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  • Tour of New Apple TV (March 2016)

    This evening I finished watching yesterday’s Apple Special Event video, in which Apple employees announced various product updates and refreshes. One of the updates I’m most interested in is the update to AppleTV. Among other things, it allows apps to be organized into folders, the same way users can organize apps on iOS devices like…

  • Remove distracting Apple TV icons

    Here’s a quick video showing how you can remove distracting icons from Apple TV if you have one in your classroom. We hadn’t updated the AppleTV firmware to the latest version, so I was unable to show/hide icons from the main menu screen, but I did show how to do it from the SETTINGS menu…

  • Separate Wifi Access Point Works Best with Apple TV on Busy Network

    The past few months I’ve been using a $100 Apple TV to mirror the screen of my iPad2 when I teach 6th grade Sunday School classes at our church. I’ve also experimented using the $15 Reflection App on my laptop, video dongle and a VGA cable. I prefer the Apple TV, even though I have…

  • Stream Hulu+ to a HDMI Television with Airplay Mirroring, an iPad2 and Apple TV

    Update 1 Jan 2012: We cancelled our trial membership to Hulu Plus. Although some negative reviews of the free Hulu Plus iPad app in iTunes might lead you to believe the app has “a lack of AirPlay support,” I’m pleased to report iOS 5‘s support of mirroring on an Apple TV permits content from Hulu+…

  • Mirroring an iPad with iOS 5 & Apple TV

    Today at The Apple Store in Oklahoma City I had my first chance to play with the “mirroring” features of Apple’s new iOS 5 on an iPad and Apple TV. Wow. I’m impressed. When everything is setup, the Apple TV mirrors EVERYTHING on the iPad. The frame rate for games is even pretty decent. With…

  • Adding a Flickr Contact on Apple TV

    This afternoon I helped my father in law get his new Apple TV setup. In addition to accessing Apple’s streaming content, he can now stream Netflix movies, watch YouTube videos, access all his photos, movies and music from his iMac, and also access Flickr photos on the living room television. Adding Flickr contacts was a…

  • Ad Blocking Lessons Learned with Pi Hole, Google (Nest) WiFi and AppleTV

    Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a relatively inexpensive and straightforward way to block all the advertisements in YouTube and other apps on the AppleTV? (Besides paying a monthly subscription for YouTube Premium?!) Wouldn’t it be great if this same method provided advertisement and malware blocking for ALL Internet-connected devices on your home network?…

  • Visualize Tweets on a Map with Avian for AppleTV

    If you have a 4th Generation AppleTV, you can use the free app Avian for Twitter to visualize tweets on a dynamically changing and zooming map. This is an engaging way to follow live tweets for a specific hashtag, like during a Twitter chat, or for a specific user or hashtag(s) you like to follow. You can…

  • Tips for Getting Started with AppleTV Mirroring

    Several teachers in our elementary school got AppleTVs installed in their classrooms recently and have questions about how to use it. These are some suggested tips and techniques for getting started. Since wifi network configurations are unique for different school districts, these instructions may be a little different than what you need for your setting.…

  • Contrasting Amazon and Apple’s PR Event Style: Bezos v Jobs

    Today’s the biggest day of the fall (in the northern hemisphere) for Apple fanboys and fangirls: The iPhone 5 iPhone 4S announcement is expected at the press event Apple’s hosting in Cupertino on its campus. The excitement starts at noon central time, and I’ll be following the news with Engadget’s event live blog Leo Laport’s Live…