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This is Only a Test – Episode 51 – Meet the Controversacast – 2/3/2011

by Alex Martin in Tech370 days ago

This week, Gary appears as his alter-ego, Ana, so they can pump out an information-packed podcast. They start with Google’s Honeycomb event, where Google detailed the forthcoming version of their Android operating-system, optimized for tablets. Intel recalled their Sandy Bridge motherboards, which would have caused errors in SATA drives over time. Will’s happy that they acknowledged and fixed the error quickly. Twitter followers of Google and Microsoft employees have been party to some petty squabbling this week. Norm explains exactly...

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Tekzilla 187 – Best Tech Job Bets!

by Jon Cole in Tech373 days ago

After burning through some news, Patrick and Robert dive into the first big topic of the show – Portable Apps. Robert follows up from his flash drive recommendations from last week with the offerings from a company called PortableApps, which packages a number of useful apps into a compact footprint to take along in your pocket. In particular, he recommends installing KeePass, FileZilla, Pidgin, Google Chrome, and Sumatra PDF to keep all your information with you on whatever computer you’d like in a convenient way. The guys answer a couple...

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Engadget Podcast 230 – 01.24.2011

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech380 days ago

This week’s Engadget Podcast unsurprisingly starts with the news that Steve Jobs is sidelining himself for medical reasons, leaving Tim Cook in his place. In other Apple-related news, the company managed to push through an extremely successful quarter with huge profits probably stemming from unprecedented iPad adoption. HP/Palm has finally made their move on the tablet arena, with their plans going public in another one of Engadget’s comprehensive exclusive scoops. The 9-inch “Topaz” and the 7-inch “Opal” look...

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This is Only a Test – Episode 49 – The REAL Problem with Dyson Spheres – 1/20/2011

by Alex Martin in Tech385 days ago

In a change to the regular format, the show starts with news. First is Steve Jobs’ temporary break from Apple. They imagine a Jobless Apple, discuss the next iPad, and wonder if Apple will continue production of the original iPad as a cheaper alternative. One alternative to Apple’s tablet will be HP’s offerings, details of which leaked this week. They also discuss Blackberry and Android alternatives. A corporate restructuring has left Google with Larry “PageRank” Page as CEO. They think Facebook might eventually need...

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Episode 40 – Beard on the Run – 12/9/2010

by Alex Martin in Games, Tech427 days ago

After discussing the philosophy behind Will’s “clever internet t-shirt“, and Gary’s attempts at growing a beard, the crew gets into some tech talk. Gary’s spent another week with his new TV and reports on the minutiae of setting it up, aranging cables, breaking it in, and reinforcing his weak TV cabinet. Meanwhile, Norm has spent enough time with the Samsung Galaxy Tab to recommend you not buy it. Will’s also experienced some audio bugs with Windows Phone 7, and thinks it’s far behind iOS4 as a mobile...

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TWiT 267: You Can’t Say No To Oprah

by Jon Cole in Tech501 days ago

The show starts off with one of the most inside baseball topics discussed on TWiT in a little while, the “Angelgate” scandal perpetuated by industry blog TechCrunch. In short, the site’s founder Mike Arrington wrote a short post telling about a meeting between “Super Angel” investors (those with funds totaling around $50 million) that he managed to walk in on. The problem with such a meeting was that they were supposedly colluding to control the tech startup market, which has garnered the attention of the FBI. Most...

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TWiT 265: Passing The Stone

by Jon Cole in Tech515 days ago

This Week in Tech unintentionally held a sort of TWiT Reunion episode, welcoming many of the show’s founding members for an excellent episode. Conversation kicks off with the big picture question of how big companies manage to hire excellent employees and how that affects the seemingly open people faucet between players like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. In other news, a recent case on software resale has been ruled on by the Ninth Circuit of Appeals and it’s not looking good for digital content used sales. Furthermore, it’s...

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Engadget Podcast 212 – 09.11.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech515 days ago

Josh, Paul, and Nilay start off this week’s podcast with the somewhat morbid state of Nokia. Stephen Elop of Microsoft’s Business Division usurped OPK as the Finnish company’s CEO, which doesn’t inspire much optimism given the fact that Nokia needs more of a Steve Jobs than a Steve Ballmer. In other depressing mobile news, the guys talk a little bit about the bastardization of Android OS on various recent handsets, most specifically the Samsung Fascinate. For some reason, Verizon decided to force Bing search as the default...

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TWiT 264: Blackballed

by Jon Cole in Tech521 days ago

This week’s show welcomes some industry veterans to the fold, including Jerry Pournelle and Andrew Keen. As a result, however, the show ends up being a little chunky at almost two hours while meandering on a few big picture issues like net neutrality and piracy. In the midst of these somewhat evergreen topics, they hit on some big news at the top of the show with Craigslist’s closure of their adult services section and the subsequent confusion as to their reasoning. Apple’s Music Conference is probably the biggest piece of news...

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Engadget Podcast 208 – 08.13.2010

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech546 days ago

With the Engadget Show pushing back the Engadget Podcast to this week, the crew has a lot of ground to cover in one episode. They start off by hammering the Blackberry Torch, which makes some minor advances while losing ground in terms of speed and hardware. Luckily, they don’t take long to transition to some great mobile news, namely the rumor that Sony Ericsson would be teaming up with Google to make what is ostensibly a PSP Phone. Josh has an incredible amount of faith in his sources for this one, stating that the device will run Android...

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CastMedium Podcast 047 – 08.10.10

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Movies, Tech550 days ago

It’s a short, and somewhat loopy, show this week. We start with some podcast talk and Erik enlightens us about the Nicholson Baker podcast and article that was discussed on this week’s The Idle Thumbs Podcast. We also briefly mention the latest Engadget Show with Peter Molyneux. Word of no Kinect support for Fable III at launch starts the game talk, and we move on to Civ V and the announcement of Torchlight II. Tech starts with a few tidbits about Windows Phone 7 apps, and Jon and I attempt to give an overview of the Google and Verizon...

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TWiT 260: Sex, Lies, And Contractors

by Jon Cole in Tech550 days ago

This Week in Tech mixes it up a little this week since Leo is on vacation, instead welcoming Tom Merritt as the host. As the host of several other shows on the TWiT network including Tech News Today, Tom is very familiar with the show’s format while adding a little bit of his own flavor to the mix. TechCrunch has recently published a very extensive story which purports that… you’ll never believe this… Verizon and Apple are going to be releasing a CDMA iPhone in January. Even news that Verizon will be presenting a keynote...

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TWiT 256: The Shirtless Page Turn

by Jon Cole in Tech576 days ago

As is standard practice for TWiT at this point, Apple talk starts things off, talking about some of the experiences the guys had with the iPhone 4.  The high pixel density “retina display” clearly impressed Dwight, who goes as far as to say that the iPad feels old in comparison even for the sake of reading text.  Conversation then turns to the iPad, which revolves around the issue that Microsoft has patented the page turn feature employed in iBooks.  Leo oddly holds some vendetta against the feature, while Josh admires the sense of...

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This is Only a Test – Episode 17 – iPhone 4 is Here! – 6/23/2010

by Alex Martin in Tech596 days ago

Jesus, sorry, the iPhone 4 has arrived! Choirboys Will and Norm have invited screenwriter and Apple evangelist Gary Whitta to help preach. They get deep into the new minutiae of the fourth coming – how close the LCD is to the glass, pixel density, how it looks under direct sunlight – and that’s just the screen. They test Facetime, Apple’s word for “video chat”, which doesn’t play so well for audio so it might be a good idea to check out video footage on the site. For infidels, Google’s Froyo update is available on...

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TWiT 252: The Legend of Vuvuzela

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech604 days ago

As per usual, Apple talk capitalizes the beginning of the show and Brian hits on the biggest theme of the iPhone 4′s announcement – getting less than you expected.  He goes on to say that Jobs is the P.T. Barnum of the modern day, selling old tech like video phone calls like they’d never been seen before. Wrapping up the Apple talk, John theorizes that the lack of a partnership with Verizon may be temporary, as they booked a conference room three days after the initial release of the phone. Hulu has been rumored to be offering some...

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    Episode 092 - PTW ahoy!
    Games, tech, and the usual, for the last time. Hello Podcast Thing Weekly.

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