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[ Mediacentric] Whether it’s a simple trick, like turning your TiVo into a clock, or a serious hardware hack to increase the amount of storage space in the device, we’re here with several tips, tricks, and pointers to more information, so you can get more out of your TiVo time.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Dynagirl 5.0] hooray for the Gayest night on tv (besides monday night football): Sara Ramirez completely deserves that Tony - she really steals the show from the guys, she’s so incredibly versatile and talented. As far as the guys go, they’re all hilarious, but the way it’s written none of them really stands out as a “lead actor.” And also notice that the other shows split things up: book went to “Spelling Bee,” score went to “Light in the Piazza,” etc. (Piazza seemed to dominate the design awards, but it looks like it’s a more conventional piece and therefore an easier/more obvious choice for those.)So all in all I think it’s a fairly equitable split of the awards take. (and it’s LONG been known that big box office $$ gets the Best Musical award - this was proved beyond a doubt when “Into the Woods” won every award except BM, which went to “Phantom of the Opera.”) As for getting cut off at the end - the stupid producer was rambling in the most boring and pretentious fashion possible.

[Mt. Molelog] AOL's MystroTV: While this may sap the market for PVRs, it certainly won't destroy it -- because as long as it's controlled by a company that's also a studio and network, it will be in thrall to the CopyrightCartel. That means no automatic commercial skipping (like the ReplayTV 4000 and 5000); no 30 second skip (like all ReplayTV models and, via a hack, all TiVo models except ones running software 2.1 for some reason). It's much worse than just that, though:

[Hackaday.com] hack a day - www.hackaday.com _: This project initially started as an attempt to build a Mellotron, a tape based sampling synth. Paul Slocum recorded samples using a tape recorder and then taped the segments to the printer’s feed drum. The samples were then played back by varying drum speed and read head location.

[Jeremy.zawodny.com] Tivo Upgrade/Hacker Recommendation Needed (by Jeremy Zawodny): Good idea to send it out if you don't want to get totally sucked into this, Jeremy. It's true that most of this stuff is pretty easy, but there are a few gotchas here and there that can really complicate things (as I discovered this week when a quick re-hack has now burned three full days of my week).

[Pvrblog.com] How to setup a new TiVo without a phone | PVRblog: Vonage VS DirectTV DVR (model DVR40), My unit made a few succesful calls (useing the Motorola Voip box) but failed most of the time. So I called Vonage the shipped me a linksys broadband router with 2 phone ports (A cost of $99 to me) I installed it attempted to dial and after 8 hours of trying have given up (vonage asjusted the packet rate upped the band with, I even changed the modem speed on the DVR. (IE ,#whatever)) nothing has worked at all since then. Direct TV has been beeing a complete (pain in the but word here) about this issue, They have said I can not return the DVR (even though it was just purchased 12/18/04) and they say that unless I pay for a Land line phone I then I am stuck with a product that may or may not work beause Hughes Direct TV DVR uses a PASSIVE modem which apperantly is diffent than my modem in my computer which I have used over vonage to send 10+ pages of fax data out.

[Grumet.net] Andrew Grumet's Weblog: Nutty RSS/Tivo hack: But if you've already hacked up your Tivo to the point where you can telnet to it, it's not a whole lot of extra work to display RSS feed data right there on the screen. Click on the thumbnail to see the RSS 2.0 Reader for Tivo in action. The display options need some work. I'll probably try excerpting more from each post and then split the output over a few pages.

[Boingboing.net] Boing Boing: January 2004: I like to travel. But I'm not looking forward to a future in which I need to get to the airport five hours ahead of departure to be sure I won't miss a flight, one in which I'm patted down from head to toe several times every time I try to board a plane, one in which I am constantly explaining every item in my luggage and every twist in my itinerary to hostile agents. I've had the chance to think about airline security a great deal over the past few days, and I'll tell you this: After being asked by one security guard to drink from a water bottle in my carry-on to prove that it wasn't acid or poison; after being interrogated by a U.S. customs agent who was suspicious at the number of books I had in my luggage; after the long lines, the hand inspections, the X-ray screenings, the near riots by enraged passengers, the uncertainty and the anxiety -- after all that, traveling to a foreign land, or even just across the state of California, doesn't seem quite so exotic or alluring anymore. Link (Thanks, Kevin!)