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Archive for August, 2005

CfH In the USA?

Posted by Alan Henry on August 16th, 2005

Leo’s been fueling the rumor mill for a while now, and he’s been talking about how he has a big announcement that he has to wait for a press release to talk about, but that hasn’t stopped the rumors from flying. Some people think that it means another network has picked up Call For Help [...]

Weezy and the Swish // Episode 10

Posted by Alan Henry on August 16th, 2005

Another Weezy and the Swish in the can-this week is a momentous occasion; another one of our beloved podcast/net shows that has reached the 10 episode mark, and are still going strong! This week’s promises to be no dissapointer (and much better for those of you who were turned off by the political bent of [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 18

Posted by Alan Henry on August 15th, 2005

This week’s TWiT looks good, very good! Our fine hosts this run around are of course Leo and Patrick, Dvorak, Steve Gibson, Robert Heron, David Prager, and of course Roger Chang. I tend to like the TWiTs with more people, adds some life to the podcast. This week is the first in what will hopefully [...]

DiggNation // Episode 7

Posted by Alan Henry on August 15th, 2005

Another lovely episode of DiggNation is up and ready to go! This week’s topics include the infamous TPS reports, Pirates of Silicon Valley being released on DVD, Google getting into the IM business, sex tips for geeks, the passing of Peter Jennings, MS giving up on the whole Genuine Advantage program, and more. Looks like [...]

Command-N // Episode 10

Posted by Alan Henry on August 15th, 2005

10 episodes and going strong! This week’s Command-N marks the 10 episode mark, and personally I think Amber and Mikey have come a long way in the past 10 episodes and are delivering some real solid (but still entertaining) technology content and news. Definitely good stuff. Apparently shot during the big TechTV meetup in Toronto, [...]

Weezy and the Swish // Episode 9

Posted by Alan Henry on August 12th, 2005

My bad! I’m late on this one. The most recent Weezy and the Swish was actually posted on Monday, but since I didn’t see it right away, I figured I’d wait and totally missed it. I apologize! Anyway, the newest episode is up and definitely a good one. This week features Bob Cowsill, of The [...]

First Look: Apple’s (Mostly) Mighty Mouse

Posted by Alan Henry on August 8th, 2005

If you hadn’t been able to tell from the array of podcasts this week and from a whole assortment of other tech news, some small part of hell just froze over because Friday Apple announced that it was releasing a mouse with -gasp- more than one button. But then again, leave it to Apple to [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 17

Posted by Alan Henry on August 8th, 2005

Another TWiT, ready to go – this week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Roger Chang, Robert Heron, Steve Gibson, and John C. Dvorak. Whew! There’s a lot of TWiTs on this week’s show, but it’s not confusing-I actually like the episodes where there are plenty of people chatting about a whole variety [...]

Command-N // Episode 6

Posted by Alan Henry on August 8th, 2005

This week’s Command-N is up and ready to download, and while this week is no blooper reel, it’s definitely amusing. This week Amber and Mikey have an exclusive interview with Ray S. from iPodderX [ http://www.ipodderx.com/ ], tips on how to put linux on your iPod, the weekly web picks, chat about Yahoo’s acquisition of [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 8

Posted by Alan Henry on August 8th, 2005

They were a little late last week, but I didn’t mean to completely forget the release of their most recent podcast! Looks like they’re a little behind now, but that’s okay-I’m glad to get my hands on the hilarity at all. Episode 8 is up and ready to download; this week the discussion centers around [...]

DiggNation // Episode 6

Posted by Alan Henry on August 8th, 2005

A brand new DiggNation is up and ready to go, and it looks promising! This week’s DiggNation lists off the best 5 torrent sites, the ugliness that is the new AOL Instant Messanger Beta (which apparently has ads all over the place), Harrison Ford is going to go ahead and be Indiana Jones in the [...]

First Family of Windows Vista Viruses Unleashed

Posted by Alan Henry on August 8th, 2005

Uh oh! Looks like no sooner than Windows Vista Beta 1 go live over MSDN and to developers and other beta testers did it wind up available on the p2p circuit, and as soon as it was available on the p2p circuit the viruses appeared. Not that this is really significant news, because I’m sure [...]

Recently the TTVF crew had the opportunity to chat with Andy Walker, host of Call for Help [ http://www.callforhelptv.com/ ] with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur, which is currently being aired on G4TechTV Canada and on several other fine networks around the world, (in places like Austrailia, the Phillipines, and more!) not to mention the [...]

Wal-Mart Leaks $299 Xbox 360 Price

Posted by Alan Henry on August 2nd, 2005

Oh look out! Gamers beware! Okay-this really wasn’t so particularly amazing or unexpected. We all had expected the purchase price for Microsoft’s next-generation console gaming system, the Xbox 360, to be about $299, and today’s leak by Walmart pretty much confirmed it. Granted the price could change between now and then, but it probably won’t [...]

Hackers Annihilate Wi-Fi Record

Posted by Alan Henry on August 2nd, 2005

124.9 miles. That’s ridiculous-it’s something like the distance between Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA. That’s the current record for a direct unamplified wifi connection, held by team iFiber-Redwire, achieved this past week at the Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas. From a mountain in Nevada to a mound in Utah, the team managed to get [...]

Congress Drafts National Technology Recycling Plan

Posted by Alan Henry on August 2nd, 2005

Finally some good news from the halls of government. Everyone admits that landfills and dumps are beginning to overflow with old technology like computers, monitors, cellphones, and printers, and while recycling and reuse programs are growing, they are still for the large part hard to find, difficult to access, and not nearly as widespread as [...]

Copyright Crackdown

Posted by Alan Henry on August 2nd, 2005

In an attempt to further erode your rights and encroach on the realm of fair use, the music industry is sinking more money into preventing you from using your own music that you’ve bought and paid for the way you’d like to use it instead of sinking more money into finding oh, I don’t know, [...]

Andy Walker’s New Book Scheduled for Release in October

Posted by Alan Henry on August 2nd, 2005

Andy Walker’s new book, Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Security, Spam Spyware and Viruses is slated to hit the store shelves in late October, and you can already preorder the book at Amazon. [ Amazon US | Amazon CA ] The book looks good so far, and looks to be full of tons of valuable information [...]

MadPenguin.org [ http://www.magpenguin.org/ ] has an interview with Leo Laporte, focusing on the notion that the PC and open source software and standards will long outlive Microsoft and Windows. What’s that you say? Never? Microsoft will always be a permenent fixture? Leo doesn’t necessarily agree with you, and he gives some very good answers to [...]

Apple Releases the Mighty Mouse!

Posted by Alan Henry on August 2nd, 2005

Here it comes to save the day! Mighty Mouse is on its way! Okay seriously. Leave it to Apple to design and develop a mouse that has multiple buttons and a scroll ball but doesn’t actually have any buttons. It’s pretty sleek looking, don’t get me wrong, but seriously, they could have chosen a name [...]