Twitter, Facebook and a few other big social networking sites were hit by a flood of traffic which culminated in a direct denial of service attack. The greatest impact was felt by Twitter, which just reiterated the fragile state of Twitter’s infrastructure. Why is it that other huge platforms can handle this kind of situation, [...]
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Tekzilla | Episode 100
August 6th, 2009
Happy 100th Tekzilla! Patrick attended Defcon, the yearly convention for hackers, and he seems like he enjoyed himself. This leads into an interview with Flexilis founder John Herring who talks about the various threats out there to mobile devices including phones.
At the beginning the Tekzilla duo cover great gadgets that are under $100. You really [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 99
July 31st, 2009
The first gadget at the beginning of the show this week, after the talk of creepy spy cams, is the new Sonos Controller 200. Sonos is a system that will pump synchronous music throughout your home from up to 32 connected speaker systems. The new controller looks to be a great upgrade, but this system [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 95
July 3rd, 2009
Up front Patrick and Veronica are discussing how to get the most out of your notebook in the realm of audio. They cover amplifiers and break-out boxes that can make you notebook sound better than you have ever heard it sound. Of course Patrick throws in his 2 cents with a little DIY soldering action [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 93
June 19th, 2009
First up, Patrick and Veronica have a great look at netbooks. Veronica has a couple of on-hand units, one with Windows 7 and another that is a hankintoshed OS X equipped Dell mini 9. They both look good, but with the new Intel CPUs coming up in December it may be best to wait if [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 92
June 11th, 2009
The Apple announcements get overshadowed at the beginning here by Veronica’s obsession with The Sims 3, but we aren’t ones to be condemning anyone for that. Seriously, that is one addicting game.
There is a great interview with Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress on this episode. While this may not interest everyone, it is interesting for [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 88
May 15th, 2009
Windows 7 gets some coverage at the beginning here with a quick rundown of how to setup the recently loosed Release Candidate. This leads into a discussion on Patrick’s new PC which he has procured parts to build. He is setting out to build a Core i7 CD ripping box and has some good [...]
TWiT 193: Toodle Loo, Tuvalu
May 4th, 2009
Disney is bringing ABC content to Hulu and with this Hulu’s quest for complete online TV content domination is almost complete. If you haven’t you used Hulu, go check it out. It is a very nice service with fairly minimal interstitial ads in the TV shows. Also check out Boxee as Hulu is currently supported [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 86
April 30th, 2009
Tekzilla is a little late to the game on this one, but they are talking about the DSi. Coming from a show like Tekzilla it really leaves an impression that the DSi is going to be another huge hit for Nintendo with the mainstream crowd.
In a bit of a different focus for the show Patrick [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 85
April 24th, 2009
Patrick is talking about one of his favorite topics this week, GPSs. He took a a long road trip with his family over the past week and found himself in need of a GPS that could get the job done in the middle of nowhere. He recommends a couple Garmin units while Veronica goes with [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 84
April 17th, 2009
Kevin Rose from Diggnation is standing in for Patrick this week and it makes for a pretty fun episode.
Kevin is talking a bit about Twitter clients and it demoing Seesmic Desktop as Veronica vouches for TweetDeck. The next big one coming soon is Tweetie for Mac which is from the same guy that brought us [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 83
April 9th, 2009
Patrick and Veronica are the Web 2.0 Expo and they have a very special guest on the show, Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter. He talks about how Twitter came about, where it is now and where it is heading. @ev is not giving out too much information about a business model or where Twitter is [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 81
March 28th, 2009
With all of the GDC craziness and the launch of OnLiveMedium we missed this one on Thursday.
The Tekzilla duo have Vizio’s VSB210WS Sound Bar With Wireless Subwoofer on the show this week and they liked it. Don’t be deterred by the wireless, Patrick calls it “shockingly good.” In the vein of home theater they are [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 80
March 19th, 2009
The new 3rd generation iPod Shuffle comes up at the beginning here and Patrick is not happy about it at all. What is everyone’s’ thoughts on it?
Ever had problems backing up or moving your iTunes music? Patrick and Veronica have you covered and Veronica even mentions TuneUp, a program which finds missing album artwork, which [...]
Tekzilla | Episode 104
September 3rd, 2009
Snow Leopard continues to leave mediocre impressions with Veronica not even venturing to install it due to the many reports of problems flying around. Robert did install it and Patrick aptly points out that 4 minutes into explaining the new feature that he is talking about new wallpapers. The bottom line is that there aren’t [...]