I finally got around to plugging in my HP Jet Direct device to my printer. At first my excuse was I didn’t have a network device for the printer. Then months go by and I get one. Then it sits in a drawer and I don’t use it. hey, I am lazy. I didn’t want ton’s of network cables all over the place. Since I looked behind my desk and saw all the cable mess, I figured what is 1 more cable. I got out the jet direct module and plugged my printer into it. Now I can print from my Mac without having my desktop on. Mmmmm network printing! Just one of the little projects I did today.
Day: 12 January 2005
Beyond TV With Cable Box
I got my IR Blaster (product is called USB-UIRT) yesterday. it is a little device that plugs into my desktop’s USB port. I then can control my cable box from Beyond TV via my ATI Remote Wonder. After reading the newsgroups I thought I might have some issues doing this. It turns out that I got everything to work just fine on the first try.
I did have to play around a bit with Beyond TV’s program guide to get all my digital cable channels to show up, but after a few minutes I was all set. My next upgrade is to go from Coax, to RCA cables from my cable box to my USB-2 video capture device. I figured I would do that after I was sure that the IR Blaster worked.
Now I can be a bigger couch potato now that I can fill up any hard drive space that I can get my hands on with MPEG-2 video of my favorite shows, movies, or anything else I get lazy and want to record. I am living it up now, because in July the recording flag or whatever they are calling it will screw anyone wanting to record digital TV. More on that after I bask in my recording ability glory today!