Their "aTV Flash" product is $30 and can be added to a jailbroken Apple TV 2 (the third-gen ATV has yet to be jailbroken). It makes it easy to add weather, RSS, a browser, XBMC, Plex, and some other apps to the ATV.
Most notably, however, is their own "Media Player" app, which is a pleasantly robust media center (think XBMC if it were made specifically for the Apple TV). It handles almost any file format I throw at it without fail and is a much better experience than XBMC's own ATV app in my experience.
I can't wait for Apple to officially release the ATV SDK and really open the floodgates, but it feels like pre-March 2008 all over again (when Apple announced the iOS SDK).
The linked article isn't about hacking the AppleTV to run apps. It's about figuring out what the API looks like today as a way to guess what it will look like if released. The point is not to do interesting things today; the point is to be among the first to release an app if the ecosystem does open up.
Their "aTV Flash" product is $30 and can be added to a jailbroken Apple TV 2 (the third-gen ATV has yet to be jailbroken). It makes it easy to add weather, RSS, a browser, XBMC, Plex, and some other apps to the ATV.
Most notably, however, is their own "Media Player" app, which is a pleasantly robust media center (think XBMC if it were made specifically for the Apple TV). It handles almost any file format I throw at it without fail and is a much better experience than XBMC's own ATV app in my experience.
I can't wait for Apple to officially release the ATV SDK and really open the floodgates, but it feels like pre-March 2008 all over again (when Apple announced the iOS SDK).