Couch Fire

Couch Fire - A Guide to What's on TV

From your arm chair, quickly find your favorite shows using your Newton handheld computer. Couch Fire is a TV programming guide that includes accurate, weekly updates via email. Couch Fire combines the feel of a paper guide with the smarts of a computer. Its auto-updating TV grid and search tools make it easier to use and more powerful.

Features:

Quality TV schedules & summaries

Over 80 satellite & cable channels

Local listings for Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle & Washington, DC

Flexible searching

Show reminders using the Newton's Dates application

A TV grid, a full detail view, and a titles only overview

Price:

52 weeks for $39. That's just 75 cents per issue, and it's available now!

System Requirements:

A Newton device running OS 2.0 or greater

800K of storage (internally or on a memory card) for 8 channels. Additional channels require about 85K apiece.

Email to your desktop computer

How It Works
Couch Fire has two pieces. The first part is a one year subscription to the latest TV schedules. You receive them just like a normal magazine except that they arrive via email rather than regular mail. The weekly updates have all the channels that you requested. They are compressed and stored in a Newton package. Just install (or download) the update to your Newton using you favorite connection software, like the Newton Backup Utilities that came with your Newton.

The second part is the Couch Fire application that stays on your Newton. This is the viewer (or browser) that you use to look at and search each week's TV schedules.

Sample It Yourself
We have both a web-based preview with lots of screen shots and feature descriptions as well as a 30 day free trial subscription.