Mike Swanson, over on his MSDN blog, just finished writing a Windows Vista gadget which can display the contents of your TiVo’s "Now Playing" list.  It appears as though, after some experimentation and reading some TiVo developer resources, he discovered a string of information being provided by TiVo’s internal Web server (available on later generation models like TiVo HD & TiVo Series3 HD) which included information like title, description, duration and more.

Essentially, you can have a Vista Gadget running on the computer in your office that displays what all your TiVo has to offer you – thus, saving you the effort of walking into your living room and finding out for yourself.

If you’d like to read a more detailed description on how the gadget works, how it was developed and where to download it then check out Mike’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/.