Folks over Engadget found some interesting references while they were tinkering the codes of iOS 4.3 beta as ATVGames and ATVThunder suggesting ” a driver of some kind, Leaderboards to Game Center, multiplayer options and an unloading platform type or iTunes App Store . ”

References to ” com.apple.appletv.play.live.thunder ” and ” .play.archive.thunder, “could also indicate the streaming of such games to set-top-box, for ” OpenGL is now mature enough to transmit data from low bandwidth , ” argues the media.
Via: AppleInsider

Good news for XBMC fans, The XBMC media center has been fully ported to the Apple TV, iPad, and iPhone. All you need is to jailbreak your device first (if you haven’t already). Following are the instructions on how to install this application on your Apple TV, iPad and iPhone.

Instructions to Install XBMC on Apple TV 2 (Black) :

Step 1. Launch terminal or your favorite command line based client on your Apple computer.
Step 2. Note your Apple TV IP address, this can be found by going to Settings >> General …

aTV Flash is a set of programs that add features to your Apple TV. It adds support for a browser, many file formats, RSS feeds, Plex, and additional plug-ins and apps, aTV Flash is a digital Swiss-Army knife for the Apple TV. One of the most refreshing things about aTV Flash is its extremely simple setup. aTV Flash (black) is simple to use and safe for your AppleTV. Installation is a snap and doesn’t require any physical changes to the AppleTV.
aTV Flash (Black) is in Beta version and you can …

So you got your Apple TV and Jailbreak (Guide to Jailbreak Apple TV with Pwnage Tool) it’s time to save your Apple TV SHSH on file and set your jailbreak future safe. iPhone jailbreakers are more familiar with ECID, SHSH terms. For those who are new in the jailbreaking arena, ECID is a unique chip ID and will be different for every iDevice. When iTunes starts the restore process, they contact Apple servers to generate signatures just for your device. It’s important you get these signatures for your iPad before …

SSH is one of the handiest tools ever ported for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and now Apple TV.Secure Shell more generally known as SSS  is a network protocol that allows you to establish a remote connection between two or more hosts. This protocol allow us to access the root privileges of your iDevice file system. We may, thus, transfer files and content at will, in any folder. Once you’ve jailbroken your Apple TV , you can access your Apple from a shell on your Mac or with third party …

ECID or Exclusive Chip ID, is an unique identifier to every iDevice unit. Apple added ECID with iPhone 3GS and onward, the ECID verify and sent signatures to Apple’s servers for re-signing to get a valid SHSH. Doing this Apple has been disallowing downgrades (even via DFU Mode) on newer devices when a new firmware version is released.
ECID security is introduced to prevent us downgrading the firmware of our iDevice. When iTunes starts the process of restoring the firmware, the server asks Apple to create a sort of certificate to …

Apple TV second generation got it’s very first jailbroken app called nitoTV. NitoTV is a front end for the popular mplayer media player; however, it also includes additional capabilities to view RSS feeds, weather forecasts, a variety of kexts/frameworks/binaries, perian, mplayer codecs, perform the safe update, play nes, snes, genesis, game gear and gameboy advanced roms and much more.
Right now only Weather app is working on ATV2 but developer promises to bring more functionalities sooner or later.
Requirements :

Jailbroken Apple TV (Guide to Jailbreak Apple TV with Pwnage Tool)
Working Internet …

Apple TV can be configured to respond only to a certain remote. The Apple Remote works with the built-in IR receiver on Apple TV just like other Apple products.  You can set Apple TV to work only with the included remote by pairing Apple TV and the remote. Pairing can be very useful in case you have multiple Apple products i.e. iMac, MacBook and Apple TV. Using remote universally can cause nearby experience issues since remote working with all devices.
Note : By default, the included remote comes unpaired.

To pair Apple …

iPhone Dev team just released pwnage tool jailbreak for iOS 4.x, confirming that the new release will support iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4, iPod touch 2G, 3G, and 4G, as well as the iPad and the second-generation Apple TV. iPhone Dev team ported GeoHotz limera1n exploit in to pwnage tool. Limera1n is is a low-level bootrom exploit which will allow the use of unsigned code execution. The specialty of this exploit is that it cannot be patched with software or firmware update and requires new bootrom to get …