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Archive for May, 2006

New Video Show :: Hook Me Up! with Becky Worley

Posted by Alan Henry on May 31st, 2006

We’re a little late on this, but better late than never, and this is definitely a video cast that you don’t want to miss. Becky Worley’s back on the tech scene with Hook Me Up, which is being produced by Yahoo! Tech [ http://tech.yahoo.com/ ] in association with iFilm [ http://ifilm.com/ ] and promises to [...]

DL.TV // Episode 65

Posted by Alan Henry on May 31st, 2006

This week opens up with a new DL.TV, where Loyd Case stops by to fill in viewers on what happened at Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) last week, and Robert and Patrick talk about digital cameras; what to look for, new features on digital cameras these days, and image editing and management applications on [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 51

Posted by Alan Henry on May 30th, 2006

This week on Weezy and The Swish is one of my absolute favorite tv personalities; G4′s Adam Sessler! Love him or hate him (and personally I’ll fight haters to the death) Adam brings the hilarity to the crew for another glorious episode and gives us an inside look into the craziness of the video gaming [...]

CommandN // Episode 47

Posted by Alan Henry on May 30th, 2006

New logo this week, along with some new topics. Included with the news this week are Dell’s launching retail stores, Nike’s deal with Apple, Flirting in traffic, cleaning your keyboard the Mikey way, and more. This, we hear from Jeff, and the weekly web picks cap off another excellent commandN. CommandN Episode 47 // May [...]

Lab Rats // Episode 28

Posted by Alan Henry on May 30th, 2006

How to reformat your hard drive and reinstall your OS is the topic of choice for this week’s episode of Lab Rats; Andy and Sean take you through wiping a hard drive clean, formatting it, and reinstalling Windows, all in one short show. Topics to consider that Andy and Sean point out in the show; [...]

GeekDrome // Episode 27

Posted by Alan Henry on May 30th, 2006

This week on GeekDrome, the crew reviews Art School Confidential and The Borat Movie, and take a look at the previews for GridIron Gang and Flushed Away. Additionally, the usual in comics; comics for people who love comics and comics for people who don’t dig comics, and a ton of video game news, including looks [...]

DiggNation // Episode 47

Posted by Alan Henry on May 30th, 2006

Among the stories that Alex and Kevin cover on this week’s DiggNation include some of the hits at Digg.com this week, like the first running photos of MIT’s $100 laptop, a barrel roll while pouring iced tea, a 14-year old that got rich scamming others, Apple strikes a deal with Nike, Dell strikes back and [...]

FLOSS Weekly // Episode 7

Posted by Alan Henry on May 30th, 2006

This week on FLOSS Weekly with Chris DiBona, Chris is joined by Jimmy Wales, the father of Wikipedia, and the two discuss perhaps one of the largest, most well-known open source projects in technology today; including its roots, the software that’s running Wikipedia, and how the community manages to police itself and manage itself, and [...]

Security Now! // Episode 41

Posted by Alan Henry on May 30th, 2006

On this week’s Security Now, Leo and Steve chat about an encryption utility that’s close to my heart that I’ve been using for a good long time to secure my thumbdrive; TrueCrypt: [ http://truecrypt.org/ ] Steve and Leo discuss the program, it’s features and flexibility, it’s open-source goodness, and best of all, it’s price: free! [...]

Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur // Episode 23

Posted by Alan Henry on May 30th, 2006

This week’s Inside the Net is all about a topic dear to all of our hearts, ths issue of Net Neutrality. Leo and Amber are joined this week by Michael Giest, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, and they discuss why Net Neutrality is an important topic, why [...]

DL.TV // Episode 64

Posted by Alan Henry on May 26th, 2006

The week’s final episode of DL.TV is here, and it’s a doozy. Patrick and Robert spend some quality time with SiN: Episodes and Emergence and update us on some gaming goodness, demo some hot and affordable network attached storage (NAS) devices, and of course hit on the week’s tech news, including the charges facing some [...]

CrankyGeeks // Episode 11

Posted by Alan Henry on May 26th, 2006

On this week’s CrankyGeeks, the panel consists of Karen Chu, 1up.com; Sebastian Rupley, West Coast Editor, PC Magazine; Ryder Darcy, Myspace User, and of course, John C Dvorak! The roundtable talk tech and their own backgrounds, and especially on the issue of blogging and MySpace, what the two mediums mean for the future of the [...]

MacBreak // Episode 4 & 5

Posted by Alan Henry on May 25th, 2006

They may not be posting about MacBreak on the Twit.tv page because the Mac users are more likely to be subscribed via iTunes, but it’s worth mentioning that two new episodes of MacBreak have appeared in iTunes for downloading. The fourth real MacBreak episode is titled “Step Up To The Mic,” where Leo and Alex [...]

DL.TV // Episode 63

Posted by Alan Henry on May 24th, 2006

On this week’s first episode of DL.TV, Patrick and Robert are back, showing off the new Windows Vista Beta 2, including reviewing the system requirements and whether or not you’ll need a ton of money to upgrade your computer to get the best features out of it. Also discussed this episode are some defragging tips [...]

Weezy and The Swish // Episode 50

Posted by Alan Henry on May 23rd, 2006

Well well! Weezy and The Swish is officially 50 episodes old! Happy birthday? Wel, congratulations anyway. This week, no special in studio guests, but the crew use their mad industry hookups to call up with with film critic Cecily Knobler about her thoughts on The DaVinci Code and other movies, and then ring singer/songwriter Eric [...]

GeekDrome // Episode 26

Posted by Alan Henry on May 23rd, 2006

Another week, another GeekDrome! This week is part 2 of GeekDrome’s E3 special, and the crew covers the gear, consoles, and games unveiled and shown off at the E3 conference. Additionally, reviews of Poseidon, and previews of World Trade Center and The Lake House; and comic news, of course. All this and a naked fan, [...]

CommandN // Episode 46

Posted by Alan Henry on May 23rd, 2006

On this week’s CommandN, Amber’s all on her own, but without breaking stride she proceeds to lead us through this week’s tech topics, like Apple’s release of the MacBook, SkypeOut free, Microsoft’s URGE music store, Vista’s “Get Ready” campaign, and more. CommandN t-shirt price drops announced in the episode too, so if you don’t have [...]

Lab Rats // Episode 27

Posted by Alan Henry on May 23rd, 2006

On this week’s Lab Rats, Sean and Andy (and of course, the kitties) show you how to keep your PC in good running order by paying attention to something a lot of people often forget-keeping it cool. The cooler your system is, the better it’ll run, and the longer life you’ll get out of your [...]

This Week in Tech [TWiT] // Episode 55

Posted by Alan Henry on May 22nd, 2006

This week on This Week in Tech, the panel hosts are Leo Laporte, Robert Heron, John C. Dvorak, Steve Gibson, and Wil Harris, and they get down to business discussing this week’s hottest tech news, including the release of Apple’s Macbook notebook computer, the unveiling of Windows Vista system requirements, Apple’s countersuit against Creative, encryption [...]

DiggNation // Episode 46

Posted by Alan Henry on May 22nd, 2006

On this week’s episode of DiggNation, Kevin and Alex chug beer and rock to the biggest stories at Digg this week; including Apple’s unveiling of the new MacBook notebook computer, Google tweaks GMail so it can’t crack PDF documents anymore, CPU magazine falls for Thinkgeek’s April Fool’s joke, Creative sues Apple and Apple countersues, and [...]