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Watching TiVo on an iPod Touch

April 20, 2010 How To
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I’m finally get­ting around to work­ing on some­thing I’ve wanted to do for some­time. Last year my kids and I got hooked on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Every Sun­day morn­ing we would sit on the sofa and watch it on the TiVo. It was our way to recon­nect and watch some­thing we enjoy together. […]

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iPhone and iTunes uses standard formats

August 12, 2008 How To

A friend told me recently that he does not like iTunes and iPods because it uses non-standard for­mats.  A lit­tle research later and here’s my response ( I bor­rowed heav­ily from Wikipedia.com ). .MP4 and .M4V, AAC are the video for­mats Apple co-developed with Microsoft and oth­ers back start­ing back in 1997.  AAC ( also […]

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Why Apple will get my money

March 16, 2008 Life

To fol­lowup on yes­ter­days con­ver­sa­tion. The vision I have for the IT infra­struc­ture of my home ( yes, I used IT infra­struc­ture and home in the same sen­tence ) revolves around Apple prod­uct. No sur­prise there. My vision is one where the com­put­ers in the house auto­mat­i­cally and seam­lessly backup on a reg­u­lar basis with­out user […]

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My Amazon Unbox experience has been terrible!

March 1, 2008 Life

I tell my kids ( 9 and 7 ) “let’s order a piz­zaa and watch a movie”. Yeah, Dad’s a cool guy. Ama­zon tells me that the down­load will take 30 min­utes to my TiVo. 1.5 hours later my kids and I are eat­ing pizza and WE STILL HAVE NO MOVIE TO WATCH!!!!! iTunes? I find […]

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The Apple Home

January 19, 2008 Life

The dis­cus­sion over on the Mac­World forums have me think­ing more about the Apple TV, Apple Time Cap­sule, Time Machine, and iTunes movie rentals and pur­chases. I think iTunes music and video rentals and pur­chases will become the way I get all of my media con­tent. I think I can replace the cable com­pany HD […]

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TV and MacBook Air">Time Capsule, Apple TV and MacBook Air

January 16, 2008 Life

I was in the Com­put­ing in the Cloud Work­shop at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity yes­ter­day but their was quite a bit of buzz at Mac­World as well. The high­lights: Time Cap­sule Apple takes the con­cept of a hard drive plugged into the Air­Port Extreme base sta­tion one more step fur­ther and com­bines the two and call is […]

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