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Archive for November, 2005

Sony’s Rootkit DRM Timeline and Updates

Posted by Alan Henry on November 16th, 2005

If you’ve been paying attention to tech news lately, you’ve been hearing a lot about the rootkit that Sony has been using as DRM on some of its BMG CDs for the past several months. It’s been covered on TWIT [ http://www.twit.tv/ ], Security Now! [ http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm ] and a great deal of other technology [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 23

Posted by Alan Henry on November 16th, 2005

On this week’s Weezy and The Swish, the duo interview Fritz Coleman [ http://www.nbc4.tv/nbc4/1310077/detail.html ], a playright, comedian, and a household name in the LA area. If you think it’s kind of silly that Weezy and Laura spent this podcast essentially interviewing their local weatherman, you’d be way off base. It’s definitely a fun interview. [...]

No Digital Life TV This Week, But….

Posted by Alan Henry on November 16th, 2005

Patrick and Robert and the Digital Life TV gang ARE soliciting suggestions for the format of the show, whether you’d like to see any changes made to the format, the content, or the media types and availability of the show. This week Patrick is down in Baja working on race cars for the Baja 1000, [...]

Lab Rats // Episode 4

Posted by Alan Henry on November 15th, 2005

This week’s edition of Lab Rats is up and ready to go! This week Andy and Sean show us how to use msconfig in Windows to control what loads when our computers start up. Advanced geeks might think this is a little pedestrian, but speaking as someone who has to wade through slow booting and [...]

CyberWalker Mondays // Episode 6

Posted by Alan Henry on November 15th, 2005

This week’s Cyberwalker Mondays has Andy, Mike, and their callers on AM 640 Toronto (640 AM) on The Stafford Show chatting about getting music videos onto your new iPod, and while you’re at it, getting steamier adult content onto them as well, why you would get phished on purpose (as Andy did), why bother with [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 30

Posted by Alan Henry on November 15th, 2005

And the thirtieth TWIT is in the can! A whole thirty episodes, and no more fitting tribute for the thirtiest episode of a podcast that really put podcasts on the map than to record this week’s TWIT live at the Podcast Expo [ http://podcastexpo.com/ ]! This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Steve Gibson, Doug Kaye, [...]

Command-N // Episode 22

Posted by Alan Henry on November 15th, 2005

This week’s Command-N has Mikey sporting a lab coat. Seriously! Amber and Mikey talk more about the new iPod that plays video, and where to get good video for your iPod, Apple’s hit the million switchers mark, and that’s only in 2005, and a new Command-N that’s specially formatted for the iPod! Yahoo! and TiVO [...]

DiggNation // Episode 20

Posted by Alan Henry on November 14th, 2005

Happy 20th, DiggNation! Walking the fine line between absurdity, hilarity, inane, mindless, and enlightening, DiggNation is one of the best and most popular podcasts on the web. All this in only 20 episodes. Way to go, guys! This week on DiggNation, Kevin and Alex chat about the most dugg stories at Digg.com this week, including [...]

Security Now! // Episode 13

Posted by Alan Henry on November 14th, 2005

This week’s Security Now returns to the topic that Leo and Steve were discussing prior to being so rudely interrupted by the Sony rootkit DRM story last week. Leo and Steve were discussing securing your wireless network, and this week they continue to the topic by talking about WPA and ways to securie your wireless [...]

Digital Life TV // Episode 13

Posted by Alan Henry on November 9th, 2005

This week’s Digital Life TV is up and ready for download. It airs live and streaming every Tuesday night at 9PM ET over at the Digital Life website [ http://www.digitallifetv.com/ ] but of course if you’re like me and totally missed the most recent episode, then you can head over and download it. This week [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 22

Posted by Alan Henry on November 8th, 2005

Another podcast that’s getting up there in episiodes is Weezy and The Swish, on their 22nd episode now! This week heralds the return of the Swish, and some highlights from the star students in Weezy’s comedy class. The two discuss what’s happening on the Weezy and The Swish message boards, and much much more! The [...]

Command-N // Episode 21

Posted by Alan Henry on November 8th, 2005

This week on Command-N has Amber and Mikey still without a proper studio, but lucky enough to do the show from iPrimate in Toronto’s Liberty Village. This week’s episode also includes an interview with Mike Shaver from the Mozilla Foundation. This week’s show includes topics like the announcement by Microsoft to do completely online versions [...]

CyberWalker Mondays // Episode 5

Posted by Alan Henry on November 8th, 2005

Andy’s back again, wrappimg up and providing us with his weekly radio bit about technology and taking live, unscripted calls and answering tech questions on AM 640 Toronto (640 AM) on The Stafford Show. This week’s CyberWalker Mondays has Andy, Mike, and callers talking about using Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 for home video editing, deciding [...]

Lab Rats // Episode 3

Posted by Alan Henry on November 8th, 2005

This week’s edition of Lab Rats is up and ready for download! Andy and Sean discuss camcorder features using crackers and cheese (no, I don’t know yet, I still have to watch the episode) and somehow make the analogy between the numminess that is cheese and crackers and topics like image stabilization, the question of [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 29

Posted by Alan Henry on November 7th, 2005

This week’s TWIT discusses the topic that everyone’s been talking about lately, Sony using rootkit technology to impliment DRM with it’s copy protected CDs. This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, David Prager, and Alex Lindsay, and they launch right into the discussion by accusing Sony of putting rootkits on your PC [...]

DiggNation // Episode 19

Posted by Alan Henry on November 7th, 2005

This week on DiggNation, Kevin and Alex cover the usual-the most dugg stories over at digg.com [ http://www.digg.com/ ] including robust iTunes video sales, Nintendo graphics, artificial “trees” that could help end global warming, Motorola’s new and upcoming iTunes phone-that promises to be much much better than the ROKR, the IE tab plugin for Firefox, [...]

Security Now! // Episode 12 (Early Episode!)

Posted by Alan Henry on November 4th, 2005

Security Now! fans rejoice! Leo and Steve have gotten together early to publish the most recent Security Now! that covers the whole debaucle over Sony/BMG using rootkit technology to impliment DRM on the machines of people who have purchased DRM protected music from Sony recently. The story broke earlier this week, partly due to the [...]

Digital Life TV // Episode 12

Posted by Alan Henry on November 2nd, 2005

This week’s Digital Life TV aired as usual, on Tuesday night the 2nd of November, at 9PM EST. But if you missed it, you can download the show on demand from their website. This week’s show included showing off the Digital Life TV viewer map on Frappr, a viewer question about why they have commericals [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 21

Posted by Alan Henry on November 1st, 2005

Another Weezy and The Swish to get you through this boring Tuesday! This week is sans Swish, but the crew has brought on Brett Gilbet [ http://www.brettgilbert.com/ ] as guest host, who has been in a number of television shows, commercials, and movies, albeit not anything near a starring role-but hey, it’s everyone ELSE that [...]

Cyberwalker Mondays // Episode 4

Posted by Alan Henry on November 1st, 2005

This week’s cyberwalker Mondays has Andy and Mike talking with callers about Spyware removal, cleaning out viruses from your system by booting into Safe Mode first, what you have to do to avoid worm infections on fresh windows installs. They’ll also answer questions about using TiVo in Canada. Enjoy! Cyberwalker Mondays Episode 4 // October [...]