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• Videos Tab in TiVo Desktop - Video Blogs Now Playing - Nearly. There’s an Easter Egg in the version 1.9.3 of the TiVo Desktop software for Mac. Flipping the right switch in the Preference Pane’s preference shows a new ‘Videos’ tab. Restarting the server and scrolling to the bottom of ‘Now Playing’ shows my MacBook. I’m very pleased they put my videos in ‘Now Playing’ (even at the bottom),
• Tivo HD vs Apple iTV Jen and I talked about Baby Tivo recently. It’s a paltry 40gig, single-tuner. But, sans-cable, it serves us well. Today, Apple announced their iTV, shipping sometime next year. Priced at $300, plays HD video, HDMI ports, wifi, Front Row (or something like it), everything you’d expect (maybe a DVD drive?). Then later today, I received an
• Monday, March 12, 2007 2:19:18 PM While I haven’t posted about it, the All-Star Amazing Race is well underway. Last night was the first evening this season I felt it was good and engaging. Uchenna and Joyce helped another team reach the pitstop to eliminate Rob and Amber. That’s how the Amazing Race is different. As I’ve mentioned many times before
• Captain Subtext and the Curse of Jeff Murdoch  Last weekend, Jen and I received BBC’s Coupling Season 1 off the Netflix. The debut episode showed promise yet fell flat on us. While I plugged away on some programming, Jen watched the remaining 4 episodes. Then we watched them again. Good stuff. They should have made the debut episode a hidden track, it didn’t
• My TiVo Upgraded to Online Services As of tonight, my TiVo can receive Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Traffic, Live365 radio stations, and podcasts. I wasn’t able to successfully load up Minnesota Stories or PodcastMN by hand (text entry by remote not that annoying) right out of the gate. More to come. Update 14 January 2006: First Crack Podcast works on Tivo.