Just plug the USB receiver into the port on the TiVo box, and play.

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For hardware, Google has its own dedicated Network Box with a four-port gigabit Ethernet router and 802.11n WiFi, a TV Box with live viewing and a WiFi access point as well as a Storage Box DVR with 2TB of data and the ability to record eight shows at once.

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You may have not noticed, but your cable box at home has a Firewire port on it, designed to serve up content to other devices in your home.

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By connecting the external IR receiver to the adapter box, and then plugging the resulting combination into a USB port, you've created an unsightly way to talk to your PS3 via infrared.

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Meanwhile a post box in St Peter's Road is proving to be a port in a storm.

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Giel Mans, a diamond-dealer suspected of luring investors with the promise of riches from profiting from diamond investments, pleaded with a Port Elizabeth Magistrate judge to release him on bail, telling the judge that a safe-deposit box in London contained diamonds worth millions of dollars that could be used to repay his investors.

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