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MacBreak // Episode 17

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This episode of MacBreak welcomes back Merlin Mann to the show, as he and Leo go back to an excellent topic for the Mac lover; Quicksilver tips. The two sit down with Quicksilver and show you some tips on how to get the most use out of the tool, and share some productivity tips on how to use Quicksilver to make the most of your Mac.

MacBreak Episode 17 // August 30, 2006
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This Week in Media // Episode 17

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This week on This Week in Media, the crew gather around the table to discuss how betas are becoming normal, and alphas are the hot new commodity when it comes to new products and services. The iTunes movie store, YouTube ad products, Movie transfers to DVD, and more in the way of new products and services that companies announce but don’t unveil, now that everyone everywhere has a beta that’s open to the public.

This Week In Media Episode 17 // August 30, 2006
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DL.TV // Episode 90

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This week’s first episode of DL.TV is a good one, as they get a lawyer on the show to discuss the RIAA and lawsuits, and how to know whether or not you’ll get busted with just an IP address and a timestamp. Additionally, the crew discusses the unveiling of the new Intel Core2 Duo notebook ships, and the laptops that are shipping with them under the hood, and even take a look at some performance benchmarks. Also, some free photo editing tools, a Vista update, bad bad AOL 9.0, and viewer questions.

DL.TV Episode 90 // August 30, 2006
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Lab Rats // Episode 39

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This week’s Lab Rats is odd; Andy and Sean sit down with Laura from Creative, to talk about earbuds and digital media players, and to talk about Creative’s offerings in the market, including the Creative Zen V, Zen V Plus, the Zen Aurvana headphones, and more Creative products.

Lab Rats Episode 39 // August 28, 2006
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Weezy and The Swish // Episode 64

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On this week’s Weezy and The Swish, comedians and couple, Ari David and Fini Goodman stop by the show to chill out, talk about love, relationships, and especially their own, and other especially touchy topics.

Weezy and The Swish Episode 64 // August 30, 2006
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People Programming and Podcasts

Amber MacArthur Is Leaving Call for Help/G4TechTV Canada!

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Amber! Don’t leave us! Okay, okay-it looks like she has a ton of new projects and good news up her sleeve, so we’ll let her slide this time.

Amber MacArthur has announced on her blog that she’s planning on leaving G4TechTV Canada, and subsequently Call for Help, Torrent, and Gadgets & Gizmos the shows that she worked on at the network. She’s planning to go to CityTV in Toronto, and will be starting there mid-September as their as their Internet/New Media Reporter for CityTV News. Step up? Step down? As large an audience? Amber certainly believes it’s a step up, regardless of anything else, and we wish her all the best and hope that we can continue to see her smiling face in video podcasts and hear her perspective in audio podcasts even after she’s left.

Sounds like she’s got the same idea though; from her blog:

I will keep blogging here at AmberMac.com and I will bring you tech news each week at commandN.tv. Leo and I have also been chatting about how we’ll keep working together, so this is not the end of us (AKA Leober)!

As for who will take my place on G4TechTV, on both Call for Help and Torrent, the team is working to find someone (or, most likely, two people). The shows we’re shooting this week will air throughout the next month or two, but I wanted to write a not-so-short post/post a video to thank all the fans so much for your many emails of encouragement and I hope you will continue to follow my work at City-TV! Thank you for accepting me into this unique tech-friendly community – now I’ll never leave! 🙂

Amber says that CityTV is aggressive about its technology content and she’ll still be working on technology programming, so we can plan to see her new programs and projects on the net, and still get to hear from her at CommandN and hopefully still at Inside the Net, both of which are excellent programs.

Best of luck, Amber, and congratulations!

Read the rest of her announcement AND watch her goodbye video below:

[ Amber Mac :: To all the G4TechTV fans: Thanks for two great years! My goodbye video ]

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CommandN // Episode 59

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This week on CommandN, Amber and Mikey chat about CBS News simulcasting over the net starting September 5th, companies that are starting to ban Blackberries and why, the giant Firefox crop circle, and more. Also included are the week’s web picks and tech tips and more.

CommandN Episode 59 // August 28, 2006
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Programming and Podcasts

GeekDrome // Episode 40

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This week on GeekDrome, the crew claims to have a surprise twist, but anyway. They take a look at Snakes on a Plane and World Trade Center, and the trailer for Bug. Also, news about Stargate, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone are teaming up to make another film. Yay.

All this, comics news, video game updates, and more.

GeekDrome Episode 40 // August 28, 2006
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MacBreak Weekly // Episode 2

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Another week, another MacBreak Weekly! Well, it’s not exactly weekly, but whatever. This week, entitled So Sue Me…, is all about some hot Apple rumors, the most recent round of Mac v. PC articles and comparison “studies,” and most importantly, Apple’s legal issues, from settling with Creative to its battery recall.

MacBreak Weekly Episode 2 // August 28, 2006
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DiggNation // Episode 60

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This week on DiggNation, Alex and Kevin are back again drinking beer and talking top stories at Digg.com. Among the topics discussed this week are better sound quality coming soon to iTunes, Russian scientists manage to keep a dog’s head alive after its been separated from its body, a huge Firefox crop circle, the speedtest.net bandwidth tester, and Japan is generating electricity from train station turnstiles.

DiggNation Episode 60 // August 24, 2006
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Features Sites and Downloads

This Week on Gears and Widgets…

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[ PC Mag’s Top 101 Classic Websites of 2006 ]
[ Logitech Starts a Revolution ]
[ Website Highlight :: SpeedTest.net ]
[ Apple Announces Battery Recall Program ]

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Programming and Podcasts

DL.TV // Episode 89

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With the end of the week comes another episode of DL.TV! On this episode, Patrick and Robert take a good look at ATI’s Radeon X1950 XTX, the hottest new video card in the graphics war between ATI and NVidia, and new solid-state notebook hard drives, as pricey as they may be. Will it catch on and go down in price, or is the hard drive just too ubiquitous? Also, a new Internet Explorer release candidate is available for those folks who are interested in Internet Explorer, Apple announces its own battery recall, Apple settles with Creative, and more, including a ton of viewer questions.

DL.TV Episode 89 // August 24, 2006
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CrankyGeeks // Episode 24

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This week on CrankyGeeks, John C Dvorak brings Sebastian Rupley, West Coast Editor, PC Magazine; Harry Fuller, Executive Editor, CNET; and Jason Chen, Gizmodo.com to the roundtable to discuss the week’s tech news. Among the cranky topics this week are the news that the Sony PlayStation 3 isn’t even in production yet, and whether or not Sony will be able to meet its promised shipping date of early next year, AOL fires its CTO among others in response to the leaking of search data for hundreds of AOL users, Apple fires workers for downloading preview copies of Leopard, Microsoft and Firefox join forces to make sure Firefox works in Vista, and much much more.

CrankyGeeks Episode 24 // August 25, 2006
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Programming and Podcasts

Lab Rats // Episode 38

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This week on Lab Rats, Andy and Sean tackle a pretty difficult topic that if done incorrectly can leave your computer a brick, so pay close attention. The duo (and the kitties) show you how to flash your BIOS, the the instruction set (think tiny operating system) that tells your computer how to boot up before handing off control to Windows or your operating system. The BIOS lives on a chip on your motherboard, and you can resolve many issues by flashing the BIOS, but when you do it, take care. Andy and Sean will show you how to do it safely.

Lab Rats Episode 38 // August 21, 2006
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DL.TV // Episode 88

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This week is the crazy 88th episode of DL.TV! This week Patrick and Robert chat a bit about Ziff-Davis’ free online trade show (and we’re all invited!) and then discuss the viewer feedback on whether or not extended warranties are worth the paper they’re printed on, much less the money that you spend on them. Additionally, Patrick’s nomination for the dumbest case mod ever, whether or not you should leave your external hard drive plugged in or unplug it when it’s not in use, cheap 300GB hard drives, and how to import tech goodies from Japan.

Also, the DL.TV crew covers the tech news, like Writely opening up to new users, SanDisk’s 8GB mp3 player that’s the same price as a 4GB iPod Nano, Sony’s still dropping the ball on the PS3, and addressing the viewer question: How do you know when the RIAA is about to sue you?

DL.TV Episode 88 // August 23, 2006
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Programming and Podcasts

Security Now! // Episode 54

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This week’s Security Now! is aptly titled “the blue pill,” which means that no, we’re not taking a trip to The Matrix, but we’re looking at “Blue Pill,” which reveals serious vulnerabilities in Windows Vista’s “hypervisor” mode, and Leo and Steve discuss what may be the first significant security challenge to Microsoft’s new operating system even before it’s been released to the public in anything but a beta.

Security Now! Episode 54 // August 23, 2006
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Programming and Podcasts

MacBreak // Episode 16

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On a new episode of MacBreak, Leo Laporte and guest Mikkel Aaland show you how to use Adobe Bridge to take those bright, vibrant color images and add a bit of artistic flare by converting them to black and white, and how to finely control how its done at the same time, step by step, and how to tweak the images to make it look like they were taken with fine black and white film.

MacBreak Episode 16 // August 23, 2006
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Weezy and The Swish // Episode 63

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This week comedian Jessica Golden joins Laura (who’s back from her vacation in her apartment) and Weezy and the crew on the podcast to talk comedy, audiences, and the other assorted hilarity from topic to topic that you’ve come to expect when listening to Weezy and The Swish. Head over to the website for some video from the podcast as well!

Weezy and The Swish Episode 63 // August 23, 2006
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Programming and Podcasts

Ctrl+Alt+Chicken // Episode 7

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Another episode of Ctrl+Alt+Chicken is up and ready to be downloaded for your geeks-in-the-kitchen goodness.

This time, Alex and Heather are tasked with making Bananas Foster, a delicious banana dessert that should turn out delicious and horribly bad for you, that is, if Alex and Heather don’t light the kitchen on fire in the process.

Ctrl+Alt+Chicken Episode 7 // August 23, 2006
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Infected with Martin Sargent // Episode 14

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A brand new Infected saves us from the hum drum week, hooray! This episode of Infected is all about robots, the robot threat, the machine menace, and how they will eventually take over the world and slaughter humankind. You think I’m kidding-the show’s really about robots. Whether the rest of that stuff is true is another story though. Finally this week they’re back with a video to match the audio!

Infected with Martin Sargent Episode 14 // August 22, 2006
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