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I recently visited the tivo.com site to check it out since it has been about 2 years (i think) since I visited the tivo listing guide.  I didn’t get a chance to sit down in front of the tivo unit to actually schedule the recordings last week so I decided to work on it on my computer.

What amazes me is that 1-click record option. You click on on and you’re done! Of course there is a way to customize the 1-click record option to your preference like priority, video quality recording, keep until, start time and finish time.

There’s also an option to do a 1-click season pass but I haven’t tried that button yet.

The tivo tv listing guide also has that feature where you can select the full screen tv guide or the regular screen with navigational bar on the left side.

Overall I’m impressed on tivo effort in making the user experience less painful.

zeenanoko :: Jul.12.2010 :: Technology, Television :: No Comments »

I used the code 19 on the Samsung Bd-c6500 Blu-Ray Player to program the remote control.  I just got around programming the remote control months after we bought this player and got a little tired of switching from one remote to another just to adjust the Visio TV volume.  TV Channel switching on my Visio is also enabled and same with the mute button.  One of my Visio TV’s remote feature that I couldn’t make to work on the Samsung disc player remote is that of the media source selector.

Also, one of the great feature of this Samsung Bd-C6500 Blu-Ray player is the built-in Wireless Lan.  Some blu-ray/dvd player that’s out in the market today needs an accessory to connect to your wireless lan in order to take advantage of the Internet capabilities of these new media players.

Recently, we had been watching Netflix thru this Samsung BD-c6500 Disc Player and with the HD streaming from Netflix it makes the picture quality very pleasant to view.

zeenanoko :: May.31.2010 :: General, Technology, Television :: No Comments »

Looks like my outbound flight has gogo wifi.
Now the question is, which device should I use?  Should I pull out my netbook? Do I patch in my BB 9700? Or should I just use my Ipod Touch? hmmmm….. NAAHHHH!!! I’m too freakin wasted from last night’s drinking binge I can’t barely even keep my eyes open!!

zeenanoko :: Mar.15.2010 :: Technology :: No Comments »

One of the reason we upgraded to the new blackberries is that flash support they were talking about in their specs.

Media Player

• Video format support: XviD partially supported, H.263, H.264, WMV3, MPEG4, Sorenson Spark & On2 VP6 (Flash support)
• Audio format support: .3gp, MP3, WMA9 (.wma/.asf), WMA9 Pro / WMA 10, MIDI, AMR-NB, Professional AAC/AAC+/eAAC+

but after reading a couple of articles out from the web it looks like they haven’t come up with the software to play those damn flash videos!!!  sucks!

zeenanoko :: Feb.08.2010 :: Technology :: No Comments »

Faced with a stuck dvd drive button I need to find out how to remove the whole dvd drive unit from the HP Pavillion dc6500 laptop.

I  scoured the net and found this wonderful and helpful website filled with laptop tips!

the instructions stated to remove the single screw holding the dvd drive and all you have to do is pull it out gently.

So after I removed the dvd drive pushed the plastic tabs (CAREFULLY!) that holds the front cover of the dvd drive and it released the stucked button.

Then just put everything back together and you are done!

zeenanoko :: Feb.04.2010 :: General, Technology :: No Comments »

The last time I ran the Windows 7 advisor it choked on my 700+ megs memory with a couple of outdated drivers.  So main concern was the memory requirement. Ran to Fry’s Elec. and scored me a 2 gig ddr 400mhz Dual kit for $70+ (don’t you just love instant gratification at a premium?)

Now running the custom installation – clean installation to be exact.

It was supposed to prompt me for a x32 and x64 installation but just saw a x86 installation. well I guess that would be it since my old computer is still on a Duron 1.2 processor!

It’s currently on the second stage right now..lot more step to go..hope it won’t be too painful…

zeenanoko :: Dec.30.2009 :: Technology :: 1 Comment »

If you just experience the feeling that your computer has been possessed and you have Norton 360 installed in your computer-don’t worry! (I hope!)

I was trying to be calm when the cd tray keep on opening and closing on me as soon as I turn on my computer.  First thought that always comes to my mind is that my computer has a virus/malware/trojan horse and all the other freaking bastard made program that makes all our lives miserable but anti-virus company richer. (conspiracy theory?)

Anyways, do some reality check first;

- did Norton 360 previous told you that you don’t have enough storage on your online backup?

-did you take the initiative to play smart and change the setting to backup into cd/dvd?

-did you finish backing up on cd/dvd and felt empowered and went on with your merry life?

now, if all those statements are true, except the merry life part, and after a few hours or days your cd/dvd drive starting opening and closing then do this;

- deselect all item that needs to be backed-up and just select the smallest one (Internet Favorites)
- change the backup to manual
- save settings
- restart machine

if the cd tray still keeps on opening and closing put a blank cd disc in and close the drive (or play grasshopper-pebble game with the cd tray) and wait until it writes something.

If all goes well the ghost in your machine will disappear!  If not – get someone else to help you with the exorcist

zeenanoko :: Oct.02.2009 :: Technology :: No Comments »

I just installed this firefox extention called New Tab King

I gives you a lot of goodies that you can customize instead of getting that blank plain screen when you open up a new tab.

zeenanoko :: Jun.16.2009 :: Technology :: No Comments »

It’s 10:50am and currently installing my 2nd 640gb Serial ATA HD on my Quad Core Asus m3n78-vm motherboard.

I bought this 2nd hard drive months ago and just placed it inside the case because the 1st time i tried formatting it windows xp cannot see it. by conventional means-that is.

So today I plugged in that drive again and tried to look for it in My Computer and still cannot find it. So I tried to right-click on my computer and picked managed and went to the Disk Management under Storage and saw my 2nd sata hard drive! Ohh what excitement! Finally getting somewhere now.

Saw the 2nd sata drive being labeled as disk 1. ok. went back and realized that the 1st 500 gb sata drive i had there is labeled as disk 0 so we are ok.

Right clicked on the 2nd drive I’m installing and selected a full partition and now it’s 10% formatting. What joy for a shallow person. LOL!

zeenanoko :: May.23.2009 :: Technology :: No Comments »

Awesome! I finally got the blackberry bold today! Thanks sa mababait kong amo at pinag-bigyan ako sa aking kahilingan. Haay..ganda talaga!

From the previous post I was raving how I updated my bb 8310 and so proud of it but now I have a new toy and I’ll tell you more about this new stuff when I get around it.

zeenanoko :: May.08.2009 :: Technology :: No Comments »