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Tivo UI design

There is an interesting interview Ten Questions with TiVo’s Director of User Experience, Margret Schmidt that talks about how TiVo designed what I consider one of the best and most intuitive UIs ever. I have looked at the interfaces on … Continue reading

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Battling the Heisenbug – Part 2

The problem with the test program turned out to be a lot more mundane then I thought. The serial port on the Topfield defaults to 115200 baud, the IceLink dongle runs at 9600 baud. My terminal program is set to … Continue reading

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Battling the Heisenbug – Part 1

Last night Rick ( a colleague of mine from IceTV ) and I were working on adding the Topfield TF5000PVRt Terestrial Digital PVR to our unified development environment. After much stuffing around due to some serious oddities in the libraries … Continue reading

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