Month: September 2006

This week’s second DL.TV episode gives us the scoop from the Tokyo Gaming Show 2006 and recaps the news of eDonkey shutting down and Morpheus losing in court-a federal judge claimed that Morpheus encourages users to pirate music. Morpheus is planning an appeal. Also, holographic drives coming soon to a notebook computer near you, cheap web hosting reccomendations come to the show (We here at TechTV Forever love-and use, and enthusiastically endorse Dreamhost!), HP buys Voodoo and Voodoo loves it, Lenovo announces its own battery recall while Dell and Toshiba expand theirs, and much much more, including viewer questions and comments.

DL.TV Episode 99 // September 29, 2006
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This week’s CrankyGeeks brings back John C. Dvorak, Sebastian Rupley, West Coast Editor, PC Magazine; Jim Louderback, Editor in Chief, PC Magazine; and William Harris, Editor in Chief, bit-tech.net to the table to get cranky! Among the topics this week is the big “80 cores in 5 years” announcement at the Intel Developer’s forum and more, Apple making a grab on the term “podcast-” or are they? And more, including news from the Tokyo Game Show 2006, whether or not PS3 games are going to be around $75 USD and whether they can sell at that price, and the Commerce Department “loses” over 1000 computers.

CrankyGeeks Episode 29 // September 29, 2006
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This week’s Security Now goes back to the topic that Steve and Leo have been discussing in previous episodes about virtual machine software applications, this time covering the most recent VM application to hit the streets and subsequently one of the most hyped, Parallels Workstation, which allows owners of Intel Macintosh computers to run Windows in a virtual environment on their Mac with speed and functionality that they never had with Virtual PC.

Security Now! Episode 59 // September 29, 2006
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The newest episode of This Week in Media brings Alex Lindsay, Scott Broock, Kenji Kato, John Foster back to the table talking about the week’s media and technology news, including Teen CEOs and the rise of the new “golden era” of the net, netcasting versus podcasting and what’s in a name, Microsoft’s answer to YouTube called “Soapbox,” Tubesock-the best thing to happen to YouTube since…well, YouTube, the newest Democracy Player, and much more.

This Week in Media Episode 20 // September 29, 2006
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This episode focuses on an application called Renamer4Mac, where Emery Wells and Kenji Kato show us how to use the application to rename large groups of files on your Macintosh. Renamer4Mac looks to be pretty handy, and very very good at batch renaming. Take a look!

MacBreak Episode 21 // September 29, 2006
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A new episode of InDigital is up and out! So soon after the last one? Amazing! Seriously though, InDigital is back again with another episode, and this time with NEW HOSTS! How awesome, Jessica Corbin and Wil Wheaton both join Hahn Choi on the show this week, and it looks like they’ve been added to the list of hosts!

On this episode, Hahn, Jessica, and Wil all take a look at awesome cellphones that are supposed to be smart, satellite radio and the promise of being unchained from your CDs as well as traditional radio, a portable gaming device for open source fanatics, and much much more.

InDigital Episode 5 // September 25, 2006
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Many fans might remember Bert Monroy from his frequent appearances on TechTV’s The Screen Savers, giving digital photography and photoshopping tips for the public and showing us all how to spruce up and touch up our digital photos, take better digital photos, and make magic in Photoshop or our photo andi mage editing software of choice.

Well, the Revision3 network has picked him up to do a show all about digital image manipulation and editing, called Pixel Perfect! One the first episode, Bert shows us how to use Photoshop to make fantasy art-add lightning, sparkles, and a “mystical vortex” to make your artwork look just like the cover of your favorite fantasy novel! We’ll keep an eye on this one!

Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy Episode 1 // Lightning
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A new podcast has made an appearance on the Revision3 network, called Web Drifter, featuring Martin Sargent doing what he does best; being hilarious and talking to people about technology except not really. Martin Sargent says in the episode notes (half divulging what the new podcast is going to be about) the following:

If I’m going to go behind the tens of thousands of intriguing, outrageous and in many cases terrifying websites on my favorites bar, I’m going to have to live a very long time. Perhaps forever.

So he then leads on to the fact that his first guest for the first episode of Web Drifter is going to be Alex Chiu, the guy who claims to be selling bracelets that allow you to live forever! I have no idea how much money he’s making off of this, but he’s had Martin Sargent as a believer since the Unscrewed days, and now he gets to sit down with him face to face. And it makes for a fitting beginning to what we think will be an excellent podcast.

Web Drifter Episode 1 // The Immortal Beauty of Alex Chiu
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Kevin and Dan are back after a couple of years off, bringing back the spirit of The Broken to the web, and back in their roles showing us how to skirt the law and get away with all manner of delicious geekly goodness with our gear! Check out the announcement in their show notes for the newest episode:

Welcome BACK to thebroken. Its been a few years but the crew has put down the bottle to drop some 1337 skillz on the community. Follow Kevin and double_d as they show off the latest in cell phone jamming and give a step-by-step process on how to hack the Xbox 360 to create backups of all your games! Ramzi has also returned. This time he squashes DRM once and for all so he can listen to his music without restrictions with his beotches! thebroken is back, enj0y.

Word.

thebroken episode 4 // ep4
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This week on GeekDrome, the crew takes a look at Black Dahlia and Feast, and check out the trailer for Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, and wonder who he tries to make us hate this time. Also, Wil Farell’s getting a TV series on HBO, Brad Pitt replacing Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: 4, and much much more, including comic book news and video game news!

A question for TTVF readers: With the onslaught of new podcasts, TechTV Forever wants to know: Should we continue covering Geekdrome? GeekDrome is a great podcast, no doubt, but there are no old TechTV heads working on the show, aside from the fact that it’s part of the Revision3 network. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!

GeekDrome Episode 44 // September 25, 2006
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A new MacBreak Weekly has hit the streets, and this episode features Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Alex Lindsay, and Scott Bourne. The panel gathers aroudn the table this week to discuss Apple’s grab on the word “podcast,” and Leo’s so mad that he switches everything on the TWiT network from “podcast” to “netcast,” 802.11n makes a silent appearance in the Macintosh, using your iPod to get a better night’s sleep, and more.

MacBreak Weekly Episode 8 // September 28, 2006
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I have to admit, I’m not a huge fan of Paul Thurrott, but my opinions aren’t what’s important here. What is important is that there’s a new podcast on the TWiT network, and this one is aimed at the Windows users, and it’s called Windows Weekly! Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte sit down together and discuss Windows news, updates, hacks and bugs, and upcoming events and information. All you Windows users who have been waiting for your own specialized podcast, this one is for you!

On this first episode, we get to know Paul (hmph) and Leo and Paul discuss Windows Vista RC 1, the real Windows Vista ship date, security in XP and Vista, and more.

Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott Episode 1 // September 28, 2006
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This week on Inside the Net, Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone are back (yay Megan!) and sit down with Jeffrey Yan of Digication [ http://digication.com/ ] which is a social networking service for educators and students offering free service to up to 1000 students, creating a free classroom environment that teachers and educators can use for their courses and classes and communicate with each other in an innovative way without paying a fortune for an online classroom suite.

Inside the Net with Megan Morrone Episode 35 // September 28, 2006
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FLOSS Weekly is back! Chris DiBona and Leo Laporte are back on the microphone, this time with special guest Eben Moglen, General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center. The three discuss this week the difficulties developing a new and updated GPL license that’s legally sound, issues surrounding ownership and sharing when it comes to open source software, and much much more.

FLOSS Weekly Episode 13 // September 27, 2006
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This week’s first DL.TV (with swanky new site action) brings Patrick and Robert back to the table to talk tech. This week they start off discussing the IE Zero-Day exploit for which there’s only now a patch from Microsoft for: moral of the story? User Firefox or Opera instead of IE. Congratulating Leo Laporte on the podcaster of the year award, no DRM license backups in Windows Media 11, hands on with the new iPod and iPod Nano, and much much more, including viewer questions!

DL.TV Episode 98 // September 27, 2006
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Looks like I missed a MacBreak! This one is all about how to use Automator to browse the media on your Mac. Leo Laporte and Sal Soghoian show you how to put this one together and make it happen in another one of their cool ways to use Automator to make your Mac that much easier to use.

MacBreak Episode 20 // September 19, 2006
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This week on Lab Rats, Andy and Sean (and the kitties) show you how to upgrade your system’s power supply. They take a look at some power supplies, and show you how installing a higher capacity power supply can fix all manner of wonky problems, and can help you power some of the more intensive devices in your computer. Got a new, bigger hard drive? Or perhaps a killer video card? You might want to check out this Lab Rats, since those new goodies under the hood naturally require more power.

Lab Rats Episode 43 // September 26, 2006
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