I finally figured this out(kind of). I did 2 things and not sure which one worked.
I unzipped the downloaded file. Then, copy the Asus folder into the root of the SDCard. I also copied the 2ND zip file under the Asus folder into the root of the SDCard. I am not sure which one worked, but a minute after copying these I had a notification inn the notification bar of a manual update. Just click on it and go.
I could not get mine to update from .27 to .29 and used this method to manually install it.