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Archive for April, 2005

Friday is Tiger-day, also Apple unveils new G5 Desktops

Posted by Alan Henry on April 28th, 2005

This is one heck of a week for Apple! First, Amazon leaks the specs for their new G5 desktops and Apple releases the things the next day, and Friday the 29th of April is the big release of MacOS 10.4, “Tiger,” Apple’s most recent revision to the Macintosh Operating System. But should you upgrade? Are [...]

Welcome to the TechTV Forever ROTSS Archive!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 28th, 2005

Welcome to the launch of a brand new section here at TechTV Forever! We decided to help out Leo Laporte and save him a little bandwidth by creating our own archive of the Return of The Screen Savers podcasts right here at TechTVForever.net! So while we still have to download the podcast from him, you [...]

Gadgets and Gizmos Site Up!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 25th, 2005

Gadget fans rejoice! The Gadgets and Gizmos site, for the G4TechTV Canada show, “Gadgets and Gizmos” is live, up, and running, and shelling out information to you gadget freaks and geek gear fans. Sadly, it’s still only available in Canada, but at least those of us elsewhere in the world can enjoy the website for [...]

Google Feature Logs Users’ Histories

Posted by Alan Henry on April 23rd, 2005

Oh Google, you so crazy! First it was a ton of extra space for GMail users, then it was Google Video, which started out as just a method to search the closed-captioning of television shows and is now accepting uploads from you, me, everyone else who might be interested in archiving their video with Google: [...]

Easy Ways to Recycle Old PCs and Cell Phones–Really!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 23rd, 2005

The folks at PCWorld never fail to dissapoint, and this time is no exception. Ever wonder what to do with that old monitor you’re replacing, or that old computer that’s up and died, and you’ve long since picked up a new one to replace it? What about that laptop that they say will take a [...]

Revenge of The Screen Savers!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 20th, 2005

Check it! Patrick Norton, Leo Laporte, and all the tech news and content you’ve come to know and love, all wrapped up in one neat little podcast. What’s it called? Revenge of The Screen Savers! Check it out and download the first episode here: [ http://leoville.com/blog/index.php/TLR/comments/the-revenge-of-the-bleep/ ] Excellent title selection, if I do say so [...]

New Call For Help 2.0 Set Shots

Posted by Alan Henry on April 20th, 2005

I know I’m a little late on this one, but Andy Walker has some shots and a short movie from the new Call for Help 2.0 set over at his blog: [ http://blog.cyberwalker.com/ ] Check the most recent entries for the divx movie of the new set, and a couple of interesting shots from around [...]

Gadgets and Gizmos Site and Episodes Coming Soon!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 20th, 2005

Word around the message boards and mailing lists is that the new G4 TechTV Canada show, Gadgets and Gizmos, has put the stake in the ground and claimed their webspace at: [ http://www.gadgetsandgizmostv.com/ ] There’s nothing there save a placeholder right now, but we’ll keep you posted as soon as the new site comes online [...]

Andy Walker Writes a Book!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 15th, 2005

Looks like Andy Walker, of Call for Help 2.0 fame, is writing a book on computer security! The book should be geared towards end-users, average people who are concerned about keeping themselves safe online but may not be all into computers or particularly knowledgeable from the getgo. It looks like it has promise, we haven’t [...]

Please please please let this one be true! It looks like Leo, Pat, and Kevin might collaborate on a podcast together, and I’ll be the first one to tell you, if this is true and the podcasts start flowing, I’ll be the first one to start downloading it. And lucky for all of us, it [...]

Budget LCD Roundup!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 11th, 2005

The tech reviewers at FiringSquad [http://www.firingsquad.com/ ] have put together quite the comprehensive list of LCD displays that won’t crack your budget or cramp your computing style. It’s pretty thorough, including quite a bit of interesting preface information about LCDs in general, the way they work, improvements that have been made over the years, and [...]

GMail Users, Rejoice!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 1st, 2005

If you catch it in time, check out the GMail login page: [ http://gmail.google.com/ ] It looks like they’re turning 1 today, and as a reward, there are a few new features for everyone! First of all, everyone’s getting an extra gig of space! That’s right, now you’re up to 2GB! But wait-if you log [...]