Streaming from TiVO how to for TiVO owners by Dave Zatz “TiVo’s rumored HD model seems almost as good as vaporware these days, so it’s a good thing your existing Series 2 still has a few tricks left up it’s sleeve. For example, your PC can broadcast audio from the Sirius web site and then […]
Eliot on Engadget has a sub-ish $1,000 HTPC how-to, he writes “We’ve seen a lot of home theater PCs lately and being in need of a new workstation, we decide to build one of our own. We started planning by looking around to see what others had done. It would be fun to own a […]
Check out these great photos of a homemade tiki fireplace complete with glowing red eyes and a smoke machine for the smoking nostrils! I think someone could make these as kits to retrofit fireplaces, or just follow these photos and make your own. [via] Link.
Remember that free app “TouchAmp” that turned your old Palm into a touch-screen remote for Winamp? Now you get the source code – “TouchAmp’s GPL’d source code is available…I’d be delighted if some skilled developers contributed to this project. Some popular feature requests have been: USB/Bluetooth/Wifi connectivity for more recent Palm PDAs.” Link.
The best free DIY PVR MythTV has a new version – From the release notes…“LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching. Signal Monitoring for DVB and pcHDTV recorders. Ending times may be changed while recordings are in progress. Playgroups allow for default playback options on recordings. Channel changes can be made across tuners […]
Vermin writes – “I stumbled across this bit of overkill describing the construction of a PVR (personal video recorder) with the following specs: 4 x HDTV tuners, 7 x SD tuners, all can work simultaneously, 4 x 250GB drives – 1TB of storage space, 112 hours of HDTV recording or 424 hours of SD recording.” […]
Here’s how to a build a remotely managed music player out of a $40 wireless router, a $15 USB audio adapter, and a $12 LCD kit. [via] Link.
