Streaming service Netflix has updated its iOS application with support for the iPhone and iPod touch.
It’s official. Four out of four Mac|Life editors still using the iPhone 3G have said sayonara to iOS 4. Many of its marquee features aren’t compatible with our two-year-old handsets anyway—no multitasking, no nifty orientation lock, not even back…
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If you’re one of the few who’s running a stock Apple TV — go read something else. For the rest of you, it’s time to get your Boxee on again!
MacNN is reporting that the latest beta of Boxee — version 0.9.20.10708 to be precise — now restores the ability to run on Apple TV, according to the developer. This is significant, since the new, redesigned Boxee has been MIA from most hacked Apple TVs since Cupertino updated it to version 3.0 (it was technically possible, but only for those with a knowledge of SSH).
Thanks to a “resurrected” atvusb-creator tool, Apple TV users can again create a USB matchstick to boot their device and get Boxee running in just a few steps. Upgrading users are encouraged to perform a clean install, deleting any prior Boxee UserData folder and starting from scratch. This folder is located on your Apple TV within the Library/Application Support/BOXEE/ directory.
For the less adventurous among you, the new Boxee beta is also available from ATVFlash, a more commercially-minded program which collects a number of third-party hacks into one package and allows you to easily update them via the Internet on your Apple TV at any time.
For those of you who haven’t heard of Boxee yet, the open source software based on XBMC is a media browsing interface with far greater format support than the stock Apple TV will get you — including the ability to stream web video from sources other than YouTube. Boxee is also available in Mac, Windows and Ubuntu Linux flavors, and the company has partnered with D-Link for a Boxee Box hardware device that’s promised for this spring.
I upgraded to Safari 4 once it was out of beta–or so I thought. This thing crashes all the time! Every time I open it, almost, it freezes up and I have to force-quit. Sometimes this happens a few times before my startup page will actually load. My friend who did use the Safari 4 beta and then upgraded to the final release says that, for him, the beta was actually more stable! I do have SafariStand installed, even though I never use it–could that be the problem? I don’t see an option in the preferences to uninstall it. Can you help, or should I go back to Firefox?
We sympathize with your frustration, having experienced the same chronic issue with Safari freezing up on launch. Nothing is more annoying than a Web browser that refuses to browse the Web, huh? The morning we read your email, Software Update had an update to Safari (version 4.0.2), so try that and see if it makes things work a little better.
If that doesn’t help, your next move should be to uninstall SafariStand, since you don’t use it much anyway. (For readers unfamiliar with SafariStand, it’s a SIMBL plug-in that adds more menu items to Safari, like killing animated GIFs, altering sites’ appearances, and a lot more.) Look for a file called SafariStand.bundle in Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. Delete it and restart Safari, and you should be good to go. Since doing both of those things, we’ve gone from Safari locking up while loading the homepage 60 percent of the time to almost never.
How to delete SafariStand: Find this file, delete it, and restart Safari.
If you get Safari 4 working again and find you miss SafariStand, head to hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html and download a new Safari 4–compatible version, available for Tiger and Leopard Macs. The plug-in is freeware.
The Skype video and audio capture tool wasn’t the only application to add support for OS X 10.6. A pair of programs from Chronos added Snow Leopard support, as did AJA Video’s line of Kona video capture cards. Panoweaver 6 for the Mac also debuted Wednesday, while Audio 2 DJ is now available in stores.
