jeudi 25 décembre 2014

EnterWebz.tv apps on your TiVo

Today marks the official release of Enter Webz, the Internet Apps server for your TiVo DVR.



The website EnterWebz.tv has simple instructions to show it on your DVR with your "Add an App" (or "Manually Add a Server") feature.

I'm directing you to the website to ensure you've read cautions and notices before using it



If you remember apps.tv (R.I.P. 2012), http://EnterWebz.tv is similar.

Enter Webz (EWz) provides a variety of "thumztaks" (Internet-based services and custom apps) just a few remote control clicks away.



Once you've added EWz you'll get 4 app entries under "Music & Photos" and 6 app entries under "Showcases & Apps" plus an entry to change which apps show up and a help page.

These include thumztaks for Video On Demand, News & Weather, Social Networking, Internet Radio & MP3s, Pictures, Comics, Games, and even this very forum!

It features a quick-loading YouTube alternate interface, and a first-of-its-kind multi-TiVo game.

The full list of thumztaks is below.





A unique feature of these apps is they support the Picture-in-Picture Live TV mode like TiVo's latest user interface (or alternatively, custom PIP content).



EWz also works with older TiVo models (which may not support video streaming and/or may show all entries under "Music, Photos, & Showcases")



You can change which thumztaks or groups show up as apps or under which group, what order they're in, or just remove the ones you're not interested in.

On occasion, new thumztaks will show up and broken thumztaks will be removed/replaced.


NOTE: EWz uses TiVo's HME app technology to create a simplistic interpreter for web pages and tries to present them to you with no support for JavaScript, Flash, large images, or many media and image formats. The provided list of pages are reasonably compatible, but clicking links to other pages is likely to display something too complicated or incompatible resulting in an app crash or even a DVR reboot due to a bug in TiVo's HME technology.


If you are concerned about privacy or security while using EWz, you can download a version to run on your home computer, instead.



If you have a custom app or website you would like to feature to TiVo users, I can display an ad to help pay for my costs and further development.



(FYI, EWz has been operating in a "beta" status on another server for the past year. If you added it before, you will have to add the new server now, but your thumztaks and configuration were saved)





Here are the apps and thumztaks that you'll start with currently...



Under "Music & Photos":

  • Internet Radio - a directory of tons of Internet radio stations. The MP3 format stations should work.

  • More Music & Recordings/ (group which includes...)


    • last.fm - the mobile version of the Last.FM website.

    • Live Concert recordings - RSS feed of the latest freely available concerts from archive.org

    • Audio Books - RSS feed of the latest freely available audio books from archive.org

    • Old Time Radio - RSS feed of the latest freely available old time radio shows from archive.org

    • 78rpm records and cylinder recordings - RSS feed of the latest freely available old recordings from archive.org

    • MP3Tunes.com mobile - although mp3tunes.com has gone bankrupt, you can access your account's MP3 files from here

    • Flickr slideshow to go with your music - random interesting Flickr image slideshow to show after your start one of the above options




  • Flickr Slideshow and music - random interesting Flickr image slideshow with a nice ambience radio station

  • More Pictures & Comics/ (group which includes...)


    • Popular Photos @ 500px - Flickr alternative (since Flickr's mobile page is not compatible with EWz)

    • Comics & LOLz/ (group which includes...)


      • I Can Has Cheezburger? LOLcats - The RSS feed of the latest LOLcats from ICanHasCheezburger.com

      • GoComics - Home of most of your favorite print comics

      • Peanuts - comics from GoComics

      • Calvin & Hobbes - comics from GoComics

      • Ziggy - comics from GoComics

      • Dilbert Classics - comics from GoComics

      • xkcd.com comics - a popular Internet comic with technical/geeky content










Under "Showcases & Apps":

  • YouTube.com - YouTube's mobile site

  • More Video & TV/ (group which includes...)


    • PBS Episodes/ (group which includes: Featured Programs, Popular, Expiring Soon, Antiques Roadshow, American Experience, Frontline, Great Performances, Live at Lincoln Center, Masterpiece, Nature, NOVA, PBS NewsHour, POV, Washington Week) - PBS's on-demand content

    • Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Search for information on that movie or show you're watching

    • Late night lineups - RSS feed of who the guests will be on upcoming late night shows.

    • podcast.tv - an organized collection of video podcasts

    • Feature Films @ archive.org - RSS feed of the latest freely available videos in this category from archive.org

    • Classic TV @ archive.org - RSS feed of the latest freely available videos in this category from archive.org

    • 35mm Stock Footage @ archive.org - RSS feed of the latest freely available videos in this category from archive.org




  • News, Sports, & Weather/ (group which includes...)


    • Air Quality Map - a custom app to browse the current and historical air quality around the US.

    • Blitzortung.org Lightning Map - a custom app to browse the current lightning strikes around the world.

    • Weather Underground - Enter your Zip Code and save the resulting page for current conditions and animated radar

    • Rainfall totals by CoCoRaHS - Select your State and get a map of rainfall or snow totals

    • Y! Weather - Yahoo! mobile's forecast for your area

    • Weather Channel - mobile site

    • Y! Sports Scores - Yahoo! mobile's latest sports scores

    • ESPN - mobile site

    • Y! Finance - Yahoo! mobile's latest stock information

    • E*Trade - mobile site

    • CNN - mobile site

    • MSN - mobile site




  • Social, Email, & Shopping/ (group which includes...)


    • Facebook - update your status! Facebook Mobile (which doesn't provide links to videos, sadly)

    • Twitter - tweet!

    • Google+ - mobile site (currently doesn't show well)

    • eBay - mobile auction browsing

    • Domino's Pizza - TiVo's "hidden" app that might let you order a pizza

    • Amazon.com - mobile shopping site

    • Public Surplus auctions - mobile auction browsing

    • Gmail - mobile email

    • AOL Mail - mobile email

    • Y! Mail - mobile email

    • Google Voice - mobile interface to your voice number and texts (voicemails are too secure to play)

    • MapQuest - get directions on your tv.




  • Games & More/ (group which includes...)


    • Enter Webz suggested links - a wiki page of more "candidate" thumztaks

    • TiVo news at Zatz Not Funny! - Tech Blog entries tagged "TiVo"

    • @TiVo - TiVo's Twitter Feed

    • TiVo Community Forums - mobile version of TCF

    • TiVo's (hidden) Apps - special page listing all apps TiVo serves to your DVR, including the hidden ones.

    • Solitaire - older custom app single-player card game

    • Freecell - older custom app single-player card game

    • Mahjongg - older custom app single-player tile game originally by Gene Wadleigh

    • Minesweeper - simple Minesweeper custom app game especially for Series 3 and earlier that don't get the "Kaboom" flash game.

    • Reversi game by wmcbrine - you probably already have his custom app server added, but here is a shortcut to his server

    • Tic Tac Toe - a simple Tic Tac Toe website game




  • Cribbage with TV people - custom app two-player card game against other TiVos or a computer if nobody is around.






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