Tekzilla·Revision3
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Welcome to Tekzilla. Vudu's video on demand box doesn't require a computer. Jessica Corbin has tips to make your video pop. Patrick Norton turns $60 in parts from the hardware store into a portable power supply. Halo3 hits the streets, DNSStuff, testing your memory.
50th Anniversary of Space Exploration. Tang is not for cleaning dishwashers. Network Music Players: The $2000 Transport plus two options that won't break the bank. Sputnik and Science Education. Airfoil makes the Airport Express run audio from anywhere.
Morgan Webb talks about the pitfalls of launching a video blog. Free photo editing software. Installing a Graphics Card. HappyMedia, Nero 8, Blu-ray vs. HD DVD, easy e-mail backup. Plus we kill a PC.
The ladies are in the house at Tekzilla this week as Sarah Lane tells us how to convert vinyl records into audio files, we get some inspiration for aspiring inventors, and Jessica Corbin shows us how to go back in time.
Take a look at the new hotness in Leopard. How to replace your iPod battery. Find out how the Transformers were made. Go read an eBook! And the latest in social web browsing with Flock.
$20 Headphones, Body Worlds 2, Jessica Loves TED, Replace your Motherboard Battery, New Cell Phones, Firefox Goes Guerrilla
Robots will drive your car: Congrats to CMU's Tartan Racing and their vehicle, Boss, which won the DARPA Urban Challenge 14 MPH over a 55 mile course, but, hey, unlike most drivers in San Francisco, it obeyed the traffic laws. Asus Eee PC: there's a lot of hype around this 2 pound portable notebook. It's got a ton of promise, but there's not a lot of processing power, or storage. Finally: Gmail has added support for IMAP. That means a much easier time syncing your mail across different email clients, such as a cell phone and your home machine. We showed you how to turn it on in Gmail, here's Google's help page for setting up your clients. Our favorite microblogging tool, Tumblr, shares pictures, photos, your text, videos, you get the idea. Version 3.0, adds a niftier dashboard, two major video updates and the ability to post audio files. Plus "Channels" which lets you share stuff with a group. Watch out, Pownce! Our producer Neha Tiwari got to rock out one afternoon with Veronica Belmont... playing the new Guitar Hero III. You can catch more Veronica at Mahalo Daily. Jessica's Code Red is MozBackup, a simple utility for backing up and restoring Profiles in Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape. It's one click easy, covers your bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, and more. One downside: it's Windows only. Got any thoughts on Google's Open Social? Curious to learn more? Email us if you care about Google's latest efforts to disparate sites on the web together... [email protected] Love your video files but looking for something a little more serious than YouTube? Check out LiveLeak. The site features user submitted footage, but emphasizes politically charged reality based clips. What speed should he burn DVDs at for maximum reliability? Forget about the speed, Fred. Turn on the verify or validate function in your burning software! If it doesn't validate, then try dropping the speed.
The simplest DIY media server. Ex Machina. Using the Xbox 360 HD DVD with your PC. Find Music: Songza and Songbird. Cheap Notebooks, Buying Online, is WiFi 802.11n done yet?
$500 PC: Parts. Black Friday Shopping Tips. Cheap GPS. Sidewalk Astronomy. HTPC Hardware for Blu-ray and HD DVD Movies, Your Fave $20 Headphones!
Drobo vs. Terastation. How much will Blu-ray and HD DVD cost this year? Rock Band! Shelfari. Miro instead of iTunes. Fast Macbook Pro Fix. Should I buy Turbo Memory?
Backup software for Windows. Jeff Gerstmann on garbage gaming gadgets. Fables. Ford's Sync Works. Free Defrag. Rent Movies Online. $500 HDTV Recco
80GB Zune: a Worthy iPod Competitor, Best Used Console Games, UPS = Safer Data, VodPod, Your Fave Podcast Tools: VodPod, Juice, TvTonic, MyPodder
OtterBox cases don't suck. Easy unlimited online backup: Carbonite. Persepolis. Lighting Help for Holiday Photos. Driftr. Novatel 727 EVDO Modem. iRobot Looj. Zune Correction.
Build a PC From Scratch, it's easy. A do-it-yourself thumb drive that can be run over by a truck and still work! Preserve your movie collection and back up your DVDs. Fascinating music videos at Take Away Shows! Get your laughs at TV in Japan.
It's the biggest Consumer Electronics Event on planet Earth. CES. From oversized HDTVs to tiny Bluetooth headsets we look at all the gear that'll make it into stores. Plus some insight on the up and coming tech that'll make your electronics greener.
Veronica Belmont co-hosts as we breakdown Macworld 2008. From the Macbook Air to Time Capsule to the Apple TV. Also, Displaylink's USB to DVI adapter, Mozy for backups, troubleshooting svhost.exe and more CES!
1UP.com's Garnett Lee stops by to lend a hand as we check out Data Robotics' DroboShare and Spot's Personal Locator Beacon. Plus our the freebie download pick of the week and the GOM media player
DIY Stencils, Cell Phone Boosters That Work, Pownce on the Desktop, 5 Things That Suck About the iPhone, Oppo's Low Cost HDMI Switch, Kevin Rose cohosts.... and did somebody say "Ass cancer?"
Blu-ray and HD DVD for $300. Physists say Cell Phone Ass Cancer (or brain cancer) is unlikely. Help buying a UPS. IrfanView rocks. Apple iPhone upgrade timing is mean.
Liana Lehua from Girls Gone Geek joins us as cohost. SoundSoap for noise reduction, USB turntables, Audacity = Great Free Audio Editing, 2GB of memory vs. 4GB and the UltraClamp
Jeff Cannata from the Totally Rad Show, HD DVD is dead, $99 cell phone deals, LaserShield Instant Security has potential, free POP access for all your email, a free software for burning disks, network USB gadgets, AppleTV update.
Rip any DVD with AnyDVD, MP3 Player Reccos, Game Developers Conference, HD picture frame antenna, Spoof a MAC address, get kicked out of school. Wondercon!
Your picks: DVD Backup Tools. Inkscape: A free Illustrator Alternative. Computer Speakers That Sound Great. A Print Server that Works, Rock Band on the Wii, Ethernet and power-line Interference, CompUSA Stores Are Gone.
Installing Ubuntu Linux. Five Ways To Watch Our Video: Xbox 360 vs. AppleTV! m.revision3.com = Tekzilla on your cell phone, Find Lost Cameras, Complete HD adapter, AutoRuns and Macbook Hell
Veronica Belmont's back, Stephanie Chu answers your questions on raster v. vector graphics, Streaming VIdeo to the Xbox 360, Can you make YouTube video look better? Upgrading your notebook, WeatherWatcher, VideoHelp.com. Motherboard Help, Wireless Printers
YouTube Hacks. Free Firewall. Notebook battery upgrades. HD netcams? Separate feeds for the daily and weekly episodes!
A great point and shoot camera that does video, tools and techniques to bring spring cleaning to your hard drive, Roger compares some great free FTP clients: there's more difference than you might think!
HDMI is the standard, but can VGA be better for your HDTV? Portable music players that support lossless codecs. Three Ways to Save YouTube Video.
Cnet's camera expert answers your questions and shares her picks for entry level DSLR cameras. Must have utilities for OS X. Dumping your land line. Best Bittorrent Clients.
Automate GPS Photo Data, Photoshop Disasters, Multitrack Recording Tools, Tech vs. Earthday. Your call on Joomla vs. Mambo. Avoid Blender (There's a free version of Softimage XSI), Eutectic Solder, Why Is My Hard Drive Smaller?
Toss your camera, make abstract art. (Or break it.) 1UP's Garnett Lee joins us to talk GTAIV. We love USB Flash Drives. Best GPS: Price unlimited and under $200. Firmware Fixes MacBook Problems. Do you trust Psystar's Mac Clones
Veronica wants to giveaway a Zune, details in the show! Patrick reviews Gateway's One all-in-one PC. ReadyNAS vs Drobo: Which is more futureproof? Does 1080p matter on a small HDTV?
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Dual Boot XP and Vista: We have step by step instructions. You asked, we review the Popcorn Hour A-100 media player. Google Earth. Inside the Internet Archive. Drying wet electronics. Zune Giveaway: Your Questions from YouTube!
A free alternative to Symantec's Ghost for drive imaging, the answer to Veronica's Time Machine problem, ideas for saving photos you take on vacation -- without bringing a notebook along, help with the Tekzilla RSS feeds in iTunes, & the winner of our Zune contest!
Will OS X run faster if you defrag? How to get the best looking video on YouTube. Headphone amps for better listening
Jorge wants to move his VHS tapes to DVD. You asked, we review the Netflix Roku. Should you repair the iPhone yourself? HDMI video cards. AAC vs. MP3: which sounds better... and what are best sounding audio encoding tools?
Virtual Laser Keyboards of Doom. PowerPoint to DVD. Turn your PC into a Police Scanner. Veronica wants an iPhone 3G... bad.
Engadget's Ryan Block shows off the $1800 Optimus Maximus. Fix HDTV Overscan. Make Windows Prettier (and more functional) with Object Dock. Subscribe to video RSS feeds without iTunes. Can you cut your phone bill using VoIP over a cellphone?
Veronica explains the mysteries of CD Audio. Does Memory Brand Matter? Testing with Memtest86+, California and Washington go hands free July 1st. Turntable recommendation! Is there a picture of Patrick with a Mohawk?
Veronica's DIY Audio Studio. Skitch. Get the best price when you buy tech toys and tools. Skinning your laptop, cell phone, Wii, PS3, Xbox or PC! Buying a used PC. Regular phone vs. VoIP vs. Digital Phone
Prevent Notebook Theft at College. ExtremeTech.com's Jason Cross answers your Graphics Cards questions. Answer Email Automatically. HoverIP. The Home of the Underdogs. Macbook Pro vs. Blu-ray.
Cleaning Electronics. 1.5 TB Hard Drives. Share your EVDO Internet connection. The best way to back up your drivers. Fix GPU Overheating. XBox 360 Updates! What -is- the point of Twitter?
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Win our Badass Monster Gaming PC (With the help of Nvidia!) Easiest Windows install ever: nLite. Go manual with your digital camera: ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture. Send text messages from email or AIM. ChaCha!
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Is there any point to encrypting P2P? Boxee.TV. Keep Your Notebook from Overheating, Can I upgrade my motherboard without re-installing Windows? Free Software. Weasels in our Pants!
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Our Badass Gaming PC Is Assembled! Replace Lost Windows Disks. Rescue Scratched CDs/DVDs. A Better Microphone For Your PC. Play DOS Games in Vista and XP. How to throttle your high speed internet bandwidth so everyone can get an equal share.
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Provide tech support for friends and family from miles away! Which is the better smart phone: the iPhone 3G or Nokia's N95? How to catch up with all your RSS feeds on your mobile phone!What the heck is causing your machine to run at 100% all the time? And how does the Bad Ass Gaming PC handle games like BioShock and Crysis?
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Your fave free tools for remote access, Asus Eee PC 900 = big improvements, Veronica Reviews the Belkin GoStudio, RegToy, What goes in an ExpressCard Slot? Tips for shopping online overseas with ChannelFlip's Wil Harris, PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, Who won our Badass Gaming PC???
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1UP's Garnett Lee, Lightning vs. Xbox 360, Benchmarking our Badass Gaming PC with 3DMark Vantage and Crysis, Free Video Conversion for the PS3
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Veronica's back! Track monthly Internet usage across all your devices. Should you burn in a new Hard Drive?
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NAS vs. FTP. AngryAliens. What's the best way to use headphones with your PS3 or Xbox? TeraCopy moves files faster. How many screens can you attach to your monitor? Can I use a Solid State Disk in place of RAM?
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CNET's Lori Grunin helps us answer your tough digital camera questions. Can too much RAM slow your PC? A free utility that lets you run Windows from a CD. Domain forwarding 101. Which is the better media PC: Xbox 360 or HTPC?
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GPS models from TomTom, Garmin and Mio, Veronica's call on Android/T-Mobile's G1, help speeding up BitTorrent. Vista/OS X File sharing help. Our favorite mouse is cheap, too. Three core processor info. Cheap HDMI/HDCP ready video card options.
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Picking in-ear headphones, Walmart kills digital music collections, Use Google Earth KML Routes with your GPS, Veronica's Favorite iPhone Apps, DLP Projector Bulb Tips, The Geekiest Bike Around
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Robert Heron picks the Best HDTV Ever, Blu-ray players. Protect Your Data from Fire, Flooding and Old Age. DIY HDTV Calibration. Fix a Broken LCD Screen. Vista Start Menu Mods. HDFury HDCP Bypass.
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Tons of products this week: we get hands on with Tmobile G1, the new Macbook and Macbook Pro, Dell's Studio Hybrid. Plus bombproof Mp3 players for work, and SDHC memory!
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Supercharge Task Manger, Replace MS Money and Quicken, Router Request, Analog TV for HDTVs and your PC, PS3 Universal Remote
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Kindle discount! Watch podcasts on your TV, ATT vs. Verizon vs. Sprint for Mobile Internet. Print What You Like!
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Intel's Core i7 = The New Fast. Simplify Media streams audio better. Dump Cable for the Internet? Better Search for Windows. DVI-D vs. DVI-I.
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1UP's Garnett Lee joins us! Buying PCs: $700 desktops and $4000 Gaming Rigs! Xbox 360 Update. Replace NetStumbler. Remote Access Windows from OS X. DirecTV Hacks. Faster GPU vs. Faster CPU, Better WiFi Tool, Vista Drive Encryption!
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Manage All Your Social Apps in One Place, Sock + Headphones = Comfy, DIY PBX, Don't Use A Thumbdrive for That!
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Veronica gets online at 15,000 feet courtesy of Virgina America. Is the Core i7 a better deal than the Core 2 Quad? Is buying refurbished technology inviting trouble? And how to run CD apps off a netbook PC. All that plus your questions on this episode of Tekzilla.
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Best Budget Laptops, Upscaled DVD vs Blu-ray, Planet Earth Looks Amazing, What To Do with 40 Laptop Drives, Why Macbooks Can't Use Microphones, LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com
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Robert Heron's fave HDTV picks, Jason Cross picks graphics cars from $50 to $500, Mini ITX motherboards, are there any 7.1 speaker systems for gaming?
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Tools for the iPod DJ, Killing Botnets Over The Network vs. Antispyware, Turn by Turn Nav (and Hulu!) on Smartphones, The Speech Accent Archive, HDTV and GPU Tech to watch for in 2009
Firefox, Windows, Google, iTunes, OS X... Tekzilla's Ten Most Popular Tips of 2008 is guaranteed to make your digital life easier, simpler and faster!
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Checklist for a new PC. Hard Drive Speed vs. Size, SmallNetBuilder, Roll your own backup, What does Gigahertz mean?
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CES Day 1 - Ultimate $1500 Headphones, Cheap HD (and YouTube friendly) Camcorders, and a Dual Screen Notebook!
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Macworld 2009 - iTunes Kills DRM, New MacBook Pro, SlimBlade Trackball, Shure USB Mics, Much More!
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CES Day 2 - Veronica goes from HD sewing machines to speaker pigs, Patrick has digital cameras and home theater gear!
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Our final day at CES features an array of amazing power and portable products... and Jim Louderback has found the weirdest product at CES!
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We've got one last collection of products from CES, from defrag software to new cell phone tech, Josh Topolsky from Engadget and quite a bit more!
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Can you stream HD movies over a Powerline Network? GParted, Geotagging Photos: we've got several different ways to do it. Xbench, Will old movies and TV shows look good in Blu-ray?
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Wireless photo transfer, triple your iPhone battery life, your first Linux distro, what to watch out for when you build your first Core i7 machine!
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Dump your cable modem for WiMAX? iSquint, FeedFlix, Windows 7 Beta: better than Vista. HP MediaSmart Server vs. DIY = Windows Home Server Challenge.
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Can you cure a Broken Ethernet Port? New Notebook: should I wait for Core i7 Mobile? NanoVision MiMo 7 inch USB Monitor, Wubi, Unetbootin, PuppyLinux, Mint Linux
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How good is a $200 HD Camcorder? We've got Creative's Vado, Flip's mino HD and Kodak's Zi6! Tip Of My Tongue .... find that word you just can't remember. Recycling Alkaline Batteries. Your WHS Questions!
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New Cell Phones from Mobile World Congress, Pick Hubble's Next Mission, Recycle Anything With Earth911, Veronica vs. Cornify, Rechargable Battery Recco!
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DVRs Without Subscriptions Fees, Dump That VCR! When To Retire Rechargeable Batteries, BuzzFeed.com, Consoles and Surround Sound Speakers!
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Should you spin down Hard Drives? Descratching CDs and DVDs, New Cameras from PMA 2009, Lightbox Free Image Editor, View web pages in Email, Zardoz!
Get the best OTA reception for DTV or HDTV, update all your social networking sites at once! Avoid disaster: backup your iTunes music, copy the tunes off your iPod and build a custom recovery CD! Plus, does Windows 7 Need 8GB of Memory?
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DigitalSoaps? Veronica Belmont gives Patrick Norton a heads up on soap in the shape of all different kinds of game controllers! NES, Xbox, Playstation, you name it. Veronica got the last blackberry one in stock! (And Patrick and Veronica both love Etsy!)
LeVar Burton Loves Twitter! GDC 2009: Garnett Lee wraps it up. USB Charger Help, Wireless N Speed Woes, and more!
Tekzilla Live at @Web 2.0! Evan Williams, Twitter CEO, Are SSDs ready for prime time? Best 4x6 Photo Printer, Waterproof iPhone cases, TypeTester, Free Audio Editing Software.
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Kevin Rose steps in as co-host while Patrick is out on vacation. We show off the upcoming Seesmic Desktop which puts other Twitter apps to shame, how to upscale SD to HD, how to get the highest quality from the videos up...
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Manage all your passwords painlessly. Sub-$200 GPS Pick! Stop yourself from visiting a website too often. Dump RAID 1 for RAID 0... or entirely?
Will Patrick buy a $45,000 Lincoln MKS for the tech? Can a Digital Plant Sensor save Veronica's Plants? Nintendo DSi, Sticky Network, PC Home Heating, more!
Find Better Apps Fast, Build A DVD Drive For Your Netbook, HD And Stills For Mongol Rally, Windows 7 RC1: Free For a Year!
Windows 7 is Nagware? Surge Protect Your Whole House, Avoid Reruns, CanJam vs. Maker Faire, Joby Gorillapod, Consoles vs. Big Video Files. Save YouTube Videos
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Mobo Upgrades, Cheap Cable Management! CPU Cooler Picks, Free Wedding Video Streaming! Wolfram Alpha: Are you smart enough? Instant Driver Backup. CPU Temperature Panic: Stop it! Our picks for high performance CPU coolers, streaming events online for free, and the ultimate in castle crushing technology!
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Antec's Skeleton Case Reviewed, Securing Data With TrueCrypt, The Best Gaming Mice, USB and FireWire vs eSATA. Is Antec's Skeleton PC case worth buying? Why gaming mice aren't all created equal. Free and easy data encryption with TrueCrypt, and what's the best connection for external hard drives; USB, FireWire or eSATA.
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Drop CPU Temps, Speed Up Your Machine! Headphones from $20 to $1400, Google's Wave, RunPee! Free Screen Capture Tool, Thermal Compound Lowers Temps! $1400 Headphones: Sennheiser's HD800 at CanJam! Microsoft Bing, Mikey: Best iPod Mic Ever? HD Camcorders for Bloggers Sanyo vs. Mino HD, Find the perfect movie bathroom break
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iPhone 3Gs, WordPress' Matt Mullenweg, WD vs. Seagate: Don't Buy A Bad Hard Drive! Free Virtual Drives, Displayport, Sims 3, Squee! Secret Shortcut Saves Thousands of Mouse Clicks, Does Blackle Really Save Energy Over Google? What's In Store for WordPress? Veronica Interviews Matt Mullenweg. WWDC: New OS X! New Macbooks! New iPhone! (Same old AT&T...;) Convert File Formats Fast and Free, More!
Free Software Finds Lost Drive Space. Tripit: Make An Instant Itinerary, High Dynamic Range Photos Look Gorgeous. Netbook Guide: from Hackintosh to Long Battery Life, Everything You Need To Know Before Buying.
Veronica's got a pile of affordable messenger bags for your notebook, Dorm Fridge + watercooling = our coolest Core i7 ever, Free CD Burning Tools, Port Forwarding HowTo, Easter Eggs!
Smart Phone Battle; Windows 7 App caching, Awesome Free Password Manager, Switch Audio in OS X, Notebook USB Audio Upgrade, AT&T; Promises Better Service
Twitter Hashtag Guide, Tools for dual booting Windows 7, Lossless Transcoding, F.Lux makes a perfect monitor, no matter what time it is!
Use PS3 and Xbox 360 Controllers For PC Games, EFi-X: Build an OS X desktop on the cheap! Fast access to old hard drives, Milo, Frew Software, Alkaline AA problems or dead camera?
Using a Mac drive from a PC, Core i7 Overclocking Performance More Gaming Controller Help for Windows, myUS: Shop from Overseas. What do you do with that weird tape your wedding video came on?
Spycam Warning! MiFi = Easy Internet Anywhere! Veronica and Roger Go To Comicon, Sonos Gets Better, Would we buy a Psystar OS X PC? FUTZ.ME: Your command line for the web.
DIY Home Audio Streaming, Wireless Headphones, Is Mint.com Secure? Flexilis, PronounceNames.com, Free Video Game. It's our one hundredth episode!
Veronica Interviews Tom Conrad, Pandora CTO, Make eSATA Play Nice With Windows, Jolicloud: the ultimate Netbook OS? Free Tool for School, Car Power for Notebooks!
Patrick's HD Hits The Freezer, Heroes star Greg Grunberg joins to talk iPhone Development, Veronica Reviews Nokia's Latest,
Are Shure's SRH840 Headphones as good as their Earphones? Jason Cross has graphics card reccomendations from under $100 to price is no object. Free Backup Software, Discover music with CitySounds.fm, Stop World of Warcraft Obssessions At The Router.
With Snow Leopard officially out in stores we share our opinions on Apple's latest OS. Convert that old PC into a something useful like a NAS, FTP, or SMB file server. Learn how to securely wipe your PC's hard drives before giving it away, and find out why Time Machine is a big fat lemon.
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Coming up on tech so what an iPod docking and it would. Connecting pro -- machine's IU SB and -- not to set up a wireless access point -- office and of course questions questions and more questions so plump up your francs in PLO and abundant because Tekzilla starts now
Core i7 On The Cheap? Think Core i5! Free HD Tool, Organize Your MP3s, Ryan Block Reviews the New iPods, Loyd Case Previews IDF, Secure your laptop before it's stolen, Project Management Software Picks, The Ultimate Resume Tool!
Computer Speaker Picks, iFixit DIY Repairs, Emergency Power: Solar vs. Generator, Can CyberClean's Blue Goo Stop Flu? Bargain CPUs For A New $500 PC from AMD and Intel, FCC Ramps Up Net Neutrality, pfSense: The Ultimate Free Firewall? Zune HD: It's awesome!
Perfect Travel Mouse: Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX, HTC Hero, Lock Down The Party Printer In Your Dorm. Anand Shimpi on IDF, Loyd Case's $800 Gaming PC (And a much better $500 PC CPU) 802.11n: Fon Fonera 2.0, Netgear WNDR3700 RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router, Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router, Top Emergency Generator Tip Ever, GDGT's Ryan Block Co-Hosts!
Admiral Adama Is Watching Over Us. Is It Time To Upgrade to an SSD? Anand Has The Answers! TigerBow, The Unarchiver, Password Security: Password Managers and Top Tips, Fix WiFi Problems for Free with inSSIDer, The Ultimate Computer Desk Turns With The Sun. WTF is PING? Your Help for Dadditude!
Tekzilla On The Roku, HTC Phones: HTC Sense Makes Windows Mobile 6.5 Wonderful! Build Yourself a Windows Home Server: it's not just backing up! Automated Driver Tool Recommendation, Maximum PC's Will Smith is in the house! ODROID vs. Zune HD for 720p video. Feeling ill? Try WebMD Symptom Checker!
Windows 7 has hit the streets. We've got a lis of what to back up before you upgrade, software that will help you move your XP or Vista install to Windows 7, how to install from a thumdrive, along with Will Smiths fave Win7 tricks, and Loyd Case's top performance hack for the new OS!
Ford Electric Car: Test Drive! Powermat: Hands On With Wireless Charging. MetaGeek Channalyzer: What's Going On In Your WiFI? DIY Password Protected Thumbdrive. Open Multiple Web Pages In One Click. Windows 7 for $30? World of Warcraft and Windows 7?
Digital Photography Week? Yes, but Motorola's Droid is on our minds, too! 'Still' cameras that take great video. The Best Free Panomamic Stitching Tool. Favorite Digital Photography Gadgets, 7 Great Digital Cameras For Black Friday, Better Night, Low Light Photography!
Blu-ray Players For Black Friday: Streaming Media Is the Ticket, Firefox turns five, Crunchyroll on Boxee, Best Offline Archive: Save Your Priceless Photos Online!, Kill A Watt EZ Counts Energy Costs, DJ Hero. Is this Guitar Hero with a turntable worth owning, Windows 7: Full Install From An Update Disc Smartphone Fight: AT&T vs. Verizon!
Which mobile wireless runs fastest, and who has the best coverage? Mobile Internet Access Without a Contract! We've got bargain and luxury laptops and netbooks from Dell, HP and Lenovo! Windows 7: Better Battery Life Than XP? Spawn HD-720: Use your Xbox 360 or PS3 from overseas?
Black Friday Deals, Bargain Shopping Sites, eBook Roundup: Amazon's Kindle, Sony's Readers, Barne & Noble's Nook, Lightbox: A Great Free Photoeditor, Make Geotagging Photos Easy, Headphones That Don't Break Easy!
13 Free Windows Apps, 5 Free OS X Apps, 4 Free Cloud Applications You'll Want! 2 Sites For Finding Free Stuff, 1 Free OS: Ubuntu, lots of places you can find free content, Even More Free Stuff from Maximum PC's Will Smith, and Finding Free Fax, aka Why Won't Fax Die!
It's the "I WANT" episode! Our Holiday Picks from under $20 to price is no object include toys, t-shirts, a gift to help your geek live longer, under $30 headphones, a 4 TB WD My Book, the Drobo S, Nikon's D5000, the Sonos ZonePlayer S5, LiveSribe's Pulse, Alienware's M15x gaming notebook, Intel X-25M SSD, Hexbugs, two sets of Home Theater Speakers, $1100 earbuds, SPOT's Personal Tracker, TADGear's F.A.S.T. Pack EDC and more! We've also got PeaZip, The Oatmeal and some nifty news from Child's Play and Project Inspire!
EVDO on Vacation: Rent, or Pay As You Go? Stop Region Filtering: Watch Hulu Outside The US. The Heartbreak of MacBook Cracks, Get a Zune (or iPod) Working With A 1999 Pontiac Sunfire (And Other Cars, Too!) Digital Camera Pick: CMOS vs. CCD, Dump iTunes, Keep The Airport Express
Desktop Replacement Laptop Reccomendation, Macbook cracks? Patrick Was Wrong: Apple Will Fix Them! Where's George? Record HD Gaming From Your Xbox 360 and PS3, New PC or Upgrade? Wait Till January 7th: Intel Has 17 New CPUs. Magic Jelly Bean, WD TV Live: H.264 Profile Problems?
Our predictions for best PC Games and PC hardware in 2010. Future Proofing SSDs. Plus the pitfalls you need to be aware of when upgrading a 32-bit Windows installation to a 64-bit one.
1.6Ghz Battle: Core i7 vs. Atom n270! CES 2010, Warranty Elephant, Recording DirecTV, PhotoFiltre, Building the ultimate home theater? Consider a 1080p Front Projector!
CES 2010? We're on it! From PC Gear to iPhone alarm clocks, HD set top boxes like the Boxee Box by D-Link and the PopBox, and the scoop on bringing 3D HDTV to your home, a 30FPS 4lb gaming netbook, your very own Femtocell, a robot that cleans corners and a stack of eReaders and more!
Veronica needs a new Gaming PC, but she doesn't want to bust the budget... we spec out the parts! Can Roku or the Boxee Box do anything an Xbox 360 can't? Pandora In Your Car Stereo: Alpine iDA-X305s, Patrick replaces his shattered iPhone 3G Screen, What do HDMI cable numbers mean?
Leo Laporte, Lance Ulanoff and Ge Wang Talk Apple's iPad, What brand of hard drive lasts longest: Puget Systems Jon Bach talks failure rates for PC Parts. Crysis benchmarks on Veronica's Bargain Gaming PC, Core Temp, InstantJury, Dropbox Hacks and more!
Budget Gaming Laptop Reccomendation. Fix Flash Video Problems, Need better Twitter tools? Go to the OneForty. Our favorite free anti-spyware and anti-virus combo... and the paid tool that works even better.
Windows Pagefile: Performance Tweak, or Hands Off? Powerful Free Video Converter. PuppyLinux: Patrick's New Favorite Distro, Where's Your Favorite Anti-Spyware Pick? Ubulu: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Made Easy, Stop Physical Attacks On Your PC!
New Products From The Macworld Show Floor. Great $100 USB mics for podcasting. Moving your website to a new host? Find out the right way to migrate with CNET's Tom Merritt. Hybrid Hard Drives: think regular hard drive with a SSD inside. Anand has the scoop!
The Best Version of Windows! Pogoplug... can you build a personal DropBox and access your files on the road? Boot Any Linux Distro Live, Is SCSI Dead? How good is a $10 hands free device? We review the Jupiter Jack. Help putting your microphone in the right place for better sound! Should you avoid Swoopo and BidRival?
What brand of external hard drive do we reccomend? Editing 720p Video: MacBook vs. MacBook Pro? Windows 7 shuts down every two hours? It's time to upgrade Win7 RC! Does anybody still sell Portrait View monitors? Wiring a new home with Ethernet, Our Favorite Free Backup Software!
Opera Unite: The DIY Pogoplug? VirtualBox: Run A Second OS For Free! Veronica Reviews the FitBit. 7 ways to recycle that old pc... from MAME toy to hard core security tool. Is That Food Safe? Check StillTasty! It's a 6 Core Monster: Loyd Case is back with the scoop on Intel's new top of the line CPU... and some help picking a low cost Core i7, too!
DIY Projector Lamp Replacment, Why is HDMI Copper and not Fiber Optic? Broadband.gov and the National Broadband Plan, Long Distance WiFi: This Texas ranch is gonna dump the dialup! System boot time... why is this an SSD benchmark? Backing Up Blu-rays: Can you make them smaller?
Veronica's over SXSW, Patrick's found a pint sized heat gun. What brand of Uninteruptible Power Supply do we buy? Free Wireframe Tool? Check out Mockingbird. Lots of you suggested gear from Ubiquiti Networks for Long Distance WiFI. Is there a Volume Hack for the oh-so-quiet Nexus One?
Patrick is out and Tom Merritt is in. We give you beginners guide to podcasting. Loyd Case is back showcasing ATI's Eyefinity technology that lets you take multi monitor setup to a whole new crazy level. Cheap and not so cheap ways to turn your document scans and digital images into searchable PDF files. All that plus your viewer questions on this episode of Tekzilla.
iPad: Is this fingerprint magnet a tool or a toy? Two VelociRaptors vs. One SSD, Battery Cases: quit losing those AA, AAA and CR123 batteries in your bag! Tag Galaxy: A Better Way To Search Flickr.
Memory: Ganged or Unganged? Make a Free Timelapse Video, Free Music for Videos and Podcasts. What do perfect pouring and super-overclocking have in common: CO2! Backup 101 (Data or drive, Incremental or overwrite, Recovery Disk or Data Only? We've got help!)
New iPhone, Awesome $40 CPU Cooler, Nero 10, MacBook Pro Review, Xonar STX: Audiophile Sound Card, Parallels vs. Fusion vs. VirtualBox!
Can a Power Supply Kill Your GPU? Gizmodo Editor Gets Searched, MyHardDriveDied.com's Scott Moulton talks hard drive recovery tools. Gorgeous Space Pictures and a Free Video Editing tool!
Stuff 4 CableCARDs into your HTPC. Bargain 6 Core CPU. Can I get GPS for the iPad WiFi? Magellan and TomTom iPhone GPS Car Kits Reviewed. Windows 7: More Users Than Vista, IE Losing Ground to Chrome, Never Miss A Bonus Scene on a Movie or Videogame Again! New Ubuntu: Lucid Lynx!
$1200 Worth Of Tech? Multi-user Video Conferencing, Spring Cleaning For Your Car Battery, Will WiGig kill off Gigabit Ethernet? Borders Kobo, Google Editions, Cost Effective 4G Overdrive Rental, What does veronica love best about Japan... Akihibara, food... or Techno Toilets??? SharePod: A Swiss Army Knife for your iPod or iPhone. DVD Flick, Cases That Keep The Airline From Killing Your Laptop!
Jawbone ICON: A Better Bluetooth Headset, The Perfect Mouse and Keyboard, Listen to music in bed without waking up your spouse (or strangling!), Picking Your First Iron and Learning To Solder, Awesome Tool For Fixing OS X... and the Correct Formula for Gravity!
Red Dead Redemption: We're Obsessed. GPS Gets New Satellites! Hands on with Froyo, Sprint's HTC Evo 4G, Alienware M11x, the ultimate gaming notebook! Save your electronic toys after a bad day at the beach. Mac Flash without Adobe?
The Best Wireless Keyboard For Your HTPC? Will Smith Is Back! Tested.com, Awkward Family Photos: Awesome! Single GPU vs. SLI or Crossfire... for Under $200, Vaseline Might Cause Problems For Your Car Battery, How To Find The Best DNS Service, Can OpenDNS And Other Alternative DNS Systems Speed Up and Secure Your Internet? FInd Your Nearest Cell Phone Tower!
Tired of standing on the roof to get a signal? Check out AT&T's 3G MicroCell! Which carrier has The Fastest Mobile Wireless Nationwide? Advice on Building The Ultimate Dorm Room Sound System. Cleaning The PS3 Fat: should you crack it? Your picks for Wireless HTPC Controls!
How Long Will An SSD Last? Brian Brushwood Reports from E3, The Biggest Event in Video Games! Practice Safe iPhone: Get A Better Case, Boxee Box Release Date, Recording Audio In Audacity Via USB, Viewer iPad Stand Alternatives
MagicJack Femtocell? All Your Social Apps on One Page: Veronica Demos Ping.FM. Get that classic console on your new HDTV: it's all about Composite to HDMI! DIY Twitter Parade, Speeding Up After Effects, Dell Selling Chrome OS this Fall, Electronic License Plates for Advertising, Xbox 360 vs. Xbox 360 with Anandtech's Anand Shimpi, 3.7 Billion Phishing emails
Revision3 Turns 5, and, boy did we have a party! Dropping the iPhone 4. GarageSalesTracker, Quinn, One Big 30" monitor, or Two 24" Monitors? The Quietest Gaming PC Ever: Loyd Case talks ready made and DIY options. Does ATI's Eyefinity have to be expensive? Red Ring of Death: Picking Your Next Xbox 360.
Photo Management Done Right, Google Travel? Broadband: A Legal Right? Dump your cable box: build a Home Theater PC! Hulu Plus: iPad, iPhone, PS3, Xbox 360, Broadband Rights, GoogleTravel, iPhone Lawsuits!
DSL vs. Cable: ADSL+ Might Surprise You! Why we don't do Ergo. Evo 4G Shortage, Great Headphones for College: $20 to $200. The Return of the $500 PC? One Set Top Box for Downloads and Netflix? Moving Your Tech, Old Time Radio HTPC Case, Tech-Tron Portable Heat Gun. Bibble Pro: Watch Out Lightroom!
Kill Spyware from Anywhere! First Boxee Box Video! Windows Phone 7 OS, Nokia Buys Motorola, WeTransfer, Is it safe to run OS X without a firewall? Share drives between Windows and Mac. Every phone suffers from DeathGrip, sure, but free cases for all iPhone 4 owners!
Save an old PC: Get Puppy Linux! ComiCon 2010: Veronica and Roger Report. LightBox Free: Who needs Photoshop. iBuyPower Thermaltake Level 10 ultimate PC case Dell's Giant Android Screen. Google Music Store: Watch Out iTunes! Will Chernobyl kill your camera? Ripping Movies to the iPad, FLAC Transcoding, 4 Year Olds Love Tekzilla!
StarCraft II Overheats Your Laptop? We've got help! Google Voice vs. Phone Service, Free Project Manager, Kill Messenger in Windows Live, Software Radio Hacking? Must be DEFCON! Windows 7 Beats Vista, but XP is Still Number One, Android Outselling iPhone, Free Phonecalls Forever?
Loyd Case is back with his picks for best 3D gaming video cards on the market. The next big thing in streaming music services: Rdio? Should gamers use WiMAX? We review the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and Toshiba's 3D gaming laptop - the A665-3DV - are they the best new toys on the market?
Selling your old PC but need to wipe the HD first? Before you run a simple re-format we've got a much better solution. Free Anti-Spyware that works better than many pay for solutions. Why HDMI passthrough is something to look out for in your next Home Theater purchase. How to get the internet on the iPad from a wired internet connection. And win a Metal Gear Solid MP3 player from SonyStyle.
Automatically Watermark and Strip EXIF Photos! Why More Megapixels Is Bad For Low Light Photography, AppZapper for Windows, DisplayPort to HDMI. Green vs. Black vs. Blue: WD Hard Drive Help, Exploding the Solar Cell Hanging From The Backpack Myth. Android: Talk To Text That Works, 24 vs. 27 Monitor: Same Resolution, Which Size? Supermagnets vs. Hard Drives!
Rucuva Deleted Files For Free, PS3 vs. Xbox 360: Screw Gaming: What's the best Home Theater Console? Laptop Core i7: HP's EliteBook 8440w. Get Your Bluetooth Stereo On... if you must. SSD Picks, Viewing RAW files in Windows 7
Vacuum Your Router, Fix iTunes, Plex Nine DIY Media Center, Drobo FS, Anonymous Browsing
Prezi Makes Presentations Simple. Sandy Bridge: Loyd Case On Your Next Notebook CPU? Securely Rip 100 CDs An Hour: The RipMonster 3000. Deleting the Random User Account, Save Your Passwords, Boxee Box: New CPU, Pre-Orders on Amazon, Corporate Antivirus Picks: from 400 to 400,000 users!
Veronica Makes Hot 20 under 40! Easy Hard Drive Upgrade, Your Password Manager Picks: KeePass, LastPassa, More! What's the difference between a $400 30 inch HDTV and a $1000 30 inch PC Monitor? Rocket Stenciled Underpants, SSD Maintenance: Defragging vs. TRIM. Roku XD|S Reviewed, Universal Android Root, Screen Protectors for Your Phone, Paperclips Are A High Tech Tool!
Alcohol Safety, Google Turns 12, MineCraft Creater Interviewed, Has Cake! J'aime Ohm's WiseDame crushes it at Hackathon. iPod Logic Board Repair: Upgrade or Replace? Apple TV vs. Roku XD|S vs. Everything: Can Tekzilla Do a Massive Set Top Box Roundup?
What To Do When Your PC Won't Boot! Lori Grunin's back the with the digital camera news from Photokina! Worst Set Top Box Ever??? Google TV: Amazon Video on Demand, NBC, HBO, NBA, TBS, TNT, CNN and Cartoon Network are on Board! G4 vs. SnowLeopard. Can SugarSync Replace Xmarks? Best Time To Buy A New Camera.
Google's Building The Terminator... OK, it's just a self driving Prius. Hands on with 4G and the Sprint Overdrive, Magnetic Screwdrivers vs Electronics, FreeNAS Help, Homethinking, Veronica Built the Set Top Box MegaList and fixed the TiVo CableCARD Grey Screen! Yet another scam to avoid online.
Mac Mini: The Ultimate Set Top Box? Our Favorite Gigabit Router, Netflix Goes Disc Free on PS3 and Wii! Can Windows Phone 7 beat. iPhone and Android: Sascha Segan Weighs In. Super Mario Brothers Turn 25, Fixing Steam Trains, Find Electronics Recycling Near You! CDMA, GSM and LTE Explained (and why we didn't pee our pants over the Verizon iPhone) Kinect Advertising: That'll Be Half a Billion!
Adobe Air 2.5: It's Gonna Be Everywhere. MacBook Air Teardown, Dawn of a New Day: Ray Ozzie On The Future of Windows, Ubuntu Dumbs Gnome. We haz Google TV Hands On! S.M.A.R.T. says your drive is dying... should you PANIC?!? HDR ain't just for photography anymore. We're talking HDR Video with Soviet Montage Google Voice Without Gmail?
Print from iPad without iOS 4.2! MacBook Air DIY SSD Upgrade, Best Places To Listen To Music Online... Rdio vs. HDtracks! Android... it's the new iPhone! Daylight Savings Time Breaks iPhone Alarms! Logitech's New Solar Keyboard, Blu-con: James Cameron and John Landau Talk Blu-ray, 3D -and- a box full or your viewer questions
Boxee Box Ships! Buy a Computer Without Windows, Free Monitor Calibration Tools, Hulu Plus Help, Wipe Your PC Hard Drive for FREE, The Perils of NAS, Speeding Up Your Router, Our favorite audio compression options...
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Will Veronica Drop the iPhone for Windows Phone 7 on HTC's HD7? Boxee Box by D-Link: Is this the perfect set top box? HDMI Switch Recco, Indestructible Earbuds. Where to find Black Friday Deals Early! Boxee Box vs. Apple TV, Roku, Google TV. Find Cool Things To Do, Eat and Go!
Hard Drive Upgrade Picks, Beatles On iTunes. Mobile Google Docs Update. Perfect PS3 Audio. FLAC Compression Explained, Secure Wi-Fi tips, and the new releases for November 23rd, 2010.
Iron Man's Interface: DIY 3D Kinect HacksYour Picks for Indusctructible Earbuds, The Return of the Revenge of the $500 PC Build, Top Tips for Better Streaming Video, Speed Up Podcasts on Windows Phone 7, Switch Live Video on Your PC on the Cheap, our Top Five Turkeys on Blu-ray and more!
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More Data Recovery Tools! Fourth Pixels: Sharp's 52" 52LE820UN Reviewed. Should I Dump My Hard Drive For An SSD? How Should I Partition My Hard Drive? The new releases for November 30th, 2010.
Google Earth Adds 80 Million 3D Trees. Find Linux Videogames. Black Friday Was a Success! What's the Best Sub-$1000 DSLR for Dark Rooms? Converting music files the right way!
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4K HDTV, Pay By The MB Internet Is Coming!?! Stop Static, Save Your PC. The Ultimate Card for a DIY DVR, Ceton InfiniTV 4 Rocks! Cell Phone Jammers? Free Movies Online
FreeNAS: Leave It Running or Power It Down? Fixing DLNA Streaming, Restore Xbox Formatted Drive, Performance Problems with USB 3.0 and 802.11n, Consumer Reports Says AT&T Is the Worst Carrier!
HBO without Cable, Free Defrag Speeds Up Windows! Panasonic TC-L42D2 Review, Veebeam Set Top Box? RSS 101, Partitioning RAID
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Tech Bargains From Ben's Bargains, How To Podcast, Google Chrome OS Cr-48 Netbook: Hand's On with GDGT's Ryan Block! Mezzmo: Stream any video to your DLNA Device! Gawker Hacked: It's a Good Time To Upgrade Your Password Practices! SandyBridge! Why you might want to wait before you buy a notebook.
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Google TV: Delayed. Traveling with Electronics... how to keep 'em from getting trashed when you fly! But the best GPU on your Budget: Loyd Case is here to help you buy your next graphics card! An Update on Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme!
Your offline RSS suggestions. Solving DRM issues with Boxee and Netflix. Linux Mint: The best Linux distro yet? Grab AnyDVD HD while you still can, and the new Blu-ray releases for the week of December 28th, 2010!
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Building your first PC? We'll make it easy for you! Back Up Windows 7 Updates, Mobile Video Editing: Firewire vs. USB,
Windows Activation Secrets, Top Blu-rays of 2010, iPhone Universal Remote, Best Buy HDTV Calibration, Mixing Brands of RAM, CES: We Want Your Questions!
Robert found the Best HD Projectors at CES: JVC. Samsung, LG and Vizio had great new HDTVS. How good is Toshiba's Glasses Free 3D HDTV? House of Marley Delivers Headphones, Android Tablets, Microsoft Surface Tables For The Home!
HD Helmet Cams from CES: GoPro 3D and ContourGPS. Can you convert eSATA to a USB Hub? Stop Repetitive Stress With The Smartfish Engage Keyboard. CCleaner: Our Favorite Windows Uninstaller, IOGEAR Multi-Link Bluetooth Keyboard, BlueAnt says Vlingo = Better Hands Free Bluetooth,
DTS Surround Sound CTO Interview! Marantz has AirPlay without Apple Hardware, The Perfect Antivirus For People That Don't Update, Monster Dre Beatbox vs. Klipsch iGroove SXT vs. Logitech S715i: iPod Dock Roundup, New Blu-ray Releases for January 18, 2011.
Sony's Personal 3D Camcorder, Rebuild Your Blog From AN XML Backup! Magic eSATA USB Adapters? 10 Needles, 1000 Stitches Per Minute and an LED Flatpanel: Brother's High Tech Sewing Machine!InstantWatcher Makes Netflix Streaming Better. Wow, did the Tekzilla Crew have some great Dropbox Alternatives for business use.
Stream Windows Media Center To Your iPhone. Gigabit Ethernet 101. How to get the best audio no matter where on the couch you're sitting. Voice Conference Hacks: How To Let 15 People Speak On One Phone, and install any version of Windows 7 with a single disc, and the new releases for January 25th, 2011.
Ultimate List Collection Kills Hours. Make Your Own Jolicloud Web Apps! What happens when an HDMI cable -doesn't- work? Block Drives From Mounting Under Bootcamp. We Crack Open the iPhone 4 and install the BackJacks Wooden iPhone back and Block Facebook Before Your Student Flunks Out! Screw Apple's Pentalobe Screws!
When is it okay to host your own website? Google censors torrent-related search suggestions. How To Watch TV On Your Tuner-less HDTV or Projector. Which Star Wars Set Should I Buy on Blu-ray? And the new releases for February 1st, 2011.
Intel's big recall over broken SandyBridge chips! Is your new PC Hosed? Don't Panic! Making your own 3D video part one: The cameras. Are. So. Cheap.
Loyd Case answers your questions about graphics cards! The Daily: A new newspaper just for tablets. Should you upgrade to a larger 720p HDTV from a smaller 1080 screen? And we list the new Blu-ray releases for February 8th, 2011
Verizon Crushes AT&T, Reclining PC, Sub $500 HD Camcorder Picks, Editing 3D Video, A Great Color Laser Printer, Long Term Backup.
DIY domain registrar? Best display under $1500: Projector vs. LCD. iTunes subscriptions are evil?!? Online backups: beat your Internet bandwidth cap! My projector bulb is TOO bright. Paint on projector screens. Power supply buying guide with HardOCP's Kyle Bennett. Are two anti-virus apps better than one? Block spam from Google results, and the new releases for February 22nd, 2011.
Is there an easy way to load tons of files onto an iPad? Go on a Streetview Adventure. Hamchi: Use this no-config VPN to browse safe from any public network -and- secure your Minecraft server! Sometimes there's no point in upgrading your headphone. Did somebody say Tekzilla needs more guns?
Removing Stuff Your Toddler Stuffed In Your Slot Load DVD drive. The One Time You Should Use Overscan. What Happens When You Run Over An iPhone In A Pelican Case With A 3-Ton Truck? Windows Phone 7 Patch Fails. Final Cut Pro Update. Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Goes Smoothly. The New Blu-ray Releases For March 1, 2011!
We get expert impressions of Apple's iPad 2. How do you run 3rd party security apps along with Microsoft's own Windows Defender and Security Essentials. Is Thunderbolt the ultimate peripheral interface for the modern PC? Our recommendations for archiving data onto hard drives.
Updates From The Game Developers Conference. DVORAK vs. QWERTY, What Does The iPad 2 Mean For HD Lovers? Is The Samsung 8000 Worth The Price? Are Two Wi-Fi Networks Better Than One? And Our Featured Blu-ray Releases For March 8, 2011!
Our suggestions for shredding your hard drives. A lightning round of Twitter questions. Tested.com's Will Smith shows off his DIY CNC machine. Your ideas for new uses for an old PDA, and more!
Project Bulb Scam? Great Viewer Suggestions For Scanning Old Negatives, Puget Systems Serenity: One Quiet HTPC! Notepad++: You Need A Better Text Editor, Stop Renting From Your ISP, Where's the Windows Phone 7 Upgrade???
Poker Bots Are Winning! Broadband caps... SUCK if you love HD Video and Games! What to do before you clone your drive. Why is my new video card slower than my old one? A trio of our most popular tips. YOUR suggestions for the best certifications for IT jobs
We review Digital Projection's M-Vision Cine 230 projector, get hands on with the iPad 2, walk you through Handbrake's settings, answer your Twitter questions, and feature our favorite new Blu-ray releases for March 22, 2011!
Veronica's back from SXSW, DIY Home ISP Ideas, Battlestar Galactica Viewing Guide, AT&T is almost a monopoly again, Silicon Wafer Supply Interrupted, Xoom vs iPad2, Play For Japan, Cheap hard drives suck, iOS 4.3 Charging Problems.
We review Optoma's HD180 projector, an iPhone falls from a plane and lives, Firefox 4 is here, we flash back and reminisce about PCs from 1989, and list our favorite new Blu-ray releases for March 29th, 2011.
Pantyhose for Your PC? Pocket Tablet Picks, Make Foursquare Fun Again, Notebook HD Upgrade Made Easy, Free Drive Cloning Tools, Pocket Tablet Picks and find out what happens when the Pelican 1510LOC meets the sledgehammer...
Should I buy that new Blu-ray now or wait for the next release? Microsoft says tablets are a passing fad. Google's +1 means you'll get to vote on search results, and our favorite new Blu-ray releases for April 5th, 2011.
Spear Phishing Sucks! Plus Elune Makes A Prettier Desktop, Sony Does Android?, The Trick To Turning On AHCI, Star.me Access Code, Kansas City Gets Google Fiber, Help setting up multi-zone audio, Comments on Cassandra's N800 upgrade, and Sonic Screwdrivers!
The Catch With Comcast's Business Class, Tech Safety Tips, Toolkits, Awesome Windows Shortcut, New Commodore 64 Adds Blu-ray Support, and more!
Photoshop Gets iPad Remote Control. We gut the iPad 2 with iFixit! Veronica talks CrashPlan: her Mozy alternative for online backup. Monitor reccos for programmers.... and anybody else that can use more workspace! Creative Suite 5.5? It's all about renting. TiVo Hacking, the RIGHT way to Turn On AHCI and How To Hide A Grill!
Loyd Case answers! Can I depend on a refurbished product? USB monitor, rotating outlets, all Star Trek series coming to Netflix, our favorite new Blu-ray releases for April 19th, 2011, and more!
We interview Adam Pash from Lifehacker, look at security camera options for the home from cheap to expensive.
Freeze-Proof Your Gear, Share Screenshots Online The Easy Way, iTunes alternatives for cross-platform devices, Tested.com's Will Smith talks iPad 2 browsers, and more!
iPad 2 Apple A5 CPU Swap for iPhone? Google Reverses on Video Shutdown! More Networked Video Cameras For New Parents, Tablet PC with GPS for the Farm, No iPads, Please! The Problem With Soundbars. USB Power Strip: One Gadget To Charge Them All, Even the iPad! PlayStation Network: Still Down, and more!
Automate HTTPS! Laptop Recommendations: Great Deals and what to look for from PC World's Jason Cross, the best upgrade to make your computer faster, Excellent Panasonic 50" plasma for under $1350 and our favorite Blu-ray releases for May 3rd, 2011!
4G Fight: we face off Verizon's 4G LTE MiFi mobile hotspot vs. Sprint 4G Overdrive. Should you wait for Lion or buy a MacBook now? Is TOR good for sending Stuff to Wikileaks: Anonymity vs. Encryption. How to boot into Windows instead of Linux, and much more!
Where can I find accurate tech specs? Which free encryption software is best? What about Blu-ray playback? No iPhone 5 this summer! Google TV 2.0 is coming. How do I use bit rate to balance file size and audio quality? And our favorite new Blu-ray releases for May 10th, 2011!
Which One Will Kill Your Phone: Amperage or Voltage? Get into Instagram from Any Web Browser. A Cop weighs in on the legality of security cameras in your home. We can cool off your laptop with a pencil. And much more!
Loyd Case answers more of your graphics questions, talks Z68 chipset and shows off his LAN party cave! Updates from Google I/O: Chromebooks, Android @ Home, and self-driving cars in Nevada!
The Best Doctor Who Episodes For Newbies! The ThinkPad That Nearly Cost Me My Job! Did Dropbox Lie About Employee Access To Your Files? The PlayStation Network is back. And so much more on today's Tekzilla!
Destructoid's Tara Long talks L.A. Noire. Does Android have security issues? MacBook Pro vs iMac: which is better for video editing? Do I need a sound card? And our favorite Blu-ray releases for May 24th, 2011!
Maker Faire - the Ultimate DIY Festival! Plus, Google Maps Mobile, Windows Phone 7.5, Hands Free Bluetooth, Best Lossless Audio Codec, and much more!
SD card Class Explained: It's all about speed! Apple Talks Mac Defender Malware Patch, Panasonic's secret Hollywood laboratory, YouTube turns 6, transparent LCDs, and much more!
SongFacts.com: It's Like IMDB for Music! Our favorite FREE encryption software runs on any OS. Transfer Mac Files to a PC FAST. HTPC Tuner Cards for Satellite TV. How to upgrade a trailing edge 3D video card on the cheap. And much more!
Will wireless data caps go away? Help calibrating your PC monitor. More Windows 8 features, TiVo vs Windows Media Center, making your PC 3D-ready, What are GUNNAR Optiks supposed do to prevent computer headaches and eye strain, and our favorite Blu-ray releases for June 7th, 2011!
Xbox and PS3 Keynotes From E3: it's a good week for gaming! HP's Veer 4g... the tiniest smart phone we've ever lost in the couch cushions. Copying Files Across Systems: how about exFAT? BlipFest means awesome 8-bit music from old gaming hardware, and more!
KEF T Series speakers hands on. A great site for buying HD Audio! Google adds transit updates to Maps. Destructoid brings us the hottest news from E3! Improve your surround sound speaker setup. Want the cheapest printing costs possible? Infinite HDMI. Favorite Blu-ray releases for June 14th, 2011!
Install Your Old SSD Into A New Computer! Loyd Case Answers Your PC Hardware Questions! Acer Iconia and HP TouchPad. Did Apple Steal iOS Wi-Fi Sync? AxCrypt might be easier to use than TrueCrypt. Need a fast PC on the cheap? Think about running Bulldozer and AM3+! Can I Buy OS X Lion on Disc? And much, much more!
New Airport Extreme, Google Nexus and Starbucks App! Patrick picks Scenic Map when exploring the boonies... and talks Navigon vs. Motion X GPS Drive for more populated places! We've got We've got cheap HDTVs, a totally solid guesstimate possible Windows 8 release date, and new model number for our favorite bargain Denon surround sound receivers! Who needs Google Maps' transit updates anyhow? Best Topo Maps for road trips, and our favorite new Blu-ray releases for June 21st, 2011!
What is a DOS attack, and can I start one accidentally? Inventibles: Find Materials to Make Your Ideas Real. Ground Loop Hum vs. the Dreaded Coax Cable Hum! The Oona's Danny Fukuba Talks Kickstarter.com. And much more!
Router hides some websites. Xubuntu - The Faster Ubuntu. A good deal on a 50 inch plasma. Password 101: pick secure passwords and use KeePass or LastPass! What games can you play on your hardware? A good reason to run OpenDNS. Do we recommend OS X Lion? New Blu-ray releases for the week of June 28th, 2011!
EFF Updates "Know Your Rights!" Gina Trapani shows us ThinkUP and talks Open Source, SCOTUS Says Video Games are protected by the First Amendment! Can The Cops Take Your Computer? Cheap 32" HDTVs for Monitors, Shoudl You Defrag Dropbox or TrueCrypt? Internet Filtering... For The Children!
We talk Google Plus, 1080p vs. 720p, Windows Phone 7 and the LastPass hack response. Jason Cross from PCWorld reviews new Llano and Bulldozer CPUs from AMD. When should I upgrade my graphics card? Why does Tekzilla look different? And more!
What's the best way to benchmark? Spotify comes to the US, Netflix expands, Android grows. Does backlight destroy your picture? Are expensive audio cables any better? PlayStation Network Gets a Makeover!
Cheap MagSafe Power Supplies! Single Platter HDDs, Best 3D Blu-ray, G+ in One Year, Does iTunes Run Better on Mac? We Show You How To Move iTunes To A New Drive, Discover and Share New Recipes with Foodily, Is iTunes going 1080p? Veronica's Battle To The Death With A Giant Crustacean!!!
Should we build another Hackintosh? The shipper dropped this Samsung 8000... we dissect it and show you what's inside! How Much Are You Worth to Google and Facebook? Lightsquared says its nationwide 4G system won't block GPS reception. From cases to GPU recommendations, Loyd Case answers your PC build questions, and more!
We show you what does the Microwave does to WiFi and talk low cost 2.4GHz/Bluetooth experimentation tools with Hak5's Darren Kitchen and answer the classic question: is this energy saving product a scam? Stop iPhone Rumors, Roger reviews a pair of waterproof camcorders: the Toshiba Camileo BW10 and Samsung W200 and talks about why he hates cheap camcorders. New parents that want a top of the line HD Camcorder: we pick between the Canon Vixia HF S21 or Sony HDR-CX560V. Great ideas for recording instruments... and fixing iTunes stuttering!
Some of the best looking HD video is free: we show you how to get it! OS X Lion has been released! CNET's Lori Grunin names the best deals in cameras for beginners and experts, and we list our favorite Blu-ray releases for July 19th, 2011!
Joined by the ever so awesome Cali Lewis, SoldierKnowsBest and Darren Kitchen, Tekzilla talks Travel Tech! Veronica reviews the Toshiba Thrive. Mark Watson builds an easy DIY Home Surveillance Rig, Cali Lewis tells us about the tech tools she won't travel without and Darren Kitchen explains why you should never get too comfortable with WiFi in the hotel or coffee shop! We've also got the Energizer XP18000, explain why most video glasses don't feel like 50 inch HDTVs and talk about using Bluetooth On A Plane!
Can 3D Camcorders simultaneously record 2D? Do Intel and AMD CPUs use different types of RAM? Apple makes life harder. Does the NSA have the authority to track cell phones in the US? 71% of online adults now use video sharing sites? Duh! Plus, our favorite Blu-ray releases for July 26th, 2011!
Roku 2: Easy Streaming HD Video, Smaller Box Adds Angry Birds. Hold Your Camcorder The Right way! Find Comfortable Earbuds, or make the ones you have more comfortable. MacBook Air Bag Recco, Should YOU use RAW instead of JPEG on your digital camera? Tom's Hardware Report: "Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?" Square's credit card reader business is growing, Datacenter Power Consumption Is Down, a couple warnings if you use your corporate VPN to protect you when you travel!
How to pick the right NAS for you! Can I calibrate my phone? How to stream video from your computer to your console, what's in our techy toolbox, and our favorite Blu-ray releases for August 2nd, 2011!
Veronica gets hands on with Lenovo's Ideapad and talks Lion OS X upgrades (do or don't!) with Tested.com's Will Smith. Defcon and Blackhat... what fresh hell was unleashed at osur favorite security conferences. Is Mint Safe? Is Google's TiSP Commode Based Wireless Broadband real? Google Multiple Sign In switches between your accounts (just read the manual first!) while Google's 2-Step Verification calls your phone every time you log in... it's like a password on steroids!
Android Question Dogpile: Upgrade Woes, Podcast Download Apps and Headset Picks! Our Favorite sub-$100 and $350 Waterproof Digital Cameras. What -is- that micro SD card on the Roku 2 for anyway??? Windows 7 is taking over. The NYPD is taking the fight to Facebook and Twitter, Kindle and Vudu Sidestep iOS Sales Fees, & more!
Don't want to pull Ethernet through your walls? Networking over Coax is an option. Cloning Over A Fresh Install, "The action cannot be completed because the folder or file in it is open by another program" is so annoying. More Help Recording A High School Musical. Why did Google Buy Motorola? Patents. To Protect Android. Hipmunk: 'cause searching for flights and hotels shouldn't suck. Users Fought Metered Billing in 1886, too. Why yes we do love good SEO!
The Big Lebowski Arrives On Blu-ray, and Blu-ray has finally made it to OS X with the Mac Blu-ray Player! 3DS vs. PSVita: Destructoid's Tara Long Tells Why These Ain't No Gameboys! Skype is back on OS X. More ways to download your favorite shows to an Android phone, and more!
Tunefind: what was that song in True Blood? WebOS Ain't Dead? What Video Site Has The Most Viewers: It Ain't Facebook! HP TouchPad Fire Sale, WebOS Ain't Dead, Hulu Auction Starts This Week! I want a thin and light laptop that isn't the Air and runs an open source OS! Booting Ubuntu on Mac. Evernote VP Andrew Sinkov talks about Skitch and the future of Evernote. Ethernet over Coax: Watch the POE!
HDMI Specs: Just ignore 'em and plug in that cable! Buying the right UPS. With all the WiFi locations, do I really need Mobile Internet? Stream your wedding even if the church doesn't have WiFi! Was the iPad invented by 2001 film director Stanley Kubrick in 1968?
Does the Obihai VoIP make a good landline replacement? Ryan Block for gdgt.com is here with his experiences. Robert explains how to color match multiple monitors on the same PC. We show you the secret to recording great audio from a camcorder. And we find out if Ceton's 4 Channel USB TV Tuner can record all simultaneously record all 4 channels over USB 2.0!
Loyd is back with answers to your PC questions! Windows ReadyBoost is dead, The 2012 Olymics will be in 3D. Wireless router pick: WNDR 4000 vs. 3700. Why -IS- everybody talking about the new Amazon Tablet? Skype releases adapters for your old telephone, Asterisk. Robert loves SpectraCal's CalMAN software... he reviews their new M2 Colorimeter. (Can it take your HDTV calibration to the next level?) The DOJ will fight the AT&T T-Mobile merger, Family Radio, drive recovery, and how much work -is- your GPU doing...
We celebrate Labor Day with some fun projects you can do yourself! Our favorite tools for streaming music anywhere in the house wirelessly. Turn any laptop into an Wi-Fi hotspot. Make large posters on the cheap with your printer. Great websites for finding new music. Make your PC quieter by installing a new CPU cooler!
120Hz vs. 60Hz HDTVS, No, Netflix isn't shutting down multiple streams. Why you should calibrate EVERY input on your HDTV, Windows Phone Mango vs. iOS and Android: AppJudgment's Zac Minor joins us, & InstantWatcher helps you track what's available on Netflix!
Your lists of tech for 72 hour emergency bug out bags. Doctor Popular shows how to take better pictures with the camera in your phone. GPS, the Supreme Court, and the 4th Amendment. TuneIn the radio station you miss... on your Cell Phone. The longest lasting iPhone battery we know of: the TruePower Pro IV
Xbox Live Coming to Windows, Setting up your new HDTV The right way, Is the iPad coming to Sprint? Windows Phone vs. Android Fragmentation, Cinetap: Great Netflix interface for the iPad. It's easy to burn ISO files onto CD, DVD or Blu-ray disks. Loyd Case gives us the best picks from the 2011 IDF!
Make your favorite websites work together with If This Then That! Play games. Solve science problems. Fold.it is cool. We answer piles of Windows 8 questions with Tested's Will Smith, Anti-roll Paper for Rasterbator, Triple Monitor Gaming: Flatpanel and GPU picks, Free Blu-ray Software, and Veronica makes the call on the California Whopper!
Great color, speedy apps: Samsung's PN-D8000 is proof that plasma is not dead! Thanks to TonyMacX86, Roger built a great Hackintosh! SOL Republic Tracks HD: these headphones have serious bass. Check out library books on your Kindle. Twitter wants election advertising, our favorite custom Home Theater PC Maker and the love that dares not speak its name... yes, we're talking BlackBerry phones!
24, Arrested Development, The X-Files: Streaming On Amazon Prime! Dreamworks Signs With Netflix! Lightsquared Fights For Nationwide ISP, Hackintosh Price: A lot less than a Mac Pro! The iPhone Case Patrick Can't Kill. The Myth Of Degaussing... magnets might not be enough. How To Make 3D Video: Serafina Takes the GoPro 3D Hero System On The Road Free Audio Recording.
Firefox 7, new Skype for iPhone, Amazon Kindle Fire & Touch, HDTVs without apps and other fluff, stuffing headphones under helmets, DELICIOUS is BACK, Airplane Mode vs. takeoff and landing, where has Picture in Picture gone, & more!
The iPhone 5 announcement is tomorrow! Ryan Shrout's been testing Battlefield 3, and he knows what you need in your PC for the best performance. Your ideas for securing Nintendo DS Wi-Fi. What can you get somebody to do for $5? Check out Fiverr.com! Patrick's latest Quiet PC build is affordable... but we've got some over the top super-quiet upgrades. Reading books on phones and tablets SUCK: we'd rather use a reader with an E Ink screen.
Robert's Ultimate Guide To WiFi Security. DIY Re-Lamp or Buy A New Projector Bulb? Can A Power Supply Kill Your Hard Drive? Serious WiFi Security Is Easy. No iPhone 5. Surge Protectors, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) and keeping your gear alive. Xbox 360: Your New Comcast Box, and more!
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Create custom Windows shortcut key combos, visualize that product size, saving iPhone games (and everything else) when you upgrade to iPhone 4s or iOS 5. Is Ethan gonna melt his CPU??? We talk affordable CPU coolers and why you don't need to worry too much about CPU temperatures and more more!
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A new round of attacks on PlayStation Network accounts, iPhone 4S: the early reviewers love Siri. Bulldozer: AMD's latest should be faster, Loyd Case talks PCIe SSDs, Battlezone 3 GPU upgrades, CPU upgrades (now or later?). We talk about why wireless hotspots probably aren't the answer to broadband caps. Drew wants to know if downloading or streaming Tekzilla uses more bandwidth. Robert Reviews the Insignia Connected TV with TiVo Interface!
Sh*tThatSiriSays, Veronica loves the FitBit, how does the FitBit Ultra hold up? iPhone 4S: Siri, the camera, and how about the stabilization on 1080p video? GPlusGlobe! Which RSS reader should I use? Geek starter-kit: your first $100 in tech tools! (most people need just ONE screwdriver!) and Amazon to publish 122 Books this fall.
New Android phones: RAZR vs. Galaxy Nexus, Sandforce SSD blue screen of death fixed, and Anandtech's picks for solid state drives: OCZ, Intel or Samsung??? I'm paying for 16Mbps down, why do I never get more than 4Mbps from Cox Cable? Can you wear out a hard drive? Defrag your HD, it'll run faster, and we've got a free too: iObit's SmartDefrag. Are there any prescription 3D glasses out there? And Google's Infinite Digital Bookcase is way cool!
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Veronica is back from BlizzCon 2011 with a full report on the latest WOW, Diablo III and StarCraft II developments. Learn how to hack your Canon point-and-shoot camera and add additional features and tools for free! Veronica shares her thoughts on Vizio's Tablet. Is it a serious alternative to other Android Tablets or just a glorified remote control? And more!
Cali Lewis from GeekBeat.TV joins us to talk about the OnStar FMV, Microsoft and Nokia announce the Lumia 800. Also why are my TV channels encrypted? How to make your own 3D prescription glasses. And what is Energy Star? Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy on Blu-ray!
Can you re-download movies that you erased from iTunes? Parts to isolate your HD from damage! Flooding in Thailand causes hard drive to prices soar! Pioneer's AppRadio puts the iPhone in your dashboard. Ubuntu Linux goes mobile, and more!
Hack your DNS and speed up the Internets! Data vs. military exercises: go with an SSD! A perfect stripped down HDTV: no speakers, no tuner, no stand no apps! Split coax without killing your internet. Free automated remote backup, bits vs. bytes vs. download speed, 500 million Angry Birds!
CrashPlan backs up between PCs for FREE. Olloclip: an iPhone camera lens worth buying... and three others you'll want to see. Nook Tablet, Google+ adds places, things and brands. Disney partners with YouTube. We've got an easy way to help you pick the right size UPS. Wondering why your PC is running so slow? And a great viewer tip!
A hard drive we can't kill? What about a 7,000 pound truck? Mark Watson aka Soldier Knows Best helps you make perfect screen captures. Comcast is rolling out IPv6, the Boxee Box is getting live TV, Adobe drops mobile Flash, Amazon offers a list of apps for Kindle Fire, Harry Potter's final movie in HDNation and much more!
When will hard drive prices prop? iPod Nano recall! Hands-on with the Lumia 800, Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 handset! Intel's new Sandy Bridge Extreme with Loyd Case. Veronica gives us the lowdown on Sony's new e-reader. Black Friday deals, photography and travel: Stuck In Customs. Can magnets kill RFID cards?
On today's show, Spears and Munsil: Robert shows off our favorite HDTV calibration disk. Is Sony starting internet an alternative to cable? Intel's amazing teraflop co-processor, Sony NEX-5N vs. Olympus E-PM1: which mirror-less interchangeable lens camera is worth your cash??? Registry Cleaners, what to do before you take your iPhone for service, Hak5's Wi-Fi pineapple and much more.
On today's show, we've got a Kindle Fire hands-on with AppJudgment's Stephanie Chu, an Ultrabook round-up and holiday laptop picks from PC World's Jason Cross.
Whether you're throwing elbows at the mall, or staying home with Amazon Prime, we've got Digital Camera, HDTV and Blu-ray player picks, a roundup of surround sound gaming headsets and a speed round of picks for your Black Friday-ish questions: which set top boxes, front projectors, AV Receivers, DACS, hard drives, Bluetooth headsets, speaker phones and head units are the best deals?!
Converting old vinyl LPs into MP3s? We show you how to remove the pops and clicks for free! And turn an old Apple TV into a fully functional Macintosh. Noah from TechnoBuffalo shows you how! That and much more, on today's episode.
On today's show, did your Android phone ship with a rookit? The FCC explains why they canceled ATT-Mobile. We explore the future of WebOS, give our favorite holiday photo tips, SoldierKnowsBest has Siri tips for your iPhone 4s, and much more!
CarrierIQ Update. Professional Advice on CAT 6 cabling for Gigabit Ethernet. Google TV: our buddy Mau says it's the best set top box evah! Windows Update is a good start on Parentproofing your PC, but Robert's got a great next step. XBox Live gets some serious entertainment enhancements. Why Does iPhone Make You Use WiFi For Downloads?
Kevin Mitnick talks social engineering and his new book. Xbox Live... we're liking the new interface, especially for Netflix! And Rob talks video inputs, from best to worst.
Want to use your iPhone or Android device without taking your gloves off? Veronica's got a pair for you to check out! Memory advance suggests 2TB Solid State Drives are coming! HP turns WebOS open source. Hybrid Drives Benchmarked (they're fast!) Study says Chrome is the most secure browser... guess who paid for the study?
Fight SOPA 2.0: it still sucks and they're voting on it! Plus, Destructoid's Max Scoville gives us his review of the PlayStation Vita.
Under the tree or in the stocking, what do Veronica, Robert and Roger hope to get this holiday season?
Missed a geek on your shopping list? You'll love our collection of last minute geek gifts!
Is GetCocoon for real? Got a new PC under the tree? Here are our fave free apps! Plus DIY touchscreen gloves, Skyrim help, your favorite Christmas Day tech support questions, and parent-proof your mom and dad's PC while you're home for the holidays.
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Update Silverlight, Fix Netflix! Robotic camera mount follows your every move. Find your product keys and serial numbers... before you wipe your system! Who's got the fastest 4G out there??? Amazon Video on Demand hits the PS3.
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The best mechanical keyboards... and Rosewill's keyboard fails. Pelican ProGear U100 Urban Elite Laptop Backpack: Is it crushproof? TecTiles make anything support Near Field Communication... another treat for Galaxy SIII owners! Want the ultimate custom keyboard? Check out TechKeys. Big HD Screens: combine 4 60 inch LCDs, or get a projector? Do I need a screen for a projector? Customizable expander tools: think 7-Zip or iZarc!
Solar Powered Bluetooth Audio: We test out the Etón Rukus Solar Bluetooth Speaker! Tips to boost your WiFi. Mackenzie ruined the CMOS in his digital camera with a laser...we have some products and tips to help protect yours! Plus, don't use the wrong email address, Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite review & more!
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Gaming PC now, or wait for the next gen Playstation and Xbox? HTPC Hard drive: Green, Black or Red? Windows 8 Phone Pre-Orders and Samsung Mini Galaxy SIII are coming! Monoprice's RedMere: is this the Ultimate HDMI Cable Samung new E8000 plasma HDTV... it's full o' tech. Dumping your hard drive for an SSD? We can make the move pain free! Jack nees a professional bio... is there something better than About.me?
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Robert and Veronica discuss Felix Baumgartner's record breaking skydive from space and did Veronica get parodied on last weekend's Saturday Night Live? Robert shares his tips on running Windows from an SSD. We explain how to build the ultimate video editing PC. Which PC Surround Sound Speakers you should get. And viewers share a tip on how to score FREE HDMI cables and some alternatives to linkedin.com for expanind your business contacts.
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DIY NFC Tiles and the awesome apps that use them! Rumors vs. facts... when tech news isn't. Upgrading memory? Windows 8 can pack up to 512 GB of RAM... how about Windows 7? NFC Task Launcher. InstaWiFi. Convert .WTV files from Windows Media Center into something your phone can play. GoPro's got a pocket sized 4K camera for $400? Wall Mounting Part II... make sure that HDTV don't fall off the wall. Best brand of flosser?
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What would you do if all your eBooks -and your account- got wiped by Amazon? Upgrade a UPS with a car battery... yes or no? Tools you need to work on a PC? Our list is short, but super useful! We asked what you do with massive amounts of RAM: photo-stitching and super servers are on the list! Creattica.com means design inspiration.
In this episode of Tekzilla, we check out how to boot straight to the Windows 8 desktop, how to play Google Play music on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and discuss whether netbooks have died out.
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In this episode, in light of Hurricane Sandy, we show you some very useful emergency tech and show you how to create an easy to remember password that's still tough to crack.
On this episode of Tekzilla, we look at the IdeaPad Yoga 13, Chrome's Remote Desktop and Carbibles.com!
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Its time to unbox the Wii U! Get a DVD collection to play on Windows 8 and Sharon Vaknin from CNET stops by to show us how to connect a USB device or SD card to an Android phone or tablet!
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On today's Tekzilla, we check out ways to boost your Wi-Fi, the return of Blackberry, the Thingiverse and much more!
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Best smartphones to look for on black Friday? $49 and up, ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile and more, PCMag's Sascha Segan has some great picks! Beer Box WiFi Booster: Justin took our advice, grabbed some aluminum foil and made his WiFi work better.
Multi-Tool case adds blade to your iPhone! Atari Arcade brings old school games to your browser. Linux podcatcher recommendation? We've got tips for boosting battery life on Android phones! And Apple isn't the only company that cuts off old hardware: Where is Windows Phone 7.8?
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Tim Ferriss, The Four-Hour CHEF, talks $7 cleavers, knife skills, and the battle between Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Better iPhone Photography: we've got lenses, mounts, and more! Programmable Thermostats, the Nest is just one of many excellent options. Eavesdropping on Rdio. And much more!
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David is looking to upgrade his Windows box, but we've got concerns... is he upgrading his memory and GPU in the wrong order? Greg wants a Windows 8 tablet, and he doesn't want a big performance drop from his old laptop. Upgrading to Windows 8 with older hardware? Robert has some suggestions! And much more.
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FreeNAS or UnRAID. We're thinking DIY NAS build, and these are hardly your only options! Plus WhatWasThere.com, a toddler-proof iPad with indestructible iPad cases, ideas to recycle old PCs, high priced gaming PCs... are they worth your money?
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Samsung's affordable ES6500 46" Samsung HDTV... is it better than Panasonic's ST50? Mac or Windows for video editing? 27" touchscreen makes Windows 8 awesome. What were Google's biggest search trends this year? Plus we show off HP's Elitebook 2570p and talk enterprise laptops.
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Moving your PC across the room is easy. Moving it across the country is a little bit harder. We share our secrets for moving with your PC gear. Plus we highlight our favorite disk imaging tools for Windows, get Roger's experience with moving to a new Smartphone platform and what you should keep in mind when you do the same and how a bottle of isopropyl alcohol can be a handy monitor cleaning agent.
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Cards Against Humanity: A Party Game For Horrible People. Sound bar? Try wireless remotes or a $235 Home Theater In A Box. Screw The Mayan Apocolypse. The Free Universal Remote You Already Own. Tech Support...
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Did you find some new tech under the tree? We've got a collection of tips, tricks and free software to get you going! Digital cameras, Android, iOS, Windows OS X... let's get your new gear going! Hope you're having a wonderful Christmas day, and hope our favorite software picks and hardware tips will get you up and running fast.
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Turn a website into an audio book. Make websites easier to read at night. How popular are your tweets? Free online language lessons. Windows 8 Consumer Preview... 3 Tips for Windows 8 Newbies. Fl.ux, and the first five things to do to with your new HDTV and Home Theater gear!
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Happy New Years! Let's get DIY and make your favorite gloves work with the touchscreen on your phone. Should you remove your hard drive before you move your PC? Car audio upgrades: what about acoustic insulation? Gaming Headsets: Astro A50, Sennheiser U320wired, wireless, stereo vs. surround sound... and is Dolby Headphone any good? Can you upgrade the video card in your PC? PDF Split and Merge can join those document scans!
Windows Error Recovery... what to do if you get the big black screen. Want your surround sound system to sound right? Put your rear speakers in the right place! Ubuntu is coming for cell phones! Buy it or build it... we're not talking PCs. Plus Robert's CES Preview: Affordable 4K HDTVs, affordable 3D projectors and more!
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Now that we've been here at CES 2013 for a couple of days, check out what sorts of things we've seen so far and what cool tech stood out to Robert, Veronica and Patrick.
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Patrick and Robert took some time away from the show floor to discuss some of the cool stuff they've seen so far, in particular, the wealth of 4K TVs they saw on display. From Sony to Toshiba, hear what they thought about 4K being the future of television.
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We're back from CES 2013 and we've got tons of stuff to tell you about, from headphones to backpacks and even, dare we say it...the Steambox?
Today on Tekzilla, we talk a need for a Java fix, the best HDTV from CES, new HD projectors and when you should call tech support. All this and more on Tekzilla!
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On today's Tekzilla, we talk reveal which sites we trust for PC part reviews, how to test audio gear and is Dropbox overpriced?
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On today's Tekzilla, we talk about protecting your tech, the difference between entry level and professional cameras, Kim DotCom's Mega project and much more!
We're talking mic upgrades that improve the audio on your video camera. APC Vs. CyberPower: Picking an Uninterruptible Power Supply. Is this a good first smartphone? WikiCancel your way out of anything. Twitter's new Vine... think 6 second tone poems of video fun.
When you should upgrade or replace your laptop, Super Bowl HDTV tweaks, the Blackberry Z10 is revealed and more.
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On today's Tekzilla, we preview Sim City, take a look at the Libratone airplay speakers and more!
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On today's Tekzilla, we check out a few websites to help you find a movie or TV show online, where to buy replacement UPS batteries, upgrading your laptop and more!
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Block unwanted sites from Google searches. Will leaving your laptop plugged in all the time kill your battery??? There's a new Mailbox for OS X, and it's better than Sparrow. Google Search got you down? We've got tips to make it better! DMAChoice can stop junk mail and unwanted catalogs. Battery University.
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Today on Tekzilla, Anand Shimpi visits to talk about Microsoft Pro. Plus, speed up your Windows install with a thumb drive, speaker cable recommendations and using your smart phone to power your HDTV!
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Who's tracking you online... and can you stop them? Buying a new power supply? We've got reccos! Boxcryptor brings Dropbox and Truecrypt together. Noise canceling headphones: where they work best, and which ones you should buy. Tubalr: a new way to find great music... on YouTube. Cookies explained, and why you might want to block them.
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Faster Windows installs are easy! Plus the PlayStation 4 is unveiled: where's the console? Nvidia's new Titan GPU: did the 680 just get spanked??? Can a microwave oven trash your HDTV? Mandiant links China's Army to hacking. No 404 fail here! And much more.
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Fat 32, geocaching, USB 3.0 emergency cable secrets and vegan pseudo cheddar dip on this episode of Tekzilla!
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Six strikes and you're out? Just what does the new Copyright Alert System mean to you? Don needs a USB battery pack to keep his phone going on long hikes. Where can I buy legal copies of Windows to use with OS X Boot Camp?The SpaceTop 3-D Desktop let's you "reach inside" your PC... and the Leap Motion has a ship date. No S-video on your new HDTV? We've got analog to HDMI converter reccos! Schindler's List is one gorgeous Blu-ray.
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On today's Tekzilla, we talk camera apps for your smartphone, disaster prep for your tech, Nexus 4 wireless chargers and the blinky red light!
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Seagate's new solid state hybrid drives, a BlackBerry Z10 launch date, cheap OBDII adapters for Android and Windows, Steam meets Linux - is our new Steambox awesome or awful? Plus a free unlimited storage hack, using Gmail to find who's spamming you and much more.
On today's Tekzilla, we celebrate Pi Day! Take our Raspberry Pi Challenge, check out Berryboot and we tell you which rechargeable AA batteries you should be buying! Plus, Bluetooth mice and much more!
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Lifehacker's Whitson Gordon stops by to share a couple replacements for Google Reader when its gone in July, we check out your Netflix Super HD reviews, the Linux Steambox and more on today's Tekzilla!
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Can the $35 Raspberry Pi cut it as a Desktop PC? Rooting your Android Smart Phone is easier than you think... and it might be the only way to upgrade the OS. We love Puppy Linux! $50 speakers worth owning? Screw Bluetooth, we've got a WiFi mouse!
On this episode of Tekzilla, Adam Sessler stops by to review BioShock Infinite, we talk expensive upgrades to your gaming PC, plus, TressFX and shipping to Australia!
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On today's Tekzilla, we talk driver upgrades for your GPU, HDTV bargain prices, T-Mobile's new outlook, rebooting your cable modem and much more!
Today on Tekzilla, we talk apps to track your mobile data, a Nexus 7 dash install and whether business class internet is actually better. Plus, back up 5 terabytes offsite and help for Linux noobs!
On today's Tekzilla, we show you how to digitize your old VHS tapes, 5 apps for rooted Android phones, red versus blue versus green HDDs and much more!
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The new Xbox may require an always-on Internet connection. Grab the vacuum and download these awesome utilities... it's Spring Cleaning for your Windows or OS X box! Sync folders across multiple machines. Need a webcam? Better think about better audio, too! Finding a laser printer that works with Google's Cloud Print.
On today's Tekzilla, we help you get the colors right on your monitor, plus Sony ships 4K monitors, sim cards for travel, the bitcoin bubble and much more!
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Manage your Google accounts after you're dead, livestream graduation photos with Eventstagr.am and learn a few tweaks to make Facebook Home usable! Plus, check out 3M's Electronic Vacuum and much more.
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Build a private Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync, help pick out the right SSD for your laptop upgrade, new Harmony remotes from Logitech, Netflix is dropping Silverlight, OS color calibration and much more!
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Is Windows 8.1 going to bring back the start button? Avoid common errors in English usage! Find out if you can get custom molds for any earbuds, long distance WiFi 101, and if it's safe to buy a new iMac, iPhone or iPad or are there new models coming?! Plus Velodyne... can a subwoofer company make great earbuds?
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Share huge files with BitTorrent Sync, AMD's new 7990, and Ben Heck visit's on this episode of Tekzilla!
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Undelete and unerase: Recuva saves lost data in Windows for free. Intel's new Haswell CPUs... we haz a ship date! How much is your data worth? Plus charge all your USB gear with Bestek's 1875W USB wall charging station and find out how long before your headphones or speakers wear out!
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On this episode we learn how to solder Star Wars style, stream live TV to Android over the internet, look at which companies to trust and more!
New Xbox 720 rumors, real-time energy monitoring, custom ear buds and don't track me online software!
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Fix your network, get the latest on Google Glass, and make long distance WiFi easy!
RAM Prices Going UP, iPad Mini or Galaxy Tab, and Protect Your Hearing
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On today's episode we talk about Google I/O announcements, keep your laptop cool, active HDMI cables, and Maker Faire!
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We Recap Maker Faire. Veronica shows off her Ultimate Ears 11 custom molded earbuds and we take a look at the shinys from Google IO and an in-depth look at Google Glass.
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We talk to Adam Sessler about the Xbox Reveal, Darren Kitchen about hacking across America, cheap HDTV mounts, and more!
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Out picks for best low-cost aftermarket CPU Cooler! How to mine Bitcoin like a pro. Ground Any Electrical Outlet. Should you RAID SSDs? When is XBMC for Google TV? Mustard vs. Thermal Compound.
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On today's episode we talk about converting existing Windows installs into virtual machines, Xbox vs. PS4 specs, CD-R emulators, and way more!
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Intel's new Haswell CPU, Razer Edge Pro review, batch resizing tools, Veronica reviews GoPro for Pets, Sirius XM is pretty good & much more!
New Gear From Computex, finding a sub $300 video camera with audio in jacks, how to block AC line noise, and more on today's Tekzilla.
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NSA's PRISM digital spy program, E3 2013 Games for the Xbox One, Apple's new OS X, iOS 7, MacBook Air, MacPro, and Gaming Headset Round-up.
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MythBusters Interview - Jamie and Adam talk iOS versus Android, Google Glass and how Superman Shaves! Plus E3 2013 wrap-up, Robert reviews the Pebble Watch, turn off Flash In OS X, handbrake presets for better Roku video and more!
Add a custom OS to your Raspberry Pi bootloader, add android to your Nook tablet, and rip lossless audio on today's episode!
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Jason Silva talks digital transcendence. Migrating your feeds from Google Reader. Fast free hard drive defrag tools. Cheap ASUS Android tablet.
On this episode we take a look at Windows 8.1, get hands-on with the Leap Motion, and give our impressions of the Ouya gaming console!
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DIY Raspberry Pi Backup Server, Belkin WeMo Review, 10 Gb Ethernet, Magic Behind Visual Effects.
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On today's episode, we've got solar chargers worthy of your bug out bag, the best office chairs, a sleep versus hibernate debate and more!
Free Software Site. Bartender OS X Menu Bar Tool. Home Automation Through the Web. Print your own SLR Camera! And much more!
On today's episode, we talk about what to do with old hard drives, HDMI over Ethernet, and a free giant collection of MAME games!
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Unblock American Hulu and Netflix video, OCR tools for Android and iPhone, watch NFL Games online, Open Source home automation, who is tracking you on your phone and more!
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The ultimate guide to CPU coolers, stream smart playlists, the best AIO printer, and more on today's Tekzilla!
The Best Windows Page File Size. Best Family Tree Software. Should you keep CDs after you rip them? Paul and Storm vs Neil Gaiman and Geroge R. R. Martin at Comc Con 2013.
Kill Flash in Google Chrome, Firefox, and IE. Can Google's $35 Chromecast beat Roku and Apple TV? 5 things we learned building the $300 Printrbot Simple 3D printer. Leap Motion: Robert's hands on review. New Nexus 7... nice specs!!
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Today on Tekzilla, find and Delete Duplicate Files, Chromecast Hands-On Review, geocaching tools for kids and an awesome free genealogy tool! Plus, sell your CDs while keeping the rights to your digital rips.
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We take a look at backing up photos with an Android tablet, legal high quality audio sources, upgrading to a long-lasting smartphone and more on today's Tekzilla!
Windows Apps You Should Uninstall, Nvidia's Gaming Handheld Console Reviewed, best Mini PCs, and FBI Hacks TOR.
On this episode of Tekzilla, we talk about recording sharks underwater, watermarking photos, and the best site for router reviews.
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Command Line for Internet Search, Free MAME Roms and How to Use Them, Vizio's All in One PC Review.
On today's Tekzilla: keep your passwords secure, Windows 8.1 ship date, and the best amp for your desktop PC!
When to Upgrade iPhones and iPads. Scan the Internet, All of it! Print via the internet with a Raspberry Pi. The future of wearable computers.
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On today's Tekzilla, we talk stand desks, VLC for iOS, password managers that suck, and way more!
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Manage Your Android Phone Remotely! Condense multi-page web stories onto a single page. How wireless charging works.
On today's Tekzilla, we look at the shiny Garmin Head-Up Display, the new version of Hashcat password cracker, get set straight on Android HDMI sticks and more!
iPhone to Android Move 101. SSD vs Hybrid Drives. Rip Audio CDs Super Fast. Catalog Books With Android Apps.
On today's Tekzilla, we talk PAX Prime 2013, Microsoft buying Nokia, a disaster-proof drive enclosure, and more!
Is Security Dead? We try to make our own unlimited storage dropbox alternative, make Chrome into your own personal organizer, and much more!
On this episode of Tekzilla we talk about Intel's newest processors, Apple's new iPhones, how to stop Chrome from saving passwords, and way more!
Review: Grand Theft Auto V. Convert Anything with CloudConvert! Stop Tablet Theft. Teach Toddlers How to Code.
In this episode of Tekzilla, we show off the best earplugs for concerts, talk hard drive data longevity, cover a whole lot of mobile news, and way more!
Top 5 New Features in iOS 7! Best 500GB SSD for OS X. How Many Times Can You Install Windows?
On this episode of Tekzilla, we make cutting the cord easy, figure out if you should upgrade your CPU, hope to fix game audio hell, and more!
Setup Smart Phones for Emergencies. 5 Hidden Features in VLC. Fix Steaming Video Problems. Do You Need A DAC?
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On this episode of Tekzilla, 5 great HDTVs under $500, making your Android phone safe to sell, Dell's new laptops, and more!
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Fix IE Flaw, Space Week, Turn Android Phones Into a VLC Remote. Valve's Steam Machine Specs.
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On this episode we've got digital camera picks, the best space apps, the best way to reinstall apps after a wipe, and way more!
3D Gaming Technology That Doesn't Suck! Stop YouTube Buffering Problems. Make Animated GIFs from Any Video Clip. Access Your Hard Drives Over the Internet. Best Console Gaming HDTVs.
On this episode of Tekzilla, we review the Sonos Play:1, talk easy Gmail backup, auditing TrueCrypt, and much more!
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Bluetooth Earbuds for Joggers. Our Fav Antivirus Program For Mac. EverDock Universal Dock Review. How to Use AVI Files With iMovie!
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New iPads, Mac Pro, Mavericks & Nokia's 6" Windows Phablets! 5 Best Features in Windows 8.1. Dump Chrome For Opera. 3 Free Video Conversion Tools!
HBO Go Without HBO??? Use OTR, Keep Your IM & Chat Private! Car Radiator For PC Cooling. Car Radiator For Liquid Cooling. Best Hard Drives. Earbuds That Stay Put During Parkour!
On this episode, using a password manager on a public PC, working with RAW files for free, 4k gaming, and more!
Test Your Audio Gear & Hearing For Free! Lastpass Beats KeyPass. Open Websites Incognito Automatically. Budget Gaming PC Builds.
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Pivot Power Genius: the power strip for geeks. Quirky's Spotter Multipurpose Sensor Review. Compress PDF Files. Block Apple TV Remote. Was Your Adobe Account Leaked?
How to buy the right tablet! Playstation 4 after the launch; system updates, SSD Upgrades, awesome gaming, and the Blue Light Of Death! DDR 4 Memory is coming. Setup a network through your electrical lines. Prevent hearing loss.
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Top 5 Black Friday Tech Tips! CryptoLocker Trojan Holds Data For Ransom. XBOX ONE HDMI passthrough Problems, Samsung 7100 HDTV vs. 8000, Fiber vs. Cable, PS4 can play DVDs. Tezkila's top Black Friday tip? Don't hurt yourself... we talk about getting good deals -and not get ripped off- on HDTVs or anything else on the biggest shopping day of the year. How good are Samsung's 7100 series HDTVs? FIOS vs. XFINITY? We walk you through the pros and cons of cable vs fiber for Inernet. Does the XBOX ONE HDMI passthrough degrade video quality? CryptoLocker: what can you do when malware holds your data for ransom. FDA wants 23AndMe to halt DNA testing
TeamViewer 9 Beta Demo! Best Kid-Proof Tablet Juicebox Proofed. Free Software That Steals. Sony Alpha Nex. Google Voice Search! Amazon Prime Air. Watch out for those Free toolbars... they might be doing more than just helping you organize your desktop! Where are the laptops with LTE support? Robert loves Google Voice Search. Snoop Dog loves Bitcoin and Amazon's delivery by drone. Tablet for kids: @mmhabib tweets "@patricknorton iPad mini or LeapPad Ultra for a 4-6 year olds?" OtterBox and LifeProof can juice box proof your tablet, btw! Malwarebytes says some free tools... slow down your system. Or worse. How good is Sony's Alpha Nex?
Top 5 Holiday Travel Security Tips! $500 PC or Xbox One or PS4? Which NAS Should I Use? Can Google Voice Search Spy On You? Tech Giants vs. Spying! Watching Curling online. Shannon Morse, aka Snubs from Hak 5 joins us today! Traveling over the holidays? You'll want to hear her top five tips for holiday security! Ever debug something? Thank Grace Hopper. Xbox One/PS4 or Cheap PC?Is Google Voice Search eavesdropping on you??? Tech Giants call for Global Government Surveillance Reform!!! A new source for Curling online!
Best Lens for your iPhone Camera. Stop NSA Snooping on your web browser. The Backpack that holds way more than you can carry. Viewer Recommendations for Kid Safe Tablets! Google bought Boston Dynamics, the coolest robot company in the US, and Google's 8th robotics purchase in 6 months! Can the NSA track everybody via cookies and cell phones? Why we want G-Sync, Nvidia's new Anti-tear technology! Telephoto, wide angle, fish-eye, macro... we've got the ultimate iPhone camera lenses on the set. Your tablet picks for kids, we're excited about Steam OS, and the Ultimate Backpack Search resumes with Chrome's Bravo Night!
Last Minute Geek Gifts! Top 3 Tips to Make Holiday Videos Awesome! Speed up the Internet with a new a DNS provider. New Google Voice Commands. Watch out for MyVideoLibrary.com OpenDNS vs Google DNS vs your DNS: Will a DNS change make your Internet faster??? STOP Bad Xmas Videos with Filmriot's Ryan Connelly! Tools, online services, lights, kits... we've got a great list of last minute tech gifts for the geeks in your life. MyVideoLibrary? A cord cutting 'deal' you'll want to avoid!!! Google Voice Commands: you'll totally want to talk to your Android phone!
Top 5 New Year's Tech Resolutions. Lock down your Google+ profile. Is Free 5 Mb Internet Enough? CES 2014 Preview! It's time to get your tech sorted... our Top 5 New Year's Tech Resolutions will get you started! Google's giving away FREE Internet, our viewer wants to know if 5 MBps is enough. CES 2014: we're already amped to cover all the amazing new consumer electronics gear, from all the big companies... find out what we epect to find!
Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass might keep you from getting sick... will it repel Cheetos dust? NVIDIA drops a 192-core mobile super processor...Intel's new Edison processor...UHD? 4K? LG, Samsung and Sony race to jump start 4k content and more.
Dell's $699 P2815Q 4K Ultra High Def monitor has one flaw. Chromecast vs. all the other Android boxes... and does Chromecast work in Canada? Where to start when you've just cut the cable. Target hacked, offers free credit monitoring. As a matter of fact, your set top box doesn't need Gigabit Ethernet. More gear from CES2014: Garmin Vivofit, DashCam 20,
Keep Strangers From Emailing You Via Google+. Top Things To Do With Your New Graphics Card! Would you use an Electronic Credit Card? Which is Better For Data Storage: 2.5" or 3.5" HDDs? Best E-Commerce Site! Rob cut the cable... what's he going to replace his Comcast subscription with? @BruinPharmD is curious what we think of onlycoin.com .... will it replace our credit cards? The first three things to do with your shiny new GPU! Ecommerce! Where should you build your online store? Successful online sellers gave us the best options for Scott's new online store! Google+ latest features lets random Gmail users to send you email messages via Google+, we show you how to stop that!
Do Ferrite Cores Do Anything? We explain why those lumps on your cables are incredibly cool. Who makes the best power supplies for PCs? Should you enable Hyper-Threading for gaming? Free LogMeIn alternatives. Can you recycle a Mac OS X install in your Hackintosh? Build a urine powered battery!
Stop Hackers and Extortionists And Lock Down Your Social Accounts Now! What to Do First When Your Hard Drive Has Read Errors! Securely Wipe Your Android Phone. Power Problems Causing Monitor Problems? Roku's Dolby Digital Fail!
PCPer's Battlefield 4 Mantle performance. DiskDigger undeletes your Android files! Dealing with viruses & external drives. Art wants to know if he can protect his PC from a hidden virus on an external drive. Shannon's tested DiskDigger Undelete, Hexamob Security Pro, and Secure Wipe... and found two of these apps don't do a good job cleaning up Android before you sell your phone! (Fortunately, there -is- a super easy way to wipe your Android device clean! ) FreeFileSync: make sure you got -all- the files transferred. Is AMD's Mantle speeding up Battlefield 4??? PCPer's Ryan Shrout knows! Refurbished gear, social engineering, credit cards are getting more secure, and, yes, Flappy Bird is still worth $50K a day!
Buying your first 3D Printer... here's what to look for! SourcefedNerd's Meg Turney has some great tips for first time PC builders after her recent gaming PC Build. Our favorite free password manager. FreeFileSync helps you move files fast! Why using your own personal domain email as the endpoint of your login/credential chains make you more likely to get hacked.
Back your data up offsite for free! We've got two options you can set up today. Hackathons... they're not just for code monkeys, and they're not always for Social Good! Tired of all those old magazines? We've got the hardware and software you need! Check out got a new iPhone app. Yes, there are motherboards that support FOUR GPUs! You found us domain registrars that offer two factor authentication!
Upgrade your Mac NOW for FREE to patch the SSL hole... and think about giving up on OS X 10.6. Wondering what the over clocking is in Intel's 730 SSD? So did we! PCPer's Allyn Malventano has the benchmarks, and a SSD buying guide. Software Defined Radio... this USB stick lets you listen to ALL the spectrum around ya! Folding@Home: We're #21! The No Excuse List is all about learning new skills. Chris needs a better mic for PC Gaming. Jy's looking for a stand to watch podcasts in bed at night... we've got a half dozen suggestions. (Tho it's a -lot- easier to find a 10" tablet stand than it is one for the Nexus 7!) Preston has a Monoprice alternative!
Malware in software from SourceForge? We're starting a Tekzilla Subreddit! What's a DAC and where should it go? FreeBSD, open source, FreeNAS interview! Is defragging still important on Windows? Mirror social media accounts. Is it time to replace your monitor?
We love the Raspberry Pi, and we've got five -awesome- projects for you to check out, including robot egg decorating! Google Drive got cheap last week... as in -way- cheaper than Dropbox. Is Neil Young's PonoPlayer "little more than an awkwardly shaped dedicated music player." Not exactly, but you can buy a hi-res music player for half the price right now. @BretFaber tweets "I'm in the market for a new laptop" and wants to know more about the Acer S7 Shannon's been using on set. We love the Raspberry Pi, and we've got five -awesome- projects for you to check out, including robot egg decorating! Vincenzof posted on the Tekzilla Reddit, looking to find a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed, "I'm not really interested in buying one with Windows and then uninstalling." We can relate! Brian's looking for a new dual drive NAS and is wondering if he should go with the Synology DS214 or the QNAP TS-220.
Speed Up WiFi! Ninite: The Safe Way To Install Software. Can Google Stump the NSA? DIY Private Cloud Storage. AwardWallet. DX12! What does DirectX 12 mean for gaming? Fed up with Sourceforge and Downloads.com? Ninite is still a safe way to download and install software on your machine. Watch out Dropbox, BItTorent Sync is just -one- way you can create your own personal private 'cloud' storage! WiFi slows down when all the neighbors come home from work? We can fix that! AwardWallet tracks your miles and much more!
Still running Windows XP? It's time to change. Hey... did you check the cable??? HTC One M8: Mark Watson, aka SoldierKnowsBest joins us with his review. GateGuru: can this app make airports suck lets? My kids are ruining their DVDs... can you stream Blu-ray and DVD ISO files on the Roku? Problems streaming? Check the cables first! Want Photoshop or Premiere, or anything in CS6 to run faster? There are hardware upgrade guides! Classic Shell Makes Windows 8 Easier for Windows XP Users!
Will the Windows 8.1 Update 1 deliver the desktop -and- a real start menu??? 3 Linux distros you can replace XP with. @G00fyGuy tweets, "I have a laptop with dead HD. Do you recommend replace with Hybrid HD?" We talk SSD vs. Hybrid drives! Viewer tips for speeding up your WiFi router! Find sites that have two factor authentication... this website also helps you demand it be added to the sites you use!
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What you can do to avoid falling victim to heartbleed. Linksys WRT1900AC hands on. Best smartphone password manager. We've gotten a ton of questions about Heartbleed and what it affects... we've got a few answers in the show, including what you can and should do now. Want the ultimate in security for your Mac's hard drive: we show you host to run OSX's FileVault to encrypt it! We get hands on the Linksys WRT1900AC router we saw at CES. (Our testing has just begun.) Ever want to know how many hours of TV you've watched?
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Speed up your slow PC. Hands on with the Kanex Sydnee Charging Station, Belkin QODE Keyboard Case, Anker Astro Charger, Fr?m. Make better and easier GIFs! It's time for GIF to die... Gfycat makes better animated files. (Seriously!) The Kanex Sydnee charging station can charge four tablets or smartphones at once... we've got more mobile gear in the video! Got a few minutes? You can make OS X or Windows run faster! Jim's got a heads up on the excellent security check built into Lastpass, and Richard's got tips for Venue 8 Pro users.
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Oppo owns OnePlus?! Fix The FCC, Steam Machine Or Cheap Gaming PC? Does drive encryption slow down performance? How do I convert VGA to HDMI? Jack wants suggestions on "getting a Chromecast to pick up a weak wifi signal." We've got help! NetflixRoulette: when you don't want to scroll endlessly through Netflix! OnePlus One: who owns the $299 Nexus slayer? 3 dead Playstation 3 consoles in four years... something's wrong with your house. Sage writes, "Every so often I run into a readme.txt file for an app I'm trying to install that opens in wordpad or Notepad all scrambled and unreadable (and every letter has an accent over it?). How can I fix this?"
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Happy National Photography Month! We've got 7 tips to help you get better photos with your smartphone! Brute simple steganography. One app to rule them all: is Jumptuit the ultimate tool to manage your life online, or should you stick with Jolicloud? Project Naptha copies text from images in your browser... we're talking OCR for photos. Best tool to rip CDs to FLAC files... and some awesome apps for listening to audio.
Ready to upgrade from the camera in your phone? We've got advice! Free tools to Fix Windows... it must be time for spring cleaning! Ready to move from the camera in your phone to a dedicated digital camera??? SAVE MONEY on printer ink with Gigablock's Continuous Ink System tested. Pixlr: Shannon's fave photo editing tool, canned responses in Gmail, Google Blocklist.. and MORE!!!
You might want to wait on that new laptop or desktop, Broadwell CPUs are coming! Teach your desktop amazing new tricks with Lifehacker's Alan Henry. Big event? We've got some ideas for the best photo sharing services. Can you run Ethernet over those old Cable coax lines? Who makes the best motherboards? And, yes, we know where you can watch Sailor Moon in the US!
You're gonna love 4K gaming, heck, we love 4K for our work desktop... find out why when we look at the Asus PQ321 4K monitor and Puget Systems Deluge XL gaming PC. Epic Speedtest result. Hopper "Flight Research" Makes Flying Suck Less! Run SpinRite 6.0 the right way... we get the straight from Steve Gibson. Make any key do what you want with SharpKeys keyboard mapping. Snagit: this free screen capture and recording tool is super easy to use! Yes, we'd LOVE to review Monoprice's new dual extrusion 3D printer!
Apple's World Wide Developers Conference: OS X Yosemite, iOS 8, a new programming language called SWIFT, and thousands of new APIs for developers! The Cryptolocker ransomware and GameoverZeus malware have been blocked... for now. Life after TrueCrypt: what to do now that the developers say the best open source encryption tool isn't secure? More info on that cheap ink system. MP3 players aren't dead, we've got proof!
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Shopping for a new laptop or desktop? PCPer's Ryan Shrout joins us with the latest on Intel & AMD... and why it's getting hard to find a CPU without graphics built in. Should you update your Motherboard's firmware??? A little help with picking a CPU for Plex... Google's droppin' new encryption tools on the Open Source world, and YES, we're excited for E3!!!
Robert Heron is here to answer all of your HD questions! What Curved Screens Do Well. 5 Great Games From E3, Unlocator Unblocks Content, Find The World Cup Online! Watch The 2014 World Cup Without Cable, NHTSA To Regulate Navigation Apps? How can cord cutters watch the 2014 World Cup? Gigaom has a great guide! Battle of the lobbyists: will the NHTSA get the authority to regulate navigation apps, like Google and Apple Maps??? And, yes, Patrick just bought and Android phone... the Moto G. HD Questions! Robert Heron's here... so we've got a speed round of HD Questions! @scruffynerfhrdr tweets, "@tekzilla why in the hell would i want a curved screen tv????" (We've got pros and cons, like increased brightness.) @aaronights tweets, "Looking at a no-name brand HDTV. It looks OK! Is it suicide? Should I $ for the low end brand names?" Robert explains why 'no name' HDTVs can be great deals! Finally, @Xsd tweets "What's the future of gaming on 4K. Are we in for a totally new PC to keep up with the power?" Best new games from the 2014 E3 show? Glad you asked! Rev3Games Tara Long has the deets and some gorgeous video! Unlocator claims you can watch video channels blocked by your location... even blacked out games on MLB.TV. Does it work? Watch the video to find out if it can unblock geographically locked video content and channels! Joseph wants to know why his 65" Samsung HDTV came with an Optronics LCD panel... he's less than impressed with the picture quality compared to the the 55" model he saw with a Samsung panel. Is this kind of thing normal?!? Robert discusses why HDTV manufacturers utilize panels that are not of their own making, why it's especially especially common on 4K UHD TVs, Wireless HTPC control... we've got several ways for Matt to "control my computer from my Android tab." Plex Builds! Tekzilla viewers Jacob and Cesar sent in their Plex server builds -one on an old HP server, the other in a FreeNAS box! Tons of great info on streaming a
Best Gaming Headsets! Amazon Fire Phone: Win or Fail? Plex Surround Sound On Chromecast! DeWalt USB Power Supply! Get BIOS info inside Windows! A Faster Way To Check BIOS! The Downside of Google Buying Dropcam... World Cup GIFs: ReplayLastGoal Is Dropcam Still Private Now That Google Owns It???
Powerful Ultrabook Recommendations for Adobe Master Suite CS6, Logitech K830 Illuminated Living-Room Keyboard Review. Bitcoins Legalized (in CA), Facebook Is Evil, Cleaning PrintHeads... Zipdecode! Download Photos From Instagram LED A19 Bulb Recco: Die CFL Bulbs, Die!!! HowTo Professional Live Video Switching & Editing?
Robert Heron is back with the answers to more home theater questions! TSA is becoming even worse for international travelers. Quadcopters flying through fireworks is why cameras were invented. Need to make a side dish? Fund it with Kickstarter. The true costs of cutting the cord. Plasma is dead, what's the best tech out now? Track emoji use across all of Twitter. Add DLNA support to an older HDTV. Playing games on a dual-monitor HDTV setup. School-kids need 5.1 audio too.
Will your emergency backup phone actually work during an emergency? Want to run Linux without needing a new system? Here's how! Backup phone for emergencies, run another OS inside windows, the most secure way to wipe your phone before selling , custom alignment of icons, and data caps vs cutting the cord.
What are the best tablets for comics? Anker's power station for your sends 40w to up to 5 devices! Setup QoS on your router for better VoIP performance, using a Chromecast on the road, awesome Music Hall Marimba speakers, ComiXology, and more!
Will Duck Duck Go replace your default search engine? Awesome Wikipedia tools to make the most useful website in the world even better. The OS X 10.10 Yosemite public beta has been released...Patrick gives a quick overview of what he likes so far. We've got some great viewer tips on the best way to use the Chromecast while traveling, Shannon hates Glass discrimination, and was Patrick in Hong Kong?!
Google Chromebook Challenge! We tested these low-powered devices for an entire week for our day-to-day work. Faster Internet for free? If you're a lucky Comcast subscriber, try rebooting your modem. We have a free and (somewhat) easy way to rotate videos using our favorite encoding tool Handbrake. It's official: cellphone unlocking is legal again in the US. No fly zones for drones and preparing for DefCon...what do you need?
Cable Modem Reboot = More Speed? Last week we got a tip from Robert Heron about rebooting your cable modem for a potential speed increase. Find out if Shannon and Patrick got a boost, and why you should unplug your cable modem and plug it back in! DEFCON Report! Shannon's back from Defcon, the annual hacker conference that brings together everyone from grade school kids w/ a passion to learn to Crypto geeks, Feds, and security professionals. What were the big trends? privacy, RF Hacking, and Vulnerabilities in Infrastructure and Hairdryers... find out about the latest in security threats (and wins!), the very cool Blade RF SDR, in the video! Are RF/RFID Wallets More Secure Than Aluminum Foil? Tom writes in, "I picked up on Shannon's notes on Defcon and her comments about RFID. How about discussing this topic - in particular. 1. How can you tell if a credit/debit card has this chip on it. 2. Test out various sleeves and wallets to see if they actually work. According to Consumer Reports a lot of these are no better than alum foil. Shannon just picked up the Privacy Case, Black Hole Faraday Bag, and we test 'em out vs. Aluminum Foil in the video! Podcasts, Linux, Netflix, Amazon Prime & HBOGO on Chromebooks? Chromebook questions: Jon writes, "Is there anyway to subscribe to and listen to podcasts on a Chromebook?" @l0tusg1rl tweets, "Any chance of a Chromebook running Linux segment?" Finally Bryan wants to know if a Chromebook can "do streaming ie: Netflix, Hbo go, and Amazon instant video, plus any others you have had a chance to try." We've got answers to all three in the video! Pictacular Makes Instagram Better! This week's Website We Can't Get Enough Of is Pictacular... it displays your Instagram feed in a Pinterest-type viewer, either large or small, with comments and likes viewed right under the pics. SOOOO much easier to browse through photos faster and find the one you want on your Mac or PC. Go check it out! Real Wireless Charging???
Microsoft Windows 9 is coming soon! Plot.ly makes collaborative data visualization easy. Amazon Fire Phone review. Battle of the wireless auidio: Denon HEOS vs. SONOS. Icon hack for bookmark tabs!
Change your USB habits, because restricting account access isn't going to help. We demo BitTorrent Sync 1.4--a huge update for our favorite distributed file sharing program. Earthquake!!! Back Your Stuff Up Offsite, NOW. You can't back up wine, but you can back up your data before a natural disaster strikes. We're a tad giddy after a 6.0 quake hit Napa and did some serious damage to buildings, water mains, and about billion dollars worth of wine. Can You Stop BadUSB??? Tom writes in, "Would running as a Standard User in Windows be a way to be safe from the new USB hack?" Shannon talks about all the things what won't stop BadUSB, a new exploit that's OS independent and uses USB hardware to exploit your computer. (If you haven't seen the BlackHat 2014 presentation, you should really check it out.) BT Sync 1.4 Hands On! We're big fans of this free peer to peer file back up and sharing tool, -it's like a personal DropBox where only you have access- so we were thrilled to see the new interface and features in BitTorrent Sync 1.4. Find out what's new, and where Sync will be showing up soon in the video! Gaming Motherboards vs. Motherboards, SSHD For Storage Drive? C.H. is upgrading his gaming and video editing PC soon, and asks, "What is the difference between gaming motherboards and regular motherboards?" He's also curious if using a "Solid State Hybrid Drive, or SSHD, as a secondary game or program drive" add any speed to his build. He needs terabytes of storage, and a giant SSD would be too much. We can relate, and we've got answers in the video! the Nostalgia Machine Finds Popular Songs From Any Year! This week's Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of is The Nostalgia Machine. Choose a year, click 'hit me!' and it'll pull up a long series of popular songs from the Billboard top 100 Year End lists for that year. You can choose a song to play, or you can open the whole playlist in disco.io - which transfers the list to disco.io with a music video...
Finding cheap textbooks! µBlock is better than AdBlock? 3 Browers For Private Browsing. ABetterQueue for Netflix. Hope y'all had an amazing labor day! College Textbooks On The Cheap! Kevin writes in, "Can ya help me or give me a link to where i can buy used college books? cheap?" Absolutely, Kevin! Watch the video to find out if Chegg is any good, why you might want to check the library, and a whole list of ideas from the Tekzilla audience! µBlock vs. AdBlock, Best Laptop Bag, Airline Booze, & Throwing Knives... Lifehacker's Alan Henry Is Back! Lifehacker is one of our favorite websites, and Alan Henry is one of our favorite Lifehacker contributors... he joins us to talk µBlock - a lighter faster alternative to AdBlock, a DIY Headphone Stand that's easy to build from reclaimed wood, the Hive Five pick for the Best Laptop Bag, and, oh yeah, Airline Friendly Booze to save money on long flights, and learning to Throw Knives! Better Browsers For Private Browsing! Want a browser that's built around privacy? Chrome, Firefox, and IE, automatically opt you in to stuff like Javascript and Cookies... watch the video to get the word on these three browsers that try to keep you private online, the Tor Browser, Epic, and the Pirate Browser. Are they fast? Do they work? Are there sites they can't load? Watch the video to find out! Find Stuff Faster On Netflix With A Better Queue! Finding something to watch on Netflix is a major pain... which is why this week's Website We Can't Get Enough Of is A Better Queue. This site helps you filter through Netflix and find something cool to watch fast using settings like Tomatometer ratings, number of reviews, release years, genres... find out more in the video! FlirONE Thermal Imager Ships... It Works! I got all excited about the FlirONE back at CES... the low cost thermal imaging device designed to work on/with your iPhone just started shipping, and we've got a slick video from one of the furst purchasers! Inside The M
So many phones (not even counting the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus! Raspberry Pi alternatives, run Linux on a Chromebook, Adjust Your Privacy, and the best password generator! New Phones From Samsung, Motorola, Amazon Drops Prices, More! What a week for smartphones! Samsung's Note 4 and VR Gear Headset, Motorola dropped screen upgrades and more on the X and G, along with the 360 watch... Sony's new Xperia Z3, and, hey, just this morning, Amazon, have snuck in phone announcements before the iPhone / iWatch (er, Apple Watch) festival on September 9th... watch the video to find out more! Raspberry Pi Alternatives? Jesse tweets "@tekzilla Other recommendations other then the raspberry pi? Ive seen the Cubox out there with a few versions and looks faster then pi. Thx!"" We've got a whole list o' single board computers in the video. Gotta say the SolidRun Cubox and Hummingboard are pretty tempting... tho you might have to do a bit more work. Find out why in the video! Install Linux On A Chromebook! We had a ton of people ask about installing Linux on a Chromebook, so today Shannon's shows you how to get Ubuntu running! (She says "now that I've discovered how easy this is... I'm seriously considering buying a Chromebook as my new Linux PC... ;)" AdjustYourPrivacy Want some help making sure the forever changing privacy settings on sites like Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Linked In (and more) are locked down so your photos, thoughts, family talks, and friendships are kept private? Then you'll love this week's Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of, AdjustYourPrivacy.com! Find out why in the video. Are Refurbished Products On Blinq Any Good? Bill writes, "What are your thoughts on refurbished laptops and television by blinq.com? We're pretty big fans of refurbished products... tho not all the products on Blinq are refurbs, a lot are used. Should you worry? Hear what we've got to say in the video before you buy. Chromebook Questions: FTP, Alternate Browsers
Microsoft acquires Minecraft, buying a generation. Is it time to ditch your old PC? iPhone 6 preorders, 9 File Sharing Apps, and Credit Card Security! Microsoft Bought Minecraft, Apple Sells All The iPhone 6 Microsoft bought Minecraft... er Mojang, for 2.5 billion dollars. Notch says I'm leaving Mojang, Penny Arcade says given that MS is "functionally purchasing a generation. Two billion dollars starts to look like a steal. The real question is what is Microsoft gonna -do- with Mojang. In other news, Apple pre-sold a mother ton of new iPhone 6 and 6Plus... we want the camera! Yes, It's Time To Give Up That Old Laptop/Desktop... We're notorious for keeping old hardware forever, but when Jesus wrote in, my "laptop is limited to 2GB of memory, and I'm running big photo files and would like to substitute SSD for memory," our first thought was 'it's time to replace this machine.' We explain how your machine is -already- using your HD or SSD to add more memory, different ways to make Photoshop (and other photo editing apps) run faster, and show off a nice two-in-one laptop that might substitute for Jesus' Dell Duo ... and explain why he might want to go with a desktop instead. Earth Nullschool Makes Wind Gorgeous! Beautiful weather? Sure. Why not. Beautiful wind? You won't believe how mesmerizing wind can be until you see the animated visualizations of weather conditions all over the globe on this week's "Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of," earth.nullschool.net! Wait till you see a hurricane in the middle of the ocean slowly creeping up to a coastline! Perfect Automated File Sharing On All Operating Systems?!? It's 2014 people! And we need a generic multi-platform way to share files of any size. Watch as Shannon walks through the problems of no less then 8 different file sharing tools and websites, and find out the 9th one that actually makes it -kind of- easy to share wedding photos around her family. Will SmartSwipe Protect My Credit Cards? Bob
Nvidia's newest GeForce GTX 970 & 980 graphics cards, reviews of the Dell Venue 7 & 8, do you really need X99 & DDR4, testing hotel WiFi speeds, and CAT6 vs. CAT7 ethernet. SSD Endurance Test, Iron Giant Blu-ray?!? We've gotten some interesting email recently about SSDs being -bad- and that you shouldn't trust 'em. Not sure I agree, especially since I've seen the latest update in TechReport's SSD Endurance Experiment... so far Two Drives Still Standing in SSD Endurance Test... and they've written over 1.5 Petabytes!!! (Learn how the SSD Endurance Test works in this article.) And, on a completely random note, when the heck is there donna be a Blu-ray transfer of the most excellent Iron Giant? It's some of Brad Bird's finest work! New 2014 Dell Venue 7 & 8 Hands On Review! Looking for an affordable Android tablet? Then you'll want to watch Shannon's review of the 2014 Dell Venue 7, $159, and Venue 8, $199. Does the extra inch on the 8 make a difference? Both tablets feel great in hand (not cheap!) run Android 4.4 KitKat, pack 16 GB of storage, 1GB RAM, SD Card slots, excellent Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the ability to Miracast, work with Chromecast, and Intel HD Graphics to go with their Atom CPUs... but the Venue 8 has a higher resolution screen, and a faster processor... find out which one Shannon would carry in the video! GeForce 970 & 980 Are FAST, CPUs You Can't Upgrade, Too Early For X99 & DDR4??? Looking for a faster GPU? Nvidia just dropped the GeForce GTX 970 & 980and PCPer's Ryan Shrout joins us to talk performance, price and... efficiency. He also talks X99 and DDR4, should you be looking at the latest Intel CPUs, and plains why the new 8 core i7-5960X Haswell-E runs 'slow' at 3GHz (at least compared to Devil's Canyon's 4GHz!) for Michael S, then talks about why the new generation of soldered on the motherboard CPUs probably won't effect most users. Good stuff! Hotel WiFi Speed Test! You may be heading to another city for work or fun, and in need of
Hands on with a $200 thermal camera. Ello! Shellshock Bash vulnerability, the best compact Android phone, and more! Seek $200 Thermal Camera Hands On. Ello! Shellshock Bash Vulnerability, Screw Phablets: Best Compact Android Phone, Budget Mac Pro, Got Mom On Linux! Shellshock Major Bash Vulnerability!!! Do you use Bash? Heads up, a new Bash vulnerability, called "Shellshock makes Heartbleed look insignificant." Worse yet, it's been around for more than two decades? Watch the video to learn more! (And keep an eye out for patches!) Is Seek's $200 Thermal Camera Any Good? Back at CES, we were amazed at the $349 price tag on the FlirONE... that's hundreds (if not thousands) less than a microbolometerhas ever cost before. Now we've got Seek's $200 thermal camera in for resting. It plugs into the MicroUSB port on Android devices and the Lightning connector on iOS gear. Is it any good? Watch the video to find out what we were able to do with the beta software! Best Compact Android Phone, I Don't Want A Phablet! Gene writes in, "I've been looking for a new android phone, one I can actually hold comfortably, one which will fit in my pocket without making me walk with a limp. Basically, not a phablet." We've got answers for Gene, including sub 5" phone screens packed with the latest tech, the latest Nexux 6/X rumors, and why we think Gene might go for a 5" screen. Watch the video for our fave non-phablet Android phones, a awesome site for finding phones called smartphones.findthebest.com, and why we -really- wish the Sony Z3 Xperia Compact had a US ship date! Ello.co Ad Free Social Network! This week's website we can't get enough of, Ello.co says "Virtually every other social network is run by advertisers." ... and so far they back up their talk. Ello.com is super simple, ad free, doesn't track your data, AND it's been blowing up in the news lately so we thought we'd show it off to you... and talk about its pros and cons. Shannon can even help you get an inv
Windows 10 Technical Preview is here! Using Google Voice to make unlimited calls. The best universal remote, free disk imaging, and are restaurant credit card machines safe to use? Windows 10 Technical Preview... Best Disk Imaging Software To Back Up Windows Before Upgrading! Oliver tweets, "Looking to try out the Win10 tech preview. What's the best free imaging software to backup my Win8 box before installing?" Yup, Microsoft just released Windows 10 Technical Preview... it's got some features we love (we did a whole video on it Should You Try Windows 10), we talk up our favorites, then tell Oliver about Macrium Reflect, our favorite system restoration tool! Are This Pay Your Bill Here Things Safe??? Anthony writes, "Hey guys, are these new table top "pay your bill here" things found in restaurants across the country safe from hacking? Worried that hak5 will be nearby..." You don't have to worry about Hak5, but Shannon knows what the standards are for credit card processing, PCI compliance then explains what you -should- be worried about in the video! Free Cell Phone Calls With Google Voice??? Sean writes in, "Hey team! I was hoping I could get some advice. I bought a Moto G LTE and got the $30 T-Mobile plan. I have a Google voice number and want to use it as a VOIP number. I did some searching on the Internet, but everything seems out of date. How can I use my unlimited data and wifi to make all my calls?" It just so happens our producer, Michael Hand, has the same plan and has figured out how to use the Hangouts Dialer and Google Voice to run all his calls over his unlimited data plan!Hint: it's gonna take some work on your part, find out exactly how much in the video! Live VR Coding With Oculus Rift! On the 'just plain cool' side of things, Brian Peiris created a live-coding web app for Oculus Rift, that changes the world around you as you write new code! He uses the Firefox Web VR and writes JavaScript using a script called Three.js. It's pret
Don't buy that Apple! iPads & Macs Coming. The best Android phones under $400. Using international SIM cards, runnning HDMI & USB over long distances, the best tools to sync music on Android, and more! New iPads & Macs are coming! Best Android phones under $400, international SIM cards, run HDMI & USB over 150 feet, the best tools to sync music on Android, and more! New iPads, Macs, & Apple TV This Week??? In case you missed the flurry of tweets last week... Apple's holding another event, October 16th. If you've been thinking about buying a new iPad, Mac, or Apple TV this week you might might want to wait, we expect new Macs, iPads, the latest word on Apple Pay, and, possibly, new Apple TVs. Cortana v Siri v Google I got to review A $100 Windows phone recently, and AT&T's Lumia 635 included Cortana, Microsoft's competitor to Apple's Siri and Google Now. I was all set to do a 'question off' between the trio... when Stone Temple Consulting released "The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana". Who has the best results... and how is search changing how it answers your questions? There's good info here! Can I Run HDMI & USB 150 Feet? Troldan tweets, "@patricknorton Any suggestions for the best way to run HDMI and USB 150 feet?" Absolutely... there are inexpensive adapters that use Ethernet. Find out how to pick the right one in the video! Are Games Better On A Desktop Than A Laptop? We got a tweet from kybigblue73 , "@patricknorton @Snubs I have a quick question. Are games in general better to play on a PC than a laptop?" Well, that depends... on the game and on the laptop. We explain why laptop gaming is a -lot- better if you have a -lot- more money in the video! International SIM Help w/ Tom Merritt! Heath wants help using his phone overseas. He's talked to his carrier and says "I don't feel they have my best interest at heart and want me pay crazy amounts for an international plan." No worries, Heath, Tom Merritt from
Track your stuff with a smartphone! Find who sucks down all of the bandwidth. Nexus 6, the iPad Mini that sucks, new Macs, and more! Where's The 4k? Apple Announces iPads, Mac Minis, iMacs, Yosemite, Moar! Omar_Rasool tweets "@tekzilla Any plans on releasing 4K content?" We've got an answer in the video... along with the iPad mini you shouldn't buy (and the best deal of the new iPadsdeal, thoughts on the iMac with Retina 5K display, what we like in the new OS X Yosemite (hint: it's OK that it looks like iOS 8), the new Mac mini lineup and more! Nexus 6 Announced... Android Lollipop, and Google Goes Phablet! Last week Google officially announced Android 5.0, aka Lollipop, along with the Nexus 6, with pre-orders later this month. The new Nexus has a big 5.96" screen, a big 3220 mAh battery, and a big $649 price tag. Is Shannon gonna drop here Note 4 for the new Nexus? Watch the video for more deets (camera, CPU, expected battery life...) and what we think of Google's latest phone, especially given the premium price! Find Missing Gear w/ The Tile App! Apparently a LOT of folks misplace a lot of stuff... when Bluetooth tracking gadget Tile wrapped up its Selfstarter funding drive last year, it had over over 2.6 million dollars in pre-orders. Do they work? Nick from Rev3Games got a pair of Tiles from his Mom... he's got the word on how they work, how well they work, and if it's worth ordering 'em! PocketCasts Looking for a better way to get your favorite podcasts? Would you like to be able to sync and access them across all your devices? Then you'll want to see this week's "Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of" is PocketCasts. This tool has been a super popular mobile podcast downloader / player and they just released a version for the web! How Do I Find Every Site I've Ever Signed Up For? Chris writes, "With Heartbleed trending across the internets, now seems like the perfect time to change all the passwords for all my online accounts. The problem
Get ready for phablets: the Samsung Note 4 review! Hands on with a physical Google security key, overclocking Haswell-E 5820K, test safely with a free VM, and get the rundown of acquaintances with CharlieApp! Google Security Key For Chrome 2 Step Verification Google's taken a new step to keep your accounts secure, Chrome now has the option of using a physical Security Key for 2 step verification to make sure your accounts don't get hacked. Shannon's been using a Yubico Yubikey Neo, and she shows how it works, discusses Security Key's FIDO Universal 2nd Factor and explains why Google wants other sites to join in! Amazon Fire TV Stick Just because there aren't enough set top box options out there, Amazon's announced the Fire TV Stick, "with Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, music, games, and more." Sound like just another Chromecast, or Roku Streaming Stick? Not so much... find out what makes it different in the video! Samsung GALAXY Note4 Review Shannon's new GALAXY Note4 has arrived, she's got a full hands on review of Samsung's latest phablet, from just how that 515 pixels per inch Super AMOLED screen looks, how the big screen impacts battery life, how well it works as a phone... and just exactly where you carry a 6" phablet anyhow! Supercharge Your Calendar With CharlieApp.com! Want some help making your best impression at meetings? Check out Charlie, at CharlieApp.com. Before any important meetings, Charlie "combs through 100s of sources" and emails you a one-pager about that person, to help you learn about recent news, their likes and dislikes, the company that they work for, and more. Is this a useful tool, or a creepy scrape of information? Find out in the video! Monster Gaming Machines & Overclocking The Haswell-E! Chip wrote in on Facebook, "What about doing an updated gaming pc build this year from the ground up? I know Shannon has been wanting to upgrade/build a new windows pc for a while now...." Patrick and Michael just built a
What software have you paid money for? We want to know! Are SMS messages really secure? What headphones are the best deal for $100? Streaming live video straight from a camera, and could the Roku TV be a cord cutter's dream? Do You Hate Paying For Software? Heads up, we're pre-recording this episode, so if something major happens in tech... we'll talk about it next week. Meanwhile, Shannon's Pocket Casts Review review brought out something interesting... a lot of people hate paying for software. So we're wondering, do you still pay for software? What are you fave five apps you've dropped coin on... email us, and we'll share as many lists as we can on the show! Stream Direct From This Video Camera Tony writes in, "I am looking for a video camera that stream directly to the Internet. I want to use it while I am mobile. I was looking to live stream while I am at events. I really don't want to use my phone for this task. I am not looking to break the bank either and I don't need something that is professional grade. Do I have any options? Do you have suggestions?" Yes, yes we do, an you can find out what they are in the video! Finding The Best $100 Headphones: The Wirecutter's Lauren Dragan Joins Us! We got a tweet from @PaulOfCreation: "@tekzilla hey Zilla's, I'm building a home recording studio, what do you consider the best studio headphones for under $100?" You should check out Sony's $85 MDR-7506, which The Wirecutter call "The Best $150 Over-Ear Headphones". To find out why, we had The Wirecutter's Headphone Editor Lauren Dragan explain why these cans are so amazing... then talk headphone testing, how you should test out new headphones, burn in amps, and more! Iodine Writer Looking to change a prescription or need an alternative medicine? They you'll love this week's Website We Can't Get Enough of, Iodine.com. It gives you a descriptive page about thousands of prescription and over-the-counter drugs, that can be super handy. Find out how Iod
3D printed cars! Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop, Amazon Echo...exists, learning basic electronics, fixing Wi-Fi issues on gaming consoles. Alienware Area-51 & Amazon Echo… Huh. Couple of intriguing products announced last week... @Robppj tweeted us a heads up on Alienware’s new, and not quite triangular, Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop, while Amazon announced the Echo, which can stream music, but is mostly listening for you to say “Alexa!” and ask it a question, like “Will it rain tomorrow?” or “When is Thanksgiving?” or “Play my “dinner party” playlist.” Hmmmm… Apps You Pay For! A couple of weeks one of our picks for the week brought up the question “Do you pay for apps and other software?" And most of you said Yes, some said NO! We’ve got your posts and tweets, along with some of some of your (and our) favorite paid apps in the video! 3D Printed Car & More Cool Car Tech From SEMA 2014! We expected to see some amazing cars at The SEMA Show, but the LocalMotors 3D-Printed Car blew us away… especially since they were printing another car at the show inside one of Cincinnati’s http://www.e-ci.com/baamBAAM Big Area Additive Manufacturing 3D printers. We’ve got video, along with Lincoln Electric’s VRTEX 3D virtual welding training, our fail at finding Ken Block’s Hoonicorn Mustang, high tech mirrors, Legacy Power Wagons, pocket sized jump-start batteries, the Survival Motoped, and more! Dronestagr.am! A camera on a drone lets you see things you can’t in any other way, and Dronestagr.am is an -incredible- collection of footage collected from drones across the globe… and this week’s “Website We Just Can’t Get Enough Of.” If you're a drone pilot, you can upload your own videos to youtube and share them on this website, or just visit and browse if you're an avid video watcher. Check it out! Learn Basic Electronics I think I managed to erase the original question, but one of y
Secure your new holiday gadgets, Garmin Vívosmart fitness band review, college laptop recommendations from $200-1200, cat cams, dash cams, more! Wireless Webcam For A Naughty Cat! Patrick's "Looking for a recommendation on a decent inexpensive wireless webcam with motion detection, and, possibly, night vision. My wife's cats are getting into trouble either during the night or when we are sleeping." Whether its cats, kids, or the neighbor's dog doing its bidness in your backyard, you'll find our recommendations in the video! 9 Ways To Secure Your New Holiday Gadgets! Excited about your new gadgets? With the holidays just around the corner, a lot of us will be traveling and / or buying new tech gear like phones, tablets, or cameras. Take some precautions to make 'em secure before using it and before traveling! Garmin Vívosmart Review! Smart watches, fitness bands, health trackers...wearables are huge right now. But what if you don't quite want a smart watch, but you want something more than a tracking band? Check out our review of Garmin's (Yes, the GPS people) Vívosmart . Is it as accurate as a Fitbit? More comfortable than a Moto 360? Will notifications drive you mad? Watch the video to find out! Bad Ass Voice Control: Garmin nüvi 2689LMT GPS Review! With a bright 6' display, voice control that actually works , and a speedy collection of US maps that don't require you to have a cell phone connection, Garmin's nüvi 2689LMT GPS is awesome for anybody that doesn't like the maps on their smart phone... or just wants a dedicated navigation tool that always works. (Free lifetime map updates and traffic doesn't hurt!) College Laptop Reccos from $200 to $1200 Joel writes in, "Hey! It's about to be Black Fri?day. Are there any recommendations for good quality Windows Laptops for those who are transferring between Universities. Looking for decent specs. Looking for specific features suitable for a Computer Science Major. Currently looking at i7 4
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