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Episode 154:
Airport Luggage Hack: Pack a gun. Leo Laporte & Parallels. Folding@Home!
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What's new in Episode 154
STUFF
• Dump Winamp to avoid the AOL crud? No way, say Jake, Darren and Ryan! They've got ideas to keep Joey on his (formerly) favorite MP3 player: try Winamp Lite, download older versions from OlderVersion.com (This site rules!). Or go bandit, Reynolds' style, and try Portable Winamp 5.1 with iPod Support... not an approved distro, but designed to run from a USB key.
• Next week we'll cover the laundry list of non-Winamp audio players. It's a good list you sent in!
• You register a domain and get a bill from listingcorp.com? for, uh, listing services and domain submissions? Yup, JP, this is a scam. Well, it's actually a really sleazy piece of junk mail, er, 'solicitation' designed to look like a bill. All to get $65 out of you. In any case, it stinks. Any time you get a weird bill related to a domain name you've registered, google the name of the company, plus the word scam, and chances are you'll find if other folks were hit before you. BTW, scams like this are one of the reasons Robert keeps his personal information out of Domain Name listings... so scammers can't find it.
• Thanks to everybody that forwarded links on how to revive a Linksys WRT54G that's had a bad flash! Here's one, and
here's another.
• Viewer tech pic of the week? Props to Paul's PC mod from 2004, he built a fridge into his gaming PC.
• Actually, there were two this week: Jenny sent in a picture of coolest DL.TV download yet: she packed a Thinkpad and a tiny Nera WorldPro 1000 BGAN satellite modem on a crosscountry ski trip in Southern Colorado... she says her girlfriends :foolishly brought essentials like food and clothing." Way cool! BTW, Robert loves the Yurt!
NEWS
• Google Launches My Maps... t's all about personalized maps. You can draw on them, mark you favorite places, add text, photos and videos. And, of course you can share them, privately or publicly. Cool!
• The BBC reports that Lenovo "tops eco-friendly ranking". Even if you hate Greenpeace, that did the rankings, it's nice to know some companies have "eliminated toxic chemicals including brominated fire retardants, polyvinyl chloride, beryllium and phthalates from their factories." BTW, Apple came in last of 14 firms, and disagreed with both the rating and the criteria.
Leo's Fave OS X Apps
• Check 'em out... all descriptions are our words, not Leo's, btw:
Twitter: What's Leo doing right now? Uh-oh, Leo just dropped Twitter for Jaiku.
Joost: The next big thing in online video?
Netflix Freak: Manage your rental que on your Mac.
Quicksilver: We've got to demo this on air... "A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data," pre the description, doesn't really imply what this does.
SuperDuper: Fully bootable backup for your OS X system that doesn't suck.
SketchFighter 4000: An old school shooter that looks like sketches on paper.
Adium: The best darn IM app for OS X
Perian: Adds native support for video formats like AVI, FLV, DivX, XviD... the list goes on.
Applejack: Troubleshooting tool for OS X
Little Snitch: A firewall that likes to tattle!
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Posted by:
Jared
April 5, 2007 3:25 PM
Leo is on next.
Posted by:
Suzie
April 5, 2007 3:32 PM
Great show, as usual! It was nice to see Leo and Patrick together again! Thanks for switching sides, lol! Woo Hoo!
Posted by:
dumbunny
April 5, 2007 3:33 PM
Leo Laporte? it`s about time folks.
Posted by:
ipodman715
April 5, 2007 3:46 PM
The end blooper stuff was awesome! :P
Posted by:
Ryan P
April 5, 2007 4:26 PM
Joost is out for public download today, and it is amazing, defiantly the best at what they are doing with many large corporate backups, now if my cable company would just give me the speed they say I have so the experience could be better.
Posted by:
Alslayer
April 6, 2007 2:38 PM
LEO!!
Posted by:
Charlie from RI
April 6, 2007 3:06 PM
I believe Robert was referring to Jon Erik Hexum, star of Voyagers! and Cover Up... Man was I ever a big fan of Voyagers!... I desperately wanted one of those cool time travelling pocket watches... I probably wouldn't find the show that entertaining if I watched an episode today, but back then in the early 80's... That stuff was awesome.
Posted by:
macCesar
April 6, 2007 4:32 PM
I'm glad to see Leo and Patric together again.
Brings back nice memories. :'(
Please do it again but this time ask Leo to host the show with Patric and Robert.
Posted by:
Kevin
April 6, 2007 5:51 PM
Where's Leo's list? I'm a new mac owner and I'm excited to find out what Leo recommends!
Posted by:
Alvaro
April 6, 2007 8:55 PM
As for mp3 players, you can also try foobar2000 at www.foobar2000.org
Posted by:
XedLos
April 6, 2007 10:08 PM
Great Show. Good seeing Leo and Patrick together.
DL.TV should have Kevin and Alex as guest hosts too some time maybe some kind of TechTV reunion. That would Be Awsome
Posted by:
Noel Herron
April 7, 2007 12:51 AM
The nostalgia is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
Posted by:
hawk
April 7, 2007 4:22 AM
While oldversion.com may be a useful resource, it's dubious (or even outright bad) from a security perspective, and I don't think it should be generally recommended.
And I don't mean that I think they have trojaned files up for download or anything (which they could have, but I doubt that), it's just that their whole idea - they have OLD VERSIONS! And in many (perhaps most?) cases those old versions have security problems that have been fixed in the later versions.
In the case of Winamp, I guess that it's ok as long as you don't let it get in contact with any untrusted media files (or streams).
Posted by:
Joe Long Beach ca
April 7, 2007 9:45 PM
Great episode guy's. Ummm,joost is still in beata mode Ryan p. just to let you know. that it is not out for public yet.
Posted by:
Rich M
April 7, 2007 10:43 PM
Congratulations Robert (et al) - as of tonight you've broken the top 800 in the Stanford folding project!
Posted by:
Rickard
April 8, 2007 7:56 PM
Does anyone know what app Leo used to get the CPU usage bars in the menu?
Posted by:
Stephen
April 9, 2007 7:34 PM
I was so pleased to see Leo on the show. I e-mailed him about a year ago to make this very request, but it wasn't a possibility at the time. Look forward to seeing more!
Also, Robert is still a welcome addition to Technology Television be it DL.tv or Tech TV. Phenomenal AV guy. Thanks for keeping the show alive.
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rjisinspired
April 9, 2007 8:51 PM
Another good audio player is xmplayer by un4seen developments. No installation needed. It plays a large number of formats including open formats such as flac, ogg, speex, ape as well as common formats as wav, mp3, au. Realmedia with their addon plugins. You can even play from within 7-zip or winrar archives that contain audio files.
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car rental brisbane airport
January 13, 2009 9:38 PM
Sometimes , can be more usefull to rent a car than buy one . It's a good offert !
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