Information Madness

If you are an avid TV lover and completely hooked onto your TV shows, you must have one of those directv hdtv tivo in your house. Tivo allows you to find and record shows that match your interests by title, actor, director, category or keyword.

You can do that with your Tivo remote but what if you are away from home and just remembered to record something?

TiVo already offers more detailed DVR access via its Web site as well as TiVo Mobile but for that you have to have internet access and not all the phones are built with browsing capabilities.

So how can you control your Tivo with the basic mobile phone? Kwiry.com, a website which lets you send text message reminders to your computer now has introduced a new feature which will let you control your Tivo with just simple Sms Text Messaging.

According to CNET

link your TiVo Series2 or Series3 DVR to your Kwiry account (a one-time affair on the Kwiry Web site), and you should be able to command your DVR to record shows via a simple sms message to 59479 ("kwiry"). The service will automatically schedule a recording of the next episode of the show in question, so "tivo the office" should grab the next episode of the Steve Carell dramedy