Month: September 2006

This week on CommandN, Amber and Mikey chat more about Apple’s big announcements at the September 12th “It’s Showtime!” event, including the new iPod Nanos, the new iPod Shuffles, the iTV, and iTunes 7. Additionally, the horror that is MySpace, when it comes from a design or usability standpoint, more on the falsehood of Lonelygirl15, Microsoft MAX, and more.

CommandN Episode 62 // September 18, 2006
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On this week’s Leoville Town Square Podcast, Chris, Graham, and Jamie get together via Skype to chat. Among the stories discussed are Amber MacArthur’s departure from G4TechTV Canada, but we should still see her around with regard to her other podcasts, among other things. Not too many people on the podcast, but it makes for good discussion. Also covered this week are twit.tv sponosships and advertisements, MacBreak coming into its own, and more. Enjoy!

Leoville Town Square Podcast Episode 37 // September 18, 2006
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This week’s second episode of DL.TV comes to us with Patrick flying solo instead of Robert; Robert’s off at the CEDIA show in Denver. While he’s away, an LCD HDTV buying guide presented to us by Robert, recorded before he left, and some 32″ LCD reccomendations for a viewer specifically. Microsoft opens up Windows Vista RC1 to the public, Nintendo announces a shipping date for the Wii, Microsoft shows the Zune in public for the first time but no one really cares, and a ton of excellent viewer questions this time around.

DL.TV Episode 95 // September 15, 2006
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This week on CrankyGeeks, John C Dvorak brings-wait…John C isn’t on the show this week! Oh noes! Well, Sebastian Rupley, West Coast Editor of PC Magazine is taking the reins this week, and here’s hoping he manages to be as cranky as John does. With him this week are Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service; Om Malik, Founder, GigaOM.com; and Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg.com, to talk tech and get cranky!

Among the topics of discussion this week are Apple’s “It’s Showtime!” events, including the upcoming iTV and movie downloads from the iTunes Store, the HP “pretexting” scandal, Digg fighting users for control over “Digg,” the fakeness of “Lonelygirl 15,” the longest sentance ever for a software pirate has been handed out, and much much more.

CrankyGeeks Episode 27 // September 15, 2006
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This week on Security Now! Leo and Steve talk all about Virtual PC; and run down the pros and cons of Microsoft’s free emulations software…for windows that is; the Virtual PC that Macintosh users all know is most certainly not free, and in fact Microsoft is no longer making it, with competition from Parallels, Crossover, and of course, Apple’s Boot Camp. This is different, and ties into Steve and Leo’s discussions about virtual machines; Virtual PC is essentially, a virtual machine running windows inside your system, but it has a lot of other features. Tune in to find out what they are and whether or not Virtual PC is worth your time.

Security Now! Episode 57 // September 15, 2006
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This week on Lab Rats, Andy and Sean discuss the coming trend in High Definition DVDs, and the differences between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and take bets on which format is going to make the grade in the long term. They discuss the media formats themselves, take a quick look at the media players that promise to play them, and what all those terms like 1080i and 1080p actually mean to you.

Lab Rats Episode 41 // September 11, 2006
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This week on Weezy and The Swish, comedian and voice re-enactor, Mark Sussman joins the crew to discuss the wild world of TV re-dubbing, that is to say, he’s one of those folks that turns a line in a move like “you motherf–ker!” to “you mother hubbard!” and how someone actually gets that kind of job in the first place. Definitely a hilarious episode and a peek into a part of the entertainment industry that you know you’ve always laughed at, and a talent who can impersonate pretty much any voice takes center stage. Check out his impressions!

Weezy and The Swish Episode 66 // September 13, 2006
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It’s showtime! This week on DL.TV, Patrick is out, and left Robert to cover the announcements from Apple this week, including iTunes 7, the new iPod lineup, movie downloads from the iTunes Store, and gives you special coverage from Sebastian Rupley, who’s in San Fransicso covering the Apple event there, and Jim Louderback who’s in Paris covering the Apple Expo there. Additionally, the TiVO Series 3 is here, and a whole bunch of viewer questions are in store as well.

DL.TV Episode 94 // September 12, 2006
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This week on GeekDrome, the crew sits back and tells us all about Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy and takes a look at Crank, and checks out the trailer for Pan’s Labrynth. Also, a Bruce Lee theme park? The usual comics news and video game news, including upcoming titles for the XBox 360.

GeekDrome Episode 42 // September 11, 2006
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This week’s episode of MacBreak features the application “Wallet,” a secure password creation and organization tool only available on Mac OS X. Alex Lindsay and Leo Laporte come in front of the camera to demo the application and show you how it just might be the best way for you to manage your passwords and make sure the passwords you create are memorable and secure.

MacBreak Episode 19 // September 13, 2006
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This episode of MacBreak Weekly is devoted to, well, you know what-the announcements that Apple made at the “It’s Showtime” event on September 12th! iTunes 7, movie downlaods from the iTunes Store, new revamped and refreshed iPods now with cheaper prices, bigger hard drives, and cooler designs, and the iTV! Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Chris Breen, Alex Lindsay, and Brett Larson all gather around to give complete coverage and analysis of the event and the announcements, and give you the thumbs up or thumbs down on the revelations.

MacBreak Weekly Episode 6 // September 13, 2006
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This week on Inside the Net, Amber and Leo sit down with-wait, you mean Amber’s not on the show this week? Well who’s filling in for her?

That’s right, the fabulous Megan Morrone! Megan, of The Screen Savers and Jumping Monkeys fame, is filling in for Amber this week, and she and Leo speak with John Buckman, founder of Magnatune and Bookmooch, the former being a record label that’s “not evil,” and the latter being a book sharing and discussion site. Looks like a winner, and welcome back Megan!

Inside the Net with MEGAN MORRONE Episode 33 // September 12, 2006
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This week on the Leoville Town Square Podcast, Chris, Graham, and Todd have an incredibly special guest; Chris Leary, of TechTV fame, and now host of Fox All Access. Chris joins the panel to discuss where fate has taken him since TechTV, his days on Fresh Gear and TechLive, the future of Undo.TV, and the infamous Chris Leary rockstar photo. They should have asked him about his late night appearances on infomercials plugging exercise machines!

Leoville Town Square Podcast Episode 36 // September 11, 2006
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This week’s CommandN is up and ready for download; among the topics they discuss this week are the new 24-inch iMac from Apple, the Toronto International Film Festival, Apple’s upcoming September 12th “Showtime” event, Toronto goes wireless with municipal wifi, the new BlackBerry Pearl, and Stephen Hawking is looking for a graduate assistant; care to apply?

CommandN Episode 61 // September 11, 2001
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This week on MacBreak Weekly, Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Scott Bourne, Alex Lindsay all gather around the microphones to discuss the “It’s Showtime” Apple event scheduled for September 12th, and what the “It’s Showtime” really means-are we going to see iTunes video and movie downloads? Also, the “exploding Macbook” is most likely a hoax, the new 24-inch iMac, and much much more.

MacBreak Weekly Episode 5 // September 9, 2006
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