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Interested in trying out Boxee? Then email me and I’ll drop you an invite to Boxee. I figured that I might as well let the folks who drift onto this blog check it out as I’ve been writing about it for ExtremeTech and doing a few blog entries here about it.
So if you’re interested in [...]

It looks like Boxee has released the full, easy to install fix ready for Apple TV 2.3. You can download the updated patchstick creator software to install Boxee on your Apple TV.
After a frenetic few days work, developers Scott Davilla and Stephan Diederich last night posted a full and slick fix to enable easy installation [...]

The new Boxee update is out and should fix any problems people have been having running Boxee after the Apple TV 2.3 update. However, it’s a geeky solution so you might still want to wait for Boxee to release a plug-n-play type solution.
if you have Apple TV running the 2.3 firmware, want to run boxee [...]

Just a heads up for anybody who might not have updated their Apple TVs yet. Don’t do it until the new patch from Boxee is out. The Apple TV 2.3 update breaks Boxee and you won’t be able to use Boxee on your Apple TV if you update it to 2.3.
There’s a thread about this [...]

I got this message earlier today:
Error 2: share not available
Turns out I didn’t have SMB sharing on. I fixed that and restarted my iMac.
I still couldn’t get Boxee to see my shares though until I exited out of Boxee, went into XBMC for a moment and then back into Boxee.
I have no idea why this [...]

So I went to watch Rob Roy today on Boxee via Hulu and got this message:
“We are sorry, but the video you have requested is restricted to users 17 years and older”
Heh, heh. Well I’m certainly older than that.
However I was not able to watch the movie. It just gave me some [...]

Boxee was very easy to install on my Apple TV. I wrote a column for ExtremeTech about it.
It’s working well and it’s making me wish that Apple TV would incorporate a lot of its features. Seriously. Apple needs to open up Apple TV to other developers or something. I suspect we’d see a lot more [...]

Here are some instructions on how to upgrade your Apple TV by installing Boxee. I have not done this yet but I think I got an email from Boxee inviting me to their alpha so I may try it at some point.
This is a guide that, if followed, will unchain your Apple TV from its [...]