Day: July 17, 2006

10 Episodes later, Hook Me Up is shaping up to be a real solid tech show on the net, and perhaps Yahoo! Tech’s flagship program! I have to admit, I definitely love the voter-influenced, viewer-participatory format, it’s absolutely great.

This week, Philly native Steve wants to be a lounge pianist but doesn’t have the digs required to put together a demo that does him justice (ie, his “sutdio” is an ancient tape deck) Becky sends in EMT Byron Estep to help Steve out, get him geared up to record the finest quality music, and help make his dream come true!

Hook Me Up! Episode 10 // I Wanna Rock the Love Boat
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CommandN is early this week! Among the stories Amber and Mikey chat about this week is MySpace’s surging to first place among visited sites on the net, embedding Google Video into MySpace pages, the new Firefox 2.0 Beta, Rocketboom’s new host, GeekTV’s new owner, and much more, including the techtips and web picks that you’ve come to expect.

CommandN Episode 53 // July 16, 2006
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This week’s LTS Podcast is out and available for downloading, starring Chris, Graham, Todd, Taylor, and Nate. The panel this week discusses the new TWiT website, G4 cans some more shows for poor ratings, whether or not Call for Help 2.0 will ever come back to televisions in the states, chat about Six Apart’s new blogging service, Vox, more TechTV and ZDTV videos appear on Google Video and YouTube, and more.

Leoville Town Square Podcast Episode 29 // July 16, 2006
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A brand new MacBreak is out and about, this time with Emery Wells and guest Ben Syverson talking about Conduit, a plugin for Apple’s Motion software that allows for new realtime nodal compositing. Don’t know what that means? Neither do we! But we’re about to find out. Download this week’s MacBreak to join the discussion.

MacBreak Episode 10 // July 14, 2006
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This week on Inside the Net, Amber and Leo sit down with Mena Trott of Six Apart [ http://www.sixapart.com/ ] the fine folks who manage such popular web services as Livejournal and TypePad, and their newest venture, Vox. The trio discuss the direction Six Apart has been taking as of late, the unveiling of Vox, the invite-only structure of the new blogging platform, and more.

Inside the Net Episode 28 // July 13, 2006
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New Security Now! logo, with the new site redesign-essentially meaning I’m using the iTunes album art instead of my self-made version of the header image at Steve’s site. Looks nice, I have to say.

This week, Steve and Leo answer your questions; this is another mod-four episode, meaning they tie up some loose ends, talk about the most recent patch tuesday, and hit on some of the hottest questions from listeners. Among the topics this week are the safety of home banking, whether or not a firewall slows down your home network, intrusion detection systems, protecting yourself and your website from DoS attacks, monitoring traffic with Hamachi, how other sites know what your IP address is, and much much more.

Security Now! Episode 48 // July 13, 2006
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FLOSS Weekly rises from the dead with a brand new episode! Leo and Chris DiBona are on the microphones and invite Randal L. Schwartz, author of “Learning Perl” and “Intermediate Perl,” to the table for a discussion on the power of Perl, why Perl is only really useful for people who spend at least three hours a week coding, wherefore art Perl 6, Randall’s bogus conviction for hacking, and Geek Cruises!

FLOSS Weekly Episode 9 // July 15, 2006
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This week on This Week in Media, Alex Lindsay, Leo Laporte, Scott Broock, Kenji Kato, Ben Durbin all gather around the table again to talk about the hype (or lack thereof) surrounding Microsoft’s iPod “killer,” codenamed Argo, Guba signs a deal with Sony to deliver content…somewhere, Koachrome dies, and much much more.

This Week in Media Episode 13 // July 14, 2006
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