The semi-anniversary edition is on the air
September 26 2005
- 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
