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 we’re done I do not know how Apple will feel about your warranty moving forward, so do this stuff at your own risk (but that’s pretty much true for many articles on this site)… So first up, let’s install SSH. To get started, plug in a jump drive you don’t mind reformatting. Then run the…
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Using Microsoft Document Connection on a Mac
Microsoft released Service Pack 2 to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac earlier this week. Once you have installed Service Pack 2 you may notice the new Open from Document Connection File menu item for office applications, or you may notice the new application called Microsoft Document Connection located in your /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008 folder. These are all part of Microsoft’s overall Software+Services strategy: provide a cloud type of environment that is able to sustain the software that you purchase from them. In this case it could be a private document storage “cloud” running on a SharePoint server or it could be a more public environment running in the Office Live…
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NetFlix and the Mac
So I was a tad bit offended when NetFlix started to support the Xbox before supporting the Mac. But it’s all OK. You can now watch bad movies while on the road. Just log into NetFlix, find a movie that has a Play button and click on it. If you don’t already have the Silverlight Plug-in installed it will ask you to do so and you’ll be ready to rock and roll. Enjoy.
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Mono 2.0
Mono 2.0 allows .Net developers to use Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X. Mono comes with MeMA, a tool that allows for automated .Net to Linux migrations away from .Net. A lot is being made these days about Silverlight. Look at what our friends from NetFlix have done for Mac users with it. Well, the Mono framework was leveraged to write a Mono-based plugin compatible with Silverlight that they are calling Moonlight. This is pretty cool because it allows Silverlight developers to convert their code into Moonlight and then publish it as an actual desktop application rather than a more web-oriented widget. The open source community has provided a really…
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NetFlix Now Online
OK, so NetFlix was always online, but did you know that you can watch movies online too. Not all, but chances are, if you have enough movies in your queue that you’ll have at least one that is able to be watched online. The technology that allows all of this is Microsoft’s Silverlight. Because Silverlight is not yet available for the Mac you can’t watch NetFlix online from a Mac just yet. Rumor has it that Silverlight will be available soon though, so just be patient and it’ll get there… Another aspect of NetFlix that is often overlooked is social networking. You can rate movies and then share your queue…