Archive for the 'tivo' Category

Use Your Tivo With Your Mac

Tuesday, January 7th, 2003

According to http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/rendezvous.html “TiVo’s upcoming premium service package will use Rendezvous technology to automatically discover Macintosh computers within the home network and determine which services they provide, allowing customers to listen to their shared music or view their shared photos on their TV,” said Jim Barton, Co-founder and CTO for TiVo. “We are excited about [...]

First Tivo Hack of 2003

Wednesday, January 1st, 2003

So you wish there was a way to automatically skip 30 seconds (for commercials) on your Tivo? Well now you can! Check out http://www.bigmarv.net/how/tivo30secondskip.html for a quick 10 second “fix” that will activate this skipping feature! Basically, all you need to do is while watching a recording you already have on your Tivo, key in [...]

Tivo Coming Out With New Features

Friday, December 13th, 2002

I love my Tivo… My wife even loves it! (that says alot!) :) What can I say, it’s one of those things that you can live without but once you have it you realize how great it is… Anyways, Tivo has “pre-announced” some plans for the future involving the storage/playback of mp3s, digital photos and [...]

Build Your Own Linux PVR

Thursday, December 5th, 2002

Interesting discussion going on over at Slashdot (and isn’t it always interesting!) about a guy who built his own version of Tivo… While his idea/work may not be the best, there are lots of good links in the discussion to other people who have created their own PVRs (including an interesting project at SourceForge called [...]

I’m a Tivo Beta-Tester…

Thursday, October 24th, 2002

I signed a NDA, but I’m offically a Tivo Beta-Tester… Fun stuff! Hoping for cool stuff to come out very soon that I can’t talk about to anyone! And if you come over to my house, you will have to be blindfolded since it’s all top-secret/double secret probation… :)

Hacking My Tivo (Part 1)

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Well, as you may know, I picked up a Tivo a week or so back… Once again I have to comment how cool it is… I, however, made it just a little more “cooler”… There has been a lot of talk that if you are running version 3.0 or higher of the Tivo Software that [...]

My Tivo Dreams Have Become Reality…

Monday, October 14th, 2002

So yesterday, as a compromise for saving lots of money and buying the cheaper (but still very nice) blinds for our house from Home Depot, I was able to persuade Liz into finally agreeing on purchasing a Tivo… Has it changed my life in the less than 24 hours since I purchased it? Definitely… :) [...]

I really need a Tivo…

Friday, October 4th, 2002

I have become fascinated with Tivo’s as of late and have been trying to learn as much about them as possible… I predict I will have one before the end of the year… Just the thought of being able to record every ScreenSavers and every Good Eats fascinates me… :) Tivo owners that read marusin.com, [...]