Month: October 2006

In this second episode of Bert Monroy’s new podcast, we learn how photoshop isn’t just a photo manipulation, image creation, and design tool, but it’s also capable of helping you create animation! Seriously-with the right skills, what can’t you do with phtoshop? Bert shows you how to do some simple animation in this episode, how to do patterning and repetitive tasks, and overall makes the process easier than you might think it would be.

Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy Episode 2 // Patterns and Animation
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This week’s second episode of DL.TV isn’t quite as groundbreaking as episode 100, but it’s still a doozy. Patrick and Robert pick up on some of the week’s tech news and announcements, like AT&T DSL dropping its contracts, so you don’t have to sign up for a year or so just to get a competitive price, more sources of DRM-free music, and ways to boost your wifi range and power for pennies. Additionally, they chat about the horrific lack of HDMI for the XBox360, what to do with the old battery when Dell sends you a replacement, tons of viewer questions, and much much more.

DL.TV Episode 101 // October 6, 2006
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Perhaps the best CrankyGeeks I’ve seen yet! On this week’s CrankyGeeks, a very very special guest! And no, it’s not John C Dvorak, although he’s definitely on the panel, as usual! This week, he’s joined by Sebastian Rupley, West Coast Editor, PC Magazine; Dan Farmer, CTO, Elemental Security; and Neil Gaiman, Best Selling Author, that you should all know, and if not, you desperately need to pick up his work!

Among the topics this week are the writing process, blogging in general, debunking myths with Snopes, and Neil Gaiman’s upcoming book, Fragile Things! Definitely check this one out.

CrankyGeeks Episode 30 // October 6, 2006
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Security Now! this week is episode 60, which means it’s a mod-four episode, which means another listener question-and-answer session. Steve and Leo sit down again to tie up loose ends from previous podcasts, touch on a little tech news for the week, and then launch into the myriad of viewer questions they’ve recieved since their last Q&A episode, including touching back on virtual machines and support for them, more about ActiveX’s security problems, hosts files, and more.

Security Now! Episode 60 // October 6, 2006
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Booyah! Episode 100! Congratulations, DL.TV!!

I can’t imagine it-it’s been 100 episodes since the beginning of DL.TV, since the very first episode. I can’t imagine my weekly routine without being able to catch two episodes every week, it’s that good. Definitely a great show, and worthy of running 100 eps. Here’s to hundreds more!

On this special 100th episode, Patrick and Robert thanks everyone for watching all this time, and Roger Chang shows us some behind the scenes action on how the show it put together and made. Some hot DL.TV wallpaper in response to a viewer question, will a $100 USD gaming mouse make you a better gamer, how to re-download your iTunes music from Apple if your hard drive dies (back up your data!) but you can only do it once, and much much more.

Also this week in tech news is Congress bans online casinos, the Free Software Foundation protests Apple’s DRM, and more. All this, and keep an eye out for a DL.TV meetup at the DigitalLife expo in New York next weekend!

DL.TV Episode 100 // October 4, 2006
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This week on Weezy and The Swish, it’s hot number 69! Comedian Sam Tripoli joins the crew this week to chat about the correlation between hotness and confidence and if there is one, more about hotness, Sam’s new job on SpikeTV and how extreem it is, and much much more.

Weezy and The Swish Episode 69 // October 3, 2006
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This week on MacBreak, Merlin Mann and Leo stand in for a quick tutorial on keeping your Macintosh desktop completely uncluttered and zen-like. Sounds good, eh? He uses the plain old Finder, and jazzes the system up with MenuShade and Sprited Away to complete the effect. It’s a short one, but a good one.

MacBreak Episode 22 // October 4, 2006

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Leo’s all on his own this week, save for the special guest this week-Ryan Norbauer of Lovetastic [ http://lovetastic.com/ ] which is pretty much what it sounds like-a personals site! But how does this fit in? It’s a personals site that embraces the interactivity and usability that you’ll see in all of the new generation of web sites and services that get to carry the “web 2.0” moniker; the site runs with Ruby on Rails, and it shows.

Inside the Net Episode 36 // October 4, 2006
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A new Infected has hit the streets, proving that Martin Sargent is a pretty busy fellow, now with two podcasts and a site to run at [ http://sargeworld.com/ ] and all. This week on Infected, Martin, Joey, and The Gator chat about, well, work! All about jobby jobs and finding work and keeping work, something all three of them…er…know little about but can speak at length over! Well, that’s what they say anyway-tune in to hear about ways subscribing to Infected will help the crew put beer food on the table!

Infected with Martin Sargent Episode 17 // October 4, 2006
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This week’s This Week in Media is live from the Podcast Expo, and hosts Alex Lindsay, Scott Bourne, Kenji Kato, and John Foster gather around the table to chat about podcasting, getting into podcasting, hot podcasts, and the future of podcasting as a media format, as well as some great tools and techniques for cranking out quality podcasts.

This Week in Media Episode 21 // October 4, 2006
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This week’s MacBreak Weekly brings Alex Lindsay, Jason Snell, Scott Bourne, and Jan Kabili to the table to chat, so we get some new and semi-new voices this time around! among the topics this week are primarily the massive DRM that’ll be all over Microsoft’s so-called “iPod killer,” the Zune (which apparently has wifi for absolutely no other reason than to share music and load your music up with DRM, whether it came with it or not…no downloading from their music store, no syncing wirelessly with your computer, nada), DVD Jon cracking and selling Apple’s DRM to other companies so they can produce content that’ll be protected and play on the iPod, and more.

MacBreak Weekly Episode 9 // October 4, 2006
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This week on the Leoville Town Square Podcast, Chris, Graham, and Jamie join the panel to chat about the week’s news and TechTV related news, including Revision3’s redesign and “official” launch as a network, Wierd Al’s new jam, White and Nerdy, TWiT articles and commentary, and much much more. Sorry I couldn’t join the panel this week guys!

Leoville Town Square Podcast Episode 39 // October 2, 2006
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This week on Lab Rats, Andy and Sean discuss one of the greatest debates of all time, right up there with cats v. dogs, Mac v. PC, and red v. blue: Cable v. DSL for your broadband needs!

The two take on the topic and flesh out the pros and cons of both types of internet access, and which one might be better for you in what circumstance, the different kinds of DSL and what might be better than what, and all in all help you make a more informed buying decision when choosing the ISP in your area for broadband, or for keeping an eye out for a better deal if you already have one or the other.

Lab Rats Episode 44 // October 2, 2006
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First of all, we dig the Thundercats tee, Jeff! This week on CommandN, we get down with tech news, including whatever happened to social networking site Wallop, which was formerly owned by Microsoft, getting unique greetings for your phone, Greenpeace takes aim at Apple for being socially responsible…except when it comes to the environment (what about Dell, guys?), podcasting hits a milestone, and more. Also, expect the weekly techtips and webpicks like every week, and some new inSITE deals to take a look at!

CommandN Episode 64 // October 2, 2006
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