Kevin Rose is certainly making the rounds lately! This week we have an interview with him at ZDNet, discussing the rise of Digg, [ http://digg.com/ ] it’s meteoric success, plans for the future, features and follies, and more. Kevin discusses what’s in store for Digg and the user community behind it, and how he and the Digg team plan to make Digg an even better tool for the future. Enjoy!
Year: 2006
A public beta of the new Internet Explorer 7 has finally been released for download, but download with care; some people have reported issues with the new beta. But on the up side, it does encorporate popular features and technologies that make other browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Opera popular, including tabbed browsing, tab groups, and the like. The new browser even includes an anti-phishing toolbar that will keep tabs on the sites you’re looking at and make sure that when you’re logging in to your bank that it really is your bank. Definitely not for the faint of heart but definitely a step in the right direction for Microsoft’s IE team, the browser is an excellent step forward and we look forward to the polish and refining that it’ll go through before it’s final.
If you’re interested, head over and grab the beta today:
[ Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 ]
Curious to read a review first? Check out what PC World has to say:
[ PC World.com IE 7 Beta 2 First Look ]
This week on Digital Life TV, ATI comes out of the corner with a new video card that beats the Nvidia cards on the market, rumors are flying that Google is thinking about buying Napster, the Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 has been released and we see a test drive, the ugly truth about Maxthon, defining fair use, and much much more, including viewer questions! Check it out!
Digital Life TV Episode 31 // January 31, 2006
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Command-N // Episode 31
On Command-N this week, Amber and Mikey cover Bill Maher’s new show with Amazon, Disney buying Pixar, the UN and the $100 laptops, Sony pulls the plug on the Aibo, and more! The pair discuss some photoshop contests, their weekly web picks, and more. Download and enjoy!
Command-N Episode 31// January 30, 2006
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On this week’s Weezy and The Swish, Guy Branum of stand-up comedy and G4 fame returns to the show to hang out with Matt, Louise, and Laura. The group chats up MySpace and internet dating, video games, and much much more. Check it out!
Weezy and The Swish Episode 34 // January 30, 2006
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This week on CyberWalker Mondays, Andy and Mike face off again at listener questions on the Mike Stafford Show, on AM 640 Toronto (640 AM). This week the questions center around Windows issues; viruses, spyware, security, windows rebooting itself, and the like, and a few more questions about networking and how to make sure you have a stable internet connection. Enjoy!
CyberWalker Mondays Episode 14 // January 30, 2006
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To celebrate the 40th episode of TWIT, guest hosts Steve Wozniak, Kevin Mitnick, Alex Fielding, and Amber MacArthur come on board with regular hosts John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, and Robert Heron to give us another great show!
This week, the crew together discussed where Kevin Mitnick has been running around to these days, what Woz is doing in Vegas and has been doing on the road leading up to it, and of course this week’s tech stories! The roundtable discusses Disney’s purchase of Pixar studios, Google’s entrance to the Chinese market, the evil that is MySpace, Kevin Rose dispels rumors that he’s selling Digg to Yahoo!, E3 bans booth babes, Woz finds a yellow laser to show off, the true story of the MIT Blackjack team, and much much more. The AOL radio server is down, but the TechTVForever.net archive mirror is up! Enjoy!
This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 40 // January 30, 2006
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The long-awaited MacBreak has finally come! The first episode is up and available for download via either bittorrent or through iTunes video for free. That’s right, no links for direct download, you either need to use iTunes to grab it from the video store or use bittorrent to download the quicktime version. This week’s show is all about the events at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, so expect lots of news and coverage of the events there!
MacBreak Episode 1 // January 27, 2006
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DiggNation // Episode 31
This week’s DiggNation covers some hot news that we’ve been hearing about all this week; for example Disney buying Pixar for about 7 Billion dollars, a restaurant sued for playing copyrighted music over the speakers, Google updating Google Video, ominous silence from Sony about the PlayStation 3, banning booth babes at the E3 game expo, and an astronaut proclaims the Space Shuttle a “deathtrap.”
DiggNation Episode 31 // January 25, 2006
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This week’s Inside the Net features Mike Davidson of Newsvine [ http://www.newsvine.com/ ] which is an excellent social networking news site, which allows members to write stories and contribute, rate stories, seed stories, and more! Right now the service is invite-only, but if you’re lucky enough to have an invite, you’ll find it’s a really awesome service. Aside from being able to make the news, you can feed the news to other people as well-it’s amazing. Amber and Leo discuss the Newsvine service with Mike, what’s in store for it, and when the service might go public.
Inside the Net with Amber MacArthur Episode 8 // January 26, 2006
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Since it’s another show evenly divisible by four (seriously, that’s how they do it!) this week is all about answering your burning questions about security in general, how to keep yourself safe online, and how to protect yourself from the myriads of bugs, viruses, worms, spyware, and other threats to your security and your data on the net. All questions and answers this week on Security Now!
Security Now! Episode 24 // January 26, 2006
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Thursday’s Digital Life TV kicked off with one of the hottest topics of the day; Google opening up Google.cn, it’s Chinese search service, which is being censored to cater to the Chinese government. Well, if there’s profits to be had, I suppose “don’t be evil” is just a motto, after all. The crew reviews the Creative Zen Vision M, yet another “iPod killer” to come to the market…and maybe go by the wayside in the wake of the actual iPod. Plus, slipstreaming Windows XP installs, video games we hate, and tons of viewer questions!
Digital Life TV Episode 30 // January 26, 2006
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In an exclusive interview, the folks at Gadgetell have interviewed Kevin Rose, both of TechTV fame and now one of the faces behind the scenes at Digg [ http://digg.com/ ] and Revision3 [ http://revision3.com/ ]. The interview is really good and has a lot of excellent questions (and answers) behind them. Check it out below!
Yesterday brought us a brand new episode of Digital Life TV, and it’s a good one-the fine guys at Pixel Corps label themselves as the “martial arts dojo for the digital artist,” and they prove it. The Mozilla Foundation claims that Firefox 2.0 should be out by summer, how to calibrate an HDTV and a review of a utility that promises to help you, and of course, more viewer questions! Enjoy!
Digital Life TV Episode 29 // January 24, 2006
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How to Trace an Email
Another lovely link from our friends at LifeHacker [ http://lifehacker.com/ ], here’s a step by step tutorial on how to trace an email using the header information. There was a time when I used to think it would help you report spammers to their ISPs, but usually ISPs and mail hosts are so flooded with reports like this that yours might get lost in the crowd; but it will definitely help you if you’re creating mail filters or if you have someone who’s specifically targeting you via email and sending you threats or other abusive content.
Even if you don’t, you could just as easily change the title of this article to “How Email Works,” and it’d be just as valuable. Enjoy!
The website FileInfo.net contains perhaps the most massive database of filetype information on the internet, with new ones added daily. Ever come across a file with a funny extension and you have absolutely no idea what program opens it or where it might possibly have come from? Well, that’s what FileInfo is all about; demystifying those file extensions for the rest of us so we can tell what’s a system file and what we should just right-click > open with and choose our favorite programs. Definitely worth a bookmark. Enjoy the link!
[ FileInfo.net ]
Jon Aquino has put together what is probably one of the most useful apps for the Yahoo! Widget engines ever. No, it’s not actually a widget, but it’s a refreshing list of the most downloaded widgets for the engine form Yahoo’s site, and it includes a lot of really good widgets that do everything from control Winamp to track tasks all the way up to very specialized ones that give you RSS feeds for specific sites and traffic cams from specific cities. Check out the list, and maybe you’ll find some widgets that you’ll think are useful! If you don’t have the Yahoo! Widget engine, download it today!
[ Yahoo! Widgets ]
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File Recovery Apps
We’ve all been there, it’s okay to admit it. You forgot to back up, or you just didn’t bother. And now you deleted something that you wish you had back. I know, I know, it sucks. Or you accidentally deleted something and went ahead and emptied the recycle bin without thinking about it, and now you need that file you lost. What do you do?
Well, here’s a couple of applications that we found courtesy of LifeHacker [ http://lifehacker.com/ ] that should do the trick, and they’re both free to download and use at your need and can help you get those deleted files back! But remember, as with any deletion, deleting the file doesn’t really erase the information, it just tells the operating system that the place where the file was is okay to write new data to-meaning the longer you wait to do the recovery, the less chance you have to get the files back, so get crackin!
Anyway, on to the software. We have PC Inspector File Recovery and Restoration, both free to use on a personal basis. I’ve tried them both and they both work pretty well, so give them a whirl the next time you need them!
[ PC Inspector File Recovery ]
[ Restoration ]
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Lab Rats // Episode 12
This week’s Lab Rats is a CES and MacWorld wrapup, where, just for our sakes, the Lab Rats crew get down on all the goodies we saw and didn’t see from CES and MacWorld during the last couple of weeks. They chat about the pending release of Windows Vista, the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD debate, and much much more. Head on over and download it now!
Lab Rats Episode 12 // January 23, 2006
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This week should be a treat for Weezy and the Swish lovers, since there are no guest hosts, no strange antics, and no funny business-okay, there’s plenty of funny business, but Louise, Laura, and Matt just sit down with some microphones between them and talk to one other. Yup. Hot, isn’t it? It’s awesome. Add in some listener participation and random voicemailing, and you’ve got yourselves a show. Enjoy!
Weezy and The Swish Episode 33 // January 23, 2006
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