O'Reilly - TiVo Hacks.
100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools.







TiVo Hacks. 100 Industrial-Strength Tips &
Tools by Raffi Krikorian
ISBN: 0-596-00553-9,
288 Pages, August 2003

TiVo Hacks: 100
Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools covers tips for
changing the order of recor-ded programs, activating the
30-second skip to blaze through commercials,
and more, by using magical
remote-control codes. Then, once you take the
lid off your TiVo, you will learn how
to gain even more fun and functionality. You can upgrade the
hard drive for more hours of recording. Log in to the serial
port for command-line access to prog-ramming data, log files,
closed-captioning data, display graphics on the
TiVo screen, and even play
MP3's. While TiVo
gives viewers personalized control of their
TV's, TiVo Hacks gives
users personalized control of
TiVo
Readers who use
advanced hacks to put TiVo on their
home network via the serial port,
Ethernet, USB, or
Wireless (with 802.11b
WiFi) will watch a whole new world open up. By
installing various open source software packages, you can use
TiVo for mail, instant messaging,
caller-ID, and more. It's also easy to
run a web server on TiVo to schedule
recordings, access lists of recorded shows, and even display
them on a web site. While TiVo gives
viewers personalized control of their
TV's, TiVo Hacks gives
users personalized control of TiVo



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