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Archive for August, 2005

Doing Our Part: Helping the Victims of Hurricane Katrina

Posted by Alan Henry on August 31st, 2005

The members of TechTV Forever, LongLiveTechTV (and 535 York, LLTTV’s podcast, available at longlivetechtv.com), and all of us here at TechTV Forever.net would like to take a moment to reach out to the entire community to do whatever they can to help the victims of hurricane Katrina, to help those people whose lives have been [...]

Andy Walker Leaves Call for Help!

Posted by Alan Henry on August 31st, 2005

Andy! Say it isn’t so! Leaving CfH? It can’t be! We’re all sad to see Andy go, but never fear, he has a ton of projects up his sleeve, like Ping! [ http://ping.cyberwalker.com ] and Lab Rats [ http://labrats.cyberwalker.com/ ] which we’ll definitely continue to keep track of! But still, with CfH’s arrival in the [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 12

Posted by Alan Henry on August 29th, 2005

One more podcast to add to the roundup: Weezy and The Swish, of course! This week’s topics include Laura’s trip to see the new movie, 40 Year Old Virgin, a lesson in sifting out news in a field of lies, and much much more. I’m headed over to download it now, you should too! Weezy [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 20

Posted by Alan Henry on August 29th, 2005

20 episodes of This Week in Tech already? No way! The show’s been running strong at the top of the podcast charts lately and looks to continue its trend, all things considered. This week is no exception. Our hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Robert Heron, David Prager, and Steve Gibson; this week’s [...]

DiggNation // Episode 9

Posted by Alan Henry on August 28th, 2005

Also ready for you fresh on Monday morning is a brand new DiggNation! As usual, Alex and Kevin take on the most dugg stories during the past week at Digg.com, which this week are the release of Google Talk, AOL getting in trouble for making it way too hard for its customers to cancel service, [...]

Command-N // Episode 12

Posted by Alan Henry on August 28th, 2005

This weeks’ Command-N is already up and ready for download! Discussion this week is about Google’s new IM and voice-calling service Google Talk; a lot of talk about the new PlayStation Portable (PSP) software upgrade and all the neat things you can do with a PSP, as well as the weekly web picks! There’s more, [...]

Security Now! // Episode 2

Posted by Alan Henry on August 26th, 2005

Security Now! runs on a Thursday schedule, so they’ll be announced a bit earlier. As usual, Leo and Steve Gibson are the hosts, and this week they’re discussing Microsoft’s Strider HoneyMonkey project, which appears to have some success, but Microsoft has so far refused discussing it with other security firms or with the public. The [...]

N.Y. Attorney General Prods AOL on Cancellation Policies

Posted by Alan Henry on August 25th, 2005

Everyone knows how horrifically difficult it is to cancel your subscription once you’ve signed on with AOL; in fact to the point that many people just don’t bother, or set aside time in their schedules for the repetative “no, I want to cancel” they have to keep saying to the AOL rep on the phone [...]

Google’s Latest Is All Talk

Posted by Alan Henry on August 25th, 2005

Now I’ll preface this with the fact that I haven’t tried Google Talk. I realize it’s just another Jabber client, and I can connect to it using any Jabber-capable client, but the Mac in the office can’t use the voice-calling features that I think are cool (actually, the only version available is the Windows 2000/XP [...]

Security Now! // Episode 1

Posted by Alan Henry on August 25th, 2005

Another podcast is in town, this time hosted by Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson, of ShieldsUP and SpinRite fame, both at GRC [ http://grc.com/ ] called Security Now! and it looks good. The first episode was actually posted on August 18th and mentioned in TWIT episode 18, but I’m catching up on such things and [...]

Coming Soon: Lab Rats!

Posted by Alan Henry on August 24th, 2005

Andy Walker is on the move! Between Call for Help, chatting with us [ http://www.techtvforever.net/index.php?p=208 ], and working on Ping! [ http://www.techtvforever.net/index.php?p=229 ] it looks like Andy and Sean Carruthers are working on a videocast called Lab Rats, which will begin airing on the internet in September! Stay tuned, this is going to be another [...]

Coming Soon: Digital Life TV!

Posted by Alan Henry on August 24th, 2005

I didn’t know about this until Eric Craft posted it over at the TechTV-Forever messageboards [ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ ] but Patrick Norton, who’s been a writer at ExtremeTech [ http://www.extremetech.com/ ] among other things, is planning a new IPTV show called Digital Life TV, which will hopefully return our beloved Patrick to our screens as well [...]

Google Releases Google Talk

Posted by Alan Henry on August 24th, 2005

Again, another validation of rumors that have been running around for quite some time now-Google is getting into the instant messaging business. The word was of course that Google was planning an IM network, and it looks like that network is finally here, in the form of Google Talk: [ http://talk.google.com/ ] Looks like Google [...]

Coming Soon from CyberWalker: Ping!

Posted by Alan Henry on August 22nd, 2005

Andy Walker, host of Call for Help, creator of CyberWalker [ http://www.cyberwalker.com/ ] and recent interviewee of ours [ http://www.techtvforever.net/index.php?p=208 ] is going to be starting a podcast called Ping! about, as quoted on the website: “A new podcast from Cyberwalker about the future and the people that make it.” Sounds delicious, and I’m looking [...]

Martin Sargent’s New Blog!

Posted by Alan Henry on August 22nd, 2005

Only four entries over there right now, but it’s definitely looking good. Martin’s new blog, Sargeworld [ http://sargeworld.com/ ], is up and running and its few entries are pretty long and quite amusing. If you haven’t checked it out, you definitely need to. Link’s added on the right, head on over and bookmark it. Here’s [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 19

Posted by Alan Henry on August 22nd, 2005

Another TWIT is here and ready to go! This week’s hosts are the usual gang, Leo, Pat, Kevin, Roger, Steve, and Dvorak; no special guests this time around. Topics this week of course include the triumphant return of Call for Help to the G4 lineup, but of course go much deeper and into other areas [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 11

Posted by Alan Henry on August 22nd, 2005

This week’s Weezy and the Swish is punctuated with an exceptionally creepy photograph, but also there is discussion of Martin Sargent and his new site, [ http://www.sargeworld.com/ ] as well as apparent broken blogging promises to Laura, and much more. Pretty straight forward from where I sit. Head on over and download it: Weezy and [...]

DiggNation // Episode 8

Posted by Alan Henry on August 22nd, 2005

This week’s Diggnation comes to us a bit early, but it’s no dissapointment. Topics this week include the riot down in Virginia for 50-dollar iBooks, research being done into Crocodile immunity to HIV and what it could mean to humans, the triumphant return of Call for Help to the United States and Kevin Rose’s subsequent [...]

Command-N // Episode 11

Posted by Alan Henry on August 22nd, 2005

This week’s Command-N is the big one! We see the winner of the “Your video for a shuffle” contest, and much much more, including the web picks and the new “thumbs-up/thumbs-down” rating approach that Amber and Mikey are taking to some new web content. It looks like Command-N is really coming into its own and [...]

It’s official! Call for Help to air on G4TV in the USA

Posted by Alan Henry on August 20th, 2005

While an official press release is yet to come, Leo has finally given up on holding the secret back and let the beans spill in the last 5 minutes of his “Tech Guy on KFI” radio show this week and let it be known that, as suspected (and leaked on the G4 message boards) that [...]