A couple of days late, but no worse for the wear. This week’s TWIT looks better than ever, and it looks like a long one at that! This week the founder and CEO of Opera [http://www.opera.com/ ] Jon van Tetzner stops in for a chat, and Steve Gibson from GRC [ http://grc.com/ ] comes by [...]
An update to that tidbit yesterday; noticed on the first day of its launch, Microsoft Virtual Earth was noted strangely to not have Apple’s headquarters on the map at its Cupertino, California address. Astute observers noticed the on Google Earth, Apple’s headquarters, in all its overhead glory, was seated firmly where it should be, but [...]
New Weezy and The Swish this week, up and ready for your enjoyment. This week, according to the show notes: Listen to Laura chewing God knows what in your ear! After that, we have Weezy joining us through the wonders of teleportation and time travel. She reads more goodies from the Internet love letters and [...]
So, if you didn’t notice, MSN unveiled Virtual Earth [ http://virtualearth.msn.com/ ], yet another step behind Google Maps-which has been all the rage for a while now-(it’s only a matter of time before they copycat again with some virtual earth globe thingy which emulates Google Earth) and Microsoft has made their first blunder…or offensive stab. [...]
Kevin Mitnick, perhaps one of the security world’s most famous convicted hackers, now spends much of his time consulting on matters of IT security for various institutions, and his message is clear, real, and while not old, definitely fresh for some ears. Social Engineering is a much greater threat than viruses, worms, and other software [...]
Or more appropriately, “Apple’s Tiger Drives A Car.” In this year’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge, Team Banzai has developed a fully autonomous vehicle running on Mac OS X, version 10.4, more commonly known as “Tiger.” The logistics are actually spectacular, they used a VW Touareg controlled by PowerMac G5s that operate [...]
A British study this week revealed that online legal music downloads are spreading and growing at an incredible rate, moreso than illegal music downloads, which came as a shocker to researchers, and might be evidence that legal music downloads are actually filling the niche needed in the music market for the first time. Music industry [...]
PCWorld did an experiment, a very good one, I might add. They went from website to website, taking 12 popular and frequently visited and used websites, and looked about for their “contact us” link or form, and then submitted a question. They then timed how long it took for that site to get back to [...]
ExtremeTech.com has an excellent piece today on keeping your computer in good working order. From physical maintenance to cleaning up your system’s software, purging startup files, and getting together something of a maintenance regimen for your system, you can keep your computer in tip top shape at all times and make sure it’s in excellent [...]
Some more growing pains this week for the guys over at Command-N, but nothing that’s not actually good news, as I’m sure their popularity is going through the roof, much like the other tech-related podcasts and video broadcasts on the new as of late. They should have it sorted out shortly, but hopefully that won’t [...]
This week’s DiggNation is up and ready to be heard! They take on topics this week like DiggNation’s exposive popularity, the hacker that got fed up with spam and hacked his way into and subsequently deleted a spammer’s database, open source beer (caffeinated, even!), Rockstar’s stopping production of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas following the [...]
Looks like the new Windows operating system, up to this point referred to as “Longhorn,” its codename used by Microsoft developers, has been given an official marketing name. The new OS, due out sometime in 2006, will be dubbed and sold as Microsoft Windows Vista. Not sure how I really feel about that, I mean, [...]
Were you wondering where Leo got those Dvorak sounds for the TWiT episode where Dvorak wasn’t there? So was I! And now I know: [ http://shutsa.com/twit/ ] UPDATE: // This link is dead. Try this one! [ http://techtainment.net/images/twitsb.swf ] The TWiT Soundboard! Amazing quotes from Dvorak like “Nah,” and “Ah..uhm…I don’t remember all the details,” [...]
You know what to do! I think it’s pretty cool that there’s that built-in viewer over at the Command-N website (which is very attractive after the facelift, by the way) that you can use to watch the movie in-browser, but of course if you want the goodness of good compression and video quality, you’ve gotta [...]
Brand new Weezy and the Swish for your listening pleasure! (and note, I spelled Swish correctly!) Episode 6 is up and ready to download, featuring this week’s voicemails (that you can leave them and be part of the show!), identity theft, victorian love letters, and more, of course! Check it out: Weezy and The Swish [...]
DiggNation is also out of the gate with a new podcast; and I forgot to mention last time that even though they have video episodes available for download, I didn’t link em! I’ll start linking the video downloads as well so everyone has access to those as well, but if you missed the first couple [...]
Another fresh podcast to begin the week, the TWIT guys have episode 14 up and ready to go! This might be the beginning of a trend, hopefully, of getting the podcasts up and ready first thing Monday mornings again. Okay okay, I’m kidding-I’m not nearly as miffed as some of the folks who were riled [...]
Sorry about the title guys in the episode 5 link, I had “Weezy and the Switch,” which goes to show you how tired I was when I wrote the entry. It’s corrected now! Also, thanks, “c4hfan,” or might I say danderson72@gmail.com or might I say IP Address ” 24.176.43.137″ for being a royal ass and [...]
Another TWiT is up and ready for download! If I’m not mistaken, Leo is still out this week and Patrick has it all taken care of, and it looks like another good TWiT for everyone to listen to! This week’s topics include discussion on whether or not BitTorrent really counts as mainstream, the shuttle launch [...]
More hilarity to get your week off to a good start; Weezy and The Swish epsiode 5 is up and ready to be downloaded! The dynamic trio are on again this week on all manner of topic, and now they have a call-in voicemail number set up so you can call them, leave a message, [...]
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