January 1, 2008
Dashboard widget: TiVo - Now Playing
I don’t use the dashboard in OS X much, to be honest, but certain utilities have a place there — this is one of them. This dashboard widget for OS X allows you to monitor what your TiVo is up to and download recorded shows to your Mac. I love it…it’s simple, easy to use, and now that I have a TiVo HD and might actually want to save some of the recordings, I’m finding this extremely convenient. It includes the TiVo File Decoder binary, which converts the video files to standard MPEGs as it downloads them so you can play them with pretty much anything — QuickTime, VLC, Frontrow, etc. If you’ve got a TiVo and a Mac, you have to check this out — it’s definitely one of my top Mac Apps!
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