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Episode 197:
Annalee Newitz joins Roger. Halo 3. Loyd begins the assembly. How to do a Photo Mosaic. And Much More!
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What's new in Episode 197
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• Rob's at Digital Life in NY so we asked tech writer and Cranky Geek pundit Annalee Newitz to fill in as co-host and keep Roger company.
• Halo 3: It's here and we got ourselves a review from Dan Hsu at EGM.
• Loyd begins the assembly process on his latest Build a PC spot by installing the drives and system power supply.
• Turn all your old photos into an awesome Photo Mosaic with a couple of free and simple tools; Patchworkr and AndreaMosaic.
• Have a collection of old VHS tapes just gathering dust? Why not convert them over to DVD and share them with friends and family? We'll show you some easy and not so easy ways to do it.
• Don't forget to email us ( dl.tv@ziffdavis.com) your Wii console number. We Want Your Miis!!! Our number is 3866-4961-3764-6024
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It's been a long time coming but we're finally giving away our HDTV from our set in a month long random drawing. The rules are simple:
• Create a video of 15 seconds or less. • The video must be a tech question and feature the actual face of the person asking the question. • You must be a resident of the US and at least 18 years of age. For the full legalese download the rules. • Upload it to your YouTube page. • If you haven't already, add DL.TV as a friend! • Share your video with us! • Even if you don't win we might still use your video question on a future episode of DL.TV • And don't forget to send us an email with your full name, URL and name of the YouTube account you used, mailing address and your phone number. Put "DL.TV HDTV Giveaway" in the subject line.
Tags: Annalee, Build PC, DIY PC, DVD, Giveaway, halo, Halo 3, HDTV, Loyd, Loyd Case, Mosaic, Newitz, Photo, Roomba, VCR, VHS
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Posted by:
Carl S.
September 27, 2007 3:47 PM
I gotta say knives on a Roomba would be kewl. Maybe do a rodent catching kinda thing :)
Posted by:
Mark Givens
September 28, 2007 2:04 AM
The guy who created CoverPop is named Jim Bumgardner and he's created some incredibly beautiful programs. Please see krazydad.com.
Posted by:
Larry
September 28, 2007 6:24 PM
More Guest Geek Girls.
Posted by:
Tim
September 29, 2007 11:04 AM
Not all DV cameras will digitize analog footage, especially older ones and cheaper ones.
Posted by:
Brian
September 29, 2007 12:42 PM
Speaking from experience, though, the Pinnacle Dazzle hardware basically sucks. For a short capture, it's OK, but I personally became tired of the audio going irreparably out of sync during a decent-sized capture and bought a DV capture box (ADS Tech Pyro A/V Link) and Firewire card instead. Not only more reliable, but gives you actual selection when it comes to software.
Posted by:
Jake
September 29, 2007 10:26 PM
Thanks for using my email about Paul Bunyan!
Posted by:
Jo
September 30, 2007 7:16 PM
Annalee can come back any old time she wants! She was fabulous! It is great to see women on the show that are intelligent, vibrant, beautiful and who know what they're talking about. Roger, as always, did wonderfully!
Posted by:
Elisa
October 1, 2007 9:30 AM
Yeah, more geek girls on the show :D Annalee was great, wouldn't mind seeing her more on the show. She's funny. Great tips on the photo mosaic apps, I'll have to try those out.
Posted by:
Raphael Fernandez
October 2, 2007 9:59 PM
Hi!
An Erratum: The author of AndreaMosaic is a HE not a SHE as was said by Annalee.
Like the show...
Posted by:
Jimbo
October 3, 2007 8:21 PM
Annalee did a pretty good job, but she kept looking away from the camera, which made it weird to watch her.
Posted by:
Tony
October 4, 2007 10:58 AM
AndreaMosaic...that's one niffty program. I've been looking for a program like that. Thank you.
Posted by:
Ryan
October 6, 2007 6:59 AM
I just bought an ADS VideoXpress and I'm still fiddling around with it. The device seems fine. Records live, which after owning several TV tuners I have to say I like. The software is a little lacking and I can't get it to finish doing its thing after capturing and saving the file. So I moved onto VirtualDub, found at SourceForge.net, and it seems to happily record a non-compressed stream from it (taking up lots of GBs on the HD in the process). Trouble is I'm not sure what format I should ultimately record in as a source file. Is that AVI and DV-1 and 2 format what people use when recording source files to work from?
But I do love the ADS Tech VideoXpress. It's keen. I suppose I should have gotten something that records HD video, but I'm planning on getting an HDHomerun from SiliconDust or Elgato so I can watch and record HD TV from any computer running BeyondTV 4 or MythTV. It's compatible out of the box for both.
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