Announced in the current issue of the TiVo newsletter, Netflix integration will be available on the Series3 and THD boxes next month! If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you’ll be able to “instantly” stream movies from Netflix to your TiVo … for free. I was a Netflix subscriber back in 1999 when I was still a …
John has released Galleon 2.5.4. Here’s what’s new, from the release notes: Fix ToGo looping bug on null recording date (1811137) Added user-selectable range for local radar image (100, 300, 600 miles) in Weather app auto-subdirectory publishing for GoBack, avoids the need to do it yourself and also avoids bugs in TiVo folder navigation in …
I’ve been playing around with Microsoft’s free Virtual PC 2007 product at work lately in an attempt to keep an old Visual FoxPro 3.0 application running on newer hardware. This particular application refuses to run on any machine with more than 256mb of physical RAM. That’s right, 256 megabytes. Needless to say this is not …
Tonight I did another in-place upgrade on my server, this time from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). Like last time, I did the upgrade through PuTTY over an SSH connection and it was flawless. I just had to clean up a few configuration files and put back my installation of Gallery 2.3 …
I’ve complained about my Vista woes here before since I upgraded from XP back in April. Well, apparently the solution to my Vista problems was just to buy a new PC. Thanks to a 20% off coupon found through my slickdeals.net RSS feed, I purchased a “built-for-new” (i.e., not refurbished) Dell Inspiron 530 desktop from …
TiVo and Nero today announced LiquidTV, a package that brings the TiVo experience to your Windows-based PC available on October 15. There are plenty of great blog articles covering this new product, like Megazone’s over on Gizmo Lovers. It looks pretty slick … it’s basically the TiVo interface on your PC, something (some) people have …
Last month I added a small enhancement to Galleon’s weather app that allowed for a user-selectable range for the radar image (instead of using the default 600-mile one). I published my source code changes and the new jar file here on my blog. Now earlier this month, jtkohl released Galleon 2.5.3 which contained a fix …
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The office directory touchscreen in my building has been stuck like this all day: Nice to see that Win98 is still in use … I think.
The 9.4 software release for the TiVo Series3 and HD boxes included the ability to stream YouTube videos in H.264 format and the community quickly started re-engineering the feature. pyTiVo developer wmcbrine was the first one to get a basic stream working in his HME for Python framework. Now, TiVo Community user moyekj has released …
Last month after fixing a problem in Galleon’s weather application it was pointed out to me that my fix displayed the 100-mile radar map whereas originally Galleon had shown the 600-mile map. Well, I decided to take a crack at coming up with a solution for that as well. This gave me an opportunity to …
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