Hacking the Apple TV

Update on hacking the TV, there is an extremely easy tutorial on how to get your apple TV to do just about anything I’d ever want from a media center. One awesome step is to replace frontrow with centerstage. Centerstage is an opensource application for digital media that will play just about every video format. Another great thing to hear is the enabling of quartz desktop to make the TV another computer.

Before anyone asks why choose TV when you could just buy a…

Gizmo Follow-up and tutorial

Following my previous post I set out to get it straightened out this weekend and after hours and hours of messing with my Sipura Phone Adapter’s configuration I figured out Gizmo’s 775 service doesn’t work with hardware. I looked for hours on “one-way” calling problems with “no voice on receive” and I finally found at the bottom of 775 comparison table that 775 doesn’t work with hardware. What a mess. So now instead of having the awesome call screening and dual ringing we…

Asterisk box

My next project.

Build a home PBX (to be used with the gizmo service) that will satisfy the following requirements:
-cheap
-silent
-low power consumption

Bill of materials:
- Linksys NSLU2: $80
- 256MB USB flash drive: $20 FREE
- ATA - Sipura SPA 3000 (or other): $100

Install Intructions.