This week on GeekDrome, the crew gathers around to talk about Accepted and The Descent, and to discuss the tralers for Stranger Than Fiction and 13 Tzameti. Also, new Transformers screens, information on the cast, another Ace Ventura movie, and video game news, including a new XBox 360 controller!
GeekDrome Episode 39 // August 21, 2006
[ episode notes | download links ]
This week on This Week in Media (I’m starting to make a point to keep up with the TWiT podcasts as they come out, instead of doing a rush of several each Monday) Alex Lindsay, Ron Brinkmann, Daryn Okada, and Steve Wright gather around the table to discuss the pros and cons of video film versus digital video as medium for recording movies, documentaries, or even amateur films.
This Week in Media Episode 16 // August 23, 2006
[ episode notes | download ]
This week’s DiggNation promises to be a good one; Kevin and Alex celebrate having won the 2006 Podcast Award For Best Tech Podcast, first of all! Congratulations, guys! Also, some close looks at the features we’ll see in Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard,” Dell announces its recall of 4.1 million batteries, video thumbnails added to Digg next to diggable video clips, rumors that the Nintendo Wii will start at $170 USD, and much much more.
DiggNation Episode 59 // August 17, 2006
[ episode notes | download links | TTVF download ]
Another episode of Indigital Bytes is available, after a long long wait! The last Indigital anything was in March; so it’s definitely been a good long wait, and while it’s a little dissapointing that it’s only an Indigital Byte and not a full episode, something is most definitely better than nothing.
Regardless, in this episode, the crew takes a look at media center PCs, and puts the Voodoo Aria against the HP Digital Entertainment Center, and look at budget LCD displays.
InDigital Bytes Episode 2 // August 21, 2006
[ episode notes | download links ]
This week on CommandN, Amber and Mikey chat about the week’s biggest technology news, including discussing the AIDS conference in Toronto and Bill Gates’ opening speech (which, by the way, is on YouTube), YouTube will be featuring music videos, Google Video adds movie trailers, an update for blogger, and more. Additionally, some gaming news, tech tips, and web picks of the week.
CommandN Episode 58 // August 20, 2006
[ episode notes and download links ]
This week on Security Now! Leo and Steve revisit the topic of virtualization in the second part of their series discussing it. The panel focuses on VMWare and its associated technologies this week, talking about entire operating systems and virtual machines running inside containers, and the security benefits, risks, and tools that can be used in this area.
Security Now! Episode 53 // August 17, 2006
[ episode notes | download ]
This week is the second part in the two-part series with Dr. Marc Vidal on Futures in Biotech, where Leo discusses Dr. Vidal’s quest to map the interactome, the human protein-protein interaction network. In this episode the panel discusses how protein interaction networks are so similar to other kinds of networks, like social networks and information networks.
Futures in Biotech Episode 4 // August 17, 2006
[ episode notes | download ]
This week’s MacBreak features a little application called “Little Snitch,” which Emery Wells and Kenji Kato will show you how to use to monitor and control the network access and activity of your applications. The program is a universal binary, so it’s available for both PPC and Intel macs, and will inform you whenever any application on your computer attempts to access the internet, call home in any fashion, and more.
MacBreak Episode 15 // August 16, 2006
[ episode notes | download ]
This week on the Leoville Town Square Podcast, John C Dvorak stops in for a chat with the Leoville Town Square crew; including Chris, Graham, and Jamie on the panel to ask John about whether or not he really does get any spam, what spam filter he uses to keep the amount of spam so low, bait and switch articles, and the rebirth of the Triangulation podcast, coming soon.
Leoville Town Square Podcast Episode 33 // August 17, 2006
[ episode notes | download ]
On this week’s second episode of DL.TV, Patrick and Robert are back to wrap up the week with tech news, gadgetry, and viewer questions! On this episode, the crew takes a good long look at Dead Rising, and whether or not it’s awesome or it just plain sucks; the NSA warrantless spying programs (where the NSA wiretapped American citizens without a warrant or court order) is ruled illegal, a look at notebook locks, the $100 laptop is making its way to Thailand, getting Quicktime without iTunes, and DL.TV’s 1 year anniversary!
DL.TV Episode 87 // August 18, 2006
[ episode notes | download links ]
This week on CrankyGeeks, John C is back in the driver’s seat, and he’s taking Sebastian Rupley, West Coast Editor, PC Magazine; Natali Del Conte, Writer, Ziff Davis Media; and Christopher Null, Writer, Yahoo! Tech along for the ride! This week the panel discusses the new blog of the “president” of Iran, and how it tries to push visitors running Windows and coming from Israeli IP addresses viruses. Also, new RFID passports are a reality in the US; are they safe? Additionally, the RIAA drops its pestering the family of a dead person to pay up, bad broadband providers revealed, Google giving awya free wi-fi, and much much more.
CrankyGeeks Episode 23 // August 19, 2006
[ episode notes and download links ]
Apparently it’s very possible that it might be!
Chris Pirillo floated the idea of a new TechTV a while ago, and Leo Laporte picked up on it as well shortly thereafter, and we covered it here, but it looks like Chris is making progress on the idea, and more media outlets are picking up the story as it gathers steam.
Chris’s post is here:
[ Chris Pirillo :: TechTV = UndoTV ]
but the story doesn’t end there. Chris explains in his post why UndoTV is a good name for such a new project (and I agree, it’s an excellent name) and why the time is now and what a new venture like this could bring to the table. He writes:
When I seeded the idea about letting the community help us centralize, the response was overwhelming – both from TechTV alumni and our ever-present supporters. I’m here to tell you now: it’s going to happen. I don’t know how it’s going to happen, but… that’s what makes it worth doing! The most difficult hurdle has already been overcome, in my opinion: we have an audience that is NOT being served effectively.
ZDTV/TechTV brought us all together, but that brand belongs to somebody else – to a completely different time and management style. It’s not the name that’s most important – it’s what we do with that name which will prove our validity and worth. The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts!
Leo agrees, and believes that the opportunity is there and the market that hungered for TechTV still exists and is waiting for the triumphant return of easily accessible technology media content. Wired News picked up the story, and it’s right here:
In the article, Leo is quoted as saying:
“TechTV burnt through almost $100 million a year trying to launch a cable channel,” Laporte wrote in an e-mail in reply to a query. “With costs like that there’s no way they could make a channel that appealed to the million or so people who really wanted it. They couldn’t survive as a niche channel, they had to make it broader, and in the attempt, killed it.
“That audience is still there, just as hungry as ever. And with production costs shrinking, cheap internet distribution, and widespread broadband, it’s possible to feed that audience for next to nothing. This is what the digital revolution is all about.”
Hear Hear.
As for the rest of us, we can sit back and wait and enjoy the ride, and help where we can. I think we’re all excited about the possibility of a rebirth of TechTV, or at least something very very similar, and with the opportunity to make it happen right there in front of us, a community willing to make it happen, and a willing audience waiting to support it, I think it’s just a matter of time.
Although it hasn’t popped in iTunes yet, a new episode of Lab Rats is ready to be downloaded, and it’s complete coverage of the events and announcements at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference. It’s all Andy this week, (Sean is moving house) and he breaks down the announcements of the new Apple Mac Pro and the power that’s lurking under its hood, and checks out the previews of Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard,” slated for release next year.
Lab Rats Episode 37 // August 14, 2006
[ episode notes and download links ]
A brand new episode of DL.TV is available for download, all you fans out there. This week’s first DL.TV brings us Patrick and Robert all kinds of excited about this week’s tech news, including Dell’s 4.1 million battery recall and how to find out if your laptop is one of the ones affected, three solid mp3 players that aren’t iPods, benchmarks from the new Mac Pro, Microsoft releases a user kit for the Xbox 360, and finally! An answer to the eternal question: Is it dl.tv, dltv, or digital life tv?
DL.TV (or perhaps DLTV, or perhaps Digital Life TV) Episode 86 // August 16, 2006
[ episode notes | download links ]
This week Laura takes a phone-check and comes to the podcast from the comfort of her apartment, but Guy Brannum drops in with comedian/actor Matt Champagne to keep Weezy company and add some more faces (and voices) to the show. This week the group discusses karaoke as art, (there’s even a video of Laura’s karaoke birthday party!) video games, acting, hilariousness, and plays with Nick’s cell phone. There’s video too, so don’t miss it!
Weezy and The Swish Episode 62 // August 15, 2006
[ episode notes and video | download ]
This week on GeekDrome, the crew reviews a funny and another funny, Talladega Nights and Little Miss Sunshine; and takes a look at the previews for School for Schoundrels. Additionally,a look at Peter Jackson’s directorship of the upcoming Halo movie, the possibility of an upcoming horror movie by Kevin Smith, and all the comic news and gaming news that you expect from the show.
GeekDrome Episode 38 // August 14, 2006
[ episode notes | download links ]
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
[ episode notes and download links ]
Another TWiT is in the can! This week’s TWiT features Leo Laporte, Robert Heron, Brett Larson, and John C. Dvorak on the panel to discuss the week’s tech news and stories.
Among the topics this week are more reaction to the announcements at the WWDC last week, new airport and travel restrictions and their effects on technology and consumer tech that you can take on aircraft, eBay cash for confiscated items at the airport, missing the point about YouTube, are Apple power adapters dangerous by design, and RIAA defendant dies, heirs given 60 days to grieve before being asked to pay up on their behalf. All this and much much more on this week’s show.
This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 66 // August 14, 2006
[ episode notes | AOL radio download | TTVF download ]
This week’s DiggNation is more of the same; Alex and Kevin are back in front of the camera to talk about the hottest stories at Digg. Among the stories they talk about this week are free movies falling out of copyright protection that you can get on the net, the police are investigating a YouTube clip featured on Digg, Firefox downloaded 200 million times, a new site that will help you get around your boss’s gaze at the office and surf happily, a Russian eBayer steals a MacBook-Paypal refuses to help, Mom catches crooks, and more.
DiggNation Episode 58 // August 10, 2006
[ episode notes | download links | TTVF download ]
