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Archive for October, 2005

Lab Rats Blog!

Posted by Alan Henry on October 31st, 2005

Lab Rats, Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers’ new weekly videocast, now has a home on the web all it’s own aside from the old website they were using before (which still works if you have it bookmarked!). The new Lab Rats blog has status updates on the upcoming video (due tonight) and more information about [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 28

Posted by Alan Henry on October 31st, 2005

It’s been 28 episodes of TWIT already? Amazing. TWIT videos are being distributed via BitTorrent links in the show notes, see the link below. This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, David Prager, a fine group indeed, and they’ve gathered to discuss this week’s topics: Digg.com’s new venture [...]

Security Now! // Episode 11

Posted by Alan Henry on October 31st, 2005

This week’s topic of discussion on Security Now! is WEP and MAC Address filtering; where Steve and Leo discuss probably one of the best ways to lock down your wireless network; to use WEP, hide your SSID, and to filter MAC addresses so only computers with those hardware addresses can get online using your wireless [...]

DiggNation // Episode 18

Posted by Alan Henry on October 31st, 2005

This week’s DiggNation is chock full of story goodness. Kevin and Alex wrap up the top stories from Digg.com this week, including PlayStation 3 backwards compatibility, Google to take one craigslist with Google Base, hunting for fake words in the dictionary, clever use of AJAX, and ways to make your mornings that much easier but [...]

Lab Rats // Episode 1

Posted by Alan Henry on October 27th, 2005

The first real episode of Lab Rats is up and live! The fourteen minute videocast with Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers features the great introduction to the show, appearances by The Cats that Andy mentioned in his interview with us [ http://www.techtvforever.net/?p=208 ] and the topics of discussion are how to secure your wireless network [...]

Digital Life TV // Episode 11

Posted by Alan Henry on October 27th, 2005

I’m a little late on this, but here we go nevertheless! This week’s Digital Life TV aired on Tuesday the 25th at 9PM EST, and topics this week include exactly how good the video is on the new iPod, how the iPod stacks up against other video players on the market, the recent release of [...]

FAQ: Identity Fraud Uncovered

Posted by Alan Henry on October 26th, 2005

CNet has a pretty comprehensive FAQ on what exactly identity theft is, how it happens to people, and how you can protect yourself. As if we all didn’t know what identity theft was by now, but the article goes into some really impressive detail about how people get your personal information and what lengths crooks [...]

How to Set Up a Home FTP Server

Posted by Alan Henry on October 26th, 2005

LifeHacker [ http://www.lifehacker.com/ ] to the rescue again! For those of you who would love to have access to all of your files from wherever you go and whatever computer you might use, and would also like the ability to transfer files to your home computer or home network, this trick is for you! I [...]

Tips and Tricks: TinyURL Etiquitte

Posted by Alan Henry on October 25th, 2005

One of my favorite sites, LifeHacker [ http://www.lifehacker.com/ ] has a few tips that I know for a fact a lot of people need; TinyURL etiquitte. Too often people use TinyURLs for everything without remembering that when you use a TinyURL you lose the context of the link, so people don’t know what they’re clicking. [...]

Security Now! // Episode 10

Posted by Alan Henry on October 25th, 2005

10 Episodes of Security Now, imagine that. Bringing comprehensive security information to the general public in language they can understand, Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte continue to trend this week by discussing wireless access points. This week they pick up where they left off last week by giving us listeners the lowdown on Rootkit Revealer, [...]

CyberWalker Mondays // Episode 3

Posted by Alan Henry on October 25th, 2005

Episode 2 suffered a producton failure, but Episode 3 is up and ready to go. This week on the show, Andy, Mike, and their callers chat about the prevalence now of high-quality OLED screens, the new video-capable iPod and the Creative Zen Vision (which hasn’t gotten much media attention for some strange reason), complete spyware [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 27

Posted by Alan Henry on October 25th, 2005

After a one week hiatus (if you didn’t notice, there was no TWIT last week) another TWIT is in the can! This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, and Alex Lindsay, with special guest Lawrence Lessig [ http://lessig.org/blog ] of Creative Commons [ http://creativecommons.org/ ]! This week’s video is already up [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 20

Posted by Alan Henry on October 25th, 2005

Woowoo, a whole 20 Weezy and The Swish episodes! Can you believe it’s been that long already? Anyway, another Weezy and The Swish for your early-week hilarity (I know it keeps me sane) and this week the ladies (and you too, Matt!) chat with the Suburban Homeboy himself, Eric Scwartz [ http://www.suburbanhomeboy.com/ ]. That’s not [...]

Command-N // Episode 19

Posted by Alan Henry on October 25th, 2005

This week’s Command-N gives us Amber and Mikey taking on the topic of Apple’s new product announcements, and no we don’t mean the new iPod: we’re talking about the updates to the PowerBook and PowerMac lines of computers, as well as the new photo processing software Apple announced called Aperture, how to unfreeze your iPod, [...]

DiggNation // Episode 17

Posted by Alan Henry on October 25th, 2005

This week’s DiggNation includes some of my favorite beer, and some of the stories that I can attest that I dugg over the course of the week. This week Alex and Kevin chat about the lego DeLorean, the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) DVD Jon landing his dream job in the United States, [...]

The World’s Longest Startup Sound

Posted by Alan Henry on October 21st, 2005

For a little humor in your diet, check out this video (courtesy of Leander Kahney and the Cult of Mac blog) of the world’s longest start-up sound. He says the anticipation is better than the payoff, but I disagree, the whole damn thing is hilarious! This definitely made my morning. [ http://www.prangstgrup.com/startupsound/ ]

Spyware: What You Need to Know

Posted by Alan Henry on October 19th, 2005

Wired has a definitive guide to Spyware and what every computer should know about it, and how to go about protecting themselves. There’s a lot of buzz about spyware in technology circles and rightfully so, but this piece is geared specifically to the audience who throws up their hands and says “why should I care? [...]

Digital Life TV // Episode 10

Posted by Alan Henry on October 19th, 2005

Here’s to 10 episodes of Digital Life TV! This week’s fine episode features discussion and some inside tips on the new Windows Vista beta that Microsoft dropped yesterday, hosting your own web server on a cable modem (and whether you should bother or not), Tyler Kovacs, CTO of Zvents[ http://www.zvents.com/ ] discusses Ruby on Rails, [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 19

Posted by Alan Henry on October 18th, 2005

This week’s Weezy and the Swish introduces us to a G4 insider, chat about Weezy on G4 TV, chat about their listeners, and much much more. I’m downloading the podcast as we speak, how about you? Weezy and The Swish Episode 19 // October 17, 2005 – [ episode notes | download ]

Security Now! // Episode 9

Posted by Alan Henry on October 18th, 2005

This week’s Security Now! with Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson is about rootkits, or those devious pieces of software that everyone is scared of because of the ease with which they can be applied, how difficult they are to detect, and the full control over your computer that they have. The duo talk about methods [...]