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Archive for March, 2005

ExtremeTech’s PSP Media Guide

Posted by Alan Henry on March 31st, 2005

Got a shiny new PSP? Maybe not, judging by the price tag, but if you do, you’ll probably want to use it to it’s full capabilities, right? And of course that includes getting your music and movies onto the thing to use it as a portable media player as well as a portable gaming device. [...]

G4TechTV Canada Gets a New Show: “Gadgets and Gizmos!”

Posted by Alan Henry on March 30th, 2005

Andy Walker let’s the news fly on his blog, check it out: [ http://blog.cyberwalker.com/?p=76 ] Looks like the Canadian arm of G4TechTV is getting a new show, and if the title is any indication, it’ll be something like Fresh Gear, which is a wonderful wonderful thing, and again only available in Canada. Alas, yet another [...]

First Look: Sony’s Impressive PlayStation Portable (PSP)

Posted by Alan Henry on March 29th, 2005

Finally it’s arrived. The monster of last year’s E3, stealing all of the attention and making gamers worldwide drool with anticipation, Sony’s PlayStation Portable has been unleashed in full force in the United States. It’s Japanese release only a few months earlier prompted a storm of popularity and demand that Sony is still struggling to [...]

CFH 2.0 Wallpaper at Andy Walker’s Blog!

Posted by Alan Henry on March 28th, 2005

Call for Help 2.0 fans; run, do not walk, over to CfH Co-Host Andy Walker’s blog to download a brand new shiny Call for Help 2.0 wallpaper! So for all of you who love making your desktops look like they’d be completely at home on the CfH set, I think this wallpaper is just for [...]

Rise of the Green Machine

Posted by Alan Henry on March 28th, 2005

The hybrid vehicle has moved out of the arena of the funky looking automobile that no one would ever want to drive, and several car companies, including Toyota and Ford, have decided it’s time to drop hybrid engines into normal cars and sell them to anyone and everyone who either cares about the environment, cares [...]

File Swappers Find New Ways to Trade Tunes

Posted by Alan Henry on March 28th, 2005

This in-depth article examines how now that lawsuits are being filed against song swappers and sharers on peer-to-peer networks and the legal hammer is coming down on those networks (who are meanwhile, struggling to stay alive in their own right, both by spending money on their technologies as well as their legal fees), most song [...]

Apple Settles Lawsuit Over Tiger Leak

Posted by Alan Henry on March 28th, 2005

A few months ago, if you weren’t paying attention, Apple filed suit against several websites that posted leaked information about Apple’s coming-soon revision to the Mac OS X line, Mac OS 10.4, “Tiger.” Apple won the rights to have the names of those sites’ sources turned over to them, so Apple could root out the [...]

Patrick Norton? On the Web? No way!

Posted by Alan Henry on March 23rd, 2005

Yes way! Patrick Norton has a website. No, I’m not kidding, and right now it looks like the real thing; that it’s really him. Imagine that! There’s not much up there right now, and it’s definitely just a typepad blog, but I, along with almost 400 commenters (at the time of this writing) seem to [...]

The Screen Savers Name Change Official to: Attack of the Show

Posted by Alan Henry on March 18th, 2005

A horrible name fitting for the on-air daily monstrosity that The Screen Savers has become, and a distant cry from the excellent programming it once was. Attack of the Show sounds like something that came to a G4 executive in his sleep one night, after coming to the understanding that his profit margins were going [...]

New Choices in Digital Music Players

Posted by Alan Henry on March 17th, 2005

Now I’m a huge fan of the iPod, no doubt, but who doesn’t like choice? Besides, having multiple excellent digital music players on the market only leads to more competition and more features, which will hopefully bring the price point down for all of us and save us all some dough when we’re looking for [...]

Companies Lining Up to Root Out Rootkits

Posted by Alan Henry on March 17th, 2005

Ah, rootkits. They’ve been around for a good long while, but recently they’ve been getting more and more publicity and credibility as methods to effectively target and breach the security on everyone from individual to corporate networks, make their way into individual PCs, and gain complete control over systems and steal all manner of information. [...]

Coming Soon: Multi-Button Mice From Apple?

Posted by Alan Henry on March 16th, 2005

My my the times they are a changin’. Looks like Apply might be developing and releasing their first ever multi-button mouse; a step that’s long long long overdue by Apple. Don’t get me wrong, Apple all but invented the mouse, and they’ve long championed an operating system that didn’t require contextual menus and second mouse [...]

Logitech’s New Gaming Mouse: The MX518

Posted by Alan Henry on March 16th, 2005

Personally I have a Logitech MX510 that I absolutely love and think it’s the best gaming mouse money could buy-I’m exceptionally pleased with it, and you can imagine my anticipati0on when I found out that Logitech was upping the ante in the gaming mouse arena with the MX518. The mouse sports 1600dpi, which offers exceptional [...]

Chi-Lan Lieu Leaves G4

Posted by Alan Henry on March 12th, 2005

So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye. Looks like Chi-Lan is the latest of the TechTV legacy crew to give G4 the old shove and walk out the door. Looks like she’s headed in Cat’s direction and will be a full time tech and gadget columnist for Stuff Magazine, which is probably excellent news for her. [...]

Call for Help 2.0 Schedule // 3/14 – 3/18

Posted by Alan Henry on March 12th, 2005

Call for Help 2.0 is available on G4TechTV Canada. Interested in getting Call for Help aired in the United States again? Click here to help out! [ http://www.g4techtv.ca/callforhelp/interact/callforhelpusa.shtml ] Visit Call for Help on the web at: [ http://www.g4techtv.ca/callforhelp/ ] Monday, March 14th, 2005 * Andy will teach us how to use a webcam with [...]

Mozilla Ditches Browser Suite

Posted by Alan Henry on March 11th, 2005

Looks like the Mozilla Foundation has finally decided to give up development efforts on the Mozilla suite of software, which was initially designed to be a lean, mean, and still fully featured take on Netscape Communicator, in favor of sleeker stand-alone applications like Firefox and Thunderbird. I have to admit, I was a Mozilla early [...]

The Screen Savers Schedule // 3/14 – 3/20

Posted by Alan Henry on March 11th, 2005

Monday 3/14/2005 Hard ‘n’ Phirm, First 50, Dark Deals “Hard ‘n’ Phirm” sketch comedy duo Chris Hardwick and Mike Phirman perform live on the show and sit still for an interview. Meanwhile, Kevin P. delivers his First 50 preview of a new game title, Kevin R. has some Dark Deals, and Sarah shares her Gems [...]

Shuttle XP 17″ LCD Display Review

Posted by Alan Henry on March 9th, 2005

ExtremeTech today has a review of Shuttle’s new 17-inch handled LCD, designed to accompany their Shuttle PCs and emphasize portability and mobile gaming. Shuttle is known well in geek circles for their impressive home theatre machines crammed into exceptionally small form-factor PC cases (of their own design) and of course, similarly impressive gaming hardware crammed [...]

Netscape Launches Browser Beta

Posted by Alan Henry on March 8th, 2005

Because someone somewhere would be interested in this, looks like Netscape has launched it’s so-called Firefox-based browser to the public as a beta. I’m not entirely sure the claim that it’s Firefox-based anymore is true anymore since it’s not included in the press-release and in any of the hype, but apparently the browser has features [...]

The Broken: Closing In On New Episodes

Posted by Alan Henry on March 8th, 2005

Looks like the set for The Broken [ http://www.thebroken.org/ ] is complete and they’re moving ahead with taping new episodes! Good news for all of us who love our hacker tips from Ramzi, and appreciate the real tech content that we know Kevin Rose is capable of bringing us. Check out Kevin Rose’s update on [...]