This is great news for those of you with jailbroken Apple TV’s. Since the release of our jailbreak, there hasn’t really been much going on in terms of new software to utilize. The folks behind XBMC (formerly “Xbox Media Center”) have managed to bring their software to the Apple TV 2. This means you can decode that awesome 1080p HD content, and utilize the hardware inside your little box.

Due to the nature of developing for Apple TV, this isn’t entirely an easy hack for the beginners. You will be required to use terminal commands, but if your familiar with this it should be a breeze.

Instructions are located here, which should help you through it all.

Install XBMC on ATV2 – XBMC

UPATE: also available for iPhone/iPad by adding this source to Cydia and installing
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/ios/

The drama surrounding the SHAtter exploit continues. A Dutch dev threatened to leak the code last week, and even though that threat was thought to have subsided, someone apparently did go ahead and leak SHAtter Wednesday. This led to a Twitter fight between p0sixninja and MuscleNerd, whom p0six had accused of being the leaker. Musclenerd denies this, but according to p0sixninja, SHAtter has been burned.

The SHAtter exploit was originally developed by onetime Chronic-Dev hacker pod2g. A weakness in the S5L8930 bootrom of A4-based devices (iPhone 4, iPad, Apple TV 2G, iPod touch 4G). It was originally intended for the 10.10.10 (10th October 2010) release of greenpois0n before Geohot came out of nowhere with the limera1n jailbreak for all iOS devices. SHAtter was held in reserve for a future jailbreak to conserve exploits in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game with Apple.

At this point, all we know for sure is that for unknown reasons, the code was potentially released by an unknown party Wednesday. It’s unclear at this time if this was the genuine SHAtter or a fake designed to throw Apple off the scent, as people who claim to have the leaked version are reporting trouble getting it to compile. However, Apple should be able to figure out pretty quickly if it is genuine or not. Meanwhile, in a furious back-and-forth on Twitter (blowing up the phones of all their followers all Wednesday afternoon), p0sixninja accused MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev-Team of being responsible for leaking the exploit. MuscleNerd rejected the accusation, explaining that it would make no sense for him to do so as he will need to be able to jailbreak the iPhone 5 in order to unlock it. MuscleNerd also noted that there were 15 to 20 others in the room when pod2g showed his SHAtter code for the first time, so the pool of suspects is large.

If SHAtter is truly burned, it’s potentially not catastrophic, as p0sixninja says another “untether bootrom exploit” is supposedly on the way. However, if we’ve lost a valuable tool due to some personal drama among devs, it’s a sad statement about the jailbreaking community.

Source: Twitter

Tis’ the season for Holiday Cheer, and well, Cydia Promotions.

Wi-Fi Sync, developed for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, has had a price slash for the last few days, coming in at $2.99 for the holiday season. Originally $9.99, Wi-Fi Sync is a 3rd party app for Jailbroken users, that allows you to wirelessly sync your iDevice over your Wi-Fi connection with iTunes.

By simply installing the application on your PC, alongside the App available in Cydia, you can forget about the cable and Sync at any time you like. Granted the transfer speeds are a bit slower, it’s well worth it if your not into the traditional method. Especially at this price.

What’s the catch? This promo ends in two days. It was originally expected to end on December 11th, but the developer has pushed the price slash until December 15th, 2010.

What are you waiting for? Head over to cydia and grab Wi-Fi sync now before this deal runs out!

http://getwifisync.com/

So you’ve probably heard there is a new version of Cydia, which is included in the recent tethered jailbreak redsn0w release. We’ve been testing it and chatting with chpwn and saurik about the differences in it, and thought we’d get a solid list of changes published.

chpwn did a lot of work on many visual tweaks, and as saurik put it “some of my long term performance plans are ‘hitting pay dirt’, and Cydia is much faster than it was before; that said, it isn’t done yet: there’s one more thing that I think is going to make a huge difference that isn’t even in there yet but should be for the final release.” And that’s the biggest improvement as far as many are concerned – it’s just way faster. Loading the Changes tab in my iPhone 4 is now nearly as quick as the AppStore.

Here’s a list of just some of the improvements:

• reduced loading changes time
• section remapping optimizations
• faster reloading data
• faster, native search
• uses public SDK classes whenever possible
• rewritten, faster web views with zooming support
• changes badge works again
• more stable webviews (no crashes when queueing)
• redesigned settings page
• redesigned stashing page
• faster scrolling of table views
• bug fixes
• ads no longer break the package views until restart
• much better queueing UI
• stabler refreshing bar

iPad improvements:

• - landscape
• - popovesr
• - modal views that cover only a portion of the screen
• - less annoying errors with bad internet connections downloading packages
• - updated section mappings, less typo’d sections

This version of Cydia is included in the recent redsn0w release, but if you’re on an iPhone 4 or other already jailbroken device, you can actually install it straight from your iDevice. The absolute easiest way to do so is make sure you have iFile and Safari Download Manager installed, then visit http://apt.saurik.com/cydia/debs/cyd…honeos-arm.deb from your device. Remember where you download it to, and navigate there with iFile afterwards. Tap the deb it and choose install – done!

Cydia is growing up so fast.