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# Remote Control?

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# tv guide ireland
The Remote: Quiz, Michael Jordan and tips for tiny artists - it's your weekly TV guide
From the youngest members of the family to teenagers to mum and dad, we’ve got you covered here.
# Remote Control?
The Remote: Classic Simpsons, Irish crime and an escape from New York - your weekly TV guide
From the youngest members of the family to teenagers to mum and dad, we’ve got you covered here.
# TV guide
The Remote: A weekly TV guide to keep everyone in the house happy
From the youngest members of the family to teenagers to mum and dad, we’ve got you covered here.
# use your head
Hack: Use your head to extend your car's remote locking
This unusual car hack can give the wireless signal from your car remote a boost.
# zapper
It's time Ireland settled on a word for the remote control
Zapper, flicker, clicker, remote — WHAT’S IT CALLED?
# Channel Surfing
16 problems everyone faces when sitting down to watch telly
There is NOTHING on.
# Convenience
Here's how you can turn your smartphone into a remote control
For those times you want to be able to control your Spotify playlist without touching your computer.
# Remote Control?
Another TV viewer calls in, but no violation at US Open
Another tell-tale rang in to point out a potential rule violation. This time for Steve Stricker, not Tiger.
# Week in Web
Weird Wide Web: Ninja turtles, 'Funderwear' and a couch potato's best friend
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
# quick fix
Blow on it, turn it off and on again - 7 foolproof* ways to fix something
*Well, we’ll try them once anyway.
# resistance is futile
9 pointless things absolutely everyone does
We’re all wasting our lives.
# pass the remote
Here's what's ACTUALLY on telly today...
Straight from (Not the) RTÉ Guide.
# Vintage
VIDEO: Vintage ads for the TV remote and other innovative products in the '50s and '60s
When Tupperware was glamorous…
# couch potatoes
Inventor of first TV remote control dies aged 96
Eugene Polley’s pioneering ‘Flash-Matic’ device made life easier for couch potatoes everywhere.
# Telly Addicts
Fighting over the remote on Christmas Day? You're not the only one
A UPC survey reveals that two-thirds of Irish people won’t get to watch the programmes they want on Christmas Day.
# venezuala
Hugo Chavez returns to Venezuela after Cuban cancer treatment
The Venezuelan president arrives home after four weeks in Cuba, where he underwent emergency surgery.
# Remote Control?
Question marks over health of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez
Just who is pulling the strings in South America’s largest oil producer, while Hugo Chavez recovers from surgery in Cuba?