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Archive for June, 2005

Add Another Podcast to the Mix: Coming Soon, Digg!

Posted by Alan Henry on June 30th, 2005

Looks like Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht are joining forces to do an official Digg Podcast! Soon there’ll be another podcast to add to the group, and by the looks of it, between TWIT, Systm, and possible The Broken, Kevin Rose is making himself very very busy indeed! According to Kevin’s blog, the Podcast will [...]

File Sharing Services Can Be Sued, Says SCOTUS

Posted by Alan Henry on June 28th, 2005

If you haven’t been paying attention, yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decided that file sharing services and companies that have been operating and encouraging their users to illegally share and download copyrighted material over their networks can be sued by the music and movie industry for “damages” caused by the users [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 11

Posted by Alan Henry on June 28th, 2005

You know what to do! This week’s topics include Jessica Corbin’s new endeavor, Fempire, which looks absolutely hot, Chris Pirillo’s exploits at Gnomedex and whose logo he has on his chest now, new battery technology and the possibility of fuel cells in your next laptop, and the DMCA’s spread north of the American border, under [...]

Weezy and the Swish // Episode 3

Posted by Alan Henry on June 28th, 2005

Weezy and the Swish have their newest podcast up and ready for download; it was available yesterday, so the clamor has likely died down a little bit and you can go grab it whenever you like. Gear up for another bout of hilarity with Louise Palanker (Weezy) and Laura Swisher (Da Swish); Matt Hartley was [...]

Command-N // Episode 3

Posted by Alan Henry on June 28th, 2005

Looks like Amber and Mikey are at it again producing their weekly web and tech related video show, and Epsiode 3 is out and ready for download. Would have told you guys sooner, but I just got off a plane, so I’m catching up with all the tech-news! But don’t take my excuses, you want [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 10

Posted by Alan Henry on June 20th, 2005

Hot on the heels of episode 9, This Week In Tech Episode 10 is delivered as promised, and much to the delight of people like me who love to have the podcasts to listen to at work or on the go. Leo must have really burned the midnight oil this time to edit two TWITs [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 9

Posted by Alan Henry on June 19th, 2005

The long lamented Episode 9 of This Week In Tech (TWIT) is finally here! Through hard drive crashes, FTP server deaths, and all sorts of technical difficulties, Leo finally managed to finish editing and putting together the most recent episode of TWIT and bring it to us today; not to mention the fact that he [...]

Another Web TV Show: Command-N!

Posted by Alan Henry on June 19th, 2005

Amber and Mikey, of Call for Help (Canada) fame, have put together their own weekly web tv show and do a wrap up of the week’s web and technology news wrap up, and called this bouncing baby show Command-N! It looks good so far, and I don’t know how it slipped under my radar, but [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 2

Posted by Alan Henry on June 19th, 2005

Weezy and The Swish are at it again, and this one is much improved over the last one! (not to say the last one wasn’t hilarious in and of itself!) It’s up and ready for download now, thanks to our good friend Matt Hartley, co-host and technical director for the podcast (if I have your [...]

Weezy and the Swish // Episode 1

Posted by Alan Henry on June 14th, 2005

Well well! It looks like there’s a new podcast in town to download and listen to, this time featuring the likes of Weezy, our girl Laura Swisher (Da Swish) and our friend Matt Hartley! The first episode of their podcast is up now, check it out: [ http://www.weezyandtheswish.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/13/935961.html ] I haven’t listened to it yet [...]

Systm // Episodes 1 and 2

Posted by Alan Henry on June 14th, 2005

If you haven’t checked out Kevin Rose and Dan Huard’s new digs yet, called “Systm,” then you definitely need to. All that time and energy they put into getting the right camera equipment and prepping for it turned out well, and the two episodes available now are absolutely stunning. Kevin’s said several times he believes [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 8a

Posted by Alan Henry on June 9th, 2005

Well well, what do we have here? Looks like a mid-week TWIT, starring Leo and Patrick! I think this one was spawned from the need to comment on the announcement that Apple is going with Intel processors for it’s Macintosh line of desktops and laptops, and sure enough that’s one of the foremost topics. Leo [...]

Weezy & The Swish: Podcast Fever

Posted by Alan Henry on June 8th, 2005

Looks like the Podcasting meme is taking off! Laura Swisher, everyone’s favorite curly-haired ball of hilarity from Unscrewed, is looking at doing some podcasting of her own with Louise Palanker, a comedian and friend of Laura’s who testified in the Michael Jackson trial. Not many details right now, but it looks like there might be [...]

Apple Switches to Intel Processors

Posted by Alan Henry on June 6th, 2005

On Sunday I woke up feeling lost, confused, betrayed, alone-and then I realized what happened. I checked my email and saw it there, first brought to me by the Wall Street Journal, and then later corroborated by other established media outlets, that Apple was making the grand switch to Intel chips to drive it’s Macintosh [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 8

Posted by Alan Henry on June 6th, 2005

Hot off the presses, TWIT Episode 8 is up and ready for download here at TechTV Forever! I admit, I had my doubts that they’d manage to get this one up so quickly after the last one, but they came through with no problem, and now that Leo’s put it up, we’ve got it and [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 7

Posted by Alan Henry on June 5th, 2005

The delayed yet much anticipated and waited-for TWIT Episode 7 is finally here! Leo posted it just a few hours ago, so head on over and download it, or, if you’re reading this, go ahead and download it here! We know there’s been high demand for this week’s podcast and people have been anxiously waiting [...]

Patrick Norton Explains This Week’s TWIT Delay

Posted by Alan Henry on June 3rd, 2005

Patrick to the rescue! Patrick Norton has posted on the TWIT collaborative blog as to why the TWIT podcast for this week is running so late and what the story is; namely that Leo has been travelling and when your recorder and editor is on the go and away from home, you don’t have much [...]

Build an $800 Gaming PC!

Posted by Alan Henry on June 2nd, 2005

In the true spirit of the old Screen Savers segments when you would build either the Ultimate Gaming Machine or that memorable time when Patrick Norton managed to cobble together a pretty damned swanky gaming system for only 500 bucks, ExtremeTech has a how-to on how to build your own gaming PC for $800 bucks. [...]

TWIT Episode 7 Delayed

Posted by Alan Henry on June 2nd, 2005

As you may have noticed, the most recent TWIT isn’t up yet. Well, that’s because it hasn’t been released yet! So if you come here to get your TWIT fix for the week, just hold on tight-it’ll be up as soon as we can download it from Leo, and Leo says he was going to [...]