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Rumor: Apple in talks with Miglia about DVR capabilities?

March 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment

When Apple TV was launched, arguably the biggest complaint was that you couldn’t record your own shows with it. Now it seems Apple is thinking about doing a HD DVR, but the limitation seems to be the internal 40Gb hard disk.

Enter the USB ports on the Apple TV. What if you could hook up an external hard disk? Miglia seems to provide the functionality Apple is looking for. However, making iTunes recognize that external USB drive may means some serious software integration, and it wouldn’t be in Apple’s best interest to leave Miglia completely independent.

Sources: The Apple Blog, Blackfriars, and MaxDailyNews.

Filed Under: Macintosh, Network, PVR

Remove Firefox auto-complete entries

August 7, 2006 By Leave a Comment

Lifehacker has an excellent tip on how to remove typo’s you’ve made in web forms:

Wait for the drop-down box to appear, move to the offending entry, and press SHIFT and DELETE at the same to remove it.

Thanks Gina!

Filed Under: Linux, Macintosh, Windows

Think Secret – Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room

November 29, 2005 By Leave a Comment

Think Secret has an interesting article on Apple’s road to a Media Center.

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0511macmini2.html

Filed Under: Macintosh, PVR

DVD or Video to iPod tutorial for Windows users

November 21, 2005 By Leave a Comment

Videora has created this tutorial on how to convert DVDs or standard videos to the iPod format. They use DVD Decrypter to import the DVD and their own Videora Converter to convert the video file to iPod format.

The iLounge forum has two discussions/tutorials, one for Windows, one for Mac users.

Oh, by the way, Videora also has a tool to convert your home movies to TiVo format.

Filed Under: Macintosh, PVR, Windows

TivoTool

August 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment

TivoTool is a TivoToGo program for Mac OS X and Linux users. On the Mac it seems to integrate very nicely with iTunes (I don’t think it will do the same on Linux… :) ). It does require you to ‘hack’ your Tivo by applying a couple of patches and installing vserver on your box… so if you’re not ready for that, wait for the official release of TivoToGo for Mac (which may not be that far away – considering Tivo is trying to hire a Mac programmer).

Filed Under: Linux, Macintosh, PVR
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