Archive for April, 2008

CNET Geek Pop: Iron Man, TV show games

This week’s look ahead at movies, TV, and DVDs, includes a test run of the Battlestar Galactica and Lost online games.

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Cranky Geeks 114: Will Microsoft bail on Yahoo?

Had the honor of being on John C. Dvorak and Sebatian Rupley’s wonderful Cranky Geeks round table along with Tim Bajarin, President, Creative Strategies. John described it in a Twitter posting as “lively” and “wacky”. Judge for yourself.

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CNET Quick Tips: Fix broken Firefox icons

I had these icons next to bookmarks in Firefox that one day got changed to a different website’s icon. Like the CNET Intranet had the Last.FM logo next to it. So here’s one way to fix it.

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CNET Live: Trip back in tech time

Bruce Damer and Allan Lundell of the Digibarn swing by with a piece of mobile computing history. Actually, about the whole of mobile computing history, right down to the Newton.

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Low Water – “Sister Leave Me”

I’m very briefly in the new video from the awesome band Low Water. You should watch the video anyway. God stuff from Dave Rubin and friends.

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CNET Top 5: Security Apps

Five most popular free security downloads from CNET’s Download.com.

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CNET Tales: Birth of the Apple joystick

How Jef Raskin made a joystick and made the Apple II fun.

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CNET Geek Pop: X-Files, Rogue and Mario Kart

This week’s look ahead at movies, TV, and DVDs, involves crocodiles, Mulder, Scully and Mario.

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CBS 5: HDTV compression

The local CBS/CW news affiliate in San Francisco used a couple quotes from me in a story about Comcast compressing HD signals. And of course they use a bite where I feel I’m stumbling all over myself to explain jaggies and artefacts and such without using the word jaggies and artefacts.

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CNET Tales: How HP’s calculator helped start Apple

The Digibarn guys show off the first handheld calculators and explain how Steve Wozniak sold his to help start Apple.

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