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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.

Hacking TiVo: 23 Tips to Turbocharge Your DVR

Posted on Saturday, February 3, 2007 by MegaZone

Rich McIver sent me a pointer to this in email a couple of weeks ago, and I keep forgetting to post it. SatelliteSweeper.com collected 23 tips for TiVo users. It all looks like things that have been discussed in the … Continue reading →

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TIVO SELECTS THE KAPLAN THALER GROUP TO LEAD ADVERTISING EFFORTS

Posted on Friday, February 2, 2007 by MegaZone

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced that it has selected The Kaplan Thaler Group, Ltd., to serve as the creative resource for its advertising efforts.

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PVR Wire relocating

Posted on Thursday, February 1, 2007 by MegaZone

As I mentioned the other day, PVR Wire is shutting down as of today. The good news is that the PVR Wire team is moving to another Weblogs, Inc. blog – TV Squad. If you want to read just the … Continue reading →

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GRHS Technologies TiVo HME application for HomeSeer home automation system

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by MegaZone

I love seeing different applications like this one. Basically they’ve created an HME application that allows users of the HomeSeer home automation system to control devices in their home from their TiVo. It looks like it was released in December. … Continue reading →

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Series3 PROM Hack

Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 by MegaZone

This is not for the inexperienced. Engadget is reporting that user Narf54321 on the DealDatabase.com forums has done a successful S3 PROM Hack. For the non-geeks, the PROM is the Programmable Read Only Memory chip on the motherboard of the … Continue reading →

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