The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

Was sent a question from Chris at CBS:

Where does the Video I-Pod stand with being able to import video from TiVo unit directly? Like, when I have my Mythbusters show on my Directv play list and I want to download it to a video I-Pod for the train ride. Do I first have to go through a computer? Is the technology for that direct connect there yet? Thanks Brother!

Great question. Here’s a link to the TiVo site about their intentions to bring TV programming to the iPod the first quarter of this year (press release from 11/05):

Boris called in with a question about having had a problem with MicroMat’s Tech Tool Pro and Tiger.

Micromat says only 4.0.4 or later of TTP should be used with Tiger, Boris has unfortunately used 4.0.1 on Tiger. Our recommendation is to register TTP at Micromat’s website, which will enable access to their support, where you can find out if there’s a fix for the problem that the incompatibility has caused, as this is a known problem, perhaps there’s a known solution?

But has this update actually fixed the incompatibility?? Here’s someone else (among others) that’s reporting a problem recently (two weeks ago), using 4.1.1 on 10.4.4: http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=4307