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apple TV is an excellent little device if you limit yourself to the Apple universe of music video and podcasts who wants to be limited i'm tom erik from cnet com I'm going to show you how to add divx avi and more to your Apple TV XBMC is free and open source software for windows linux and OS 10 that many consider the best media center software out there it grew out of the mod chips that they used to use on the original xbox and because it can run on OS 10 that means it'll run on the Apple TV which runs on OS 10 boxee is a service based on XBMC that is currently in private alpha you can get some free invites actually they were nice enough to set up one just for you at boxee TV / seen it then you'll have to download and set that service up separately let's get started on the mod make sure you have your Apple TV turned off then make sure you have a USB stick with at least one gigabyte of space download the ATV USB creator from google code insert a bootable USB Drive into your Mac run the ATV USB creator select a TV patch stick make sure the XBMC and boxee plugins are selected now make sure your USB Drive is selected and press create using again make sure your Apple TV is off remove the USB Drive and plug it in to your Apple TV power on your Apple TV and the patch stick will run the ATV bootloader after the bootloader finishes remove it and restart your Apple TV it now has options for boxee XBMC right there on the main menu click on voxxi then select update boot launcher this is going to help prevent some problems with the remote then select XBMC boxee then update and then boxee this will download boxee from the net once it's done installing restart your Apple TV then do the same thing for XBMC you'll probably want to explore the facts at XBMC and the blog at boxee to make the most of your new capabilities that's it for this insider secret I'm Tom Merritt cnet com you