Year: 2006

For the record, I think talk about snacks is incredibly riveting. Moving on.

This week on Weezy and The Swish, the crew chats in front of a live studio audience and a live chatroom audience and makes for a brilliant follow-up to a 40th episode, even though they have no special guests this week (save a pair of Ds that get routinely yelled at, much to our benefit!) Laura, Weezy, and Matt give us enough hilarity to get us through the show, even though Matt tells us in the first 5 minutes that they have no direction. I don’t know about that, sometimes no direction is the best direction! Regardless of what you think, head on over and download today’s Weezy and The Swish today!

Weezy and The Swish Episode 41 // March 20, 2006
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This week on Command-N, Amber and Mikey chat about the SXSW (south by southwest) conference and all the goodies they saw there, like Pandora, Newsvine, and the panels on podcasting, the breakthrough about running Microsoft Windows XP on the Intel iMac, TechCrunch launches a podcast, a bunch of tech tips on ways to send your files around the globe, the weekly web picks, and much more! Enjoy!

Command-N Episode 38 // March 20, 2006
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On this week’s DiggNation, Alex and Kevin get drunk, of course, and chat about this week’s most dugg stories over at Digg.com; including the revelation that Windows XP will indeed boot on the Intel Macs, Digg adds friend tracking as a new feature, the official announcement that the PlayStation 3 is being delayed until November 2006, Apple’s $10 USD movie, rumors fly that Dell was thinking about buying Alienware (rumors that eventually got squashed), the World of Warcraft player who got his account banned thanks to his shiny Logitech G15 keyboard and it’s programmable keys, and the horrific return of PriceRite Photo. Enjoy!

DiggNation Episode 37 // March 16, 2006
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The MacBreak crew has responded to the amazing news that Windows XP has been successfully installed and run on the new Intel Macs alongside Mac OS X and pushed out a brean new MacBreak special on the topic. Following the instructions from the website hosting the nearly $13,000 USD bounty and contest for the folks who managed to get Windows XP working on the Intel Macintosh, onmac.net [ http://onmac.net/ ] the fair Ben Durbin of the Pixel Corps managed to grab a new Mac, install Windows, and get it up and running just as advertised. Head on over and download it!

MacBreak Special // XP on the Intel Mac
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This week’s Inside the Net is all about Web 2.0 and new media and marketing and web projects, since Amber is off at the SXSW (South by South West) conference in Austin, TX with the rest of the geek world, where new projects and web services are being shown off, new ideas are being discussed, and companies are marketing their collaboration tools and software to the willing masses. It’s quite a show, and Leo has managed to get Amber away from the conference long enough to give us an update on the show and what’s really turning heads.

Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur Episode 14 // March 14, 2006
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This episode of InDigial is all about a topic that’s dear to my heart; how to get a computer into your home entertainment system. It’s easier than you think to do, but it does require a little know how to do well, and that’s what this episode is all about. The crew also give us a rundown of some photo printers and whether it’s even worth it to try and print your own photos, and examine wireless cameras and whether they’re worth the price or the novelty. Download and enjoy!

InDigital Episode 3 // March 15, 2006
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Ah! A brand new Infected to brighten up my week! Martin, Joey, and The Gator gather around the microphones again to share their life-changing wisdom with us-this time about fitness and how important it is to stay in shape and more importantly what happens when you don’t. The whole episode is all about fitness, which means you can bet that it’s all kinds of funny. Hold on tight; this is gonna be a side-splitting ride.

Infected with Martin Sargent Episode 7 // March 15, 2006
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Diving deeper into the topic of cryptography and data encryption, on this week’s episode of Security Now! Leo and Steve discuss in further detail the topics we started on in the last episode, like data encryption, by taking those nifty secret decoder rings a lot of folks remember from mail-in contests and cereal boxes as an example, and use it as a basis for the terminology to toss around about public key cryptography.

Security Now! Episode 31 // March 16, 2006
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The first official episode of CrankyGeeks is up and ready for download! John C Dvorak is back from CeBIT in Germany, and is bringing his opinionated self back to share his comments and thoughts with you.

The guests on the panel today are Sebastian Rupley – West Coast Editor, PC Magazine; Peter Galli- Senior Editor, eWeek; David Spark – Host of ‘The Communications Insider.’

Among the topics are CeBIT, Microsoft’s Ultra-Mobile PC (the “Origami” project) and who’s in the market for one, and more! Head on over and check it out!

CrankyGeeks Episode 1 // March 16, 2006
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On this episode of dl.tv, Patrick and Robert get down to talking about wireless net access versus wired net access, and whether wireless can possibly hold a candle to wired-and what equipment you’ll need if you’re gonna try and make it. Bill Gates disses the MIT $100 laptop, all those folks who participated in the free iPod craze got their info sold, opening up the Mac Mini, Alex Lindsay comes back from the Pixel Corps and struts his stuff, and much much more!

Show’s up for download now; head over and check it out!

DL.TV Episode 44 // March 16, 2006
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On Tuesday’s DL.TV, Pat and Robert bring the tech by discussing the projected launches of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, the PS3 launch date gets pushed back, Robert and Pat try out live.com; and finally-Windows running on the Intel Macs? Also, the differences between live.com and the google personalized homepage, viewer questions, and much much more, including getting that brushed aluminum look on your iPod! Enjoy!

DL.TV Episode 43 // March 14, 2006
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Woohoo! 40 episodes of Weezy and The Swish later, and we’re all a little crazier for it. And we’re still in love. This week on Weezy and The Swish, special guest Pete Gray happens by to share his wit and wisdom and war stories from his USO experiences entertaining the troops in Iraq. All this, more, and videos, on this week’s Weezy and The Swish!

Weezy and The Swish Episode 40 // March 14, 2006
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This week on Lab Rats, Andy and Sean head back into the HP Digital Living Room where they continue the discussion of the digital TV market by talking about the pros and cons and differences between plasma tvs, lcd tvs, crt tvs, and help you dig through terminology like rear-projection and DLP and stuff like that. Enjoy!

Lab Rats Episode 18 // March 13, 2006
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This week on Command-N, Amber and Mikey discuss Toronto’s plans to become a huge municipal wifi zone, Microsoft finally unveils the Origami project, they chat up ValleyWag, one of our favorite geek gossip sites, Techcrunch shows off screenshots from Google’s CL2 project (the Google Calendar), and much much more! All this and the weekly tech tips and web picks on this week’s Command-N. Head over and download it now!

Command-N Episode 37 // March 13, 2006
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After taking a week off, the DiggNation crew is back in action, bringing us news from their week off, and bringing us the headlines and most-dugg stories from digg.com last week, including Ask A Ninja, Microsoft finally unveils the Origami Project, Google’s acquisition of Writely, the new Digg comment system, and more tech news.

DiggNation Episode 36 // March 9, 2006
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This week’s Security Now is all about cryptography and encrypting your files and data. Wrapping up the ‘how the internet works” series and moving on to crypto, Leo and Steve chat about how data is encrypted, what exactly that means, for the layperson who has no idea. They begin the discussion with the implications of giving relatively powerful security tools to everyday people, and what that could mean for their data, and people who want to get their handso n it, for whatever reason.

Security Now! Episode 30 // March 9, 2006
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This week on GeekDrome the crew covers more of your favorite geek news and reviews than any other podcast you can find. Among the topics covered are news out of rumor mill about the casting for Spider Man 3, more comic news, and the GeekDrome “design our t-shirt” competition! Head on over and check it out!

GeekDrome Episode 16 // March 12, 2006
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