Month: June 2006

Just in time for the LTS Podcast’s glorious 25th episode! On this week’s LeoVille Town Square Podcast, Chris, Graham, Paul, Spokavriel and Nate gather around via Skype to chat about all things new involving Leo, Leoville Town Square, and the rest of the TechTV universe; including some member drama at the LTS forums, something potentially wrong with the forums, and more. Also, G4’s latest piddly offerings to try and boost ratings, and the result: G4 is ranked as the absolute least watched cable television network. All this and more, on this week’s LTS Podcast.

Leoville Town Square Podcast Episode 25 // June 12, 2006
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Another glorious episode of MacBreak is here and ready for mass consumption; this time getting down to some of the Mac-lovin roots of the show and reviewing and talking about Apple’s new MacBook notebook computers. Leo has Macworld editor-in-chief Jason Snell and Senior New Editor Jonathon Seff into the studio to discuss the new notebooks, the differences between the white and black ones, new and missing features, and pros and cons to the new system and whether or not its worth your money.

MacBreak Episode 7 // June 8, 2006
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This week on This Week in Media, Alex Lindsay, Ron Brinkmann, Emery Wells, Kenji Kato, Ben Durbin, and John Foster gather around the mic for some good Pixel Corps discussion on media and media technologies this week, including WiFi on planes, but really to dicsucss topics this week like the death of special effects pioneer Arthur Widmer, and an opportunity to talk about Green vs Blue (screening), the history of keying, and more.

This Week In Media Episode 9 // June 8, 2006
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On this week’s Security Now, Steve and Leo sit down and talk about ports. Not ports with boats and foriegn shores, they discuss what people mean when they say “such and such operates on port 80,” or “you need to open the port on your router,” and so on. What are ports, how do they work, and why are they important? Also, what is “port sniffing,” and what does “stealth ports” mean? This, some resources to lists of well known and well used ports, and more.

Security Now! Episode 43 // June 8, 2006
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This week on Inside the Net (they really have got to get themselves a logo) Amber and Leo sit down with Mike and Mike (Mike Shaver and Mike Beltzner) from the Mozila Foundation, who are working on Firefox. They discuss the successful launch of Firefox 1.5, the red-hot beta for Firefox 2.0, Firefox Flicks (the roll-your-own Firefox ad contest), upcoming features in new versions, and more.

Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur Episode 24 // June 8, 2006
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On this week’s fine final edition of DL.TV, Patrick and Robert are back in the studio covering tech news and viewer questions, including the ESA filing lawsuit against the state of Minnesota over their video-game restriction bill, Apple files a second lawsuit against Creative, Microsoft bends to Adobe and pulls PDF functionality from Vista and Office 2007, and more. They take a look at the new Apple MacBook, the Sony eReader, and talk about future television technology. This, the new Windows Vista Beta 2 downlaod, and viewer questions, make for a nice complete episode.

DL.TV Episode 68 // June 8, 2006
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This week on CrankyGeeks, John C brings in Nick Douglas, Editor, ValleyWag; Sebastian Rupley, West Coast Editor, PC Magazine; and Harry Fuller, Executive Editor, CNET News to sit with the crew and get cranky. Among the topics to be discussed this week are the editor of Verichip’s suggestion that the US government should implant RFID chips into immigrants, does the FBI spy on the surfing habits of “people of interest,” Google Spreadsheets, Microsoft bows to pressure from Adobe and axes PDF functionality in Office 2007, the results of the “Photoshop Dvorak” contest, and much more.

CrankyGeeks Episode 13 // June 8, 2006
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On this week’s first DL.TV, Patrick and Robert hit on some of the technology news so far this week, including rumors that BellSouth was blocking MySpace and YouTube in an end run around Net Neutrality, and that the government is asking ISPs to retain data on its customers for up to 2 years. Also some tips and tricks, including a tipoff that you might want to wait until around July to pick up that new PC, Intel’s new chips, and some benchmarks from Loyd Case. Also on the show, a ton of viewer questions, complete with answers, and a nifty flash timewaster.

DL.TV Episode 67 // June 6, 2006
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This week’s Weezy and The Swish makes 52 episodes, 52 full weeks, so one whole year of Weezy and The Swish! Laura is out of town this week, so Weezy is joined by Guy Brannum and a few of his colleagues from G4, Casey Schreiner and Paul Bonanno. The talk obviously turns to video games and what its like to work at G4, some of the panelists favorite TV shows (as well as the wonderful Television Without Pity site), and comedy in general. Absolutely hilarious.

Weezy and The Swish Episode 52 // June 6, 2006
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Another fine episode of Hook Me Up is available for viewing! Becky and her crew of EMTs (Emergency Makeover Technicians) are back in action again to bring an awesome hookup to Frank, who is an audiophile (a man after my own heart) with a massive music collection that he’d like to archive, digitize, and easily enjoy both from in his home and outside. The Hook Me Up crew helps Frank bring his stereo system into the 21st century and gives him the tech he needs to properly enjoy his analog and digital music collection while lounging around the house or from abroad on the road.

Hook Me Up! Episode 4 // Like an MP3 Virgin
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On this week’s CommandN, Amber and Mikey get us up to speed with the week’s tech news, including PayPal on your phone, Sixapart’s attempt to blend blogging and social networking with Vox, Segways on the streets for cops in Chicago, Segway pricing plans, a closer look at Apple’s Mighty Mouse, and the week’s techtips and web picks.

CommandN Episode 48 // June 5, 2006
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This week’s GeekDrome is up and away, and the crew reviews some of the biggest blockbusters at the theatre this past week, including X3, The DaVinci Code, and Over the Hedge. Additionally, the guys show take a look at the trailer for Ghost Rider, and check out some new photos from the making of the live-action Transformers movie slated to be released next year. Additionally, more news about yet another remake of the Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai, yet another Die Hard movie, and of course, the comics news you’ve come to need from the GeekDrome crew; even for folks who don’t normally dig comics. All this, new tees, and a reminder to leave GeekDrome some feedback in the iTunes podcast directory.

GeekDrome Episode 28 // June 5, 2006
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We’re sadly far far away from this glorious party, but the DiggNation crew will be getting together to celebrate one whole year of DiggNation on June 14th in San Francisco; and everyone’s invited! If you’ll be in the San Fran area on June 14th, head on over to the DiggNation website to RSVP and let Alex and Kevin know how massively large their studio audience is going to be for this very very special DiggNation.

Looking for details? Check them out over at the DiggNation Website:

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Another week, another DiggNation. This week, Alex and Kevin sit down to discuss some of this week’s top stories at Digg.com; this week including Swedish authorities raid ThePirateBay.org, Fox confirms that X-Men 3: The Last Stand really won’t be the LAST stand-there will be an X-Men 4, Marriage is apparently bad for scientists, AMD + ATI = Love, problems with female gamers, and much much more, along with the drunken hilarity you’ve come to expect.

DiggNation Episode 56 // June 1, 2006
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Another fine episode of MacBreak is up and out and ready to be downloaded. The topic for this episode is all about email encryption, and Leo and Emery sit down to discuss methods to encrypt your messages and protect your mail from prying eyes. MacBreak is also somewhat misrepresented at the TWIT.tv site now-a-days, but the messages have been tracked completely over at the MacBreak website.

MacBreak Episode 6 // June 3 , 2006
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This week’s This Week In Media podcast is all about A La Carte video; contrary to what the TWIT.tv website says. This week we’ve noticed that This Week in Media has moved off of the TWIT main page and over to the MacBreak site, which seems to be growing into its own little podcast network, which includes TWiM, MacBreak, and two showsw about the visual effects and creative design industry, The VFX Show and Inside the Black Box.

Regardless, this week’s episode is all about A La Carte cable and the possibility of being able to choose the networks you want to subscribe to, video to order, as well as Microsoft’s announcement of a competing image format to the JPEG, and Canon’s announcement that they’ll be dropping film cameras altogether in favor of digital SLRs.

This Week In Media Episode 8 // June 2, 2006
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On this week’s Security Now! Leo and Steve discuss the topic of NAT traversal, essentially the method in which your home router manages internet traffic, filters out back packets and helps protect you, and the trouble that NAT routers present to peer-to-peer networks, and how third party servers can help routers get packets to each other. If you have a router at home and would like to know more about how it works, or if you’re thinking about purchasing one, this is the episode for you.

Security Now! Episode 42 // June 1, 2006
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On this week’s last episode of DL.TV, Patrick and Robert hit the news early and discuss the crackdown on The Pirate Bay, AMD’s announcement of a new dual-core 4×4 computing platform, Dell’s announcement that they’ll start offering barebones systems, RAMBUS whines that instead of price fixing itself, they’re actually the victims of price fixing; and Apple fans stuck in the glass elevator at the new 24-hour Apple Store in New York City. All this, some demo comparisons between the Nintendo DS and the DS Lite, bluetooth headsets, and a few viewer questions.

DL.TV Episode 66 // June 1, 2006
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