Episode 019: May 14, 2009
May 17, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
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 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 008: February 12, 2009
February 12, 2009 by Corey Charette
Filed under Featured, Podcast
On this episode we cover Fallout 3, how to find domains quicker with DomainTyper, a three-pack of Adobe Air applications, and Fuel Gauge for the iPhone.
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NEWS
Kindle 2 announced
Authors Guild upset with Kindle 2 speech-to-text
Goodbye PalmOS
Apple gearing up for $99 iPhone?
Apple iPhone 4G Rumors and Concept art
Gmail offering automatic location based signatures
XM/Sirius Bankruptcy
Microsoft gets 10,000th patent
Woz on Dancing with the Stars
Skype Growing by 380,000 Users a Day
GAMES
Jason Kelly gives us the hoopla on Fallout 3.
SITES TO SEE
Corey Charette talk about how easy it is to search for domain names with DomainTyper.
FREE FILE
Chris Poteet has a three-pack of free files: Tumbleweed, Tweetdeck, & Readair.
APPLE CORNER
Ben Skripnik does an overview of Fuel Gauge for the iPhone.
RANT
Jason tells us why he can’t stand bandwidth caps.
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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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.
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
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.
