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Apple TV jailbreak yields first third-party app

by Matt Tinsley Oct 21st 2010 at 1:45PM



Only a few days ago , Greenpois0n revealed that it had jailbroken the Apple TV. Yesterday, PwnageTool 4.1 joined the ranks, too. Now we have sights of what appears to be the first third-party app running on a jailbroken Apple TV. nitoTV, a small software development firm, has managed to get a simple weather app running on the device. According to nitoTV's twitter feed, a version of the app with "weather and RSS feeds" will be out "soon."

While there's still no word on a public release for any of the jailbreak software, we can only assume that this is the first of many more third-party apps to come for the cracked Apple TV.

[via Engadget]

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thescragster

There is a full video tutorial on how to jailbreak the New Apple TV 2G here:
http://iphoneblogr.com/2010/11/how-to-jailbreak-apple-tv-2g-using-the-pwnage-tool-on-ios-4-1-video-tutorial/

And a video tutorial on how to install NitoTV here:
http://iphoneblogr.com/2010/10/how-to-install-nitotv-on-your-jailbroken-apple-tv-2g/

And how to install Plex on the Apple TV 2G here:
http://iphoneblogr.com/2010/11/how-to-install-plex-onto-apple-tv-2g-play-almost-any-video-file-type-video-tutorial/

November 05 2010 at 4:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Claudio

I just bought apple tv yesterday and its pretty cool. I can't wait untill someone figures out how to watch AVI/DIVX movies on it.

October 29 2010 at 9:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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thescragster

If you follow this tutorial you'll be able to stream AVI/DIVX even mkv files up to 720p!

http://iphoneblogr.com/2010/11/how-to-install-plex-onto-apple-tv-2g-play-almost-any-video-file-type-video-tutorial/

November 05 2010 at 3:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CASEACE

I'm not buying it till it runs app store apps. The day that happens I'm in.

October 21 2010 at 7:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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