I love my AppleTV. One of the coolest home entertainment systems I’ve played with, but unfortunately it does lack some pretty important functionality like being able to play DivX/XVid, any sort of file storage capabilities, and no way to surf the web or anything cool like that.

Well, it turns out, The good people over at Apple Core, LLC agree that these things were important and have created a nice utility for making these dreams a reality! Here are some of my favourite features:

• access AppleTV hard drive via FTP (woohoo!)
• ability to play DivX movies
• ability to surf the web with safari
• integration with IMDB
• integrates with iPhone “Remote” application seamlessly!
• does not void my warranty!

It was easily one of the best $50 I’ve spent in a while. It creates a nice bootable USB stick, just restart the device and go! It has also not conflicted in any way with the other core functions of AppleTV, and yes, it works with the very latest firmware (2.1).

If you have an AppleTV, I definitely recommend this upgrade.

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