Day: August 14, 2006

This week on CommandN, Amber and Mikey are back in front of the camera talking about the week’s big and fun tech stories, including the Canadian podcast survey, mom tracks down toilet-tissue pranksters, high tech pigeons, faces exposed to match the exposed AOL user search data, and more, including a 24-minute web 2.0 documentary. Additionally, the week’s techtips and web picks, and the hilarity you’ve been accustomed to.

CommandN Episode 57 // August 13, 2006
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Leo reported at the TWIT.TV homepage that this week there’ll be three new podcasts debuting on the TWIT network, the first of which a regular MacBreak, audio-only, that will be available every week to get people up to speed on Apple news and events and the week’s biggest Apple stories. Read more here: [ TWiT.tv :: MacBreak Weekly Launches ]

And there’s no finer topic for the inagural episode of MacBreak Weekly than a wrapup of the events of the World Wide Developer’s Conference last week, including sneak peeks of Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard” and the unveiling of the Mac Pro, signaling the completion of Apple’s move to Intel-based hardware. The pilot episode features Leo Laporte, David Pogue, Amber MacArthur, Chris Breen, and Alex Lindsay for a good roundtable discussion on the events, the unveilings, and the lingering feelings of dissapointment by Apple fanatics that there wasn’t more to see.

MacBreak Weekly Episdoe 1 // August 13, 2006
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This week’s FLOSS Weekly features Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP! He joins the panel with Chris DiBona and Leo Laporte to discuss the history and usefulness of PHP, and to give us a tour of some of his favorite PHP sites and applications for the PHP language.

FLOSS Weekly Episode 12 // August 11, 2006
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A new episode of Futures in Biotech is up and available for those with a passion or interest for biotechnology and biology news. Episoe 3 features Dr. Marc Vidal, who joins Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte to discuss the next big step in the human genome project now that the genome itself is mapped; mapping the interactome, the human protein-protein interaction network. Dr. Vidal lays the groundwork for his quest in this first part in a two part episode, and gets into what his work could mean for medical research. Next week he’ll pick up the torch again and get back into detail.

Futures in Biotech Episode 3 // August 11, 2006
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This week’s Security Now! is a departure from the standard mod-four listener questions episode. Normally they hit on viewer questions and tie up loose ends, but Steve and Leo felt that this week there’s just too much security news and information to impart to listeners that they’re going to take this episode to cover it. Among the mass of information is Steve’s adventures with CSS, a new eBay botnet scam, LogMeIn buys up Hamachi, a D-Link security advisory from eEye, a whole security page dedicated to Intel’s Centrino chipset, and much much more.

Security Now! Episode 52 // August 11, 2006
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A new MacBreak is available for your downloading pleasure; this new episode brings Leo back in front of the camera, with guest Sal Soghoian, and the two of them show you how to use Automator, bundled with MacOS 10.4, to create your own photoblog, with the help of Apple’s iWeb, and someplace to upload all the files to. A really solid and simple way to upload your photos to the internet for the world to see!

MacBreak Episode 14 // August 10, 2006
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This week on Inside the Net, Leo and Amber sit down with Rob Kalin and Chris Maguire, founders of Etsy, [ http://etsy.com/ ] a site that claims to be like an eBay for crafts and craft items. Make no mistake, this is no run-down little craft site; Etsy’s website is absolutely gorgeous and loaded with interactive features that are worth noting and studying for anyone who’s interested in the progression of web design and what good design looks like.

Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur Episode 31 // August 9, 2006
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