Presidential Election
So here I find myself posting on the Presidential Election for 2008. However I will not be telling you who to vote for, our if you should even vote. This post is simply a means for people like myself that may have missed information along the way and or debates you would have liked to have seen. Since I do not own a
TiVo and I am not big on keeping up with news, unless of course it's
Apple or some other form of Techno Geek Nerd thing, I miss out on it. Anyways to get back to the point at hand I found a useful link that has information on the Presidential Election, along with all the debate videos which you can watch at your leisure.
http://www.youdecide2008.com/
Universal Remote Control
I have not really been keeping up with the site as I hoped, so I figured it's time to add some useful information. So today's useful information will be on a Universal Remote Control. I am sure many of you are like me, the TV, the Satellite Dish, the XBOX and just a slew of other devices in the living room. So where do we begin to find this perfect Universal Remote Control to control all this stuff? Well a great start is
amazon.com. Now if you take a look at
amazon.com a URC (Universal Remote Control) can range from .87 cents all the way to $1,499.99 for the
Marantz RC9001 Universal Learning IR - WiFi Remote?!?!?!
For $14999.99 that remote better scratch my back, get me a beer and rub my feet! Anyways you need to ask yourself how much are you willing to spend, or maybe the better geek questions is "What is the last (put product name here) I can buy, that will do everything I need it too and most importantly, not break my budget?". Your answer maybe different than mine, however after looking, reading and checking reviews I decided to purchase the
One for All URC 8910 Universal Remote Control.
After reading the reviews posted on Amazon I was sold for the cheap low price of $19.95 USD + Shipping. Now once the remote showed up I programmed my TV and XBOX. Of course my Satellite dish didn't work as it's newer than the remote, but based on the reviews with the nifty over the phone programming, I called tech support. Now since I live in MST and the hours for support are 8-5 EST M-F there is now way I could call them in front of the Satellite dish to program, since I am at work. So being the tech geek that I am, I thought I will just record the tone over the phone with my USB headset and play it over my computer speakers when I get home.
Well to save you the time of a long story, the short and easy is tech support will actually send the sound file to your email so you can play the tone over your computer speakers along with the specific programming code for your device. So with my Satellite dish configured and working, I am down to one single remote instead of three. Now before I end this post I want to add an additional note about the URC 8910. On my XBOX remote there is a back button however there is no back button on the URC. Well the URC has a learning feature that learns from your orginal remote. After a little (
RTFM) and configuration, I now have my back button functioning on the 8910. So with what, I bid you good luck on the path to a single remote.
