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Archive for January, 2006

Command-N // Episode 31

Posted by Alan Henry on January 31st, 2006

On Command-N this week, Amber and Mikey cover Bill Maher’s new show with Amazon, Disney buying Pixar, the UN and the $100 laptops, Sony pulls the plug on the Aibo, and more! The pair discuss some photoshop contests, their weekly web picks, and more. Download and enjoy! Command-N Episode 31// January 30, 2006 [ episode [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 34

Posted by Alan Henry on January 31st, 2006

On this week’s Weezy and The Swish, Guy Branum of stand-up comedy and G4 fame returns to the show to hang out with Matt, Louise, and Laura. The group chats up MySpace and internet dating, video games, and much much more. Check it out! Weezy and The Swish Episode 34 // January 30, 2006 [ [...]

CyberWalker Mondays // Episode 14

Posted by Alan Henry on January 31st, 2006

This week on CyberWalker Mondays, Andy and Mike face off again at listener questions on the Mike Stafford Show, on AM 640 Toronto (640 AM). This week the questions center around Windows issues; viruses, spyware, security, windows rebooting itself, and the like, and a few more questions about networking and how to make sure you [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 40

Posted by Alan Henry on January 30th, 2006

To celebrate the 40th episode of TWIT, guest hosts Steve Wozniak, Kevin Mitnick, Alex Fielding, and Amber MacArthur come on board with regular hosts John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, and Robert Heron to give us another great show! This week, the crew together discussed where Kevin Mitnick has been running around to these [...]

MacBreak 2.0 // Episode 1

Posted by Alan Henry on January 30th, 2006

The long-awaited MacBreak has finally come! The first episode is up and available for download via either bittorrent or through iTunes video for free. That’s right, no links for direct download, you either need to use iTunes to grab it from the video store or use bittorrent to download the quicktime version. This week’s show [...]

DiggNation // Episode 31

Posted by Alan Henry on January 30th, 2006

This week’s DiggNation covers some hot news that we’ve been hearing about all this week; for example Disney buying Pixar for about 7 Billion dollars, a restaurant sued for playing copyrighted music over the speakers, Google updating Google Video, ominous silence from Sony about the PlayStation 3, banning booth babes at the E3 game expo, [...]

Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur // Episode 8

Posted by Alan Henry on January 30th, 2006

This week’s Inside the Net features Mike Davidson of Newsvine [ http://www.newsvine.com/ ] which is an excellent social networking news site, which allows members to write stories and contribute, rate stories, seed stories, and more! Right now the service is invite-only, but if you’re lucky enough to have an invite, you’ll find it’s a really [...]

Security Now! // Episode 24

Posted by Alan Henry on January 30th, 2006

Since it’s another show evenly divisible by four (seriously, that’s how they do it!) this week is all about answering your burning questions about security in general, how to keep yourself safe online, and how to protect yourself from the myriads of bugs, viruses, worms, spyware, and other threats to your security and your data [...]

Digital Life TV // Episode 30

Posted by Alan Henry on January 27th, 2006

Thursday’s Digital Life TV kicked off with one of the hottest topics of the day; Google opening up Google.cn, it’s Chinese search service, which is being censored to cater to the Chinese government. Well, if there’s profits to be had, I suppose “don’t be evil” is just a motto, after all. The crew reviews the [...]

Gadgetell Interviews Kevin Rose!

Posted by Alan Henry on January 26th, 2006

In an exclusive interview, the folks at Gadgetell have interviewed Kevin Rose, both of TechTV fame and now one of the faces behind the scenes at Digg [ http://digg.com/ ] and Revision3 [ http://revision3.com/ ]. The interview is really good and has a lot of excellent questions (and answers) behind them. Check it out below! [...]

Digital Life TV // Episode 29

Posted by Alan Henry on January 25th, 2006

Yesterday brought us a brand new episode of Digital Life TV, and it’s a good one-the fine guys at Pixel Corps label themselves as the “martial arts dojo for the digital artist,” and they prove it. The Mozilla Foundation claims that Firefox 2.0 should be out by summer, how to calibrate an HDTV and a [...]

How to Trace an Email

Posted by Alan Henry on January 24th, 2006

Another lovely link from our friends at LifeHacker [ http://lifehacker.com/ ], here’s a step by step tutorial on how to trace an email using the header information. There was a time when I used to think it would help you report spammers to their ISPs, but usually ISPs and mail hosts are so flooded with [...]

Find Info About Any File Type

Posted by Alan Henry on January 24th, 2006

The website FileInfo.net contains perhaps the most massive database of filetype information on the internet, with new ones added daily. Ever come across a file with a funny extension and you have absolutely no idea what program opens it or where it might possibly have come from? Well, that’s what FileInfo is all about; demystifying [...]

The Most Downloaded Konfabulator (Yahoo! Widgets) Widgets

Posted by Alan Henry on January 24th, 2006

Jon Aquino has put together what is probably one of the most useful apps for the Yahoo! Widget engines ever. No, it’s not actually a widget, but it’s a refreshing list of the most downloaded widgets for the engine form Yahoo’s site, and it includes a lot of really good widgets that do everything from [...]

File Recovery Apps

Posted by Alan Henry on January 24th, 2006

We’ve all been there, it’s okay to admit it. You forgot to back up, or you just didn’t bother. And now you deleted something that you wish you had back. I know, I know, it sucks. Or you accidentally deleted something and went ahead and emptied the recycle bin without thinking about it, and now [...]

Lab Rats // Episode 12

Posted by Alan Henry on January 24th, 2006

This week’s Lab Rats is a CES and MacWorld wrapup, where, just for our sakes, the Lab Rats crew get down on all the goodies we saw and didn’t see from CES and MacWorld during the last couple of weeks. They chat about the pending release of Windows Vista, the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD debate, and [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 33

Posted by Alan Henry on January 24th, 2006

This week should be a treat for Weezy and the Swish lovers, since there are no guest hosts, no strange antics, and no funny business-okay, there’s plenty of funny business, but Louise, Laura, and Matt just sit down with some microphones between them and talk to one other. Yup. Hot, isn’t it? It’s awesome. Add [...]

CyberWalker Mondays // Episode 13

Posted by Alan Henry on January 24th, 2006

In the first CyberWalker Mondays we’ve had in a long time, Andy gets down to business answering listener questions, live on the air with Mike Stafford on AM 640 Toronto (640 AM) on The Stafford Show. This week, the two and their listeners chat about iPod and iTunes questions, Andy’s book, how to maximize desktop [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 39

Posted by Alan Henry on January 23rd, 2006

Getting close to yet another milestone, this week’s TWIT is in the can! This week, coming live from Golden Gate Studios in Corte Madera, California, our TWIT hosts are John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, David Prager, and Roger Chang. Special guests this week are Greg Zachary of Business 2.0, and the President of the California [...]

DiggNation // Episode 30

Posted by Alan Henry on January 23rd, 2006

Looks like the big three-oh for DiggNation! Congratulations! This week’s DiggNation covers some interesting stories-iTunes video offerings wind up boosting prime time ratings for ABC and NBC now that their videos are on the iTunes video store, the flack over Apple’s new Intel Ad and the Postal Service video that looks just like it, play [...]