Category Archives: Apple

TiVo and Sling make PCWorld’s 100 Best Products of 2007

Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 by MegaZone

From the list #79 TiVo Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder, #32 Sling Media Slingbox Pro, #99 Sling Media SlingPlayer Mobile. The full article is here. As someone who uses all three of these, I certainly agree with these picks. I … Continue reading →

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SlingPlayer for Mac 1.0 released today

Posted on Monday, April 30, 2007 by MegaZone

Dave Zatz just pre-announced on the SlingCommunity.com forums that Sling Media will be releasing the 1.0 version of the Mac SlingPlayer, which has been in beta for a while. EDIT: And here is the press release…

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TiVo Planet Dashboard Widget for OS X

Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 by MegaZone

Alex Raiano of TiVoBlog.com has created a Dashboard Widget for OS X which tracks the content of the top TiVo-related blogs: TiVoBlog, ZatzNotFunny (TiVo-related posts), TiVoLovers, Zeigen.com (TiVo-related posts), and DavisFreeberg.com (TiVo-related posts). Not being a Mac user, I can’t … Continue reading →

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TiVo2DVD for UNIX/Linux users

Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 by MegaZone

My friend usagijer tipped me off to a new item on SourceForge: TiVo2DVD. Tivo2dvd creates and executes the series of commands required to access, format, and burn television shows from a Series II Tivo directly to a DVD. It supports … Continue reading →

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Rumor: Apple to open up Fairplay DRM

Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 by MegaZone

Apple plans to open up protected music and movies content bought from the iTunes Store , Tech.co.uk has learned. So Tech.co.uk is reporting that Apple is going to start opening up their FairPlay DRM to ‘Made for iPod’ licensees. They … Continue reading →

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