Year: 2009

On this week’s CrankyGeeks, John C and Sebastian are joined by David Spark, Host, Spark Minute; and Dan Goodin, Reporter, The Register!

Together they discuss Facebook’s snub of their users – they called for opinions of their new design, the users hated it, and Facebook essentially said “too bad, move on.” Is Facebook’s new “democratic” process flawed? Also, Twitter’s popularity soars, rumors of a new iPhone coming this summer, and more.

CrankyGeeks // Episode 159
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On this week’s net@night, it’s a party! Amber and Leo are joined by Keith McSpurren of CoveItLive.com, Sarah Lane, and Justine Ezarik, and together they chat about everything from the CoverItLive service – a service that makes it easy for bloggers and journalists to live-blog events, to Skimmer, a new social media app. Also, they chat about Start.io and President Obama’s call for questions from the online community!

net@night // Episode 93
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On this week’s MacBreak Weekly, Leo Laporte, Justine Ezarik, Andy Ihnatko, and Scott Bourne gather around to chat about the latest MacHeist bundle, what battery life on the new iPhone might be like, Woz’s dancing on Dancing with the Stars and his subsequent many injuries, and more!

MacBreak Weekly // Episode 133
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Another week, another Systm, and on this episode Patrick shows you how to build a high-quality, sealed subwoofer that can really add some bass and depth of sound to your home theatre…out of cardboard!

Systm // Episode 96
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On this week’s Lab Rats, Andy and Sean show you some ways to power and charge your gadgets using alternative energies!

Lab Rats // Episode 164
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On this week’s Pixel Perfect, Bert shows you how to make a Times Square style billboard, complete with flashing lights and gorgeous lighting effects!

Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy // Episode 118
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On this week’s Digg Reel, lots of lizards! A news guy gets attacked by a lizard, a lizard gettin’ his thang on, and more! A rapping flight attendant, and Jim Cramer getting decimated by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show!

Digg Reel // Episode 63
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On this week’s FLOSS Weekly, Randal sits down with Massimo Banzi to talk about Arduino, an open-source prototyping tool for electronics and other manufacturing goods. Arduino was featured in Wired magazine a few months back, and could very well represent the future of manufacturing process and prototyping. Check it out!

FLOSS Weekly // Episode 61
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On this week’s Windows Weekly, Paul and Leo discuss the release of Internet Explorer 8, the fact that the Windows 7 login screen will be customizable, the Silverlight 3 beta, and more.

Windows Weekly // Episode 99
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On this week’s commandN, Amber is on her own again, but she’s back outside covering the tech news of the week! Among the topics are Facebook’s new privacy options, the place where YouTube videos go to die, a list of top Twitterers to follow, and more.

commandN // Episode 172
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On this week’s Tekzilla, Patrick and Veronica answer your questions and chat about ways to get the best over-the-air reception for your HDTV, ways to back up your iTunes music or copy your music off of your iPod for safe keeping, and some great ways to update all of your social networks at the same time.

Tekzilla // Episode 80
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Another listener feedback ep on this week’s Security Now! Leo and Steve dive back into the mailbag to discuss your questions and thoughts on the past several shows.

Security Now! // Episode 188
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On this week’s CrankyGeeks, John C Dvorak and Sebastian are joined by Lance Ulanoff, VP, Editor-in-Chief, PCMag Digital Network; and Cade Metz, U.S. Editor, The Register!

Together, this power team discusses the end of print media as we know it, whether IBM is getting ready to buy Sun Microsystems, the iPhone 3.0 event and features in the new iPhone OS, and the AMD v. Intel patent dispute.

CrankyGeeks // Episode 158
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On this week’s net@night, Amber’s finally back! Sarah Lane will be missed, but it’s good to hear Amber back on the show. Together Amber and Leo discuss the meteoric rise of Twitter in recent months, the SXSW conference and music festival, and Facebook’s new homepage design which oddly enough looks a lot like Twitter…

net@night // Episode 92
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On this week’s MacBreak Weekly, Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Scott Bourne, Ryan Shrout, Andy Ihnatko, and Dr Kiki gather around in the shadow of Apple’s iPhone event yesterday and discuss all of the changes coming in the 3.0 version of Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch operating system!

MacBreak Weekly // Episode 132
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On this week’s Lab Rats, Andy and Sean show you how to make sure you’re safe when shopping online, banking online, and more.

Lab Rats // Episode 163
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On this week’s Digg Reel, it’s a St. Patrick’s Day extravaganza! Among the hilarity are a poor turtle trying to get his thing on with a shoe, Prager’s twitter break-in, and more!

Digg Reel // Episode 62
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