Help Support Gizmo Lovers

Gizmo Lovers is primarily run to hopefully provide useful information to the user community. A lot of work goes into running the site, as well as some expense, so any support from the readers is very much appreciated. I considered accepting PayPal donations, but I don’t really feel right accepting money directly for running the site. However, there are some costs involved in maintaining the community, and, to be honest, it is nice when someone offers support for the site. In that spirit, there are a few things you can do if you’d like to support the site.

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Donate TiVo Rewards Points

The simplest is TiVo Rewards. When you activate a new TiVo, you can enter an email address as a referral, and that user will receive rewards points. My referral address is tivo at megazone dot org. I appreciate any referral points you send my way.

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Gizmo Lovers Store

If you’re shopping for TiVo or Sling Media hardware, or TiVo related books, use the Gizmo Lovers aStore.

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Amazon Unbox Downloads

Now that TiVo and Amazon have partnered to provide TiVo Unbox downloads to the TiVo, simply follow the link to give Gizmo Lovers referral credits for any videos you download.

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Shop Amazon.com

In addition to unbox, any shopping you do at Amazon.com can earn the site referral credits. Simply use this Amazon Homepage link to do your shopping and earn the site referral credits.

I also use TiVo referral links when linking to products on Amazon.com, such as the books on the resources page. Using the referral links doesn’t cost you anything, the site just gets a small percentage of the sale price.

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Shop DVRupgrade.com

DVRUpgrade.com is one of the leading vendors of pre-expanded TiVos, TiVo expansion kits, and the tools your need to hack your TiVo, or recover from a failed drive. They have great products for every model of TiVo. If you have a failed drive, check out their Instant Cake CD. I personally recommend it, and I’ve used it to image new drives for a dead unit in the past. Well worth the $20. I’ve also exchanged a number of emails with them over the years and they’ve always been friendly and quick to reply.

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Shop TiVo.com

Gizmo Lovers is a TiVo affiliate and you can support the site while buying directly from TiVo. And check out the TiVo Web Specials for the best deals from TiVo.com.

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Shop SlingMedia.com

The site is also a Sling Media affiliate, and by purchasing through these links you can save $10 on a Slingbox AV or save $25 on a Slingbox Pro. Or purchase the Slingbox Tuner, HD Connect cable, Slinglink, SlingPlayer Mobile, etc, through this link. I own a Slingbox Pro myself, and I’ve had many exchanges with the folks at Sling and I strongly recommend their products.

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Shop Buy.com

Buy.com regularly has great deals on products like TiVo and the Slingbox, so I decided to sign up as an affiliate to benefit the site while also offering the deals to my readers. I think it is win-win. And as an affiliate I should be notified of new deals so I can be sure to let my readers know.

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Shop BestBuy.com

I know a lot of people like to shop at Best Buy, and they’re one of the first places I look myself, so I thought I’d add them as a site affiliate as well.

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Shop Roxio.com

Roxio offers Popcorn 3 and Toast 9 Titanium for Mac OS and Easy Media Creator 10 Suite, VideoWave 8, and MyTV ToGo for Windows, all with TiVoToGo support.

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Shop Palm.com

I’m a long time Palm OS user and proponent, so I decided to add Palm.com as an affiliate site. I’ve owned and used a Palm IIIx, Handspring Visor Deluxe, Sony Clie NZ-90, Palm Treo 650, and now a Palm Treo 680, and I recommend them.

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Sign up for One True Media

One True Media is partnered with TiVo to make it easy to distribute your photos and home movies to friends and family with TiVo boxes. Simply upload your media to One True Media, use their online tools to edit it, and then publish it. Send your friends the id code to enter on their TiVo, and they can access your content right from their TV.

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Amazon TiVo Store

If you’re shopping for TiVo products, you can shop at the Amazon TiVo Store via the link and earn the site referral credits.

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Live Journal Paid Account

The community is run as a Live Journal community. To keep the community ad-free, and in order to utilize more features, it is a paid account. You can purchase more paid time for the community as a gift. Simply enter ‘tivolovers’ for the Username.