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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My Series3 box upgraded to the new 9.4 software release yesterday. The Summer 2008 Service Update is for Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs only and includes the following new features: the ability to play (or delete) an entire folder at once (which is helpful if you want to queue up a bunch of SpongeBob for …
For years I’ve used the home inventory feature of Microsoft Money to track important items in the house, along with purchase dates, replacement amounts, serial numbers, etc. Even when, starting with Money 2005, it was no longer a supported piece of the application, I continued to use it just because I had so much information …
I love my 30gb iPod Video … I really do. The interface is simple and elegant; the hardware is a marvel; its changed how I listen to music, and what I listen to: I don’t listen to radio at all anymore, I listen to podcasts (or when the podcasts run out, music!). So why, why, …
I’ve been using Galleon for a long time (since its JavaHMO roots) to play my music library on my TiVos. Now there’s nothing wrong with it, but development has pretty much come to a complete halt. Enter a new HME music application: Harmonium by Charles Perry. It’s still in early beta (only up to version …
A few weeks ago, the Local Radar screen in Galleon‘s weather application started showing “N/A” instead of the image from weather.com. Galleon has been dormant, development-wise, for a while. It was updated late last year with some bug fixes and HD support by s2kdave and jtkohl, but has lapsed into the realm of unsupported (but …
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Microsoft has released “a reliability and performance update for Windows Vista SP1-based computers.” According to the KB article, the update specifically addresses a problem with e-mail clients and ZoneAlarm, so maybe it will fix my Vista woes (no mention of a VPN fix, though). I’ve downloaded and applied the patch, but I’m in no rush …
I ran into another Vista SP1 problem this evening. Whenever I used Start-Search, or the Win+F shortcut, I got the following error: search: This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel. Google to the rescue again! Apparently something in SP1 …
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