Month: April 2006

On another fine blended episode of DL.TV, Patrick and Robert turn their attention to the age-old dilemma that every young gamer has been faced with at some point. How to buy a gaming laptop on the cheap. Not everyone has plenty of dough to toss around on a gaming computer they can also carry around with them, so how do you do it? Well, Patrick and Robert might have the answer, and in the meantime they’ll make you jealous with what you COULD buy if you did have the cash to toss around. Also, how to rasterbate! Yes, you read that right. A new Vista beta is coming out this week, and some viewer questions, all on this week’s first episode of DL.TV!

DL.TV Episode 53 // April 18, 2006
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Ah, another Weezy and The Swish to brighten my week! This week, Weezy and Laura have Melinda Hill on the show and her friend Tig, who’s been on the show before, to sit around the campfire and chat about everything from Tig’s now-famous voiceover as the teeny bopper who goes on a shopping spree with a beer guzzling man’s credit card (“it lefts AND separates!”) and the results of the Last Comic Standing competition. Also, the crew chats with Emily May, of the website HollaBackNYC [ http://www.hollabacknyc.blogspot.com/ ] which is dedicated to helping women protect themselves from perverts and sexual predators by posting pictures of the jackasses that women take with their cameraphones on their website. Hear hear!

Head on over and snag the podcast now. It’s a winner, let me tell ya!

Weezy and The Swish Episode 45 // April 18, 2006
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On this week’s episode of Lab Rats, Sean and Andy (and the kitties) try to get to the bottom of what “drivers” are, what they mean to do you, and go deeper into what they do, how they break, and how you can fix them yourself without getting frustrated, and help you ward off driver problems by showing you how to keep your drivers up to date and running smoothly. It’s still good advice to run the most recent drivers as possible for all of your peripherals, so check out the show to find out how to keep your system in good working order!

Lab Rats Episode 22 // April 17, 2006
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On this week’s GeekDrome, Activision Producer Steve Holmes stops by to hang out with the crew while they chat up Brick and The Wild, which strikes me as Madagascar without as much funny, and more. They chat about movies coming soon, including a new Shazam, Will Smith in Greenbacks, and Bruce Campbell in Bubba Nosferatu. Also, the guys chat about comics, touch on the PC versus console gaming debate, fan videos, and more! Head on over and check it out!

GeekDrome Episode 21 // April 17, 2006
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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 versions of the operating system, Google finally launches Google Calendar, no playable PlayStation 3 at E3 this year, Duke Nukem Forever in it’s final stages (yeah right), video of a high tech Honda Civic, and more, including the near-drunken hilarity you’ve come to know and love!

DiggNation Episode 41 // April 13, 2006
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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 more! The site says it’ll hit on everything from greenscreen animation (which’ll definitely be cool) to new advertising models, all with a roundtable panel of folks experienced in creating media and content for the net.

The first episode’s panel include Alex Lindsay, Ben Durbin, Kenji Kato, Scott Broock, and Emery Wells, all folks who know how to produce digital media content, and have been on the forefront for a while now. Check it out!

This Week In Media Episode 1 // April 14, 2006
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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 text recognition to enhance media services on the web. Sounds like a really good podcast with a company with some new ideas! Head over to download it now!

Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur Episode 18 // April 11, 2006
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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 from the Mozilla Foundation! The two discuss plans and features for Firefox 2.0, rumors that 3.0 is in the works, XUL, memory leakage, and more!

FLOSS Weekly Episode 2 // April 14, 2006
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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 and SHA1, and common implimentations of and attacks against those types of encryption. Head on over and snag it now!

Security Now! Episode 35 // April 13, 2006
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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 and Emery Wells handle the reins on this one, tune in and subscribe via iTunes to get the whole dish. Enjoy!

MacBreak Episode 2 // April 12, 2006
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Another week, another opportunity to get cranky with John C Dvorak and his panel of fellow cranky geeks! On this episode, John C brings on Sebastian Rupley – West Coast Editor, PC Magazine, Tom Merritt – Executive Editor, CNET.com, and Mac McCarthy – Editor of Buyers Guides for AllBusiness.com. Topics for the roundtable range from privacy and monitoring on the Internet, Podnography and sex on the web, MySpace finally getting serious about security, and insect robots! Download links aren’t quite there yet, but they should be shortly.

CrankyGeeks Episode 5 // April 13, 2006
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This Thursday’s DL.TV is a jam packed episode to make up for the shorter Tuesday edition. On this episode, Patrick and Robert discuss the possibility that Vista pirates may be locked out of Vista’s Aero features; the shiny additions to the GUI that make it exceptionally pretty, the Beatles song catalog is going online, Google releases the Google Calendar, Danny O’Brien from the EFF stops by to report how we’re doing, 7 years udner the DMCA, much much more and a ton of viewer questions to round out the episode! This one’s a nice big fat one; enjoy!

DL.TV Episode 52 // April 13, 2006
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Another glorious episode of dl.tv to brighten up the week! Shame it’s a little later than normal because of an audio sync problem, but it’s up and ready for download as we speak! Among this week’s topics are ABC vowing to bring prime time television episode downloads to the web, MySpace FINALLY decides to do something about keeping its users (especially it’s young and stupid ones) safe, the death of the PDA (and the rise of the Smartphone), and some viewer questions! Enjoy!

DL.TV Episode 51 // April 12, 2006
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On this week’s Geekdrome, comic book artist Leeahd Goldberg joins the crew for this week’s festivities. The crew reviews the new Ice Age movie, and checks out the trailer for the Simpsons movie that’s supposed to be coming out in the next year or so. They talk about Terminator 4 and how whether or not Arnie’s in for it, it’s going forward, Sharky’s Machine, a whole messload of comics, and how to test your geekdom! This week even features a video! Enjoy!

GeekDrome Episode 20 // April 10, 2006
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This week on Weezy and The Swish, Matt, Weezy, and Laura are joined by the hilarious Stephanie Wilder and Weezy’s own personal Cowsill, Paul Cowsill (of the Singing Cowsills) on another hilarious episode! Stephanie chats about her new book, Paul sings, there are Cowsills everywhere, and I just don’t know WHAT’S going on. But that’s okay, because you can download the podcast to listen to it as often as necessary to figure it out. Enjoy!

Weezy and The Swish Episode 44 // April 10, 2006
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On this week’s Command-N, Amber and Jeff are in shiny, sunny florida (you guys should have stopped by on your way through!) covering the week’s hottest tech news, including the release of Apple’s BootCamp, Google + Earthlink + WiFi = Rule the World, the Pandora Squeezebox, and Mike back in chilly Toronto in a hot, bubbly hot tub. No, we’re not joking. Tune in to see all the details!

Command-N Episode 41 // April 10, 2006
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