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 out!
DL.TV Episode 48 // March 30, 2006
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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 of AllofMP3, the russian equivalent of the RIAA claims the site is illegal, although the Russian government has no intention ot taking the site down. one of the hot stories of the week is the guy who used a packet sniffer to catch his girlfriend cheating on him; many condolences to the poor guy. The guys review a portable media player that can connect to your TV from Iomega, and tons of viewer questions, including some HDTV buying help. Check it out!
DL.TV Episode 47 // March 28, 2006
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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 Prince of Persia, as well as Quake 4 and the story that the new Nintendo console will play old school Genesis games, and more. Enjoy!
GeekDrome Episode 18 // March 27, 2006
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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 People which I have to read, if for no other reason than to find out what tricks people will start using to get me to be friends with them.
Hilarity ensues on this week’s Weezy and The Swish!
Weezy and The Swish Episode 42 // March 27, 2006
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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 ever, the ultimate geek stove that can boil water in less than a minute (I NEED THIS), a cool new Microwave that claims to help you eat healthier, and a gorgeous 65-inch plasma TV that I’d love to have in my house.
Head on over and enjoy!
Lab Rats Episode 19 // March 27, 2006
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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 YouTube!) and now that it’s been done, everyone is installing Windows XP on their Intel Macs!
Speaking of civilization, Brian brings us a review of the Game Boy Micro and Jeff comes to us from Sri Lanka this week and gives us some awesome tech travel tips! Enjoy!
Command-N Episode 39 // March 27,2006
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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 tech news you know you were bound to hear about this week. The TechTV Forever mirror is up, so download away!
This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 47 // March 26, 2006
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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 show’s up for download, head over and snag it to start your week off right!
DiggNation Episode 38 // March 23, 2006
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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 it out!
Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur Episode 15 // March 21, 2006
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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 people out of your system, security issues with PPTP, the level of security on hotel LANs, and preventing ARP poisoning, among other topics. Tune in and have your own security questions answered!
Security Now! Episode 32 // March 23, 2006
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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, complete with mishaps, hilarity, and amusement. Definitely the cooking show for the enlightened geek like you and I. Head on over and give it a shot, it’s awesome. Good work, guys!
Ctrl+Alt+Chicken Episode 1 // March 24, 2006
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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 around the table and chat tech.
For example, they discuss what will become of Apple (or France for that matter) when it comes to that DRM law they’re proposing, whether AT&T is hijacking the internet, tax phishers, and the space elevator (sci-fi, or just sci?). Head on over and grab the podcast now!
CrankyGeeks Episode 2 // March 23, 2006
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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 news, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter is an awesome game, Patrick and Robert rant, and tons of viewer questions, of course! Head on over to download it now!
DL.TV Episode 46 // March 23, 2006
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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 peek at the up and coming for who knows why Fast and Furious 3, the Geekdrome T-shirt contest winner is announced, a good look at the Halo comic, and much more. Enjoy!
GeekDrome Episode 17 // March 20, 2006
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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 was kind of redundant, boring, and lacking in any real or entertaining value or content, but my opinions don’t equal your opinions, and it wouldn’t be fair to exclude this daily show from the lineup.
The show comes out every day, so we won’t be tracking it, naturally, and that combined with the fact that the show doesn’t really feature any ex-TechTV personalities puts it a little out of our realm, but you might want to subscribe to it anyway! The about page says:
10 is a place for people who want to use technology to change the world.
Every weekday at 10:00 am (PST) we’ll update this site with a new video that highlights people, their passions and often the technology they are using. At the end of each week we compile these videos into a full length show with some extra surprises for you.
In addition to the show, we’re launching a number of blogs for the enthusiast covering a wide range of topics. Our blogs will be written by Microsoft employees, members of the 10 community or a mixture of both.
Welcome to the beginning of 10, the next step starts with you!
This isn’t Microsoft’s first IPTV venture, see their Channel 9 for more content.
[ http://channel9.msdn.com/ ]
Whether or not the show will essentially be Tina and Laura picking up their bags and settling down in the next place that wants a pair of blondes to be “hip” “edgy” and “extreme” and do a little dish about technology is totally up to you, but that’s certainly what people thought about their previous show, and half the reason the show got cancelled (the other half being a lack of viewers, of course).
Okay, okay, I should stop-I’m not being fair at all to the show. It’s got several episodes under its belt so far, and they do come out reliably every single day with new and fresh content. Head over and check it out, and make the decision for yourself whether or not it’s worthwhile. If you guys love it, come back here and smack me around, and tell us to track it!
10 // Video Show from Microsoft
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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, all this and a slew of viewer questions. Definitely a good show, albeit it felt a little short! Keep up the good work, guys!
DL.TV Episode 45 // March 21, 2006
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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 you, Infected with Martin Sargent!
So raise a glass to the fine folks who give us Weezy and The Swish every week, and keep an eye out in iTunes, because the audience is likely to get quite a bit bigger in the coming weeks. Stay tuned, you should see the banner and sidebar feature sometime between 3/29 and 4/5!
Congratulations, guys!
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 a pair of Ds that get routinely yelled at, much to our benefit!) Laura, Weezy, and Matt give us enough hilarity to get us through the show, even though Matt tells us in the first 5 minutes that they have no direction. I don’t know about that, sometimes no direction is the best direction! Regardless of what you think, head on over and download today’s Weezy and The Swish today!
Weezy and The Swish Episode 41 // March 20, 2006
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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 files around the globe, the weekly web picks, and much more! Enjoy!
Command-N Episode 38 // March 20, 2006
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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 television network, and Google being forced to hand over their data to the Justice Department.
France’s new law that makes piracy nearly legal, the US Senate tries to make a run for the .xxx domain again, and Sony announces that the PlayStation 3 will be delayed until November of 2006. No more Katamari, as the dev team goes their separate ways, PC World’s call-quality survey, and much much more!
Head on over and check it out, and the TechTV Forever mirror is up and ready for downloading. Enjoy!
This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 46 // March 20, 2006
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