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Archive for April 17th, 2006

This Week in Tech [TWiT] // Episode 50

Posted by Alan Henry on April 17th, 2006

Wow! TWiT is 50 episodes strong! It’s been a long time since the old Screen Savers gang gathered around a microphone to chat about tech news and how great it was to get back together, and here they are, 50 episodes later, still talking tech and bringing tech news and commentary to the masses. Congratulations [...]

DiggNation // Episode 41

Posted by Alan Henry on April 17th, 2006

Another week, another glorious DiggNation to start it off fresh! This week, Alex and Kevin hit on some of the top stories from last week that undoubtedly you guys have all heard (especially if you spend any time over at digg.com) including the possibility that Vista’s shiny graphics engine, Aero, won’t be available in pirated [...]

New Podcast! :: This Week In Media // Episode 1

Posted by Alan Henry on April 17th, 2006

A brand new TWIT podcast has hit the airwaves (okay, “hit the bandwidth” doesn’t have the same ring) and it looks like another winner; it’s called This Week In Media and it looks to be all about the technology and production that goes into creating digital media, from music to podcasts, videocasts to blogs, and [...]

Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur // Episode 18

Posted by Alan Henry on April 17th, 2006

This week on Inside the Net, Leo and Amber talk to Tara Hunt, chief blogger at the startup Riya, [ http://riya.com/ ] to chat about what Riya is, how it’ll measure up to competition in the face and text recognition game, privacy concerns, and more; and what it means to use technologies like face and [...]

FLOSS Weekly // Episode 2

Posted by Alan Henry on April 17th, 2006

Last week, Chris and Leo chatted a bit about their hopes for FLOSS Weekly and what they wanted to do with the show, topics they wanted to cover, and places they wanted to see the program go, and they’re off and running this week with Chris DiBona interviewing the lead engineer for Firefox, Ben Goodger [...]

Security Now! // Episode 35

Posted by Alan Henry on April 17th, 2006

A new week, a new episode of Security Now! hits the table. This week is the last week of our primer on crypto and codemaking and codebreaking, and Steve and Leo cap off the series by discussing cryptographic hashes. They talk about some of the hashes that you’ve probably seen around the net, like MD5 [...]

MacBreak // Episode 2

Posted by Alan Henry on April 17th, 2006

A brand new episode of MacBreak is available for all the Mac-heads in the audience, and it’s even ready to go in beautiful 1080p high-definition! Pretty! On this episode, the MacBreak crew talk about video compression and both how hard it is to get video down to a managable size while preserving quality. Alex Lindsay [...]