Author Archives: MegaZone

About MegaZone

MegaZone is the Editor of Gizmo Lovers and the chief contributor. He's been online since 1989 and active in several generations of 'social media' - mailing lists, USENet groups, web forums, and since 2003, blogging.    MegaZone has a presence on several social platforms: Google+ / Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / LiveJournal / Web.    You can also follow Gizmo Lovers on other sites: Blog / Google+ / Facebook / Twitter.

Galleon development to restart?

Posted on Monday, June 4, 2007 by MegaZone

Alex of TiVoBlog alerted me to his most recent post. He noticed a recent post on the Galleon forum by a John Kohl, stating that Galleon development is going to restart. For those who don’t know, Galleon is one of … Continue reading →

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Would you like a 2TB Series3?

Posted on Monday, June 4, 2007 by MegaZone

The standard Series3 comes with a 250GB drive. Resellers like DVRupgrade have been selling expanded units with up to 1TB of internal storage. And, just a month ago, the TiVo hacking community published the Kickstart 62 code to enable eSATA. … Continue reading →

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Are Best Buy and Blockbuster getting into video downloads?

Posted on Sunday, June 3, 2007 by MegaZone

Ars Technica is reporting that Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer let slip some information that indicates Best Buy and Blockbuster are going to enter the video download market. “We have nearly a dozen active agreements in place for digital delivery of … Continue reading →

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TiVo and GPLv3

Posted on Sunday, June 3, 2007 by MegaZone

OK, I saw this article and some others in the past week. The GPLv3 is the General Public License, version 3. What is it? The GPL is the license that covers a great deal of open source software or free … Continue reading →

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WordPress Conversion Complete

Posted on Saturday, June 2, 2007 by MegaZone

The site is now running completely within WordPress. All of the formerly static XHTML pages have been moved into WordPress as ‘Pages’. I’m now using WordPress both as the blog and as a CMS for the site. I’ve edited all … Continue reading →

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