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Archive for March, 2006

DL.TV // Episode 48

Posted by Alan Henry on March 31st, 2006

The week’s final installment of DL.TV has Patrick and Robert discussing the possible death of Sony’s UMD, Apple’s 30th Anniversary is on April 1st, tools to help you visualize how much hard drive space is being used by files, Gateway’s new ultraportable notebook, and a slew of viewer questions! Head on over and check it [...]

DL.TV // Episode 47

Posted by Alan Henry on March 29th, 2006

This week’s first DL.TV episode is up and ready to go! Among this week’s top tech stories for Robert and Patrick are Toshiba’s new initiative; making USB thumbdrives, and a new warning about the Russian mp3 download site AllofMP3 and other offshore mp3 downloading sites on-the-cheap; they might be stealing your credit card information! Speaking [...]

GeekDrome // Episode 18

Posted by Alan Henry on March 28th, 2006

This week on GeekDrome, Scott Klopfenstein of Reel Big Fish stops through to hang out, and the group talk about a whole world of movies that I wouldn’t have heard about if I hadn’t listened to this podcast, including Duck Season and United 93, dish about comics, get down and dirty with Geometry Wars and [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 42

Posted by Alan Henry on March 28th, 2006

The site gets a facelift and looks much shinier, but that’s not the big huge deal this week. First of all, Weezy and The Swish is featured on iTunes, and they’re leading off with a hilarious episode featuring special guest Henry Winkler and in-studio visitor, Nick Adams, author of the book Making Friends with Black [...]

Lab Rats // Episode 19

Posted by Alan Henry on March 28th, 2006

Lab Rats is back from it’s Spring Break hiatus this week and delivering a brand spanking new episode that’s sure to please the gear and gadget freak in you. (Trust me, it pleased the gadget freak in me!) Sean and Andy go ga-ga over some hot new gadgets from Panasonic, including the best massage chair [...]

Command-N // Episode 39

Posted by Alan Henry on March 28th, 2006

On this week’s Command-N, Amber and Mikey discuss some of the top tech news, including Google’s new moves to change civilization, France saving civilization (by challenging Apple to break the link between Apple iTunes and the Apple iPod), and more! YouTube sets a 10-minute limit for its uploads (no more free episodes of everything on [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 47

Posted by Alan Henry on March 27th, 2006

This week on TWiT, the gang’s back together and your hosts are Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Doug Kaye, and Leo Laporte, making for a small but rowdy bunch. Hot topics this week are the announced delay of Windows Vista, whether Apple’s going to win for this, Dell’s purchase of Alienware, and all the rest [...]

DiggNation // Episode 38

Posted by Alan Henry on March 27th, 2006

On this week’s DiggNation, Kevin and Alex go back over some of the best stories at Digg.com this week, including Sony announcing they’ll redesign the controller for the PlayStation 3, Dell finalizes its purchase of Alienware, idiotic users blame Firefox for their engagement breakup, Microsoft delays Windows Vista to 2007, and much much more! The [...]

Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur // Episode 15

Posted by Alan Henry on March 27th, 2006

This week on Inside the Net, Amber and Leo chat with Steve Chen of YouTube, about the rapid rise to fame of the video-sharing website, it’s run-ins with the major networks, and YouTube’s plans for the future, how they’re handling the unexpected growth, and what they’re doing about their success. Head on over and check [...]

Security Now! // Episode 32

Posted by Alan Henry on March 27th, 2006

On this week’s Security Now, Leo and Steve stay true to the tradition of doing question and answer shows for any show whose episode number is divisable by 4. Among the topics they discuss this week are questions from listeners on DRM and public key encryption, whether or not disabling your wi-fi card will keep [...]

New Video Show! :: Ctrl+Alt+Chicken // Episode 1

Posted by Alan Henry on March 24th, 2006

The long awaited geek cooking show is finally here! Ctrl+Alt+Chicken has finally landed with it’s first episode, and perfect for a first episode, Chicken Cordon Bleu is on the menu! The complete menu is posted in the show notes and everything, Alex Albrecht and Heather Stewart show us the amateur’s method of cooking gourmet food, [...]

CrankyGeeks // Episode 2

Posted by Alan Henry on March 24th, 2006

John C Dvorak is back from his travels and ready to get cranky! Okay, he’s always cranky. But on this episode of CrankyGeeks, John C brings in Sebastian Rupley – West Coast Editor, PC Magazine, Michael Krieger – VP, Market Experts Group, Ziff Davis Internet, and Harry Fuller – Executive Editor, CNET News.com to sit [...]

DL.TV // Episode 46

Posted by Alan Henry on March 24th, 2006

On this episode of DL.TV, the crew gets down to business by discussing Microsoft’s latest setback for Windows Vista, pushing the consumer release back to January 2007 instead of the before the holidays date we all expected, Microsoft also points out yet another “highly critical” IE hole (another reason to switch to Firefox), in gaming [...]

GeekDrome // Episode 17

Posted by Alan Henry on March 23rd, 2006

This week’s Geekdrome sports a new logo! I’m not sure if we’ll keep using it though, but why not. May as well share it with you. This week the Geekdrome crew check out The Hills Have Eyes, 16 Blocks, and the film I really want to see, V for Vendetta. They also give us a [...]

New Video Show // 10

Posted by Alan Henry on March 22nd, 2006

Ten [ http://onten.net/ ] is a show created by Microsoft that features ex-G4 personalities Laura Foy and Tina Wood, that you may or may not remember from G4′s “G4tv.com The Show” or whatever the name really was. I hate to admit it, but I was never really a fan; I thought the G4tv.com television show [...]

DL.TV // Episode 45

Posted by Alan Henry on March 22nd, 2006

A brand new dl.tv is here to help stave off the midweek blues! This week Patrick and Robert discuss Google in federal court, and the 50,000 search records and account information that the DOJ is demanding from Google, the development team that’s made the incredibly good and incredibly popular Katamari games has dissolved-no more sequels, [...]

Weezy and The Swish Featured on iTunes!

Posted by Alan Henry on March 21st, 2006

Congratulations, Matt, Weezy, and Laura! That’s right, your favorite comedy podcast is headed for the top 10, and should be featured on the front page of the iTunes comedy podcast section with a banner and everything, and also in the “featured podcasts” section as well, right up there with another hilarious podcast we track for [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 41

Posted by Alan Henry on March 21st, 2006

For the record, I think talk about snacks is incredibly riveting. Moving on. This week on Weezy and The Swish, the crew chats in front of a live studio audience and a live chatroom audience and makes for a brilliant follow-up to a 40th episode, even though they have no special guests this week (save [...]

Command-N // Episode 38

Posted by Alan Henry on March 21st, 2006

This week on Command-N, Amber and Mikey chat about the SXSW (south by southwest) conference and all the goodies they saw there, like Pandora, Newsvine, and the panels on podcasting, the breakthrough about running Microsoft Windows XP on the Intel iMac, TechCrunch launches a podcast, a bunch of tech tips on ways to send your [...]

This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 46

Posted by Alan Henry on March 20th, 2006

This week’s TWIT is a roundtable audio call; no video this week. The crew this week consist of Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Alex Lindsay, Roger Chang, and David Prager, and they get right into things by starting off by discussing the breakthrough of Windows XP running on the new Intel Macs, AOL’s new Internet [...]