While we’re waiting for MobileMe to become available for longer than five minutes, it’s worth noting among the App Store fanfare that Apple has also updated its AppleTV.

Early Thursday Apple released iTunes 7.7, making the App Store possible. It also provides support for a new iTunes remote app — appropriately named Remote — that allows any iPhone or iPod Touch to control iTunes media playback on a computer connected to the same local network.

In addition to iTunes 7.7, Apple also made available AppleTV 2.1 software; you can find it by checking software updates under the AppleTV settings panel.

The non-sexy part of the updated AppleTV software are security improvements, which Apple discusses here. The sexy enhancements are support for Remote and MobileMe — if it ever gets here.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog folks went the extra mile, as they say, and photographed the setup, including MobileMe. Among MobileMe’s features is the ability to upload photographs from the phone’s camera or a computer and have the galleries available on the iPhone and AppleTV, a nice cross-product, platform feature.

Once we get MobileMe, we’ll see how well the iPhone, AppleTV, and MobileMe integrates.

Other posts that may be of interest

• Update: iPhone woes continue: iPhone software 2.0 upgrade bricking first-gen iPhones
• Surprisingly, Apple botches the debut of MobileMe. Where is it?
• Google releases new Gtalk Web app; what does it mean?
• MobileMe launches Wednesday night; will it be revolutionary or underachieving?
• The App Store: Can it be worth $1 billion to Apple by 2010 with 70 percent free apps?
• Verizon, Rhapsody also team up for VCAST Music with Rhapsody service

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