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Dear Aunt TUAW: Will my jailbroken iPhone back up?

by Erica Sadun (Jan 18th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I want to jailbreak my 4th gen iPod touch, but there is something I'm unsure about. If I want to unjailbreak it (because of performance issues, etc.), is there any possible way for me to do that without losing all of my data? I have scoured the internet, and I haven't been ...

AirMedia Player for Windows: Stream from iOS to your Windows PC

by Steven Sande (Dec 22nd, 2010)

We've been chronicling the fast evolution of AirPlay media players that allow owners of iOS 4.2 devices to stream media to their Macs and Linux machines. Now, from developer Apostolos Georgiadis comes word of AirMedia Player for Windows. The player requires Windows XP, Vista or 7, the Microsoft .NET ...

Screencast your Mac to Apple TV over AirPlay

by Erica Sadun (Dec 22nd, 2010)

That screen you're looking at there? It's not my Mac. It's my Apple TV. TUAW reader James Low wondered if you could stream your OS X screen using the screen:// feature of VLC along the lines of the instructions found on this blog post. I decided to test it out using the same method I described ...

DVDs are playing back on my Apple TV using AirFlick and AirPlay!

by Erica Sadun (Dec 21st, 2010)

The Unicorn has landed! Rainbows! Starshine! Skittle poo! It's like Christmas in...um...December! So why this exuberance and excitement? My Apple TV is right now, this very second, even as we speak, playing back a DVD of Finding Nemo. It's seriously awesome. Why watch a DVD on a laptop when you can ...

Apple TV plays live-converted AVI files using Air Video Server, AirPlayer, and AirFlick

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2010)

Although I knew that the AirFlick video tool I posted about earlier today could theoretically pass transcoded video streams to Apple TV for playback, my initial attempts with VideoLAN Client transcoding more or less went nowhere. Then, TUAW reader BC reposted a comment earlier this evening that he ...

AirPlay running on XBMC Linux box

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2010)

AirPlay. It's not just for Apple products anymore. The video you see on the next page shows an XBMC install on a Ubuntu Linux box running an AirPlay client service. As with the AirPlayer solution I wrote for the Mac, the XBMC application advertises on Bonjour and can be played to directly from the ...

AirFlick turns Macintosh into an AirPlay data server

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2010)

If you own a Macintosh and an Apple TV, I have created a new tool that allows you to stream data outside of iTunes. It's called AirFlick, and it's now available in alpha form for download and testing. Last week, I put together a related application called AirPlayer that allows you to stream ...

Introducing AirPlayer: Mac-based AirPlay service allows device-to-Mac playback

by Erica Sadun (Dec 14th, 2010)

AirPlay is a very, very cool technology. Unfortunately, if you don't own an Apple TV 2 or other capable receiving device, it's not going to do you much good. (If you have the cash on-hand, for $99, the Apple TV mark 2 is a pretty sweet purchase. Just saying.) So I decided to figure out a way that ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Can I AirPlay to my Mac?

by Erica Sadun (Dec 8th, 2010)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Do you think a Mac will be able to accept an AirPlay feed in the future? Here's why I ask -- I'm considering getting a Mac mini for my home theater. But I realized that a great feature of AppleTV is the AirPlay functionality. It seems strange that the mini (that costs 7x more) ...

Hacksugar: Twisting your browser

by Erica Sadun (Dec 8th, 2010)

This morning, we posted a simple little trick for slowing down OS X animations by depressing the shift key. In the comments on that post, TUAW reader Rafe H reminded me about this sweet little trick that allows you to retain a warped (but still usable) browser window in your workspace. By slowing ...

Apple TV Hacking: Spelunking into the AirPlay video service

by Erica Sadun (Nov 24th, 2010)

When Apple announced its new iOS 4.2 feature set, Apple TV's AirPlay video service really caught our attention. That's why we were particularly disappointed when 4.2 debuted on Monday -- only Apple's own applications could ship video from iDevices to the 2nd generation Apple TV; third party ...

Apple TV Hacks: Ports and wikis

by Erica Sadun (Oct 13th, 2010)

The Apple TV jailbreak community remains in a holding pattern. As yet, the greenp0ison and limera1n jailbreak tools do not install command-line/full file access to the box, a precondition for most kinds of application development. That doesn't mean there aren't interesting events going on, however. ...

Chronic Dev Team releases greenpois0n jailbreak tool

by Richard Gaywood (Oct 12th, 2010)

Via Twitter, MuscleNerd announced the release of the Chronic Dev Team's iOS4 jailbreaking tool, greenpois0n. This follows some controversy in the jailbreaking community, after George "geohot" Hotz released his limera1in jailbreak tool one day before greenpois0n was due to be released, using a ...

limera1n jailbreak released, greenpois0n jailbreak delayed

by Erica Sadun (Oct 9th, 2010)

Jailbreak limera1n was released today for 4.1 iDevice users in what appears to be a contentious situation in the hacking community. Windows-only, the new jailbreak is not expected to work with Apple TV or debut on Linux and OS X for a bit. The previously announced dev-team jailbreak, which was ...

Apple TV Lowtide (Front Row) running on iPod touch

by Erica Sadun (Sep 28th, 2010)

It's been Apple TV-palooza here at TUAW today. Shortly after discovering that the Apple TV iOS firmware could be downloaded and unpacked, we took our first peek under the hood and saw just how similar the new Apple TV, with its Lowtide software, was to previous Apple TV releases. Soon after, we ...