Brandon Holland has come up with a VNC Server plugin for the second-gen Apple TV which will allow you to remotely access your Apple TV from any VNC client, running on your PC or Mac.
After releasing a jailbreak app which enables AirPlay functionality via third-party apps, Erica Sadun has now released AirPlayer for Mac OS X which mimics as Apple TV (2nd-gen) to playback videos from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to your Mac. Perfect for those of you who use 27-inch iMac or Cinema Display as your TV.
One of the most annoying limitation of iOS 4.2’s AirPlay feature is the inability to stream videos that you took on your iPhone to your PC or Mac with iTunes via AirPlay, or to the Television sets connected to the 2nd-gen Apple TV.
There's a new TV set to be in town and the brains behind it are confident or at least preparing hard to give Apple TV and the Google TV a tough challenge. We are talking about the rumors associated to Microsoft's own TV subscription in the pipeline.
Apart from iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, also released today is iOS 4.2 for Apple TV 2G which brings video AirPlay feature that will allow you to stream pictures, videos and music right from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to TVs connected to the second-gen Apple TV.
FireCore have just announced that they will be releasing a web browser and a Last.fm application for the second generation Apple TV in the form of a neat software suite called aTV Flash (black), the beta release of which is only a few weeks away. The web browser will be known as Couch Surfer, supporting most standard browsing function and plugins.
The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 4.1.1. This is more of a bug fix release which fixes issues for Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard users.
NitoTV has posted a screenshot over on Twitter of, quite possibly, the first ever app for 2nd generation Apple TV. From what we can tell, it’s a simple weather app. You choose a location, the app pulls in relevant data from the internet and provides the info on your TV along with a little graphic.
We all saw this coming ! The limera1n exploit based GreenPois0n tool has finally jailbroken the 2nd-generation Apple TV. Members of Chronic Dev Team posted an image as a proof, showing a custom loader with a background on the Apple TV, running iOS 4.1.
iPhone Dev Team hacker MuscleNerd has confirmed that an updated version of PwnageTool for Mac is slated for release this Sunday.
