This Week in Tech 24

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• 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