Episode 019: May 14, 2009
May 17, 2009 by Corey Charette
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This week the gang let us know about Velvet Assassin, Great Sites for Kids, using Skype on your iPhone, and how to very everything and anything that you want with Irfanview…….
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NEWS
Google Squared. Structured search for data
Kindle Publishing Now Open To All Blogs
UK ISPs refuse to play Copyright Cop
FCC will run nationwide DTV “soft test” on May 21
Can or Can’t Police track your car with GPS?
Sony posts $1b loss, first in 14 years
Facebook rolls out real time notifications and chat updates
The Pre Costs $542.01 Without Subsidies According to Fine Print
Apple, Dell, HP laptop owners sue Nvidia over faulty chips
Apple confirms WWDC keynote time, Phil Schiller leading the way
GAMES
Jason Kelly gives us his review of Velvet Assassin.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette let’s you know about Great Sites for Kids.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet tells you how to look at things with Irfanview.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik gives us a call from Skype for the iPhone.
RANT
Jason goes off on how AT&T and how poorly designed infrastructure means it’s users have to suffer in bad 3G coverage and limitations on iPhone applications.
Episode 018: May 7, 2009
May 7, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week the gang covers X-Men origins: Wolverine game, how to get coupons on Twitter, how to meet your eBooks needs with Calibre, and the way to kill non responding programs with just a single keystroke……
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NEWS
Twitter for sale? Google shutdown, Apple looking
Why Facebook Shut Down the Only Useful App it Ever Had
FTC probe may force Apple/Google board members to part ways
Duke Nukem Developer Shuts Down
Bigger Kindle for University texts and newspapers: Kindle Dx
Psystar May Be Preparing Netbook with Mac OS X Preinstalled
Windows 7 RC hits the interweb
Firefox Takes on Chrome, IE 8 With Multi-Processor Plans
Disney invests in Hulu
Disneyland rides change picture taking policy
GAMES
Jason Kelly goes overboard and talks about X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette tells you have to save a few bucks with CouponTweet.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet lets us know about Calibre for all your eBook needs.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior tells us how to kill any non responding windows app with a single keystroke.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik covers a few Apples games for us, Flight Control & Parking Lot.
RANT
Dave let’s us know that when the news talks tech.. everyone loses.
Episode 017: April 23, 2009
April 23, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week the gang is going to let you know that Trivial Pursuit is alive, we’ll let you know who was Dead At Your Age, cover some programs that check updates on your programs, how to put half-stars on iTunes, and much more……
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NEWS
Myspace CEO steps down.. being replaced by Facebook COO
Amazon Wants To Bully Amazee Into Changing Its Name
Feel Like Shaking A Baby To Death? There’s An App For That.
Skype Offering Country Unlimited Plan for $6/Month
Oracle To Buy Sun For Approximately $7.4 Billion - Hold On To Your Hats
GAMES
Jason Kelly talks about a modernized version of the classic Trivial Pursuit.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette let’s you know who was Dead At Your Age.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet let’s us know about AppUpdate and Update Checker.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior tells us how-to enable half stars in Itunes for Mac and Windows.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik lets us know about the Incase Slider Case.
RANT
Dave let’s us know that when the news talks tech.. everyone loses.
Episode 016: April 16, 2009
April 16, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week the guys go over Killzone 2, talk about the iPod Shuffle, show you how to hide your email address with Scr.im, and why DestroyTwitter can actually help make it better…………
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NEWS
Evernote and Twitter now work together to save your memories
17-year-old claims responsibility for Twitter worm
StumbleUpon becomes a startup again
Gmail Gets Smarter Search
Skype going Public?
Easter Eggs Give Clues to Next-Gen iPhone
Boston College Campus Police: Using Prompt Commands may be a sign of criminal activity
$800 Gets You a Never-Locked Overseas iPhone From Buy.com
IM password stealer available at major mainstream download sites
Time Warner Tests $150-Per-Month Unlimited Internet
GAMES
Jason Kelly gives us a quick review of Killzone 2.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette tells us how to hide our email address with Scr.im.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet talks about the misnamed DestroyTwitter.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik talks about the iPod Shuffle.
RANT
Chris vents about Microsoft office.
Episode 015: April 9, 2009
April 9, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week the guys cover the game FIFA 2009, how to check usernames on multiple social networking sites at once, PIDGIM instant messenger program, and so much more…………
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NEWS
Skype’s iPhone App Sparks Wireless Net Neutrality Debate
TiVo update brings pause menu ads to Series3 & TiVo HD owners
Apple Changes Pricing for Digital Music
New Zune hardware coming this year
Microsoft allows HP to wipe Windows 7 with XP through 2010
Blockbuster voices “substantial doubt” about ability to survive
Google News Isn’t Target Of AP Wrath, Google Says
Google’s new Gmail mobile web app sports offline message caching, lots of floaty goodness
RIM Launches BlackBerry App Store
P.U.M.A. test ride
GAMES
Jason Kelly kicks it around with FIFA 2009.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette helps you do a NameChk on a multitude of social networking sites.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet lets us know about Pidgin and how to use it.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior .
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik introduces us to Mac the Ripper.
RANT
Jason vents to us about bandwidth caps.
Episode 014: April 2, 2009
April 2, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week the gang talk about Far Cry 2, let us know how to Print What You Want, Google Analytics via email, Jing software, news, and so much more……………………………………………………..
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NEWS
Conficker payload.. Making it harder to track.. no real attack
Sony’s PlayStation 2 rumored to hit $99.99 in April
Skype for the Iphone released. Canada gets the shaft
Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in China
Google Removes tethering app from the marketplace
The Pirate Bay Lets You Share Torrents on Facebook
Firefox 3.0 now more popular than ie6 and ie7 in Europe
Apple’s iPhone App Refund Policies Could Bankrupt Developers
IPhone pirating app attacks Rival App Store
Netflix notches 2 billionth delivery with a Blu-ray disc
GAMES
Jason Kelly goes over Far Cry 2 for us.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette tells us to Print What You Like.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet talks about Jing.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior tells us how to add Google Analytics to your emails.
RANT
Jason complains about people who think they’re immune to viruses because they run a Mac.
Episode 013: March 26, 2009
March 26, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week we talk about the audio editor Audacity, Resident Evil 5, editing your PDFs online with PDFvue, backing up online with Mozy, and how to use Feedburner to bypass corporate firewalls.
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NEWS
Twitter makes revenue by endorsing Exectweet service
Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods
Gaming in the Cloud. OnLive Streaming Gaming Service
Nintendo ships 50 million Wii consoles, which still isn’t enough
Pirate Bay Announces IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service
Data backup firm sues 2 hardware suppliers
New Botnet Runs off DSL Modems and Routers
Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
Internet Explorer 8 launch fails to dent Firefox
Skype, Now the Largest Long-Distance Phone Company
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette takes us back in time with The Vintage Web.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet shows us the web browser in a new light with Cool Iris.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior tells us how to make your own self-hosted Muxtape with Open Tape.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik tells us how to get to one language with Monolingual.
RANT
Corey tells us why he hates it when a website gets popular.
Episode 012: March 19, 2009
March 20, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week we talk about the audio editor Audacity, Resident Evil 5, editing your PDFs online with PDFvue, backing up online with Mozy, and how to use Feedburner to bypass corporate firewalls.
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NEWS
Iphone 3.0 announced
Amazon Threatens Legal Action Against Those Increasing the Kindle’s Usefulness
iPod shuffle “license” chip
Google Brings 500,000 Public Domain eBooks To Sony Readers
UK wants to be big brother, monitor and store all social-network traffic
Twitter Mania
Fujitsu makes a color ebook reader to rival the kindle: Flepia
Appeal says juror sent ‘tweets’ during $12.6M case
FTC may launch an investigation into privacy of Cloud Computing
It was 20 years ago today: The Web
GAMES
Jason Kelly goes on a killing spree with Resident Evil 5.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette talks about editing PDFs online with PDFvue.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet turns up the volume on the audio editor Audacity.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior tells us to how to get around corporate firewalls for Feedburner.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik talks about Mozy and online backup.
RANT
Dave goes on about SEO businesses.
Episode 011: March 12, 2009
March 12, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
This week the guys cover the game Pure, Who Should I Follow?, FileZilla server, the amazon.com iPhone app, how to syndicate your tweets on Twitter, and so much more…..
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NEWS
Steve Wozniak debuts on Dancing with the stars
The Beatles: Rock Band coming in September, with bundles
Wolfram Alpha looks to transform the factual query
The Guardian launches open API for all content - but they still control the ads
Phish re-unites, gives away high quality mp3s of the shows and takes over twitter
Read the Phish posting on Dave Senior’s personal site
Japanese Elementary School Kids Now Being Taught by Saya the Robot
Facebook to change interface this week.. makes itself the new Twitter
DTV coupons flowing as number of unprepared households drops
Twitter rolls search and trends into it’s online interface
The Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names
GAMES
Jason Kelly gives us a review on Pure.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette answers the question of Who I Should Follow.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet gives us a quick overview of FileZilla Server.
Here the tutorial that Chris mentioned in the show.
HOW-TO SECTION
Dave Senior let’s us know how to syndicate tweets by keyword to a twitter account.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik tells us about the Amazon.com iPhone application.
RANT
Chris discusses the never-ending OS Wars.
Episode 010: February 26, 2009
February 26, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
The Gang talk about going retro with ASCii, e-Sword for your Mac or PC, Dave Senior’s experiences at Podcamp Toronto, and Adium.
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NEWS
The Microsoft Severance Issue
Netflix CEO: we’ll offer streaming-only plan by 2010
The Iphone of verizon? Maybe
RIAA denies rumors that Last.fm turned over user data
Apple to stop Micro-USB from becoming standard?
Dell fights back against Psion netBook trademark rampage
EU group aims to eavesdrop on Skype calls
Twitter’s ’suggested users’ get mammoth boost from new feature
New Zealand P2P disconnection plan delayed after outcry
‘I Am Richer’ App Pops Up in Android Marketplace for $200
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette goes retro with Text ASCii Art Generator.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet talks about e-Sword for the PC and the Mac.
SPECIAL REPORT
Dave Senior tells us a little bit about his experience at Podcamp Toronto.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik does an overview of Adium.
RANT
Corey gives us his disgust for hands free technology.
