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Show #117
Posted by Derek Alfonso in Shows on February 14, 2009
News
- M$ because the separate SKU’s are a pureplay for money
- Why ruin your great marketing push by muddying the water with too many SKU’s
- People just want clarity and knowledge that they chose the right thing
- The blogs are screaming that the end is near
- Filing for bankruptcy, 3.4 billion in debt
- Satellite airtime is waaay expensive
- reliant upon new car sales, economy tanking = less sales = less subscribers
- Insider Information: Sirius XM looking to restructure and cut costs but don’t plan to go out of business
- Public release now closed
- Microsoft mentions that they are near a “Release Candidate” but give no mention
- Still available if you’re an MSDN or Technet subscriber
- 3G wireless, Cloud Friendly (backups to cloud and syncing), Thinner than IPhone, 16 shades of grey, 2GB Storage, mini USB Charging, Longer battery life (2 weeks), Pleasant Text to Speech, 5-way button navigation instead of the old up-and-down wheel.
- Downside: $357, Proprietary system (.AZW), Doesn’t support MobiPocket or PDF’s, 1 Device Forever Amen… (blech). At least Zunes and IPods can play non-proprietary .mp3′s
- Interesting Comparison vs. standard EBooks
- Chart for Comparison’s Found Here
- Hacking: Reading Encrypted Mobibooks on Kindle Devices
- Competitors: Cybook (supports mobipocket ebooks: specs , $325), SONY PRS-505 (all formats, new books only from sony store which is nascent, no wireless, $299)
- FREE EBOOKS FOR KINDLE (maybe move this to next week on a how-to)
- Make sure you have a usb keyboard and mouse handy
- Backup your PS3 to a USB drive (save games, user preferences, etc)
- Sync your Trophies with the server
- Go get a version of Ubuntu 8.10 and make sure you burn the alternate install disc to DVD
- Settings -> System Settings -> Install Other OS automatically installs a dual booter
- Plop the DVD into the cd tray and just follow most of the defaults
- Pair your Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with the system (keyboard will be problematic but MX1100 should happen automatically with the bluetooth utility)
- Grab Sixaxis Bluetooth Package.tar.gz and unzip it on your Ubuntu desktop.
- Double click to install the packages inside, first the “bluez-sixaxis-bin_powerpc.deb” package and then the one named “bluez-sixaxis_rc1.1_all.deb.
- Applications -> Accessories -> Sixaxis-gui to enable your sixaxis.
- Now you have fully working Ubuntu on your machine
- Remember that all X86 packages won’t work because it’s a cell processor but the SNESX emulator can (see our show notes for instructions on this)
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Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- Last 4 Paragraphs, go look at all the links, This seems to be a pattern lately and we can talk about it.
- What is it (Reciprocal of Chinese New Year)
- Raid boss to kill
- Lots of coin collecting (75 total) and marching across the map to find the NPC’s that have the coins (think giant scavenger hunt)
Intarweb Goldmine
- Wobble boobs and booties on your IPhone
- How Much Does a Death Star cost?
- Crappy Buses Powered by Crap...
Show #116
Posted by Derek Alfonso in Shows on February 7, 2009
News
- less licenses available for the “free business plan” (down to 50 from 200)
- $50/year/user
- Not just competing with Microsoft’s Exchange
- Zoho
- Zimbra
- Oops! An accident involving Google and StopBadware.org started showing all sites with a small line that read, “This site may harm your computer” including all of Google’s own sites.
- Google has more details on their blog here and their on-line help.
- Share your location with your friends
- Lie about it to your enemies
Talk Points
- Wireless Charging: Is it really close to Fruition?
- Fusion Power Space Flight (maybe, Can we pull this one off?)
Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- NY Putting Lock and Key on Violent Games
- New Final Fantasy XIII Trailer
- 30 Lvl YouTube Game
- Actual MMORPG KOTOR Footage
Intarweb Goldmine
- 21 yr old jailed for 21 months after striking a person and killing them while texting
- 20 text messages in 2 hours plus various phone calls. Sent a text right before the crash
- Not the smartest thing to bring a camera stability platform that is shaped like a rifle into a war zone
- this guy was a soldier and embedded with soldiers though
- Valid applications for stability platform, photography of moving objects a lot easier
- Larping and Deer strike
- New link on our site because there’s nothing that Unicorns and Rainbows can’t cure…
(jacket can be found here)
(thank you ELR for digging these up and please leave Lucas frozen)
Show #115
Posted by Derek Alfonso in Shows on January 31, 2009
News
- Senate Delays Digital TV Switchover
- GMail Offline Support
- Cracked IWorks and CS4 for Apple Infected with Trojans
- Microsoft Releases IE 8 RC1
- InPrivate browsing (not save to History), InPrivate Filtering
- Compatibility view
- improved performance.
- IE8′s color-coded tab system
- improved address bar
- add-ons manager
- kill toolbars quickly
- http://www.faxzero.com (free fax from the Internet)
- Contact Info:
Warner Music Group
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019Phone:212-275-2000
Fax: 212-757-3985YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066 USAPhone: 650-253-0000
Fax: 650-253-0001Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Same as Youtube
Talk Points
- What is Microsoft doing right Marketing-wise with Windows 7?
- TV Switchover Debate
- Warner Music Backlash
Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- Dog killed by Wii-Mote strike
- Some cool Wiinjuries
- Microsoft Songsmith Destroys Music
- Starcraft class shows up at UC Berkeley
Show #114
Posted by Derek Alfonso in Shows on January 24, 2009
News
- Circuit City Blows it’s last fuse
- Filed for Bankruptcy last year – 2nd largest electronics retailer – 5-10% game sales
- Could not get a re-structure on its debts or find a buyer
- Even the liquidation sales sucked (10%,20%, good luck finding 30%)
- YouTube optimized for TV and YouTube experimenting with direct downloads
- TV optimization specifically targetted at PS3 and Wii, easier interface, etc
- Lots of plugins available that download files, but they are a bit cumbersome
- This allows select videos to have a “download now” link on the youtube page
- Obama speech was one of the firsts to get the feature
- Google Terminates 6 Services, Jaiku one of them
- Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku
- Jaiku to become open source
- Closed some offices (Austin, Norway, Sweden)
- 100 recruitment positions gone
- Twitter may have a new business model
- Jason Calacanis
- “Suggested Friends”
Talk Point
- Walk Down Memory Lane: Game Patents since 1969
- Let’s talk about the ones we remember
- Steven: Atari 2600, NES, Simon
Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- WoW Patch 3.0.8 Released
- First since Wrath of the Lich King published
- World of Warcraft now supports 3-D imaging.
- Lots of crashing on release day, Revolves around Wintergrasp
- Can now create Death Knight on any server if you have lvl 70 on account
Intarweb Goldmine
Show #113
Posted by Derek Alfonso in CES09, Shows, Video on January 17, 2009
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News
- very much like vista except apparently faster
- new taskbar icons
- Security alerts can be dialed back
- no more side bar for gadgets, everything on desktop
- quick view for desktop
- quick snap
- all-in-one media viewer
- 2 TerraByte SD Cards????
- ITunes DRM-Free Music not Share Safe
- email address embedded into ITunes Plus file
- Must pay 30 cents if you want to unlock your old DRM music
- LP’s making a comeback, double sales in 2008
- Is there really a quantifiable difference between CD and LP???
- Regardless, people are still digging the Vinyl
- Not your parent’s LP, The gauge is twice as thick for modern records
CES Stuff
- 3D, 3D, and more 3D
- Gaming: NVidia
- TV: Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony
- Cherple
- Also announced at CES
- Computer-to-Mobile 2-way Free Texting
Talk Point
- Let’s talk about the ones we remember
Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- DLC for Rock Band 2 needs a place to reside
- Retail = $13
- You don’t have to buy branded card for DLC to work, any SD card at or below 2 GB
- 2 GB cards go for around $10 or so on the open market
- 1UP Yours and 1UP Show Officially Dead
- FFXIII Site officially open
Intarweb Goldmine
- French Pilot Program
- Will text you warnings that your meter is low on money
- Sends message to police after 20 minutes alerting them that you are AFK
Show #112
Posted by Derek Alfonso in CES09, Shows, Video on January 9, 2009
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News
- HUGE ITunes Change
- DRM Gone, but so is the old pricing structure
- $1.29 for all new stuff, $.99 for moderate, $.69 for older stuff
- Sloppy work – Investigators would download music files from peoples computers and use that as evidence that they were file sharing, without confirming that the file had been in fact shared with anybody else other than the MediaSentry investigator.
- Tactic since 2003 and has spawned many Civil Right lawsuits
- RIAA quietly dropped the company and cites their winding down of “evidence collecting”
- RIAA states that they will be “measuring the popularity of various online entertainment sites” instead
- National News, a certain portion of the Gen 1 Zunes stopped working on NYD
- Source code subsequently leaked and here’s the detail explanation
- They didn’t account for leap year properly when day counting.
- Microsoft’s fix: Wait until Jan. 2
- Spirit landed on Jan 3, 2004 and sister, Opportunity, was 21 days later
- Only expected to function 30 days
- Both have driven over 12 and a half miles
- Uploaded 36 Gigabytes of data, 250 thousand photos
Consumer Electronics Show
- Samsung 7mm TV
- 150 inch TVs of course
- NBC coverage, first time a major broadcaster has been there
Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- TBD if there is anything noteworthy out there to discuss, kinda quiet
Intarweb Goldmine
- There’s a web comic out there from “PvPOnline” where one of the chars scares away a burglar by wearing a Thor costume
- Life Imitates Entertainment, rather than Vice Versa
- Man comes home, house being robbed, Wearing Thor costume from a halloween party, burglar sees him, gets scared, runs out of the house leaving his shoes.
- Tiny vibrations from the soundwaves of your voice can cause latency.
- Proven with a disk monitor
- Punchline: “Just like a woman, whisper sweet nothings to your HD and you might actually get farther…” (working on this)
FREE Stuff
Show #111
Posted by Derek Alfonso in Shows on January 2, 2009
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News
- Derek Explains how Text Messages work (no overhead)
- Europe currently doesn’t charge for Text Messages
- US mainstream finally questioning practice of charging
- The gift that keeps on giving….
- Mercury Digital 1.5″ Digital Photo Frame at Walmart
- http://www.virscan.org/report/ad3a216af3ba2c3a7d9369f85d884e35.html
- Trojans, Backdoors, etc. galore
- Samsung SPF-85H Sold through Amazon also infected
- Instead of suing consumers, forcing ISP’s to track and cut off offenders
- Not cheap to dig through gigs of logs and install packet sniffers
- ISP’s pushing back and asking RIAA to pay for costs
- Hearing Voices at the Store
- Directional Sound
- Entering the Country
- Without Probable Cause
- Attack the nation’s infrastructure
- Emergency Response Services
- Banks
- Electrical Grid
- Water
- AI
- Technology deciding we’re irrelevant
- Create a black hole at Earth’s surface?
- Material called strangelets.
- Back online June 2009
Tech Predictions of 2009
- Apple: Steve Jobs Step Down? / Hearing About the Next Gadget
- MS: Windows 7 Uphill Battle (has to erase bad Vista blood)
- MS: Web Office Launch head-to-head with Google Docs
- MS: E3 announce XBox720
- Google: Web Based GoogleOS
- Nintendo: Quiet Year / More Peripherals + Games
- Sony: PS4?
- Blu-ray make-or-break year
- Mobile devices will take over, Smartphones on crack
- Twitter will go away or need to find money
Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
Intarweb Goldmine
XBox Avatars get 90′s Rave Clothes
Show #110
Posted by Derek Alfonso in Shows on December 26, 2008
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- CoolIris
- Qik
- Mogulus
- Meebo
- Last.fm
- Ning
- Hulu
- IntenseDebate
- Firefox
- Firefox 3
- Mojo (download from ITunes over the Internet) – OurTunes (Like Mojo but open source)
- HelloPDF (PDF to Word Doc Converter)
- CCleaner 2.0 (Cleans crap from your machine)
- AVG Free Antivirus Clamwin
- Windows Vista SP1 (A whole new operating system for free!)
- HotSpot Shield (Browse US sites without being in the US)
- Quick Media Converter
- DExpose2
- DropBox – Syncing Files across Internet
- Executor (keyboarding for app opening)
- Sharepod (free your Ipod from ITunes)
- Grand Theft Auto IV (even TIME Magazine agrees)
- Braid
- Little Big Planet
- Rock Band 2
- Gears of War 2
- Dead Space
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
- Hunted Forever (Flash)
- Fieldrunners (iPhone)
- Spore
- Mac + Cheese
- Potato Salad
- Pot Pie
- Apple Pie
- Chicken Soup
- Fried Chicken
- Meat Loaf
- Spaghetti
- Chili
- Ice Cream
- Spore — 1,700,000
- The Sims 2 — 1,150,000
- Assassins Creed — 1,070,000
- Crysis — 940,000
- Command & Conquer 3 — 860,000
- Call of Duty 4 — 830,000
- GTA San Andreas — 740,000
- Fallout 3 — 645,000
- Far Cry 2 — 585,000
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 — 470,000
- Tobascco Gravy
- Mom’s Meat Loaf
- Lasagna
- Stuffed Mannicotti
- Stuffed Chicken
- (Edited for Content)
- Sensitive Step-Dad
- DJ MVP
- Orange Guido
- The Drunken Mistake
- Vomitron
- The Pharmacist
Seminal Moments in Gaming
- Steven
- Zelda – Games could be more than games. First “open world” experience
- Super Star Wars – First real graphics wow
- Mortal Kombat – Stepping into an arcade and seeing “realistic” graphics
- Warcraft 2 – Coming off a 2 year sabatical from computers and seeing the progress in games on PC
- Favorite Game of All Time? “Masters of Magic” (MoM)
Seminal Moments in Technology
- Steven
- EGA Monitor on a x286
- Pagers with messaging
- First time to see the Internet
- Hacking for the first time
While perhaps not the most searched “hoochie mama” on the Internet, she does have the distinction of being Google’s fastest rising search term this year: Sara Palin
http://hotlist.uk.msn.com/2007/top-100-women-2008.aspx
Show #109
Posted by Derek Alfonso in Shows on December 19, 2008
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News
- (Source Behind Article)
- Using the Accelerometers in the Wii-mote to measure and record movements
- Charts and Graphs of peoples movements
- slow learners that eventually get it, learners that don’t, A-Ha people that pick up cues and “get it”
- Mostly a gimmick to pick up test victims (i mean subjects)
- (cheap test hardware – talk a little bit about that 3D test)
- Big economic impact to memory makers
- Taiwan / Germany / South Korea all effected
- Manufacturers were betting on strong Vista sales (oops)
- Projecting a 20-25% decrease in new PC sales for Q1 2009
- Couple defaulted on $100,000 house loan
- Couldn’t be served at home and email wasn’t responding
- Law firm asked if they could be served on Facebook
- Judge assented, profiles have since disappeared from site
- Jobs will not be giving the keynote
- MacWorld will supposedly continue without Apple directly sponsoring
- Apple Stores and other things seen as more effective for Apple
- 1% downturn while the PC industry as a whole goes up 2% (November)
Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- FFVII and FFIX (Steven’s Favorites)
- <
> - FFXIII not exclusive to PS3 but Versus is.
- Versus will be FF chars in a real world
- XIII will be more traditional
- EA’s excuse? “Wii graphics would not have been ‘broadcast quality’”
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Silent Hill
- Frogger
- Metal Gear Solid
- X360 sells $800,000+
- PS3 posts decline over quarter last year
- PS2 sold 200,000 units but is finally declining month-to-month
Intarweb Goldmine
Show #108
Posted by Derek Alfonso in Shows on December 12, 2008
Charity Plug
News
- Kristen Kreuk in Streetfighter Movie Adaptation
- Steven thinks she’s HOT
- OK, what normal male does not? Plus she can act…. really well
- RIAA Sues 19 Yr old Transplant Patient
- Innocent, Sick, Unable to answer = Guilty as Charged
- Morally Reprehensible what the RIAA is doing
- They deserve this horrible press coverage
- Comcast offers Bandwidth Monitor in 2009
- Comcast implemented 250GB limit for a single month
- Now you will be able to see your BW usage (with a 3 hr delay)
- Comcast shooting for January 5th for release of tool
- BD Live – (Interactive Blu-Ray – Really Worth the Hype?)
- How many you us have ever played the extra content on DVD’s
- I do a lot (ok, your a freak but how many regular people…)
- BD-Live is not all there yet, generally a tool to sell other movies at the moment, some additional features are cool
- Iron Man flops for BD Live
- Contrary to Popular Belief, Textese will not ruin your grammar or spelling
- Although faster to type, text-speak takes twice as long to decipher for an adult (according to study on college students)
- Found that people need better grammar and spelling skills to decipher faster
- Rule of thumb is to never let it creep into your essays or resume’s
- Our Christmas/New Years Special will Air between the 26th and 28th depending on your local station, we’ll be covering:
- Top 10 Consumer Apps of 2008
- Top 10 Games in 2008
- Top 10 Most Searched Hoochie-Momma’s on the Internet (ok, maybe not so much…)
- Top Pirated Games in 2008 (TorrentFreak)
- Spore — 1,700,000
- The Sims 2 — 1,150,000
- Assassins Creed — 1,070,000
- Crysis — 940,000
- Command & Conquer 3 — 860,000
- Call of Duty 4 — 830,000
- GTA San Andreas — 740,000
- Fallout 3 — 645,000
- Far Cry 2 — 585,000
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 — 470,000
Gamer’s Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- Favorite Features of 360 NXE? Netflix Instant Queue
- A lot of people are using it like a pseudo DVR and / or getting acquainted with documentaries
- PS3 not looking to implement
- Country coming to Rock Band
- Want a glowing wireless mic for Rockband 2?
- Chronotrigger for DS!!! (Best RPG Eva)
- What makes a good game? Bio-Sensory Reactions to Games
- Immersive learning – Tutorials as you fight
- Highs and Lows Differentials – Not always in the explosions, lulls could be travel or puzzles
- Close Combat = Win, Makes you more invested in the product by raising your blood pressure
- Epic Cut Scenes involving your character / Informational transfer during lulls
- Design your game for the vertical – Don’t throw in teddy bear collecting games into a hardcore FPS. Nothing worse than adding extended platforming elements to a FPS
- What makes a good game? Bio-Sensory Reactions to Games
Intarweb Goldmine
- Obama “ZuneGate”
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- Funny Quote from the Comments:
I own a Zune and happily, especially if it keeps me from turning into one of these freak boys. I’d rather him be actually be an Islamic extremist than a member of the Church of Jobs. To listen to these guys talk, you can already picture them strapping on Mac Airs and running into a PC dealer to blow up on customer service.
- Funny Quote from the Comments:
