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Re: SpinVox dead, Nuance rumoured to be taking control - http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009...
"At least we know Nuance has technology that might actually get the job done. The Dragon Dictation app on the iPhone is amazing!"
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Happy Thanksgiving Mobilitysite! - http://www.mobilitysite.com/2009...
"They didn't charge for domain names (.com or otherwise) until 1995, which is shortly after they allowed "commercial" traffic on the Internet. Of course, back in those days, registration took weeks instead of hours :)"
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: iPhone 3GS refurbs - http://www.iphonemvp.com/2009...
"The problem is not the price of the hardware, it's the $80/mo 2-year commitment you have to make in order to get it. Knocking a few bucks off the price of the hardware won't substantially drive iPhone ownership."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Boingo unable to deliver because of rubbish Italian infrastructure - http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009...
"I had the same problem in Israel at the hotel I've stayed at. What's worse is that they couldn't even keep their own auth servers up, much less provide reliable access to roamers. However, I found iPass worked a lot better than Boingo did at this particular location."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Give Thanks With A Free 16GB Sandisk MicroSD Card - http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome...
"I am thankful for the health of my family and friends."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Happy Thanksgiving Mobilitysite! - http://www.mobilitysite.com/2009...
"Scary to think how long I've been putting out dreck on the Internet on phoneboy.com. Registered it back in the days where you could register domains for free. Those days are sure long gone :)"
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Poll: Are you happy with AT&T? - http://www.iphonemvp.com/2009...
"As much as I rag on AT's lack of coverage, my day-to-day experience with AT is improving. I'm seeing some benefit from the 850Mhz 3G rollout, not to mention expanded 3G in places where I am most often. Of course, I still drop calls and switch to EDGE periodically. I also run into capacity issues with different cell sites. It's not perfect by any stretch, but it is getting better."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: 50 in 50 Day 22 – Tweetie 2 - http://www.iphonemvp.com/2009...
"I stopped with using Twitter apps on the desktop for the most part as I really only like it from a mobile phone. If I need to do something from my desktop, I'll just use the Twitter website."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: 50 in 50 Day 22 – Tweetie 2 - http://www.iphonemvp.com/2009...
"You keep multiple Twitter clients on your iPhone too? I thought I was the only one who did that. Mostly just do it for troubleshooting as Tweetie pretty much kicks everything else's ass."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: 50 in 50 Day 22 – Tweetie 2 - http://www.iphonemvp.com/2009...
"Definitely want list support now that I'm starting to go through my followers, make lists, and widdle down my core follower list :)"
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: 50 in 50 Day 22 – Tweetie 2 - http://www.iphonemvp.com/2009...
"The interface on TwitBird Pro doesn't do it for me. It's ok. I picked it up when it was (briefly) free. I will see what version 2.0 of TwitBird Pro brings and am also looking forward to Tweetie 2.1 as Tweetie has its place on my homescreen."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Nokia’s legal action potentially massively damaging to their reputation - http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009...
"While it looks like sour grapes on the part of Nokia, let's be clear how this will play out: after Apple's and Nokia's lawyers go round and round on this topic for several months, they will come to agreement. Apple will pay some lump sum to Nokia and come to some royalty agreement where Apple will pay Nokia a small percentage on each handset sold. In short: nothing appreciable changes for us, the end users of said product, except the price. You know Apple will find a way to pass that extra cost onto us, the consumers."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Calling all Nokia & Symbian geniuses: Am I wrong? - http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009...
"Ewan, this rant is epic and spot on. The Symbian platform, as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and others have put out, is fragmeted. Operator variants make this problem worse. While the iPhone has it's own faults from a development point of view, namely Apple's position as gatekeeper, the end user experience is fantastic. Normobs actually WANT an iPhone versus settling for the latest free-with-contract Nokia."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Looking at Vox Sciences - http://thereallymobileproject.com/2009...
"I thought Mr. Whatley didn't work for Spinvox anymore? Shouldn't the disclaimer be updated accordingly?"
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: Hello from the Blue Boar, Billericay - http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009...
"My wife would have an iPhone if not for one thing: The $80/mo ball and chain that goes with it ($40 voice plan + $30 data plan + taxes). The same can be said for a number of people I know."
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Re: How to tether your iPhone 3G’s data/wifi connection - free - http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009...
"This is brilliant, Ewan, thanks for finding and posting about this. Don't have my iPhone yet (and my other phone will be a Nohkeeya), but I suspect this will be useful to me very very soon :)"
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Finding twitter less and less interesting as its gone mainstream. Twitter addiction broken? Ok so what's new and cutting edge now?
Friendfeed? :)
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Blah. FF is worse than Twitter has ever been. Ppl complain about twitter noise, yet FF's noise far outweights any Twitter haa ever had making it utterly useless.
- Matthew J Stevens
I was, of course, being facetious. :)
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Twitter is sick and not in a good way. No updates in the web interface other than my own for the past 40 mins. Updates to FF WAY slow.
Yup, clients are horked, too. FAIL!
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Today is the 11th anniversary of the launch of TechTV. R.I.P.
woddfellow2, Arnold, Ian Bulock and 105 other people liked this
I still miss it. :(
- Eva
I really miss TechTV, It was a great channel!
- Chuck Drake
I miss it too, Leo. TWiT on, dude.
- Steve Smyth
I miss it as well. In specific Screensavers. Never missed it.
- Juan Hernandez
My favs were Call for Help, Screensavers & Fresh Gear...
- Bwana ☠
Good to see Sumi Das on Fine living doing the gadget thing still
- Bwana ☠
I miss old school TechTV. Call For Help and Screensavers were great!
- John Burke
Man, I miss ZDTV/TechTV so much. I learned so much watching the original Call for Help and Screensavers shows.
- Matt Thompson
Wow 11 years? I was 13... time flies
- Shawnee
The only problem with TechTV was that there was your show then about 11 hours of bull shit.
- Logan Hall
I learned so much from Call for Help and the Screensavers. TWiT is the best.
- Nestor
I don't miss the FilterFresh coffee, the Cafe Moda prices, or the unccoperative building security. But that's about it.
- Tom Merritt
I miss the old screen savers!! It was the reason I got the extra channels from comcast.
- Shawn Taylor
Now we have Leo TV. Can there be too much of a good thing? No.
- Daniel Buckley
I had the pleasure of working with some of the talent from the shows during the TechTV Digital Digs tour a few years back. Good Times!
- Mark Gifford
i have a picture with you and Patrick from one of the events. and also a TechTV laptop bag. :)
- John Wang
Daniel if you can't stop watching you could be addicted to the life of leo :P
- FW
today as in May 11 or May 12?
- David Damore
Friends of mine, who I didn't know at the time, and I still talk about watching the Screensavers in early high school, and how it turned us to a life of geek.
- Nick Ciervo
My husband and I still miss it. Please bring it back (or convince CNET to do so. *sniff*
- Helen Sventitsky
from twhirl
TechTV > g4tv
- JT
Screen Savers should be on NBC at 8PM!
- William
Ah yeah, the good ol' days. I still miss the screensavers and x-play (yes, I know it's still on, but it's been f'd over by G4 to the point of being unwatchable) So many great memories of screen savers when it was live... I still laugh at patrick + hammer + IBM glass substrate disk drive = kaboom. :))
- Chris Abbey
Dang, I'm still mourning the loss of "The Site."
- Sue Radd
I still wait for the resurrection!!!
- Scott Graham
I found Tech TV on Dish Network in the Fall of 1998. I loved Tech TV. Then G4 killed it. But Leo and Revision 3 recreated it.
- George Brickner
I miss Tech TV. Best television for its day.
- Ken Barrango
Shawn: Same here. Also got extra channels so I could watch Tech TV.
- Sue Radd
Ahh, good times, good times.
- Gordon Alley
Foxtel had it in Oz for about 8 months before it was canned by G4. Was certainly a staple.
- clearcut
According to that, I must have been 8 when it launched and didn't get it until 2001 I believe. I truly thank you guys for helping me go forward with my tech interest. Thanks Leo and the TechTV'ers! TSS and Call for Help forever! :D
- Chris
dang! i was 6, 11 years ago! that's when it all started for me! becoming and developing into the tech nerd i am today! has it really been that fast?!
- Kevin
Why, in this day of MTV8, Food2, and Military History Channel, can we not have something the even resembles TechTV. I got the "expanded digital" package from Comcast way back in the day just for TechTV. Wasn't Chris Pirillo and you working to get something similar onto the interwebs?
- Antonio Yon
Still Leo, I think the TechTV crowd has truly moved on to many good things though, between TWiT, Revision3, and others.
- Chris
Those were the day I reminisce. Screen Savers was the best.
- William Doom
sad, but i enjoy the content the ex-tech tvers are putting out more than anything they could release on a cable network
- TenderLovePony
R.I.P indeed. It encouraged and helped to shape my geekyness into what it is today. :(
- Crystal Tillman
Dev Null, Dont worry, Tech tv had babies and one which we love is Twit Tv!
- Josef
Well we know the last day of ZDTV when was the First?
- Heath J.
I miss TechTV. It was on channel 64 here and when we got YES network (which I love) TechTV got dropped from the lineup. Then Comcast bought them and killed it...ugh it's good to see the stars from there made their own sites and continue the tech talk online.
- Michael Coogan
I miss it every day... and have the sticker to show my love: http://twitpic.com/50tdo
- grungyparadigm
Wow, that is a long time ago now. I never got to see many of those shows, but what I saw I remember well.
- Micah Wittman
Loved TechTV. Screensavers ruled.
- Jerry Longbine
I miss TechTV. :'(
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Used to watch all the time. RIP indeed.
- Stan Augustyniewicz
::tear::
- Amber, Random Time Lord
and nothing can ever replace it
- Joseph
I miss Tech TV so much. I miss the Screen Savers, Call for Help, and other shows that aired on Tech TV.
- Sreyeesh
While I like the old TechTV/ZDNet shows, I like what's replaced it just fine. Long live the TWiT Network!
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
You know, up until recently I'd actually forgotten about it. Thank goodness my Dad had DirectTV back then, I was able to watch it even in Westhope ND, of all places..
- J L Ford
But what would I listen to in the car if Tech TV hadn't died?
- Matt Agnello
TechTV was great, especially The Screen Savers. And the TSS Holiday marathons!!!!
- MuscleNerd
TechTV was all I watched in high school. I was so sad when G4 shredded it to pieces... Well at least now I have TWiT and revision3
- Brian Lamb
i really miss Unscrewed and all the shorter shows though i did watch TSS and C4H all the time as well, hey Leo you should let martin bring back Unscrewed and have the Swisher be his cohost, that'd be EPIC
- Will
TechTV.. It was good " Television "
- johnny
been that long?
- Daniel CerVentus
Going to drop G4tv. I barely watch it. It's just never been the same.
- Eva
I miss Screensavers and Fresh Gear, but I also love Attack of the Show. X-Play is a problem child... the talent is outstanding, but the format has been jacked with so much that it's hard to watch.
- Roger Benningfield
For a brief moment, the television taught us about it's replacement, before awakening to the reality of it's own doom. (The Screensavers was terrific!)
- Chris Cox
ZDNet/TechTv on DirectTV. Was the best, too bad they couldn't fill up 24 hours a day with programming. The Thing about the Screensavers is that it was hugely entertaining in addition to informative. Right now, TwiT is informative but doesn't have the polished feel that broadcast tv or some of the Revision3 shows have. This isn't bad, just different.
- Steve Helder
loved screen saver & call for help, we used to get it in Abu Dhabi. Was so glad when I got an ipod a few years ago that you started TWiT.
- Iain Clydesdale
Join the chorus of those who miss. Leo, from another old guy liberal arts major who worked in radio and became a self-taught techie to another, thanks for blazing the trail.
- Greg Wilson
I discovered TechTV in early 2003 when I was home recovering from some minor surgery. Got hooked on Call for Help, The ScreenSavers and Fresh Gear. I was just "learning" to make my way around the PC and these shows were incredibly helpful. I really miss those programs! Thanks to Leo for carrying on with TWiT.
- Grace Adams
I very much miss TechTV.
- Sean Brady
I was 8 at the time- it's been a while. And we should def put TSS on NBC at 9:00- better ratings than they have right now!
- Jake Bechtold
I certainly do miss a channel with the kind of programming ZDNet/TechTV carried....especially the shows you were involved with Leo. Now TWiT is the place to be!
- Chad Specht
Best. Channel. Ever.
- Chris Luckhardt
Tech TV was like porn for geeks.
- Bryan Warman
Damn you G4!
- Alex Scrivener
It was ahead of its time.
- Bill Hertzing
would be great if the old show were put on-line somewhere best dam tech tv ever!
- Alan Abentrod
I really liked the old TechTV. I watched Screen Savers regularly.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
I still remember the day I learned of the beginning of the end... all I could think was, "Poop!", and, "That Morgan Webb chick will never make it as a show host". Keep the TWiT going, Leo!
- Mike Patterson
I still to this day feel a void at 7PM my time when The Screen Savers used to come on, but I make up for it by tuning into twitlive.tv and everything feels a little better. Besides, TV was so 1999 anyways!
- Mike Lewis
I miss The Screensavers soooooooo much!
- Howard Tyson
I miss TechTv also but With it gone we are getting better content and more of it than ever. Also it is from the best. Like Leo, Patrick, Kevin, And Alex I think It was for the best
- Josh Wagner
Yeh, I miss it too but the projects coming out of that (TWIT) are terrific!!!!!!!!
- MarK
So sad, I also miss Computer Chronicles. Oops, I just aged myself!
- Brad Stolba
miss TechTV. remember coming home to watch it everyday.
- (jeff)isageek
Eventually Leo is going to make Comcast regret what they did to TechTV ... plain and simple
- John Blanton
from twhirl
Are you including the ZDTV time too? I remember watching that on C-Band satellite.
- Chuck Adams
Yeah but G4 is so much better /sarcasm
- Andrew Johnson
I would miss it, but I like TWIT and Revision3 better :).
- Mikey Rollins
Leo Laporte = Cool, Kate Botello = Hot, those were the days!
- Dan H.
I like techtv since the 1st day i got it 1-1-2000 , i miss it , if it was not for techtv (zdtv) i would have never gotten a computer
- shaun owens
We all miss the good shows that we had on TechTV
- Milford C. Hutsell III
you interviewed my daughter Kristen about a driver training software product. This guy named Ed kept warning her to check her mirrors. So now she always checks her mirrors. Ed meant well.
- bill
I still have Silicon Spin mug. Treasured.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Le *sigh*
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Never understood why G4 fired everyone at TSS, changed the name and revamped the whole show. Why not just keep TSS and start a new show?
- dthree
you all were the best.
- Nathan Brown
I so miss TSS and CFH. I also miss Silicon Spin (but Cranky Geeks makes up for it), Fresh Gear (Oh, that Jim Louderback was sooo easy on the eyes!) but seriously, I think I really miss CFH but thank G-d for TWiT.
- Anita Pesola
Whatever happened to Stewart Chiefet?
- Kenneth F Jones
I miss TechTV also Leo!
- Luke
Techtv was what got me into computers, it will always be remembered and missed.
- Hardeep
I miss Paul Block a fantastic producer for the show I knew, introduced me to everyone b4 they were "net famous".
- adolfo foronda
what great times those were...
- Scott A. Swiecki
I still miss coming home, turning on The Screen Savers and finding out the latest on Tech. Watch Fresh Gear and Call For Help... sigh... Thank God for TWiT.tv Hey leo, when will you have Cat Schwartz on TWiT?
- Arnold
g4 sucks. oh techtv i want u back.
- cliper53
My my how time flies
- John Blake
I guess I'll use FriendFeed while Twitter is down, but I'm still trying to figure out why I would otherwise. Where's the mobile support?
Would love to see an S60 client for FF
- Ken O'Kelly
Yeah, something like that is needed. A bad mobile experience means I won't use it often.
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer: The Extended Daily Show Interview | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central - http://is.gd/n9GC
Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart went toe-to-toe last night. It was just like Ali-Foreman, only with more head trauma. But you didn't see everything. Much of the interview had to be cut for time. But this is the internet, where all we have is time.
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Jaikido Blog | Upcoming service break - http://www.jaiku.com/blog...
Jaiku is a phone book that displays the real-time presence and location of your contacts.
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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