Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin "TV Makes You Smarter" Rose, Roger Chang, Robert Heron, Steve Gibson, and John C. Dvorak Get #17 now from the usual sources: Main feed - courtesy AOL Radio BitTorrent - four flavors, no waiting Sorry about the sound quality - but there are only four more hybrid TWiTcasts then all of us will be together and the audio quality should be markedly better. We'll taping before a live audience (that's you!) at Noonan's Bar and Grill in Larkspur California just a couple of blocks from the SF-Larkspur Ferry every Sunday at 4p starting September 18.

Topics:

• FCC says Bells can close their networks to other ISPs
• "Sell outs!" cries Dvorak
• Are they or aren't they? Is Apple using TPM the technology formerly known as Palladium.
• Dvorak says it's a dead end - Apple should sell the OS separately anyway
• Will the Treo 670 run PocketPC not Palm?
• Steve is keeping six Tungstens in deep freeze in case Palm discontinues them
• In search of the perfect keyboard - the key is the Alps switch as found in the Avant Stellar and Matias Tactile Pro.
• Apple's $50 Mighty Mouse is hard to get, but probably not worth the trouble.
• What's dumber than the OQO?
• Paul Allen's OQO clone the Flipstart.
• What's Palm Founder Jeff Hawkins up to next? Voice recognition?
• Kathi from Germany asks how soon is Microsoft going to die?
• Michael from Las Vegas wants to get audio files working on SuSE Linux. Get the OSS drivers and use XMMS.
• We won the People's Choice Podcast Awards. We accept at the Podcast Expo, November 11 in Ontario, California. Thanks for your votes!
• Jay aka TwitCommander from Boston asks about the Pogo Radio Your Way
• Just buy a Radio Shark from Griffin
• Brian from Hoboken, NJ asks about Ruby on Rails. Odeo is in ROR.
• PHP is not dead yet. Look for a PHP net framework from Silver Orange
• Jay from San Francisco on how to safely create an open Wi-Fi access point for the Pragers of the world
• OpenWRT is one way but check your ISPs License agreement
• Brian in Pittsburg asks about x86 open source ports and Apple.
• David in Houston Texas is looking for a combo DV cam and digital still camera.
• Dvorak recommends the Samsung DuoCam
• Too bad about Foveon.
• Check out the new JVC Everio line - 5 megapixels and 3CCDs
• Amy from Australia asks about cracking Audible's DRM. Kevin says he has, but he can't remember how - good thing because Patrick is worried about getting sued. Jhymn won't work.
• Thanks to Andrew Leyden for the link to the map of podcasts.
• The Sony Libre is the only epaper solution on sale right now.
• Leo's been listening to David McCollough's 1776 on Audible...
• ...and reading Steven Baxter's Evolution and Coalescent.
• Dvorak loves the Firefly DVD - wait 'til Serenity!
• Steve Gibson compressed the entire set into 2GB using DiVX and the PocketPC Player
• The Toronto Meetup featuring Leo, Kevin, Amber, Andy and Alex Albrecht is August 11, 7:30pm at No Regrets in Libertyville.
• And we're going to start taping TWiT in front of a live audience at Noonan's Bar and Restaurant in Larksput Landing, California, starting September 18 at 4p.
• Mark Mark Mark hates the echo in Episode 15
• And that's one of the reasons we're going to a live taping
• Chris from Sherman Oaks asks what are the downsides to buying an iBook?
• They're not so good for gaming.
• Leo plays World of Warcraft on his Powerbook
• Robert is waiting for Age of Empires III
• Rick from Redmond, WA asks for wireless router brand recommendations
• No to Linksys (despite the new security button)
• We all agree that the Belkin Pre-N is the way to go
• Any Airgo based Pre-N should do you well, low latency, extreme distance, and 100Mbps throughput
• Belkin has an easy setup routine - the best Dvorak's ever seen
• Kevin likes the Netgear routers
• Michael is looking for a good cell phone
• Verizon hasn't enabled music on the LG 8100 yet.
• PIM cell phone hacking software
• Leo likes his Sidekick II
• Steve and John like the Motorola Razr
• Mike with the NYPD is looking for a program that does partial word searches in Word documents
• We like X1, but you might try Yahoo's Desktop Search - it's the same software.
• Dvorak was having problems with Blinx
• We hate Plaxo.
• Jefferson from Curacao (aka Ghetto Cash) wants to know if the Dell Ultrasharp can be used for TV and PC.
• Kevin loves the Dell LCDs and Kevin and John love MythTV for video recording.
• Robert is a Snapstream guy.

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