, ATV USB Creator, Boxee, chown, Couch Surfer, front row, Hulu, launcher, Mac OS X, NetFlix, plug-in, Silverlight, ssh, Weather application, XBMC
Send FrontRow to a 2nd Monitor
Scenario: You’re working on one display but you want to use the second display as a media center while you’re working. Well, Front Row 2.0 can be used on a second display that is connected to your computer. Mac OS X uses a unique identifier to track each display connected to a computer. To get [...]
In: Mac OS X · Tagged with: com.apple.frontrow, defaults, front row, second display
