Category: Geek

Some­times, toll-free tech sup­port does exact­ly what it should: help the cus­tomer solve their problem.

Today, I’m work­ing on a Flickr search engine for Fire­Fox. Why has­n’t some­one done that already? Well, for one, Flickr isn’t real­ly set up for exter­nal searches.

So, in the last day I’ve been play­ing catch-up to some folks who have already deter­mined that using Son­ic MyD­VD transcod­ing for .tivo files was not for them either. They’ve detailed they’re steps, so I’ll just take a bit to gloss over mine.

After three weeks, I final­ly got my ser­vice update for v7.1 of the TiVo ker­nal yes­ter­day evening. By the next after­noon I had a DVD of record­ed shows. Instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion it’s not.

The pow­er behind this is the use of closed cap­tion to cre­ate search­able text from tele­vi­sion. The nice thing here is that you can search video based on total spo­ken content.

Apple seems to be tak­ing the Tar­get approach to design. That is to say, great design need­n’t be expensive.

There is a lot of news going around my house­hold in this New Year. Not the least of which is the fact that tomor­row is the last day of my job at URS Cor­po­ra­tion or that I have sev­er­al new gad­gets that don’t entire­ly work! That’s all for anoth­er time, though. This post is all… Con­tin­ue read­ing TiVo To Go