Episode 003: December 18, 2008
December 18, 2008 by Corey Charette
Filed under Podcast
This week the Gang go over Defense Grid: The Awakening, Elf Yourself for the holidays, Twitter Spy, essential iPhone apps, IE7Pro, and the failure of DRM.
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OUR MISSION: 2 the Fifth Power
NEWS
Apple Announces its last year at Macworld
Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue
Spore Is Most Pirated PC Game Of 2008
PC Prince of Persia contains no DRM
Might Google Buy the New York Times?
Google releases Chrome 1.0
“Cupcake” roadmap tells tales of video recording, stereo bluetooth and more coming to Android
Google slips from list of top companies on privacy
Google Earth Adds Photo-Realistic Buildings to NYC
Bush Shoe-Dodging Video Already Watched More Than 5 Million Times On YouTube
GAMES
Jason Kelly talks about Defense Grid: The Awakening.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette talks about the seasonal website Elf Youself.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik talks to us about some essential iPhone apps: 1Passwrd, Twitterific, MySpace, Facebook and Google.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior tells us how to get track back on your Twitter with Twitter Spy.
FREE FILE
Corey Charette gives a brief overview of the browser enchancement, IE7Pro.
RANT
Jason Kelly gives us an earful on the failure of DRM.
Get Track back on your Twitter with Twitter Spy!
December 18, 2008 by Dave Senior
Filed under How-To
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Twitter Spy is an excellent way to get xmpp streaming and track functionality back on your twitter. You can use an jabber compatible IM client, even Google Talk or Gmail. I use Adium for this on the Mac and Pidgin is an excellent alternative for Linux and Windows users.
Here is how to set it up for your Google Account
To get it set up in Google Chat (the IM feature with in GMail. This will work for Google Talk as well):
1. In Gmail, go to the chat sidebar and paste in twitterspy@jabber.org
2. In the popover that opens, click Invite to Chat
3. You will get another window, click Send Invites
This will generate an auto response for twitterspy and twitterspy will then become a friend that you can IM with. First thing to do is IM ‘help’ (no quotes) and you will get a list of the things you can do:
autopost Enable or disable autopost
follow Follow a user
help Get help for commands.
lang Set your language.
leave Leave (stop following) a user
off Disable updates.
on Activate updates.
post Post a message to twitter.
search Perform a sample search (but do not track)
track Track a topic (summize query string)
tracks List your tracks.
twlogin Set your twitter username and password (use at your own risk)
twlogout Discard your twitter credentials
untrack Stop tracking a topic
watch_friends Enable or disable watching friends.
whois Find out who a particular user is.
You can then then use twlogin to log into twitter via TwitterSpy in Gtalk. Then you can post new messages to Twitter.
For example, if I want to track the techganghow, I simply IM: track techgangshow
This will show all posts with techgangshow in it, except those posted by the user techgangshow.
Become a Twitter Power User today!
Episode 002: December 10, 2008
December 10, 2008 by Corey Charette
Filed under Podcast
The Tech Gang talk about Call of Duty: World at War, Melt Mail, Firefox extensions, creating a screencast with Screenflow, and ATV Flash in the Apple Corner.
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OUR MISSION: 2 the Fifth Power
NEWS
Sony cuts 16,000 jobs
UK Internet watchdog backtracks on Wikipedia ban
YouTube Attracts 100 Million US Online Video Viewers in October according Comscore
Computer scientists find audio captchas easy to crack
NetVibes Founder Building iPhone-Like Operating System for Netbooks: Jolicloud
Google offers unlocked G1 phones to developers
Friendster nabs fourth social-networking patent, dozen more pending
Dell hikes up price of XP computers to $150
Strong Mini-Note (Netbook) Shipments Buoy Notebook PC Market in Q3’08
The mouse turns 40
GAMES
Jason Kelly talks about Call of Duty: World at War.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette tells us why we should use Melt Mail.
FREE FILES
Chris Poteet talks about three Firefox extensions: Secure Login, Secure Password Generator, and AutoAuth.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior shows us how-to screencast with Screenflow.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik talks to us about ATV Flash.
RANT
Dave Senior complains about the copyright divide.
Create Gorgeous Screencasts with Screenflow
December 10, 2008 by Dave Senior
Filed under How-To
Are you an Apple/OSX user looking to make screencasts? Check out Screenflow from flip4mac.com. It is an incredibly robust suite of tools for creating and editing screen captures for your website or clients.
How to stream XM on your iPhone
December 7, 2008 by Ben Skripnik
Filed under How-To
Requirements:
Windows OX (XP, Vista, 2000, 2003)
iPhone (1st Gen or 2nd Gen)
uXM and uSirius - http://www.millardsoftware.com
Orb - http://www.orb.com
Download and install uXM and/or uSirius as directed by the installer
Download and install Orb as directed by the installer
Set a static IP address on the computer that is going to be serving the streams
Configure uXM and/or uSirius:
Launch the application and click the start button to start the application.
Click on the URLs button and click on the Channels tab.
Select the station to be streamed from the Channels drop-down box. Make sure that
“MMS stream is selected underType. This has to be set to this for Orb to play
correctly.
Choose the bandwidth for the stream (high has better quality sound, but takes up more
bandwidth).
Click the Clipboard button to copy the URL to the clipboard
Configure Orb:
Launch Orb and create an account if you do not already have one.
Open the Web interface and click on the Open Application link next to the home button
and select Audio.
Click on Favorite Channels under Internet Radio.
Click on the Add Custom link at the top to add a custom stream.
Give your channel a Name (i.e. XM71)
Paste in the URL copied from uXM or uSirius and click Submit and the channel will be
added to the list.
iPhone Setup:
Open Safari and navigate to http://mycast.orb.com and log in.
Select Audio from the menu and select Internet Radio Favorites
Select Station and wait for play button to appear over the radio tower icon in the upper
left next to the station name.
Press the ply button that appeared over the radio tower icon and the player will
launch.
Press play in the player and the stream starts.
Other Notes:
Works great over WiFi and 3G, but a little spotty over Edge
Totally free except if your paying for WiFi access
Streaming XM or Sirius to iPhone
Can also play stations from the browswer on any computer by going to your Orb
account.
Orb offers interfaces for PS3, XBox360, and Wii
How-To Run a Script on Any website
December 3, 2008 by Dave Senior
Filed under How-To
Have you ever wondered how people test websites for multiple combinations of data. Or are you more nefarious and wish to rig an online vote? In any case, every developer needs to check out Selenium.
Selenium is a piece of software and Firefox plugin that allows you to record a set of actions and apply logic to the steps to create a custom script in a matter of second.
Check out the video.
Episode 001: December 3, 2008
December 3, 2008 by Ben Skripnik
Filed under Podcast
This week the gang discuss the latest news, Left 4 Dead 1st-person shooter, a Favicon Generator, Aptana, auto-scripting Web 2.0 applications, streaming satellite radio on your iPhone, and a rant about Pownce.
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NEWS
Google Buys Digital Historical Newspaper Archives from PaperofRecord.com
Pownce shuts down it’s doors
Apple looking into liquid cooled laptops
Mac suggest use of several Antivirus programs then removes the article
Nokia N97 is official
Linux on iPhone
Time for forced updates? Conficker botnet makes us wonder
Apple hits Psystar with DCMA violations
Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With “Deanimation”
Yahoo! Top 10 searches of 2008
GAMES
Jason Kelly gives us a review of Left 4 Dead.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette talks about the Favicon Generator.
FREE FILES
See why Chris Poteet thinks that Aptana is a great file to get.
HOW-TO SECTION
See how Dave Senior shows you how to run a script on any website using Selenium.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik gives us instructions on how to stream XM on your iPhone.
RANT
Chris Poteet goes off on the downfall of Pownce.
Episode 000: November 19, 2008
December 2, 2008 by Ben Skripnik
Filed under Podcast
The Tech Gang Show Episode 0 This is our test episode. Please excuse us because we don’t have the theme music added to this one. Sorry, this episode doesn’t have shownotes, but it is episode 0. We hope that you enjoy it. Please leave comments or send us an email and tell us what you think.
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