Feeling mischievous? Just a little geeky? In this final chapter of “Take Control of Apple TV,” Josh Centers shows you how to take your Apple TV beyond what Apple intended, in three ways: playing video from otherwise unavailable sources via the Plex media management system, recording live TV to your Mac with an El Gato EyeTV HD and then showing it on the Apple TV, and getting around DNS-based region restrictions.

 

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For the most part, what you can do with the Apple TV is what Apple intended to let you do. But what if you want more? What if you want to serve all your video from a Mac or NAS and view it on the Apple TV, without involving iTunes? What if you want to record live TV and watch it on your Apple TV? In this final chapter of “Take Control of Apple TV,” Josh Centers turns you on to the Plex media management system and how to use an El Gato EyeTV to send recorded TV to your Apple TV.

 

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Två män som misstänks ha våldtagit en 14-årig flicka i Kumla i november släpptes ur häktet på måndagen, uppger lokala medier.

Linnéuniversitetet i Kalmar är ett steg närmare bygget av nya lokaler i Ölandshamnen.

Polismannen har omplacerats från sin ordinarie tjänst.

Capt.Albatross writes "At Slate, Chris Kirk presents a map of schools in the USA that both receive public funding and teach creationism. It also shows public schools in those states where they are allowed to teach creationism (without necessarily implying that creationism is taught in all public schools of those states). There is a brief outline of the regulations in those states where this occurs, but the amounts involved are not discussed."

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Yanukovych scraps harsh anti-protest legislation that sparked days of violent clashes, president's website reports.

Victoria har utsatts för trafficking i Sverige.

schwit1 writes "New leaked NSA documents shed a new light on the agency's assault on the data controls of smartphone apps. Using app data permissions as a jumping off point, the documents show agency staffers building huge quantities of data, including 'intercepting Google Maps queries made on smartphones, and using them to collect large volumes of location information.' One slide lists capabilities for 'hot mic' recording, high precision geotracking, and file retrieval which would reach any content stored locally on the phone, including text messages, emails and calendar entries. As the slide notes in a parenthetical aside, 'if it's on the phone, we can get it.'"

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For decades the future of tech was far more exciting than the present.

The potential was overwhelming to people who got a glimpse of it.

But a lot of that potential has now been realized, been incorporated into the structure of society. You know -- digital natives, for example. We all use the devices few dared to dream of.

That, and that if you project out, where tech is going is fairly depressing. You can thank Facebook and Google and the NSA for that.

Why are protesters invading the privacy of tech people?

Just by asking the question that way, it's kind of obvious, no?

The Washington Post is right, it's time for tech to come down to earth. We've heard all the hype, we were part of the dream, that made you so rich. Now, we have to deal with the aftermath, not just us, but you too.

BTW, I emailed myself a copy of the image via GMail. Now fucking Google doesn't offer a way for me to download it, I can only share it via Google Plus. I'll figure out some way to get it on my website not yours, but in the meantime, oy.