This week’s episode of This Week In Media comes straight to you from NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) conference in Las Vegas, with hosts Alex Lindsay, Scott Broock, Emery Wells, Kenji Kato, around the table discussing the events of the conference, new product and technology releases at the conference, the Red Camera, and the future of IPTV! Download the show and enjoy!
This Week In Media Episode 3 // April 28, 2006
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This week on Inside the Net, Amber and Leo chat with Dan Cederholm of Simplebits [ http://simplebits.com/ ] to chat about CSS web design and development, standards, and the future of the web. Dan brings his thoughts to this week’s podcast from his experience working with companies as influential in the development of the web and web technologies as Rollyo, Odeo, and Google. This one’s for the design and development geeks!
Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur Episode 19 // April 25, 2006
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This week on Security Now, Leo and Steve go back one last time to wrap up their discussion of cryptography by discussing primes, prime number factorization, and how those things apply to certificates and applied crypto, of the kind you’d see in security certificates, as well as how important those certificates are and their necessity in today’s information architecture.
Security Now! Episode 37 // April 27, 2006
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Server problems at DL.TV caused the show’s live stream to die in the middle of the episode yesterday, but that doesn’t really matter to us, since we grab the video when it’s available. That being said, the show recorded just fine, and now it’s all ours.
This fine episode to cap off the week includes info on Nintendo’s announcement that the Nintendo Revolution is now the Nintendo “Wii,” (our thoughts exactly-in fact, you can read our thoughts [ here ], Samsung getting the nod for the chips in the iPod over PortalPlayer, and reviews of the new Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 and all of its follies. Jesse James Garrett from Adaptive Path comes on the show to talk Web 2.0, and tons of viewer questions!
DL.TV Episode 56 // April 27, 2006
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John C Dvorak and friends are back for another week of cranky goodness; this week along with Dvorak are Robert Heron – Technology Analyst, PC Magazine; John Johnson – Editor in Chief, Secrets of Home Theater; and Loyd Case – Editor, /PC Magazine/ExtremeTech.com. This episode is an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray/HDTV special, and the crew around the table are talking about the lack of plasma TVs on the market these days, why Americans seem to love rear projection TVs, and a straight down HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray analysis. Enjoy!
CrankyGeeks Episode 7 // April 27, 2006
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On this week’s first episode of DL.TV, Patrick is off in Las Vegas at NAB, but the show goes on! Among the tech news covered in this episode is the possibility of “reverse” hyperthreading and Seagate’s new 750GB Hard Drive. Also, Robert picks up the Sony Ericcson W810i, and tells us whether or not he likes it, more rasterbation, and a slew of viewer questions! Head on over and snag the new episode now!
DL.TV Episode 55 // April 25, 2006
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Over at [H] Consumer (an offshoot site of HardOCP [ http://www.hardocp.com/ ]) some dilligent editors have published a pretty complete roundup of the kinds of service and information you should expect if you head into your average electronics store looking to buy a computer. And since many many people wind up actually going to an electronics store for computer purchasing and rely on the sales and technical staff in the store for accurate information and buying advice, this review is all that much more important.
The editors hit four different stores, Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry’s Electronics, and Circuit City, and came out of the experience with a lot of information about what you can and can’t expect when you walk into one of these stores armed only with the knowledge of what you’d like to do with your new computer and the trust that the staff there will be able to help you figure out what’s best for you-they won’t be able to, and even if they can, they might have an agenda that’ll keep them from giving you exactly what you need. The moral of the story? I’ll go ahead and spoil it for you-do your homework! Buying a computer isn’t a haphazard thing; you need to know what you’re getting into, what the differences between DVD-ROM and DVD-RW are, and why that difference might matter to you.
Regardless, head over to [H] Consumer to read the full article, including the editors’ experiences at each of the four stores, their comparison of the stores’ warranties, and their final advice to you, the consumer. Definitely worth reading!
(This article has been cross posted to our awesome new tech blog, Gears and Widgets! What’s that? Haven’t checked it out yet? Head on over for even more tech news, tips and tricks, articles and reviews, and up-to-date info on all things tech, as well as more commentary on this very story!)
Playlist Magazine [ http://playlistmag.com/ ] has an excellent cover story today with some really easy and useful tips to prolong the battery life of everyone’s favorite digital music and media player. I know, I know, in real life, the iPod doesn’t get what Apple says you should get in terms of hours and songs played, but I can tell you that it’s pretty close in my experience, but sometimes even 10 hours of straight play time isn’t enough to sate your hunger for music, podcasts, and episodes of Saturday Night Live. (Or in my case, 10 hours of leaving it on in your suitcase. Yeah, silly me.)
So while the tips include some simple and free things you can do, like using the Hold button to make sure that your iPod doesn’t get inadvertantly turned on while in your bag or in its case and keeping your iPod warm (something I wish I knew the time I left it in the car overnight in the middle of January), they also include some pretty decent ideas that cost money, like buying a new high-capacity battery and installing it (or having it installed) or buying an external battery pack to lengthen the life of your iPod. All this and more, and a definite must-read for all iPod owners and enthusiasts!
(cross posted to our awesome new blog for tech tips, tricks, news, and info, Gears and Widgets!)
Over at Yahoo! TechWeb, you can feast your eyes on the best Windows XP tips of all time. Seriously! All time, at least according to TechWeb. The tips are pretty solid though, and they’re not all for newbies and some of them are pretty good even for advanced users. For example, a lot of the tips are registry edits, like setting custom resolutions and halting background services that will improve your system’s overall performance, but some of the tips are good for even the most novice users, like scaling back System Restore, scrubbing the hard drive clean, and adding a second display to your computer.
Definitely check em out to see which ones apply to you, and if you’re not comfortable editing the registry, no biggie, some of them help you get around that; even so, it’d be a good time to learn, especially since some of these tips are right on the ball and will help improve the performance of your system dramatically. Enjoy!
On this week’s Weezy and The Swish, Natasha Leggero joins the crew to talk about all manner of topic, including American Idol, comedians, other celebrities, general asshattery, antics of small children, call on the owner of MyDeathSpace, a man named Mike, to discuss the irony of sending death threats to someone who runs a page about death, and your weekly dose of side-splitting hilarity. Tune in, download, and enjoy!
Weezy and The Swish Episode 46 // April 24, 2006
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Command-N is back from a week off with a brand new episode that is sure to please the geek driver in you. This week’s Command-N is all about cars and tech, and Amber and Mikey shoot the show and talk about the week’s tech news from a Mini showroom in downtown Toronto, and Jeff shows you how to make your car iPod-friendly. Among the tech stories covered this week are a launch and review of the new Google Calendar [ http://calendar.google.com/ ] customizing the Google home page, YouTube Director, the USB flash drive that gets bloated with more data that you dump into it, tech tips on making your iPod portable, the weekly web picks, and more!
Command-N Episode 42 // April 24, 2006
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On this week’s Lab Rats, Andy, Sean, and the cats show us the ins and outs of your computer. Seriously! This week they get down to business on some spring cleaning and open up your computer and scare out the dust bunnies. A couple of cans of compressed air, some very careful handiwork, and some moederate effort and your computer can run significantly cooler and cleaner than it did this time last year! So don’t hesitate, open up the case and get busy, and use this week’s Lab Rats as a guide!
Lab Rats Episode 23 // April 24, 2006
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Another week, another TWiT is in the can! This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Alex Lindsay, Robert Heron, and David Prager, and Kevin takes center stage right out of the gate to explain what Digg is and how Digg really works, especially in response to criticism lately that the editors of Digg have something to do with what stories make it to the front page and which stories get popular and which don’t. Congress is readying to clamp down on your fair use rights even more and readying a DMCA II, Yahoo! sends a third Chinese dissident to jail by giving their personal information to the Chinese government, more Apple news, and more, of course!
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This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 51 // April 23, 2006
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This week’s DiggNation has a lot to cover, it’s a shame that none of it is what you really thought was interesting about tech news this week-nope; the stores on DiggNation are all most-dugg stories at Digg.com; and that means this week we get stories like Miller’s experimental cold can that can lower beer temperature in a matter of minutes, the world’s best writing pen, ice chunks falling on San Francisco, an 8-year old Grand Theft Auto lover steals a car, and a woman comes down with the Bubonic Plague. Yum!
DiggNation Episode 42 // April 20, 2006
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An early GeekDrome this week makes for a better Monday than usual! This week Disney Staff Screenwriter Lloyd Taylor joins the bunch to talk movies, comics, and all things geek; including a review of Thank You For Smoking, and trailers for Art School Confidential and Bandidas. Rumors fly of a new Kirk/Spock movie coming in the next couple of years, and news about the Transformers movie. Plus, the weekly look at all the coolest comics, Oblivion on the Xbox 360, Indiana Jones on the 360, and Final Fantasy Online. Check it out!
GeekDrome Episode 22 // April 24, 2006
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Another fine episode of FLOSS and another high-profile guest on the show! This week Chris DiBona sits down with Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, co-founder of Slashdot [ http://www.slashdot.com/ ] to talk about Slashdot, standards compliance, Slashdot’s new commenting system, plans for Slashdot in the future, and much much more! Head on over and snag it now!
FLOSS Weekly Episode 3 // April 22, 2006
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This week, one of our newest podcasts, This Week In Media, is back with another fine roundtable discussion this time discussing the benefits and drawbacks of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, high definition next generation media content and how it’s produced, predictions from NAB, the EFF squares off against the RIAA again, and much much more.
The group is really starting to gel, I think, and the discussion is really taking off. It’s definitely a podcast for media lovers and people who dig the technical aspects of the behind the scenes work, and I’ll have to say the self-entitled “gimme something that works without me thinking about it” crew will probably not enjoy the high-level chat in this particular podcast. That being said, it’s definitely a winner, and I think it’s worth listening to. We’ll stay on top of it!
This Week In Media Episode 2 // April 21, 2006
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On this week’s Security Now!, the episode number is divisible by four, and you know what that means; listener question and answer time! This week Steve and Leo tackle the myriad of questions that have come flooding in since they started their series on cryptography and encryption technologies, and hit on some loose ends that will help tie in the whole crypto series together. Download and enjoy!
Security Now! Episode 36 // April 20, 2006
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This thing is super huge. I’m not kidding at all.
CNet reviews the new 19-inch laptop from Eurocom, which is seriously huge as compared to even the 17-inch laptop that the reviewer has in the studio to compare it with; and even though the thing sports cool features like full-bodied stereo speakers and a full keyboard with number pad, the thing still looks a little plastic-y for being so expensive and so big. I would have liked to see a more solid, maybe metallic design to give the thing a little more substance, but I suppose for being as big as it is, a thicker case would have made the Emperor heavier.
I seriously wonder, with most people already considering the 17-inch widescreen generation of laptops as “desktop replacements,” whether that need will usher in any kind of demand for laptops this incredibly huge. I suppose time will tell.
Regardless, there’s a reason they call this thing the “Emperor.” Check out the CNet review and watch the video to learn more!
The week’s second fine blended edition of dl.tv is up for download now, and hits on some pretty amusing issues; including facing up to the debate as to whether Apple is still a computer company, why porn seems to be the download-to-dvd leader, and the triumphant release of HD-DVD disks, of which the dl.tv team finally has some! Now if only they can find a player….
All this and viewer questions on the week’s last dl.tv! Enjoy!
DL.TV Episode 54 // April 20, 2006
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