TiVo HME Media Server, Galleon 1.0 Released

Leon has just informed me that version 1.0 of Galleon has been released. Here’s a copy of the email he sent me.

The Galleon 1.0.0 media server for TiVo is now available at:
http://galleon.sourceforge.net

Galleon is a free open source media server for TiVo? which allows you to enjoy many kinds of content and [...]

TiVo Announces Developer Challenge Winners

The winners of the TiVo developer challenge have been announced! Congratulations to all the winners. Here’s a summary of the results:

Music Monkey
Best Music Application
Flickr
Best Photo Application
NBC Trivia
Best Game Application
Digital Home
Best Information Application
Galleon
Most Creative Application
AudioFaucet
Grand Prize Application

Unfortunately I haven’t had an opportunity to try out each of these apps. As a matter of [...]

How About A “Free” TiVo?

TiVo is offering a really great deal for anybody who is looking for a TiVo. If you purchase a 12 month gift subscription ($155.40) or a lifetime subscription ($299.00), TiVo will throw in a 40 hr factory-renewed TiVo for free! To top it off, they will even pay for shipping ($17). If [...]

You Know You’re Addicted To TiVo When…

This happened awhile ago however; I forgot to mention it on this blog. Being the big geek that I am, I decided to try out VoIP. Since my cable company doesn’t offer VoIP with their cable service, I went with Vonage as my provider. Unfortunately, I ran into problems right away. [...]

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s day to all you Dads out there. This is an especially important Father’s day for me since it is my first . Today I plan on spending a couple of hours catching up on a Yankees TiVo recording from yesterday. My son, who is only 4 months old, is [...]

A Cool Deal on Tivo Boxes … or not.

Make sure you call first before jumping on this seemingly good e-deal from the mothership [...]

Useful TiVo Tips

In case you did not know, TiVo offers a number of remote control tricks that make your the device do a number of different things. Up until now, the only trick that I’ve really ever used was the “SELECT-PLAY-SELECT-9-SELECT” key combination. This trick causes TiVo to display a clock in the [...]

TiVo And Intel To Offer TV On Your Laptop

According to this article, TiVo and Intel are going to team up to offer TiVoToGo functionality to Intel Centrino users. I’m not exactly sure what this news means since TiVoToGo technology has been out since January ‘05. The article states that:

Users of TiVo’s personal video recorders will be able to transfer recorded television [...]

Yet Another PVR Related Blog

Weblogsinc, the creator of Engadget and many other successful blogs, has decided to create their very own PVR blog. The site, PVRWire, looks to be very promising. If PVRWire ends up being anything like Weblogsinc’s other sites then it will be a great success. Good luck PVRWire!