The Geek Tonic blog covered the following topics this past two weeks. Stay tuned for more this week.
SageTV Releases Fix for HD Extender IR Problems
SageTV is fixing the most complained about issue with their new SageTV HD Extender - poor IR reception from different angles. When I reviewed the extender , I noticed some line-of-sight issues, but nothing too severe. Unfortunately, many others have experienced worse line-of-sight issues and…
Lost Without New TV Shows? Some New Ones You Should Watch
Writers Strike TV "Alternatives": Part 2 New Shows on TV to Watch ( Part 1 of this series was about Netflix Watch Instantly ) As many of you know, I've been maintaining a listing of TV shows and the episodes each of those shows have remaining . I'm updating that list each day and…
Gemstar - TV Guide Enters Multi-Year Patent License Deal with Snapstream Media
Business Wire has released an announcement that Gemstar- TV Guide has entered a multi-year patent license agreement with SnapStream Media, Inc . for certain software products, including its Beyond TV offerings . Regular readers of this Geek Tonic Blog know that Snapstream is the company that…
Supercharge Your HTPC with SageTV's SageMC - Part 1
If you've ever spent any time on one of the HTPC forums on the net you know that Home Theater PC fans can be a demanding bunch. That demanding mentality comes from desire of HTPC owners to have the most powerful, flexible and attractive media center available. Over the years, SageTV users…
Supercharge your HTPC with SageMC - Part 2 Custom Menus in SageMC 6.3.7
In my last post " Supercharge your HTPC with SageTV's SageMC Part 1 ", I covered the basics of SageMC along with install instructions, plenty of screen-shots and a video walk-through of the SageMC interface. While I covered many of the great things you can do with SageMC , The most…
Another Beautiful DIY Photo Frame - Pico Bayard
Long-time readers of the Geek Tonic Blog will know that I'm a huge fan of DIY Digital Photo Frames and have made a DPF from an old laptop for myself . Well a guy who I think makes some of the most interesting and beautiful DPF's has a new one I wanted to highlight. Jeffery Stephenson,…
Writers Strike TV Alternatives Part 1: Get Your TV From Netflix
You're running out of new television shows to watch with the writers strike leaving us with mostly reruns and reality programming . Its cold outside and you're looking for some cheap entertainment for your TV. One way to solve this problem is using Netflix. I'm going the cheap…
