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September 26th, 2005
TWiT 24: The semi-anniversary edition is on the air
Patrick Norton , Kevin Rose , John C. Dvorak , Robert Heron , Roger Chang , David Prager
Special Guests: Amber MacArthur , Jenn Cutter , Alex Lindsay
We've outgrown Noonan's already. We're prospecting for another location - probably in San Francisco proper. Stay tuned to this site for information. The show will begin one hour earlier next Sunday: 3p.
We video taped again this week thanks to Alex Lindsay and the Pixel Corps . Kevin will have the video on Revision3 in the next couple of days. Get the audio now at the usual places:
Main feed - courtesy AOL Radio
BitTorrent - four flavors, no waiting
Or subscribe to the feed to get every edition automatically:
Topics:
Thanks for the Kangaroo Jerky with Flavor Enhancer 621
Microsoft is reorganizing - Dvorak says it's a prelude to breakup
Tivo is planning to require a one-year committment
Dvorak prefers MythTV - expecially with MythKnoppix
Steve Jobs says the record companies are greedy , and that their proposed price hikes will encourage piracy
Isn't the future the Yahoo! $5 a month deal ? even if it's spoofable with MuvAudio
The Common Malware Enumeration Initiative is a plan to come up with unified names for viruses
A very complete example exploit for taking advantage of the most recent Firefox hole has been posted on the net. Make sure to update to Firefox 1.0.7
We still say Firefox is better than Internet Explorer
It's a free browser . So how does Opera make money?
Off the Google searches, of course
We like the Google start page
A new virus discovered Wednesday infects Symbian cell phones then, in a
first, attempts to copy itself to the user's PC
Google is offering free Wi-Fi in San Francisco - and anyone can use the Google VPN server
Two of our favorite online TV shows: Amber MacArthur's Command-N and Jenn Cutter's OpenAlpha.tv
A virtual plague swept through World of Warcraft - causing most players lower than level 50 to die immediately
John has a fix for blog content spam he says works great. Just prevent bot posting - require all comments to come from your site's forms. Watch dvorak.org/blog for details
Want to post without registering? Heron uses BugMeNot
Jay asks: You can still see Leo and Kate's first ultimate gaming machine on Google video
Dvorak says you'll never need more than 100TB of main memory
Al asks about our favorite RSS feeds
Dvorak gets his news from folks who email him
Digg is adding RSS to its search feeds
Kevin reads We make money, not art , Engadget , Gizmodo Boing Boing , Metafilter
Amber likes waxylinks , TechCrunch , RUK.ca , and FURL
I subscribe to Amber's Furl RSS feed , 43folders (based on David Allen's Getting Things Done ), Lifehacker ;
The key is a Moleskine notebook - the ultimate geek fetish object
A Modesto wishes a Happy Birthday to Chronic and asks what's the best way to record Skype calls? Hotrecorder . Kevin recommends Powergramo .
Our listener loves AnimationMentor.com - you get to work with instructors from Pixar and ILM
Alex Lindsay concurs
Dvorak predicts 20% market share for MacIntel - maybe more
And don't buy an Apple Mighty Mouse
Thanks to Chris Haynes from Corporate Casuals for the TWiT toppers.
Next week: a new location and Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing and EFF joins us. He's in town to celebrate EFF's 15 anniversary next Sunday.
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