G4TTV Programming, Show Information, Podcasts, and other shows
On this week’s CommandN, the antics of Mark Cuban-including his investment in YouTube and his new show on Satellite Radio, ShopWiki, Microsoft getting into the social networking site business with Wallop, Skype getting into a deal to bring its customers ringtones, and the weekly web picks! The show’s up now, head on over and grab it!
CommandN Episode 43 // May 1, 2006
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Another week, another GeekDrome to sate our inner dork! On this week’s episode, the crew get down and talk about the movie American Dreamz and The Sentinel, and watch trailers for Jesse James, I Am A Sex Addict, and Pathfinder. Also, Jon Favreau tapped to direct an Iron Man movie, and Will Smith doing I am Legend. Comics, more superheroes in this week’s reviewed video games, Silent Hill posters, and much much more!
GeekDrome Episode 23 // May 1, 2006
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On this week’s glorious TWiT, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David Prager, and John C. Dvorak join forces to bring you this week’s tech news and commentary! Among the discussion topics this week are John C’s trip to Brazil, Nintendo renaming the Revolution to the Wii, reports that new Xbox360s will come with HD-DVD units inside and the competing Blu-Ray standard will be shipping on May 23rd. Also, dual format DVDs; are they in our future, and more importantly, wil we see dual-standard players? YouTube is burning through cash to pay its bandwidth bills, and the Bush Administration quashing an EFF lawsuiit by pulling the “national security” wool over our eyes. Ransomware viruses, buying jets on eBay, and much much more!
This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 52 // April 30, 2006
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According to the episode notes, this is the last MacBreak that’s all about the behind the scenes workings of the show, the last part in the series called “The Road to 1080p.” On this episode, Alex Lindsay takes us one last time through some of the behind the scenes work and shows us Apple’s Shake [ http://www.apple.com/shake/ ] the application where all the final touches are put in place and the episodes are composed. This is reportedly episode 6, including the three behind-the-scenes episodes, the XP on Mac special, the video compression episode, and the MacWorld Epxo episode. Enjoy!
MacBreak // The Road to 1080p: Part 3 // April 27, 2006
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On another bright and shiny week of DiggNation, leading off the stories is Nintendo’s announcement to rename the Nintendo Revolution to the Nintendo Wii and the subsequent backlash, Apple blocking MySpace at Macs in the Apple Stores (and presumably across the entire Apple WAN) DiggUpdate 2.0, Boeing unveils plans for a super-massive jetliner; the Boeing 797, the SciFi Channel announces Caprica, a prequel to the events in the highly acclaimed series Battlestar Galactica, and how to get into the Yahoo! Mail Beta and get all those cool features! All this and your regular dose of hilarity and anecdotal goodness from Kevin and Alex!
DiggNation Episode 43 // April 27, 2006
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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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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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