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Dig into the TWiT.tv archives and enjoy episodes from ten years ago. It's a tech time machine!
Please note that these episodes are from ten years ago, so URLs, products, and other information may be very outdated. Sponsor codes and offers may no longer be valid.
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Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Jason Hiner and Owen J.J. Stone get together to talk about the FBI/DHS hack, Google Self Driving Cars, Twitter's future, Apple's Error 53, Rocky 1-7 and more...
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Alex Lindsay, Jason Hiner, and Owen JJ Stone
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech
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How to DVR over-the-air TV, troubleshooting antivirus problems on Windows 10, best "pure Android" smartphones, how to determine what crowdfunding site to use, printers with accessibility options, how to photograph people, and more of your calls.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guest: Chris Marquardt
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy.
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Why the current authentication system is broken, staying connected and powered when traveling internationally, should I be worried about flashlight apps? And more of your calls!
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy.
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Gravitational waves with a physicist on the LIGO project, we begin our build of the Ultimate VR Gaming Machine with Ryan Shrout, Leo and Ron get their ears 3D scanned, and Moldover the godfather of controllerism shows off his effects for voice and guitar.
Sparkle check in Terminal:find /Applications -path '*Autoupdate.app/Contents/Info.plist' -exec echo {} \; -exec grep -A1 CFBundleShortVersionString '{}' \; | grep -v CFBundleShortVersionString
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ron Richards
Guests: Alan Weinstein, Sam Kellett, Karol Hatzilias, Megan Morrone, Ryan Shrout, and Matt Moldover
Producers: Jerry Wagley, Karsten Bondy, and Tonya Hall
Technical Director: Anthony Nielsen
Editor: Anthony Nielsen
The New Screen Savers is available for download at https://twit.tv/shows/new-screen-savers.
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Today we were reminded again that a large part of this presidential election in the United States is happening on SnapChat, especially with first time voters. Find out which independent apps just got bought by giant companies. Apple is reportedly entering the content game with none other than Dr. Dre., Amazon Games launched a free game engine this week, with Twitch integration. Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica gives us a no spoiler review of Deadpool, and on the internet, Microsoft now knows you're a dog.
Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell
Guests: Georgia Dow and Sam Machkovech
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today.
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Microsoft beats expectations thanks to the Cloud, Cisco releases new firmware for several appliances to protect a vulnerability, Google plays with Millimeter Radio from the sky, and Karl Auerbach of InterWorking Labs talks about the KMAX Network Emulator.
Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Brian Chee, and Curtis Franklin
Guest: Karl Auerbach
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech.
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EU and US Safe Harbor agreement, drone privacy rules, PayPal doesn't like VPN providers, trademarking hashtags, fitness trackers leaking your private information, and more!
Hosts: Denise Howell and Emory Roane
Guests: Tiffany Li and Reg Levy
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-law.
Public list of discussion points, TWiL on Facebook
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Special thanks to Nigel Clutterbuck for the TWiL theme music.
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Pandora and SoundCloud prove that the music streaming business is hard, the Quartz news app that chats at you, a look at the awesomeness of gravitational waves, the black market for Netflix accounts, and more.
Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell
Guests: Selena Larson, Sam Williams, and Rhett Allain
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today.
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Scott Wilkinson talks with Dan Wiggins, CTO of Starke Sound, about speakers, drivers, and amps.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
Guest: Dan Wiggins
Subscribe to Home Theater Geeks at https://twit.tv/shows/home-theater-geeks
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We go step by step and show how to make your own Steampunk Goggles.These are the parts you'll need to order for our Steampunk Goggles Build
Vintage Steampunk Welding Goggles $7.99
GraceAngie 40Pcs Bronze Alloy Round Clock Watch gears $6.99
Magnifying Loupe $6.75
Arduino Nano (Atmega 328P) $2.19
WS2812 16-Bit RGB LED Ring ($3.17 x 2) $6.34
30AWG Silicone Wire ($1.00 x 3) [Red, Black, Blue] $3.00
600mah batteries + Charging harness $18.00
Total $51.26
You'll also need a 3D Printer that can print the following parts
Steampunk Googles Frame (Right Side)
Steampunk Goggles Frame (Left Side)
Steampunk Goggles LED Holder (x2)
Tools and supplies
3D Printer
Dremel (or other drilling tool)
Hot Glue Gun
Soldering Kit
Pliers, Screwdrivers
Heat Shrink Tubing (Black)
Instructions:
Disconnect one of the eye cups from the bridge strap
Drill a small rat hole at the base of each nose-cutout. (Big enough for 6 strands of 30awg silicone wire
Cut the following pieces of 30awg Silicone Wire
2 x 6" Red
1 x 8" Red
2 x 6" Black
1 x 8" Black
1 x 6" White
1 x 8" White
Strip and tin all your Silicone wires
Cut a 3/4" long piece of 1/4" Black Heat Shrink tubing
Run the 3, 8" lengths through the heat shrink tubing, then push the tubing & wires over the exposed bridge strap
Reconnect both cups to the bridge strap
Run the 3, 8" lengths into the left cup rat-hole.
Solder the following:
Black to any "GND" pad
Red to any "VCC" pad
White to "IN" pad
Run 1 x 6" black and 1 x 6" red into the left cup rat-hole
Solder the following:
Black to the remaining "GND" pad
Red to the remaining "VCC" pad
Solder the black and red wires to a battery connector from the charging harness
Pull back the slack wire from the left cup
Run the other side of the 8" wires into the rat-hole on the right cup.
Solder the following:
Black to any "GND" pad
Red to any "VCC" pad
White to the "OUT" pad
Run the remaining 6" black, red and white wires into the right-cup rat-hole.
Solder the following:
Black to the remaining "GND" pad
Red to the remaining "VCC" pad
White to the "In" pad
Solder the other ends of those wires to the Arduino:
Black to "GND"
Red to "VIN"
White to "D3"
Test Programming
We're using the "100 Lights" code example from Episode 173
We need to change the Digital Pin to "3"
We need to change the number of LEDs to "16"
We can play with the brightness
You can find the code here.
These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/know-how/episodes/186 Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Bryan Burnett
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Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV review, an SSD from Sony, Oculus Rift PC Preorders, Eye Tracking technology in gaming, Rise of the Tomb Raider patched to version 1.0.610.1_64, and more!
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-computer-hardware.
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Hands-on reviews of Polygen, Earthviewer Beta, Tapet, and Perch.
Host: Jason Howell
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/android-app-arena.
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Twitter's earnings report confirms that user growth is a big problem, Google's self-driving cars could be considered an actual driver, our biggest tech gripes, and more.
Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell
Guests: Jason Hiner and Wayne Cunningham
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today.
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Bob shows how to tune a transmitter with a light bulb, Randy builds an audio breakout cable, Val interviews Sean Kutzko from ARRL, and a solar report from Dr. Skov
Hosts: Bob Heil, Valerie Hotzfeld, George Thomas, and Don Wilbanks
Guests: Randy Hall, Dr. Tamitha Skov, and Sean Kutzko
Producer: Bryan Burnett
Technical Director: Bryan Burnett
Editor: Victor Bognot
Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme.
Subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation
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Aaron Newcomb joins Leo and Jeff to talk about his LED cube, Twitter's curent status, Google's book scanning, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg's India commitment, USB-C cable issues, and more!
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis
Guest: Aaron Newcomb
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.
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A new Windows Insider Ring? A developer ports an iOS app to Windows 10 in 5 minutes (wait for the "but"), Microsoft mistakenly caps some OneDrive users' storage early, PowerBI's publish to web feature, the latest mysterious Groove acquisition, do you need the Xbox One Elite Controller? And more!
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly
Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com
Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com
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The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.
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TechCrunch kicks off 2016 with the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards Show, the award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet, and technology innovations of the year. We interview the guests and winners of the Crunchies including the fastest rising company as well as the Hardware of The Year.
Host: Tonya Hall
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/twit-news.
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This week, we'll be discussing Google's next big push into VR, Andy Rubin's next big push into AI, Podcasts next big push into the Play Store, and Apple's next big push into Android.
For full show notes, go here.
Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards
Guest: Ron Amadeo
Subscribe to All About Android at https://twit.tv/shows/all-about-android.
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Sponsor:
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Today BitTorrent Incorporated launched a P2P streaming app on iOS and last week they quietly released a similar app for Android to watch political news in the US. Twitter launches the Trust and Safety Council to walk the fine line between free speech and harassment. The next Tesla, the model 3 will sell for $35,000, before electric car tax breaks. Sam Abuelsamid, senior analyst at Navigant Research tells us what this really means. Obama unveils the Cybersecurity National Action Plan, Oculus Ready PCs are announced, the first edition of the Becky Worley rant, and more.
Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell
Guests: Becky Worley, Sam Abuelsamid, and Eric Geller
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today.
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iOS Error 53 and an interesting Apple 3rd party service conundrum, Comodo's crummy Cromodo browser, a new Google search safely feature, an interesting audit of Windows 10 after enabling all privacy features, Steve's experience with GWX and a new Windows 7 install, the amazing clever hack of the decade, and Steve answers three listener follow-up questions from last week's "Three Dumb Routers" episode.
We invite you to read our show notes.
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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