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I think we're going to install these at the TWiT Cottage. - Leo Laporte from Bookmarklet
My Oma (Dutch for Grandmother) has one of those in her house. Heated seats no wiping! - Levi Breederland
That's old news in Japan :) - directeur
Been there, done that! - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
The video is a must watch! - Brian Sullivan
I like it when he says: "sensitive, private body areas". Also noteworthy is: "nazzle" and "feminine cleansing". - Kittyburgers
KB, that's how all of us from Chicahggo say it. I think you should get the cold-water-only model. Sounds like a fun weekend in. - Eph Zero
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What iPhone news apps have push notifications? - http://www.mahalo.com/answers...
CNN for one. - Leo Laporte
CNN's app is really great. Push notifications are cool, and I like that you can watch live streams of major events. - Eric Geller
AP also has push notifications. - Glen Campbell
Mint - Dave Hodson
Kol Tregaskes
I wish I could use iTunes on my Nokia mobile phone. The standard player on the N96 is awful, so hard to edit playlists. :-( #nokia
Can anyone recommend a good MP3 player for the Nokia or a why I can import my iTunes or WMP playlists into my phone? - Kol Tregaskes
the phone is for talking. buy an ipod. - Nutella Ferrero (emirhan)
iPod, no way. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
I also find it difficult to connect to it and transfer files to it. Really annoying. Surely this should be easy! :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Have you tried Salling Media Sync? http://www.salling.com/MediaSy... - I'm hoping it will solve this problem with the N900 when it comes. - Leo Laporte
Thanks, Leo. I'll give it a look. - Kol Tregaskes
Zune HD looks pretty sweet. May be worth a gander. - Adrian
Looks like, sorry I mean an app not hardware. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Leo, sailing media sync will not replace the default s60 music player which is okay. But I want to mention an alternative music player "oggplay" that I have used in the past. it can play .ogg vorbis files if that is your thing and audio files that your phone can play natively. - j.ash from iPod
Thanks, it's not really what it plays that's the problem, it's the lack of any decent playlist features that's annoying me with the default Nokia N96 player. So an app with a good playlist facility is what I'm after. - Kol Tregaskes
I think doubletwist might be the way to go for you. Check it out: http://www.doubletwist.com/dt... - jeffscott
Leo, Salling Media Sync keeps trying to access my floppy drive for some reason. I'm going to have to turn it off. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Jeff, I've got that installed now and I think it's cataloguing my files atm. Hopefully I can simply sync selective playlists? - Kol Tregaskes
I believe it mirrors iTunes functionality quite closely so I suspect the answer is "yes". However, I have neither a Nokia N96 nor have I tried doubletwist since I'm using the iPhone. But I do hear great things - please let me know how it works for you! - jeffscott
I've tried and tried but I can't get it to work. It lists my mobile phone but I cannot sync any music. The device page doesn't show me the list of media types (like it does for other devices) that lets me tick and select the playlists to sync). Close but no cigar. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
dammit. very sorry it didn't work out for you. if i think of anything else i'll def. let you know. good luck! - jeffscott
No worries, thanks Jeff. I've send them a tech support message. Maybe they can help. - Kol Tregaskes
You say "I also find it difficult to connect to it and transfer files to it" . This seems odd. When I plug my N95 8GB in to my USB port the phone just mounts as a regular hard drive. I just drag and drop to side-load my tunes and I'm good to go. Of course, this does not address your playlist issue and I don't use iTunes to manage my music and "syncing" is irrelevant to me. So perhaps have nothing to contribute here ;=) But the phone *does* mount easily. Looking forward to the N900 - Mark Zip
Mark, yep, my N95 worked a treat too but I've had problem after problem with the N96, really awful phone! :-( - Kol Tregaskes
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@ Tea Room Café ! Lunch and Qik with Colleen - Leo Laporte
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Live now: This Week In Tech 220 with Leo Laporte, the LA Times Mark Milian, Frank Barnako, Tom Merritt, and Wil Harris. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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This looks to be an interesting twit. {edit} and it was! Stories: http://delicious.com/twit/220 Plug links: Frank -> http://barnako.com/ Mark -> http://latimes.com/tech Tom -> http://bol.cnet.com Wil -> http://channelflip.com - Chris Heath
Audio sound weird for anyone else? - Victor De La Torre
Everything looks and sounds good here - Dylan Combs
Leo and the gang, please talk about this, its a very important story about new comcast bandwidth throttling http://www.theinquirer.net/inquire... - Dylan Combs
Will is in chat TWIT LIVE 2 - Michael Holzinger
41993 x 2037= 85539741 - Ministrable
I love my iPhone, worked great when I went to Europe las year. - Victor De La Torre
Saw that commercial today, thought it was a movie at first. - Victor De La Torre
The question is... Will my Mum care about openess or does she just want a iPhone. - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
http://www.wireless.att.com/coverag... the exact map tom's talking about - Chris Heath
verizon is using old coverage maps, and at&t has rolled out a lot of 3g recently (my city got it a month or two ago) - Chris Heath
When did Verizon commission the ad? It could be an issue of timing only. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
My computer's clock is perfectly in sync with the clock behind Leo. That's uncanny. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Mustangs are nice, until the engine dies on you for no reason. Happened to my dad not once, but twice. Same 'stang, too. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Hey Leo, I downloaded The Men Who Stare at Goats yesterday from audible! Its a great listen :-) - John Brazel
Destruction By Baked Goods - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
But wouldn't they sabbotage it BEFORE they built it. - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
So is the bird from the future, Terminator style? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
Mind is being blown as we speak. - Victor De La Torre
Are they going to bring up ACTA? - Xenophrenia
I have audio in ustream http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf... there no audio on BG? - Emery Walker
Twitlive.tv is working fine for me - Victor De La Torre
Although it sucks, isn't the RIAA just doing it's job by protecting it's members. Our beef should be with the studios that support the RIAA. RIAA exists as an easy scapegoat and take heat from the studio's door - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
Sunshine is the best disinfectant - John Brazel
http://eff.org/action and pick the ACTA petition (some congresscritters require you to contact them via their site directly, make sure the eff sends to all three of your congresscitters, mine only sent to two) i then had to go and copy/paste the message into the third's contact form - Chris Heath
http://www.macheist.com/ 6 Mac Software for free. - p0wermac
Audible Pick: The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson, http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte
Tease: Tom Merritt explains net neutrality using potato salad, the elusive Higgs Boson vs. the LHC, and these are the droids you're looking for. - Leo Laporte
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Live now: This Week In Google, with Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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Believe latest 'Carpool with Robert Llewellyn' had Bowie's son in it. - Hawklu
every things fine here cant hear the gurl of course - daveccorey
Google Groups is Dead might be interesting to cover :) http://bit.ly/Q6XmK - Digitalxero
I like to watch the pre-game show and then turn it off and listen to the podcast when it comes out. Haha! I'm probably in the minority there, huh? - Michael Kaiser
I'm pretty interested in a netbook running Android. I saw a video of an Asus Eee PC on the snapdragon chipset running Android & I was impressed. - Jason Hansen
Cell phones that are locked require 3 yr contract in Canada plus additional fees. - Greg
Well, hashtags make sense when using things like lost or #Lost... :) - Holger Eilhard
hash tags started from IRC ... all rooms in IRC start with # - z3cka
hashtag sidebar here gr8t call thanx guys ...as usual - Pam Gwenzi
Tease: Gina lust over the Droid, Jeff joins Google's Data Liberation Front, and we'll show you how to find all your Google accounts in just one place. - Leo Laporte
Droid sucks. A lot of people are drinking kool-aid over it. - Fnord
Driod's lookin pretty cool right now - Jacob
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Live now: This Week in Google with Gina Trapani and Jeff Jarvis. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here..
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I am recovering from Halloween (Sunday morning)... Please talk quieter :P - Johnny Worthington
While you all are waiting to go on the air. A question for Jeff: What's really the common theme for your mediawonks-list on Twitter? - Gabriel
They also weren't doing a browser, an OS and a phone OS - Johnny Worthington
Discussing about Motorola Droid and other Andrioid related stuff today? - Gideon Guillen
google sites are acting up for me at the moment :s - Chriz
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 3407872) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/ginatrapani/completewaveguide.com/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 1101 on completewaveguide.com - Atul Arora
"Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/ginatrapani/completewaveguide.com/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 2625" - Don Bonaddio
The pitfall of fast media propagation, is not being able to properly verify the information propagated and its consequent risk of the spread of potentially inaccurate information... - Ciro
GOOD SHOW HAAPY HOLLOW WEEN EVRY 1 TRICK OR TREAT - daveccorey
google.com/music - Don Bonaddio
Doesn't work in Canada (Google Music) - tytycoon
Tease: Coming up on This Week in Google, Eric Schmidt predicts the web's next five years, a Google maps mystery, and Gina makes a big announcement. - Leo Laporte
what was the big announcement? - Mark
the published audio is only 30 minutes :( where's the rest? - Tom
Inspiring Show! I every much enjoyed your show last week, TWIG: 14. From 54:45 to 57:45 your conversation reached into the higher levels of Maslow's Hierarchy. Public discussions like one (and much more in bits and pieces throughout) are both special and important. I believe that changes in our society have made inspired work much more accessible. When people do what they love and love... more... - timapatterson
GOOD SHOW every things a ok in georgia - daveccorey
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Live now: Security Now 221 with Steve Gibson and guest John Graham-Cumming on why Javascript must die (http://www.jgc.org/blog...). http://live.twit.tv Discuss here....
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Tease: The problem with Javascript and security. Guest John Graham-Cumming says it's the "elephant in your browser." - Leo Laporte
Firefox closes 11 critical exploits: http://www.macnn.com/article... - Leo Laporte
Digital ants take on computer worms: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... - Leo Laporte
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round They all laughed when Edison recorded sound They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother When they said that man could fly - Mark
Yeah -- and we are all going to go back to using Lynx. - Brian Sullivan
adobe can make a PDF viewer 200MB and five thousand files on the hard drive somehow - Mark
When I use Spinrite I get an error "Division Overflow Error!" :( - Mark
Funny I was just thinking about Security Now! today imagining Steve Gibson would be having a field day with the Twitter viruses etc. - James Robertson
Audible Pick: More Information Than You Require UNABRIDGED By John Hodgman Narrated by John Hodgman, Dick Cavett, Jonathan Coulton, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robin Goldwasser, Rachel Maddow http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte
You look like you're Riverdancing Leo - Johnny Worthington
LEOS AUDIOS UP VEDIOS DOWN HI AMBER - daveccorey
351 NOW WNOW VEDIOS AND AUDIOS ON THAT MAKES NO CENTS - daveccorey
I also "hate Adobe" especially Flash, but also anybody who installs crap with no opt-outs - midnightgolfer
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Live now: Windows Weekly 129 with Paul Thurrott, Ed Bott, and Kirsten Sanford. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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Ed Bott joins us to discuss Windows 7 upgrades ... and I think we finally have answers Upgrade scenarios and tips Feedback from Microsoft ... And some apologies - Leo Laporte
I've heard that Microsoft only holds activation information for somewhere around 45-90 days. Any confirmation or truth to this? - Steve Mesik
I wonder how much of Microsoft's revenue comes from the desktop OS vs Office, SQL Server, Exchange, etc. and what'd happen if they just gave away the OS... - Ken Sheppardson
I remember the biggest fear was that Microsoft could remotely "deactivate" Windows and charge for continued use or require a recurring subscription payment. - Steve Mesik
$5 Vista + 7 Upgrade < 7 Full. Sounds like a deal for PC builders - Steve Mesik
Windows 7 off to a record start - Leo Laporte
Microsoft lowers prices on hosted Exchange To better compete with Google Apps Also improves the service - Leo Laporte
Do we have any info yet on corporate adoption of Windows 7? Is the "wait for the first service pack" conventional wisdom still holding up this time around, or are institutions jumping on 7? - Ken Sheppardson
Are we talking about Microsoft-hosted Exchange or third party hosting? I used to have third party hosting before I jumped to Gmail. Their pricing was (and still is) ~$10/mo pre user for a min of 3 users e.g. http://www.intermedia.net/exchang... What pricing's been lowered? - Ken Sheppardson
Audible pick of the week: Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta "In Googled, esteemed media writer and critic Ken Auletta uses the story of Google's rise to explore the inner workings of the company and the future of the media at large. Although Google has often been secretive, this book is based on the most extensive cooperation ever granted a journalist, including... more... - Leo Laporte
Tip of the week: Make the Windows 7 Upgrade media work every single time http://www.winsupersite.com/win7... Rundown of advice from Microsoft about installing with Upgrade media - Leo Laporte
Software pick of the week: SkyDrive Explorer "SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer." Sort of. At least 25 people recommended this tool this week http://tinyurl.com/skydriv... - Leo Laporte
Software pick of the week #2: Connectify Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a wireless hotspot Enables a feature that was supposed to be included in Windows 7 but was dropped Bad news: It doesn't work with all wireless hardware Thanks to Steve Moore for the tip http://www.connectify.me/ - Leo Laporte
Hypirony - Ken Sheppardson
Tease: Paul Thurrott and Ed Bott gnaw the Windows 7 upgrade bones and we've got a rare Windows 3.11 tip. - Leo Laporte
Good show hi from georgia - daveccorey
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@ Club One Petaluma ! Spinning plates - Leo Laporte
Are you on retainer with these guys? You should be--I can count on a (what is it on FriendFeed, a fondle? something like that, I imagine) twice a week from Clbu One Petaluma. Not dissing you or COP, but I think you may need to broaden your horizons a bit. (I know, running the This Week In Tech Nobody Uses and the rest of your empire leaves little time for picking and choosing.) - Pierce Presley
vive l'emperor! - lori lebeau-walsh
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Live now: MacBreak Weekly with Andy Ihnatko and Alex Lindsay. http://live.twit.tv Discuss here....
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Overview of Apple's New iPod Touch-Based EasyPay Retail Store Checkout System http://www.macrumors.com/2009... - sunkenplanet
Apple’s iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 a Month http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/2009110... - sunkenplanet
China Unicom Reports Only 5,000 New iPhone Users Since Launch http://www.macrumors.com/2009... - sunkenplanet
27-inch iMacs having performance issues? http://www.engadget.com/2009... - sunkenplanet
Apple Introduces Apple TV 3.0 Software With Redesigned User Interface http://www.apple.com/pr... - sunkenplanet
Aperture X Before Year's End http://www.hardmac.com/news... - sunkenplanet
Analyst: Apple Executives Share Thoughts on e-Book Market, iPhone Profits http://www.macrumors.com/2009... - sunkenplanet
Apple Tablet Incoming? Engineer Ramps Up Travels to China (AAPL) http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-e... - sunkenplanet
Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy http://apple.slashdot.org/story... - sunkenplanet
Adobe Getting Snarky Over Flash on iPhone - http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009... - James
For September, Book-Related Apps Overtook Games On iPhone http://apple.slashdot.org/story... - sunkenplanet
Chinese Supplier: We’ve Got iPhone 4G Parts, Pictures - http://gizmodo.com/5395679... & http://www.chinaontrade.com/apple-i... - James
Well, Quicktime went from 7 to X in snow leopard. haha - sunkenplanet
goodd show hi from ga do u know if theres any defrence in the aliean computers 4 better or worst cents dell took over - daveccorey
Apple rejects Macworld iPhone Superguide from App Store... for using the word 'iPhone' - http://www.engadget.com/2009... - James
Audible Pick: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism UNABRIDGED By Ross King Narrated by Tristan Layton http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte
Hacker attempts to extort Dutch iPhone owners - http://www.macnn.com/article... - James
Newly discovered Safari bug could mean big fees for some iPhone users - http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009... - James
That is so crazy. lol - sunkenplanet
Alex's Pick: Squarespace for the iPhone http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... - Leo Laporte
Andy's Pick: Salling Media Sync syncs your iTunes songs and photos to your phone http://www.salling.com/MediaSy... - Leo Laporte
Leo's pick: TWiT for iPhone/iPod Touch http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... - sunkenplanet
Tease: Andy reviews the Droid, Apple rejects the iPhone, and Adobe gets snarky. - Leo Laporte
anyone have 1st hand accounts of new 27" iMac in use? - franzstehrn from iPhone
good show hi from ga - daveccorey
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Live now: The Daily Giz Wiz with Mad Magazine's Maddest Writer, Dick DeBartolo @thegizwiz. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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11/9 Mon 956: DockTunes http://tuffdocksystems.com Audible: More Expertise Than You Require by John Hodgman - Leo Laporte
11/10 Tue 957: Mystery gadget - Leo Laporte
11/11 Wed 958: Twitter Peek http://twitterpeek.com - Leo Laporte
11/12 Thu 959: Honeywell Germ Free Cool Mist Humidifier http://www.honeywellcentral.com/product... - Leo Laporte
11/13 Fri 960: Bostaroo http://www.boostaroo.com/ Audible Pick: Sample Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break Unabridged By Sherri Shepherd Narrated by Sherri Shepherd http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte
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@ Starbucks (Downtown Petaluma) ! Trying all three holiday drinks - Leo Laporte
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Live now: Net@Night 125 with Amber MacArthur. htttp://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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In the effort for giving each side equal time, no vetting of if those people should be listened to is done - Johnny Worthington
81°F (27°C), sunny and Spring here in Brisbane :) - Johnny Worthington
Don't worry Amber... I can't get Foursquare either... *geo-grumble* - Johnny Worthington
It's elementary dear Watson! - Johnny Worthington
It's like pouring all your ad dollars into just TV or radio. You have to be where your customers are - Johnny Worthington
Los Fail Whale - Johnny Worthington
I follow lots of non-english speakers on FriendFeed because of the rich posts (great pictures etc). - Johnny Worthington
Leo, I was thinking the other day. How long until someone makes a 'slutty girls at my school' list and the media runs with it - Johnny Worthington
Does it come with a rag to wipe the pizza oil of your iPhone screen? - Johnny Worthington
Um... you can't have your phone on during the flight! Most people need it for take off and landing - Johnny Worthington
Do you get to keep your phone on during take off if you have this app? - Johnny Worthington
$100 AUD... 4000kbps down... 500kbps up... metered, slowed after 25GB - Johnny Worthington
John Mayer tech support call: http://gizmodo.com/5029743... - Leo Laporte
OK... that done it... I'm signing up (I've held out as long as I could) - Johnny Worthington
Leo... look deeper. - Johnny Worthington
It's not just tech - Johnny Worthington
Audible Pick: More Information Than You Require UNABRIDGED By John Hodgman Narrated by John Hodgman, Dick Cavett, Jonathan Coulton, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robin Goldwasser, Rachel Maddow http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte
"Sweden: Take a drink" - Johnny Worthington
can you get the Rockband robot to level my Tauren Shamen (World of Warcraft) to level 80? - echostreamer
Leo, in regards to FriendFeed and Robert's post, it's fair to say that he doesn't speak for the community nor is he a valid representation of a 'regular' user. If one person no longer finds value in a community, it does not mean that community is no longer valuable... Plus it was the Sunday after Halloween. Are we not allowed to have some fun? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
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Live now: This Week In Tech with Natali Del Conte @natalidelconte and Jason Calacanis @jason. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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Hi Leo - x5315
Welcome Natali! Hi Leo :) - Hector
First time I'm tuning in from the beginning of the show...I feel like I should skip this because I like to listen in the car. - Cassidy
Hello, Leo! - Nolan Alston
Hey everyone :) - Matthew Marley
How are we all ? - Matthew Marley
Cassidy... it's a different experience from the produced podcast - different, but good - Chris Heath
So when Leo starts publishing the edited videos on Roku and such, will we see the clock behind him skipping after each removed blooper? - Hector
Turn-by-turn is ok leo, but apple requires developers to provide their own maps :) - Lasse Reiersen-Gravdal
Apple just bought a map company though, maybe they're going to offer it. - x5315
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_... Wealth of Networks by Jochai Benkler, brilliant! - Leo Laporte
Is live.twit.tv up? It doesn't seem to load. And the bitgravity feed isn't loading in VLC either... - Rob Miller
No, there seems to be some issues. At least i'm having issues. - x5315
I just got the bitgravity feed working now in mplayer - Rob Miller
Darn, have to wait until next week now to hear about the twitmobile. - Rob Miller
buonasera @natali ;) and ciao to @jason mohamed ali calacanis :-p - alex
Had to stop watching the live feed, has he said what his car is yet? - Matthew DeVries
next week on the car - cxx dxx
This week's friend feed thread was very sparse... People are leaving in droves. - Hector
Great job! - Hector
Tease: This Week on This Week In Tech, Natali del Conte shows off her Droid, Jason Calacanis talks about SOX, and Patrick Norton fights for a free Internet. TWiT is next! - Leo Laporte
Here's my bet, though I'll lean out and say it's a droptop... http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Geoff Schaadt
good show leo GOOGEL WAVE 4 DUMBYS << - daveccorey
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Live now: The Tech Guy Radio Show with Leo Laporte. TWiT at 3p Pacific/2100 UTC with Natali DelConte, Patrick Norton and a player to be named later. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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GREAT SHOW LEO every yjings ok from georgia 2 day - daveccorey
Leo, i sent a delicious bookmark for:twit today (i see that you don't have many stories in there yet) - it's a great article about google's turn-by-turn navigation in android. i know you touched on it a little during TWiG yesterday, but this would be a good one for twit too. There's also some great info about teleatlas and navteq in there as well. I didn't know that tomtom and nokia bought them up or that goodle was going without their maps now. - Chris Heath
Did Leo reveal his new car yet? Sounds like he got one bad for the environment. I've very disappointed in him. - Fnord
I drive about 20 miles a week. How many do you drive? - Leo Laporte
what was the car? I was thinking it might be a Tesla - Mark
No it's a 17 mpg city car - not the best for the environment. I would never buy such a car if I commuted still, but I rarely go very far. - Leo Laporte
I heard him say what brand it was by accident last week. - Chris Heath
yeah 17mpg is shocking, but as you barely drive it doesn't really matter - Mark
leo is the twit tv channel going to work on tivo? as well as roku? - Jim Fuller
I am actually surprised they still make 17MPG cars though - Mark
Jim, he's said that it would eventually... it is something that twit wants to do (not sure if they're currently working to get that done though) - Chris Heath
I hope it's soon I would hate to have to buy a roku when I already have a tivo hd. - Jim Fuller
Leo, the twit-stories room http://friendfeed.com/twit-st... seems to have /twit/twit delicious source, and three others for specific shows 216-218 ... seems like just the /twit tag would be good enough, right? that would be a pain to have to add each show's delicious feed source to the room each week - Chris Heath
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Live now: Windows Weekly 128 with Paul Thurrott. http://live.twit.tv Discuss here....
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Tease: tackling the Windows 7 upgrade conundrum, office in the cloud, and bottom line security advice. - Leo Laporte
Item 1: Windows 7 Upgrade - The good, the bad, the ugly Some people are having problems I've been speaking with Ed Bott about this, and we're trying to work through it Microsoft is not helping, and they've actually accused people of breaking the law by clean installing Windows with Upgrade media. This is almost always completely wrong. The issue: Microsoft fooled people into buying... more... - Leo Laporte
I had W7 beta on my PC (purchased originally with Vista native), purchased the full RC and did a clean install. No problems other than having to reinstall some apps. - Christopher Gambol
OK, I hope you bring this back around to what we're actually supposed to do... I'm going to be installing one of my 3 Amazon-purchased upgrade licenses on a rebuilt desktop this weekend--from which I've already wiped XP to install the RC--on a new, clean disk... what is it Microsoft wants me to do? - Ken Sheppardson
You installed the RC, or you installed the purchased version, Christopher? - Ken Sheppardson
Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously. http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs... - Leo Laporte
On a related note RE Win 7 install... I actually emailed Paul on this... if I have a 30GB SSD and a 1TB+ hard drive, what's the optimal way to install Windows 7? Put everything on the SSD and use the HDs just for data, i.e. the "Users" directory? Put "Program Files" on the HD? Install to the hard drive and just use the SSD for pagefile.sys or something?... - Ken Sheppardson
...is it even worth it to mess with a split config like this? Hard drives are getting bigger, small SSDs are cheap... - Ken Sheppardson
Ken - sorry I should specify. I installed the purchased final version (pre purchase through Microsoft store and downloaded) on top of the RC. Did I get that right? I had Vista, then got the W7 beta and did a clean install. - Christopher Gambol
I always have separate Windows and Data partitions or drives. I usually make a separate partition for the pagefile and temp files as well. But don't use an SSD for the pagefile - it will burn it out prematurely. I put Windows and Programs on an SSD and data/temp files/pagefile on a mechanical drive. - Leo Laporte
So is RC or beta to Window 7 production is considered an upgrade? Hmm.. - Ken Sheppardson
I've historically always had a D: partition for "Data"... not putting the pagefile on the SSD is a good tip. Thanks, Leo ... I wish there were a guide for doing this somewhere... maybe on some sort of super Windows site... ;-) I'd have to think a small SSD + big HD is going to be a more and more common machine config. - Ken Sheppardson
You are going to run into the same problem when your HD dies and you bought the Upgrade version. Now you mostly likely not going to have old media. - Philip Griego
Ken - I kept hearing and reading Paul's advice that a clean install was better than an upgrade. So for $50 I got the full W7 production software and installed it. It works very well.... absolutely no problems aside from having to reload some games and apps. - Christopher Gambol
I just came across this while reading about net neutrality, and I think it applies here as well: - Steve Mesik
Seems to me Microsoft should be giving away the OS, so they can sell more copies of Office. Razor/razorblade thing. But that's a bigger convo. :-) - Ken Sheppardson
Thank god we have people like Paul, that are willing to sort through this situation; even though it's his given profession. - mark dekruyter
If you do a "Custom" install, but don't format your drive and setup creates a backup of your Windows folder, does it delete "Program Files" and other installation-created directories that contain non-Microsoft data? - Steve Mesik
All these requirements for a previous version somewhere are BS. Either let me enter the key for a version that's eligible for upgrade or worst case let it validate off media. - Ken Sheppardson
Item 2: Windows 7 and the wider ecosystem Windows isn't just Windows That's why I cover more in my book And now Microsoft has what it calls "Signature Software" - Leo Laporte
Item 3: LA dumps Microsoft for Google Apps - Leo Laporte
Item 4: Office 2010 public beta in November - Leo Laporte
Item 5: Twitter coming to Microsoft, Google search Facebook coming to Microsoft - Leo Laporte
OneNote synced with Live Mesh: best combination ever. - Steve Mesik
Anyone have the BlackBerry Storm with OS 5.0? It has GREATLY improved my Storm's performance. The spruced-up UI graphics are nice too. And RIM FINALLY added flick scrolling (about time!); it works well, though a bit less smooth than on the iPod Touch. - Thunderwing
Audible Pick: You Only Live Twice Unabridged By Ian Fleming Narrated by Simon Vance http://www.audible.com/adbl... Another great James Bond book. "When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasts into eternity the girl James Bond has married only hours before, the heart and zest for life goes out of Bond. Incredibly, from being a... more... - Leo Laporte
Tip of the week: Stay secure People have misunderstood my advice about just using common sense to be secure online. Here's what you can do. Install good AV. Enable automatic updates in Windows. Keep up to date. Be smart online. It doesn't have to be difficult. http://www.microsoft.com/securit... - Leo Laporte
Software pick of the week: Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD. http://store.microsoft.com/Help... Plus: Update on VLC vs. Media Player Classic Cinema - Leo Laporte
Leo's software pick: Ninite, http://ninite.com/ - Leo Laporte
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Live now: This Week In Computer Hardware with Ryan Shrout and Allyn Malventano of http://pcper.com. Farewell to UGM - our winner Gabe McG joins us to take posession. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here..
Item 1: Lynnfield system build: which graphics card should we use? High - Radeon HD 5870 - $389 Mid - Radeon HD 5850 - $259 Budget - GeForce GTX 260+ - $165 Budget-er - Radeon HD 5750 - $129 or Radeon HD 4850 - $99 - Leo Laporte
Item 2: Intel X25-M 'G2' TRIM Enabled Firmware and SSD Toolbox Review link for what allyn will discuss (IOPS) is here: http://www.pcper.com/article... And corresponding redaction of said firmware - Leo Laporte
Can't listen, but could Ryan/Allyn offer his opinion on the best overall SSD these days that's widely available (i.e. not the X25-M)? Is http://www.pcper.com/article... current? - Ken Sheppardson
Item 3: Intel and Numonyx announce vertical Phase Change Memory http://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte
Item 4: SATA 6G 6.0 Gb/s Performance Preview - Seagate XT drive tested http://www.pcper.com/article... - Leo Laporte
Item 5: ASUS previews upcoming MBs with USB 3.0 and SATA 6G http://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte
is the live stream down? - tytycoon
that show rocks - echostreamer
HI FROM GA - daveccorey
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Live now: FLOSS Weekly 93 with Randal Schwartz and guest, Puppet creator Luke Kanies of http://reductivelabs.com. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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Luke Kanies is the founder of the Puppet project and also founder and CEO of Reductive Labs. He's been speaking and publishing on open source and system administration for almost ten years. Prior to Puppet, he was a significant contributor to Cfengine, along with many perl modules and LDAP tools. He's also the father of identical twin girls and deserves every bit of the punishment they dish out. - Leo Laporte
Tease: replace your sysadmin with a little ruby pal, the puppermaster, Luke Kanies tells you how. - Leo Laporte
what the hell is this? - Mark
I just tuned in and I appear to have entered the twilight zone - Mark
You also need a bumper sticker "You have just been passed by the President Of The Internet" - Johnny Worthington
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Is that parked only in the TWiT cave/cottage? If so - I must go for a tour! - Courtney Engle
It is when I'm here! - Leo Laporte
Add it to @foursquare and it'll own the road :) - Roberto Bonini
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Live now: Security Now 220 with Steve Gibson, Q&A #78. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
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Firefox update today (for 3.0 and 3.5) http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US... - Leo Laporte
Time Warner's SMC 8014 router has a serious security flaw (affecting 65,000 users): http://www.privacydigest.com/2009... - Leo Laporte
The FCC's comment period on the Net Neutrality rules begins now through January. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_p... - Leo Laporte
Holy crap, the clock went back in England last week and I keep missing TWiT live by an hour - Mark
Is Internet Access a human right? It is in Estonia, Finland, France, and Greece. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008... - Leo Laporte
Amazon Kindle owners read 300% more books: http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Leo Laporte
I'd read more books if I had to spend hundreds of dollars on a bookshelf before I was able to read a single page of a book. - Mark
Question [ 01 ] - Marv Schwartz at Case Western Reserve University commented about the Mozilla/Firefox PlugInCheck: Hey Steve, By now, you probably already know that in order to get www.mozilla.com/plugincheck to work with NoScript, you have to allow both www.mozilla.com and www.mozilla.org. Thanks again for your wonderful SecurityNow programs. Marv - Leo Laporte
Question [ 02 ] - Paul in "London, Ontario Canada" wonders about making online banking safer? Hello Steve and Leo. Long time listener and I love the show. You both are doing a great service and I appreciate your podcast every week. My question is that my bank is offering a program Rapport by Trusteer to help protect my online banking transactions. I was just wondering if you have any... more... - Leo Laporte
Questio [ 03 ] - Abhi Beckert in Cairns, Australia has a Mac OS "TEN" Tip... Hi Steve & Leo! Have you heard of the "ClickToFlash" plugin for Safari on the mac? It's a free/open source plugin which disables flash by default, replacing all flash objects in the page with a simple box, which you click to load the actual flash object. Apple has reported that flash causes more crashes under... more... - Leo Laporte
Flashblock does the same for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... - Leo Laporte
Quetion [ 04 ] - Paul in Lancaster, PA wonders about Custom Apps versus Commercial? Steve & Leo, The story of the Starbucks employee whose computer got infected by visiting a knitting site raised an interesting question for me: Is it better to write a web application like a forum or online store from scratch or to use an off- the-shelf system. The way I see it, custom apps allow the... more... - Leo Laporte
Question [ 05 ] - John in Baltimore, MD wonders about SSL Certificate Strength and Key Length... Steve, Our recently discussion of SSL and man-in-the-middle attacks got me thinking when recently I needed to update my website with a new SSL Web Server certificate that uses the 1024 key length. I noticed that both the Entrust Root CA and Intermediate CAs use the 2048 key lengths. My... more... - Leo Laporte
Question [ 06 ] - Lex Thomas in Research Triangle Park, NC is reminded of a Programmer's Adage from 1984: While reading some articles talking about the 'just released' Windows 7, and the imminent Ubuntu release, I stumbled upon an old programmer's adage which was attributed to Datamation magazine: “The activity of debugging, or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of... more... - Leo Laporte
Question [ 07 ] - Tim Lemmon in Atlanta, Georgia tried giving Disney the knuckle... Steve. My family went to Disney World 3 years ago. When entering any of the theme parks, we had to swipe our membership card, AND scan our index finger for entry. Then I heard one of your podcasts about this subject. I always said I'd try my knuckle if I ever went back. Last week, we did... The entrance... more... - Leo Laporte
Question [ 08 ] - Eric, reporting from an undisclosed location, asks about Port knocking, SSH security and Security Now... Hello Steve, Your show is great, I have been listening since you first started putting out this podcast series and I am so glad that you have been doing it. Thanks! I am at a University and recently had someone hack in to my SSH server (I was using freeSSHd for... more... - Leo Laporte
Question [ 09 ] - Joe Dorward in Berkshire, England realized that the free internet access at the British Library might not be safe ? Steve, PS - if Leo reads this - I'm a Scot living in England who doesn't mind him doing his Scottish accent to read this. ☺ I was at the British Library in London last week, and there were people everywhere with laptops. Very few had books open, and I... more... - Leo Laporte
Question [ 10 ] - Eric Nichols in Odessa, DE brings us the Security Disaster of the Week: Subject: FIOS WEP crack - no packet sniffing necessary I've been a long time listener and heard a rumor that the ESSID of a FIOS access point is actually a packed version of the MAC address of it's network interface. It's a neat way of generating unique ESSID's. However they should have stopped... more... - Leo Laporte
Tease: Steve answers questions about protecting open wi-fi access, Disneyland knuckleheads, and a new way to secure your bank account. - Leo Laporte
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@ Club One Petaluma ! Pilates and spin - Leo Laporte
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Live now: net@night with Amber MacArthur and guest Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl!!! http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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News of the week Internet domain names face big change http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldse... The internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in non-Latin script. - Leo Laporte
Geocities shuts down http://www.pcworld.com/article... Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 for $3.57 billion in stock, but the deal didn't go well, as new terms of service placed on users sent many of them scurrying. Facebook memories of friends departed When an account is memorialized, we also set privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or... more... - Leo Laporte
What about ICANN auto-forwarding? - Johnny Worthington
RE: Domains: That is very interesting. I wonder what THAT will do to SEO? - Karma Martell
I drank a small toast to Geocities on Monday night - Johnny Worthington
5 billion and a Segway - Johnny Worthington
It's a Linguistics Smackdown... Whom shall emerge the victor? - Johnny Worthington
I love Grammer Girl; now I use semi-colons with pride and accuracy. #ChrisGambol60 - Christopher Gambol
Is there a potential market for a freelance copy editors for blogs? I have read a few that could need it :) - Johnny Worthington
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There is Johnny, if you want to work for $15/hour for 3 hours day and get up at 5 AM. - Karma Martell
I do that too Leo... I make a point of it - Johnny Worthington
Ahhhh this it too funny Leo...I, as you know, work at a University and the students actually use lol in papers...It is kind of sad - Bill Heslin
Is anyone reeeeeeally watching what they type so there is no grammatical errors? :) - Johnny Worthington
'i before e, except after c.... except in these cases' gets my goat - Johnny Worthington
No Johnny..they aren't, which is sad. I have students that email me about things they want on campus and I think I'm reading an 8 year old sending me the email. - Bill Heslin
The Tech Grouch - Johnny Worthington
Our guest: Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl. Her new book is "The Grammar Devotional" http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/static... - Leo Laporte
Sit or Squat App http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news... SitOrSquat can determine your location via GPS (if available) and show you a map of nearby toilets, drawn from an online global database of bathrooms maintained by other users. Selecting individual bathrooms brings up hours of availability, a basic rating for the discriminating type, and even user-submitted photos. - Leo Laporte
Best Halloween Costumes Ever http://mashable.com/2009... Four geeks from Tampa -- John Savio, John Matthews, Reko Rivera, and Bobby Hartman -- recently teamed up to create human-sized and, most impressively, functional iPhone costumes. Each costume weighs around 85 pounds, and is powered by a car battery worn, we're told, between the trick-or-treater's legs. Hooking... more... - Leo Laporte
Video of the Week - Grocery Store Musical http://viralvideochart.unrulym... - Leo Laporte
Hey, nothing wrong with that :) - Johnny Worthington
Colour? - Bill Heslin
Or Color? - Bill Heslin
We are wrong with most of our spelling in North America - Bill Heslin
He was drunk with power - Johnny Worthington
That was mostly for you Johnny ... LOL...from FFundercats that Josh gets on you about some of your spelling...and pronunciation...We are in the minority with spelling - Bill Heslin
Aussie's just plain bastardise the Queen's English... - Johnny Worthington
But it's so much fun...:) I Now order a flat white here in NJ and they just look at me like I'm a fool..and yes I might be, but, I make all those Starbucks fools understand coffee is much better in other places...And btw...Sydney coffee was the best I ever had... - Bill Heslin
Where is the headphone jack?... No, wait... don't tell me - Johnny Worthington
We're on vacation Bill... plus, there is proper ways to ask for Leo's time. Don't worry, we will but Fridays and Mondays are his time. - Johnny Worthington
hi good show from a suny day in ga finly - daveccorey
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