Day: August 1, 2005

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 16

Post author By Alan Henry
Post date 8/1/2005
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Another TWiT in the can and ready to roll! This week’s guests are Leo, Pat, Steve Gibson, back again for another session, and John C. Dvorak. Topics covered this week are events at Defcon 13 (for those not in the know, the hacker convention in Las Vegas), the new record for an unamplified WiFi link (125 miles), the evil that is the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act, and glory that is the Community Broadband Act of 2005 (write your government officials, kids!), the wonder of Etymotics earbuds (even if they aren’t white), the important question of who the most powerful tech journalist in the world is (Dvorak doesn’t care because it’s not him, that’s all), upcoming news on TWiT live shows, and much much more!

Download away!

This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 16 // July 31, 2005 – [ episode notes | download ]

Programming and Podcasts

Command-N // Episode 8

This week’s episode of Command-N looks like a blooper reel of the previous episodes. Not sure how much content is involved, especially since I myself haven’t had a change to watch it yet (the early week blitz of podcasts and video is amazing!) but it look promising and good for a few if not many laughs. Should prove to be a good hilarious beginning to the work week, and don’t forget the Command-N “Your Video for a Shuffle” contest [ Your Video For a Shuffle ] going on right now, for all of you amateur and not-so-amateur cinematographers out there!

Anyway, check out the most recent Command-N!

Command-N Episode 8 // August 1, 2005 – [ episode notes and download links ]

Programming and Podcasts

Systm // Episode 3

Finally! A new Systm to help the hours pass by. Systm is always good stuff, and this one is no exception. This episode is all about cables, and reveals a professional production secret; that pros dont buy those expensive monster cables and whatnot that you see in Radio Shack and Best Buy at ridiculous prices-they make their own! This epsiode of Systm aims to show you how to make your own high quality AV cables, organize them, and get professional quality sound and video out of homemade cabling, and make it pretty while you’re at it. Looks good, and as always a how-to from Kevin and Dan is more than welcome. Check it out:

Systm Episode 3 // July 30, 2005 – [ episode notes | download links ]

Programming and Podcasts

DiggNation // Episode 5

This week’s DiggNation has been moved, so it looks like Kevin Rose and company are finally really starting the campaign to get all of their franchises and programs under the same banner-that banner being Revision3. [ http://www.revision3.com/ ] Don’t worry, the old DiggNation.com url will take you right where you need to go though, so no worries there.

Regardless, this week’s DiggNation is up and ready to download, and includes commentary and review on stories like Yahoo’s aquisition and subsequent free release of Konfabulator, the release of Microsoft Windows Vista beta 1, Firefox hitting the 75 million download mark, and much much more. Check it out:

DiggNation Episode 5 // July 28, 2005 – [ episode notes | download ]