Thursday, December 20, 2007
TorrentSpy Loses Case Against MPAA
A Los Angeles court decided against TorrentSpy in their ongoing legal battle with the MPAA and terminated their case. According to the ruling, TorrentSpy was sanctioned for destructing evidence.
XP Service Pack 3 RC1 Ready for Download
While Microsoft is quick to downplay XP when comparing it to Vista, the legacy OS continues to shackle the hearts (and systems) of many. Fortunately, Microsoft just opened up their XP service pack 3 release candidate for general download -- that means you. SP3 RC was previously only available by invitation. Now get going, you'll need time to download all 336MBs of the last major update to the six-year old OS.
The Totally Rad Show
Episode 39 - Knowledge Sack
I Am Legend, but should you go see me? Do Zack and Wiki shake the Wiimote in all the right ways? Princess Bride and Ghostbusters are back - as videogames? Plus, we've Scene It, but did we enjoy it?
Pownce Mobile
Pownce has finally released a mobile version of the site. Now if they would only get out of that private beat stage.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Create Custom Firefox Skins with Personas

Tekzilla Daily
Episode 6 - Mac Print Screen
Patrick demonstrates how to take a screenshot within MacOS X.
uTorrent Gains Popularity, Azureus Loses Groun
With an install rate of more than 5% on Windows PCs worldwide, uTorrent is now by far the most popular BitTorrent client. Azureus, the most installed BitTorrent application of last year fell back to the third place.
The percentages in the table indicate the install base of the most popular BitTorrent clients:
The percentages in the table indicate the install base of the most popular BitTorrent clients:
Rank | Application | Installed on % Desktops |
1. | uTorrent | 5.56% |
2. | BitTorrent (a.k.a. mainline) | 2.28% |
3. | Azureus | 2.11% |
4. | Bitcomet | 1.89% |
5. | Bitlord | 1.27% |
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Diggnation Episode 128 - Pimps and E-Readers
Crysis = Graphics Card Killer, Human Treeman, She's Cute, But is She Worth it?, Amazon Kindle vs. Sony e-Reader, NFL Football Removes Free Broadcasts, Best Snoop Dog Video Ever, Top 5 Historical Pimps
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Create iPhone Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1
With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone.
Share Google Reader Feeds in GTalk

Friday, December 14, 2007
Tekzilla
Episode 12
80GB Zune: a Worthy iPod Competitor, Best Used Console Games, UPS = Safer Data, VodPod, Your Fave Podcast Tools: VodPod, Juice, TvTonic, MyPodder
Introducing Google Knol

Divx Pro Free Download is Available for a Limited Time
For a limited time, Divx is offering a complimentary download of their Divx Pro software, which consists of both a converter and the Codec. The converter includes an easy to use drag-and-drop feature to make your conversion time simpler. This software is definitely a useful one to have available. It is currently not mentioned when this free download ends, so if you are interested, make it quick.
Download DivX here.
Download DivX here.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Facebook Status Updates: No More "is"

Tekzilla Daily
Episode 4 - Battery Life
Patrick shares his secrets on getting extra time out of his laptop battery.
Picasa Redefined for your iPhone

Video: The New Google Toolbar (BETA)
Toolbar features:
- Add gadgets to your Toolbar
to view your favorite content from any site. - Fill out web forms with a click
and even keep multiple profiles, with improved AutoFill. - Access your Toolbar from any computer
by saving your settings online. - Clip content as you browse the web
with Google Notebook, now integrated with Toolbar.
Helio Player Released

Helio Player lets you manage your favorite songs, videos and pics on your PC. Helio Player also includes the Helio Music Store with music from thousands of your favorite artists.
• Download a free copy of songs you buy on your device
• Buy songs + full albums for your PC and device
• Gift songs to a friend’s Helio or Beg them to buy one for you
• Manage and play your music, videos and pics
• Transfer music + videos to your Heat, Drift or Fin
• Transfer music, video and pics to/from your Ocean
• Download a free copy of songs you buy on your device
• Buy songs + full albums for your PC and device
• Gift songs to a friend’s Helio or Beg them to buy one for you
• Manage and play your music, videos and pics
• Transfer music + videos to your Heat, Drift or Fin
• Transfer music, video and pics to/from your Ocean
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Totally Rad Show
Episode 38 - Soul Poppin
The Golden Compass gets us lost. Will we go, speed, go to see Speed Racer? Feeling Sony's Pain. A review of the Jeff Gerstmann/Gamespot controversy. Plus, are Computer Fairs still cool?
Helio Releases YouTube 2.0 Client

Read on for full review.
Windows Vista SP1 RC1 Publicly Available
You've heard about it, you know what it's got, you want it like crazy -- and about 11 months after launch Microsoft delivers on Vista's first service pack (in release candidate form, anyway).
Open Source Hardware Gift Guide

Xbox 360 Gets DivX/XviD Playback
This is fucking awesome, especially if your a pirate!
A few notes:
• You can play files off of a CD/DVD
• It supports almost all files
• AC3 Audio is supported
• It supports Windows Home Server
• Video Stretching is kind of weird
• You can skip through a video with the bumpers
• It's fast
• It doesn't work in Windows Media Center Extender
• It's not entirely perfect
Read on for more details about these notes.
A few notes:
• You can play files off of a CD/DVD
• It supports almost all files
• AC3 Audio is supported
• It supports Windows Home Server
• Video Stretching is kind of weird
• You can skip through a video with the bumpers
• It's fast
• It doesn't work in Windows Media Center Extender
• It's not entirely perfect
Read on for more details about these notes.
Conan O'Brien Pays Salaries of 80 People
O'Brien, host of NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" will cover the salaries of his nonwriting production staff -- nearly 80 people -- for the foreseeable future, an NBC Universal spokeswoman confirmed. O'Brien will foot the payroll bill starting next week, barring a resolution in the WGA work stoppage, which wrapped its 25th day on Thursday.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Tekzilla Daily
Episode 2 - LCD
Patricks explains how to connect a laptop/PC without DVI to a new LCD monitor
Monday, December 10, 2007
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Diggnation
Episode 127 - Caffeine Makes Kevin Rose Jittery
Digg Images Launch, Gamespot Review Scandal, Open Source Hardware Gifts, DivX/XvID Playback on XBox 360, Conan O'Brien, Topless Women Playing Wii, Evel Knievel Dead
Firefox 3 Beta Goes Portable

Download Firefox 3 Beta Portable here.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Tekzilla Daily
Episode 1 - Debut
Learn a few google tricks from Patrick Norton on the very first episode of Tekzilla Daily
Friday, December 07, 2007
Tekzilla
Episode 11
Backup software for Windows. Jeff Gerstmann on garbage gaming gadgets. Fables. Ford's Sync Works. Free Defrag. Rent Movies Online. $500 HDTV Recco
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface

Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Gmail ♥ AIM

The Totally Rad Show
Episode 37 - Deadly Discs
This week, everybody disagrees! The Mist: Unreal or unrealistic? Mass Effect: Fantastic or frustrating? Uncharted: Drake's Fortune: Cinematic or simple? Plus, Rocket Racing and ALL-NEW ATOM #18!
Vista SP1 Kills the WGA Kill Switch

The 20 Best iPod Utilities
With a new generation of iPods on the market this holiday season, your reliable old iPod may not seem as shiny as it once did. But with the help of third party applications and utilities, you can unlock tons of useful functionality you never knew was there and revive that aging iPod so it doesn't look quite so bad next to its successors. Whether new or old, the following 20 iPod utilities can help you get the most from your iPod.
Digg Images and New Categories Launched
- New Universal Taxonomy
Now you can submit news, images, or videos to any category on Digg! Categories will be consistent across the board, which means you can view all media types in a given topic, or view one media type at a time (e.g., only images under the “sports” category). We’re also excited to support the launch with new categories. “Offbeat” will be its own category, with new topics, and we’re adding a whole new “Lifestyle” category with topics like Autos, Food & Drink, and Travel. As always, if you don’t want to see a particular topic or media type on Digg, you can click the customize button in the navigation to filter your view. - New Images Crawler
Submitting images to Digg is basically the same as submitting news and videos, with a few notable differences. When you submit a link to a web page containing multiple images, Digg will crawl the page and present up to ten image thumbnails from that page for you to choose the one you want. We’ve also added this technology to news submissions. - Sorting and Duplicate Image Detection
We’ve added a new sort to the images section called “mosaic” view – it’s great for browsing image thumbnails. To help prevent people from submitting duplicate images, we’ve added image recognition technology from Idée Inc.
Monday, December 03, 2007
The Pirate Bay Dashboard Widget for the Mac

Staring at Boobs = Longer Life
A German research published in New England Journal of Medicine and Weekly World News said that men staring at women's breasts in fact prolong their lives with years. "Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female such as Baywatch actress Pamela Lee is equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out," said author Dr. Karen Weatherby, a gerontologist.
Diggnation
Episode 126 - 3rd Annual Diggnation Clips Show
It's the Third Annual Diggnation clips show! This year, we've collected all of your favorite segments and highlights. Watch and relive those classic Diggnation moments from 2007!
Sunday, December 02, 2007
uTorrent WebUI For The iPhone

Saturday, December 01, 2007
The Five Hottest Chicks on TV Right Now

Who are the hottest girls on TV? Well, with the Writer's Strike killing all of our favorite shows, that may be a tough question to answer. But then again, there are always reruns. One thing is for sure, these five beauties are always fresh, even if you're stuck watching the same episode over and over again.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Gmail Adds Group Chat and Emoticons

Group chat has finally found its way to gmail’s instant messaging system. So right there while you have your email inbox open, you can chat with multiple people at one time. Start a group chat by clicking on the Options link at the bottom of a conversation window. You’ll now see “Group Chat” as a new option. Once that’s selected, just type in the name of the person you’d like to add to your current conversation.
Vista SP1 public beta to hit in December?
Speed boost or no, all of you clamoring for some hot Vista SP1 action will be able to get a beta-style fix in December, according to ZDNet. Apparently "selected testers" will get a release candidate in the first week of the month, with general availability to come the week after. ZDNet says the current SP1 build being tested is 17051, but it's not clear whether that's the version to be released or not. Like all things SP1, looks like we'll just have to wait and see.
Google Reader Adds Recommendations & Drag-and-Drop Folders

Google Reader has made two improvements to its interface, one Web 2.0-ish and the other pretty darn useful. The change Reader users will really appreciate is the ability to simply grab newly-added feeds and place them in their folders—no more clicking through menu bars, which really helps when doing multi-feed updates. The other new addition is recommendations, which can be found in the "Discover" link and points you to feeds based on your current list, your search history and your location. As you can see, Reader probably knows you better than you'd think.
Tekzilla Episode 10 - Drobo vs. RAID, Next Gen DVD, Macbook Pro Fix
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?
Thursday, November 29, 2007
The Totally Rad Show
Episode 36 - Radish
A very important warning about Southland Tales! The guys man up and form a Rock Band. Does the Wii Zapper hit the mark with Link's Crossbow Training? Plus, indie comics, Black Hole and Street Angel.
The Pirate Bay Goes Web 2.0
The Pirate Bay has a new feature: click on an audio torrent and (in some cases) you’ll get an option to view “detailed artist info”, which brings a neat list of albums and songs by that artist, a tag cloud of related artists, and an embedded Last.FM radio widget which lets you listen to the artist right on the spot.
Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results

Sunday, November 25, 2007
Diggnation Episode 125 - Goth Kids and the Olive Garden
Busted on Facebook, Real Life Akira Motorcycle, Lose a Race, Dude - you're getting a Dell kid FOUND, Squirrel Playing Dead, Creative Beggar, Zombie Attack in Ancient Egypt
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Tekzilla
Episode 9 - Black Friday Shopping, $500 PC, Cheap GPS
$500 PC: Parts. Black Friday Shopping Tips. Cheap GPS. Sidewalk Astronomy. HTPC Hardware for Blu-ray and HD DVD Movies, Your Fave $20 Headphones!
The Totally Rad Show
Episode 35 - Yip Yip
It's Thanksgiving, and we're thankful for Avatar: The Last Airbender! Does Beowulf out-epic 300? Is Assassin's Creed worth crusading? Why did it take us so long to find Grath Marenghi's Dark Place? Plus, the guys cook a turkey!
Tekzilla
Episode 8 - DIY Media Server, Cheap Notebooks, Songza and Songbird
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?
Diggnation
Episode 124 - Beware of Herpes
Xbox 360 in Japan, Rabbit avoids death, Star Wars in one pic, Downloadable Xbox games, Circuit City scandal, Peter Griffin lives!, Blu-Ray DRM cracked
Google Mobile Maps Updates

iFlix iPhone Netflix Queue App

New Phone Features NES Emulator with Controller
This is the new Lenovo i909 cellphone, which has standard-issue features like a 2.4-inch TFT display, 2-megapixel camera, microSD memory card slot, mp3 and video player. But it also has an NES emulator on board, and it comes with a controller that snaps on to the phone to make it a little Game-Boy-like device. It is, in a word, badass. The bad news? It's headed to China and only to China.
iPhone Users Can Now Drop Data Plan

YouTube HD Coming Soon
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen confirmed that YouTube was testing HD video but qualified the statement by stating that YouTube is primarily focused on providing content to everyone, which doesn’t necessarily facilitate a HD product. Chen spoke on the difficulties on providing a watchable HD product to many, including buffering times that don’t drive viewers away. Chen told CNet that the first High Quality content on YouTube should be available within 3 months.
Two Sneak Peeks Into Harry Potter 6
We've reached into our unofficial Harry Potter lexicon of spells and such to bring you two sneak peeks at the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, being released next November. For now, satisfy yourself with these. Oh, and quidditch is back!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The Totally Rad Show
Episode 34 - Sess
It's Super Mario's Galaxy and we're just living in it: the Wii's new Mario reviewed! No Country for Old Men: The Coens' best film? Call of Duty 4: Game, or bad-ass simulator? Plus, more questions from the forum!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Demonoid Down: Hosts Threatened by CRIA
The Canadian Record Industry Association threatened the company renting to them, so they're down again.
Catch Up on your TV Addictions with Sidereel
Explore the legitimate and more *ahem* fan-driven ways to watch, read about, and discuss your favorite television addictions at Sidereel, a wiki-driven site that also aggregates links and clips for music and movies. The site offers RSS feeds for each show's content, but its best value may be its archive of links to episodes from previous seasons, both on the network sites and elsewhere. It's free to browse and click through Sidereel, but contributing to the wiki pages requires a free sign-up. For more ways to keep current on your TV fixes, check out Adam's Six Ways to Catch Your Favorite TV Shows.
Better Gmail 2 Firefox Extensio for New Gmail
If all of your Greasemonkey scripts have stopped working like mine did since the new Gmail arrived, then this might be the solution for you.
The Voice Behind GOOG-411's Fetch Audio
One of the things that makes the GOOG-411 directory service awesome — besides the fact that it’s free — is that cool “bippedy-bippedy-bippedy” sound it makes while searching. And now, for the first time ever, the man behind the “bips” (and the voice of 1-800-GOOG-411) breaks his silence to talk about that famous sound.
Tekzilla
Episode 7 - Tartan Racing, Eee PC, IMAP for Gmail, Tumblr, and Guitar Hero 3
Robots Drive: DARPA Urban Challenge. Asus Eee PC = tiny, not powerful, fun. IMAP support for Gmail. Tumblr 3.0. MozBackup. Veronica Belmont plays Guitar Hero 3
Diggnation
Episode 123 - Ruining Kevin's Couch
Get laid in 1977, 160 billion dollar typo, woman gets stabbed by hitchhiker, geeky weddings, Radiohead sells 1.2 million, Human race to split into 2 species, wi-fi for digital cameras
Opera Mini 4 Released

Thursday, November 08, 2007
The Totally Rad Show
Episode 33 - Vomitsation
Is American Gangster the next great American gangster film? Guitar Hero 3: Does it rock on? Crysis: Is it worth upgrading your PC? Eye of Judgment: Have trading card games just evolved? Plus, the new Wanted trailer!
Monday, November 05, 2007
(Updated 10/14)
Systm
Episode 24 & 25 - The Month of MAME: The Cabinet
A month of MAME? Absolutley. David has a dream of building a superior classic arcade game emulator, so we're building a full size cabinet from the ground up. Get your quarters!
Our arcade sized MAME case is taking a bit longer to build than we expected. So we’re spending a second episode building our classic arcade emulator. In part II: plastic wood, cutting vent holes, and lots of sanding!
Diggnation
Episode 122 - Trent Reznor's Halloween Spectacular
Skull cake, Trent Reznor, Halloween costumes to piss people off, Google Phone, Nintendo Friend Codes, HD Military Simulator, Zombie Apocalypse
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Tekzilla
Episode 6 - $20 Headphones, TED, Mobo Battery
$20 Headphones, Body Worlds 2, Jessica Loves TED, Replace your Motherboard Battery, New Cell Phones, Firefox Goes Guerrilla
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Totally Rad Show
Episode 32 - Haunty Duty
It's the spooktacular Halloween edition! Does Ben Affleck's directorial debut deserve to stay in theaters, or should it be Gone, Baby, Gone? Can we survive the depths of Hellgate: London? Is Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction delicious Halloween candy for your PS3? Plus, great seasonal reading with Batman: The Long Halloween, and we go trick-or-treating!
Monday, October 29, 2007
Nintendo DS TV Tuner

Your Mission: Spread Firefox One Giant Sticker at a Time
Are you ready to infiltrate society and spread Firefox one sticker at a time? Operation Firefox is currently recruiting agents to place huge 3.5’ Firefox stickers where the world will see them. In addition to worldwide notoriety, you might wind up with a new MacBook Pro or a Nintendo Wii.
Operation Firefox began last summer as a project initiated by the Mozilla Marketing interns. We had seen what the Mozilla community produced before, including the New York Times ad, the Firefox crop circle, and the Firefox Flicks contest, and decided to step up to the challenge and create another opportunity for Mozilla fans to show off their creativity.
This newest campaign puts 3.5 foot Firefox stickers in the hands of our community and looks for creative new ways to share Firefox with the world. Ultimately, our goal is to get 50 great photos of the Firefox logo in situations that promote some of the defining characteristics of the Web browser–performance, security, customization, and community.
The contest is two-tiered: first, we’re putting out a call for the 50 best “placements” for these stickers (due November 9th). Then, the most creative agents will receive a fathead sticker to complete their mission: take a photograph and submit before December 3rd. All 50 photos will be displayed on the Operation Firefox website, but the four best ones will receive a new MacBook Pro or Nintendo Wii.
Do you think you have what it takes to be an Operation Firefox agent? To learn more about the contest and how to participate, visit www.operationfirefox.com.
Operation Firefox began last summer as a project initiated by the Mozilla Marketing interns. We had seen what the Mozilla community produced before, including the New York Times ad, the Firefox crop circle, and the Firefox Flicks contest, and decided to step up to the challenge and create another opportunity for Mozilla fans to show off their creativity.
This newest campaign puts 3.5 foot Firefox stickers in the hands of our community and looks for creative new ways to share Firefox with the world. Ultimately, our goal is to get 50 great photos of the Firefox logo in situations that promote some of the defining characteristics of the Web browser–performance, security, customization, and community.
The contest is two-tiered: first, we’re putting out a call for the 50 best “placements” for these stickers (due November 9th). Then, the most creative agents will receive a fathead sticker to complete their mission: take a photograph and submit before December 3rd. All 50 photos will be displayed on the Operation Firefox website, but the four best ones will receive a new MacBook Pro or Nintendo Wii.
Do you think you have what it takes to be an Operation Firefox agent? To learn more about the contest and how to participate, visit www.operationfirefox.com.
Gmail Gets IMAP

Tekzilla
Episode 5 - Leopard First Look, iPod Batteries, Transformers, eBooks and Flock
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.
Diggnation
Episode 121 - Back to Beers
Turn off that iPhone, Death Star Flaw, Girls Kissing Monkeys, Increase your IQ, Frugal Gift Ideas, 30 Year Laptop Battery and a new Earth
Original MySpace Web Series "Roomates"
Iron Sink Media has managed to get a syndication deal with MySpace for the launch of its original web series, “Roommates.” There are 45 episodes in this series, and the first episode debuts Monday at 1:00 pm PST. Episodes will be released every weekday from now until December 21st. Ford Focus has signed on as a sponsor for the series.
This show is about a group of 8 former college roommates who move to L.A. and join up to film a reality show Real World-style. There will also be interactive options for users and extras by way of blog posts and archives for the show’s characters.
This show is about a group of 8 former college roommates who move to L.A. and join up to film a reality show Real World-style. There will also be interactive options for users and extras by way of blog posts and archives for the show’s characters.
The Totally Rad Show
Episode 31 - Flavors
30 Days of Night: It's Vampires in Alaska, what could go wrong? Dead Alive: Can we survive the goriest movie ever? Street Fighter 4 and Bionic Commando: Are they 15 years too late? Unreal Tournament 3: Is it new and improved, or just prettier? Plus, the scariest movies of our youth!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Diggnation Episode 120
Captain America and the Russian Mob
iPhone SDK in 2008, Russian spammer murdered, Halo 3 vs movies, ancient flying vehicles, PUNCHED!, Kevin Rose and Captain America, Terrifying foods
Tekzilla Episode 4
Converting vinyl to audio files, inspiration for inventors, the Wayback Machine
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.
Friday, October 19, 2007
First Look at Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Stephen Colbert Officially Announces Run for Presidency
After nearly a solid week of dropping hints, Stephen Colbert threw his hat in the ring in the race for president.
First, he made a surprise appearance at his old home, Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," Tuesday night to make an official announcement: He was officially considering a run for president and would announce his decision "some time soon."
Soon arrived about 20 minutes later on his own show, The Colbert Report, when, with balloons falling, he said, 'Yes, I'm doing it!" Then he welcomed CBS political analyst Jeff Greenfield to analyze his impact on the race "in the past three minutes."
Greenfield said it was "astounding."
The Totally Rad Show Episode 30 - Coma-esque
Michael Clayton: Early Oscar contender? Plus Star Trek prequel casting. Orange Box: Is a 2 year-old game this year's best purchase? Medal of Honor Airborne: A new take on WWII? Phantom Hourglass: Does Zelda with a stylus work? Heroes season 2 impressions and more!
Google Docs Mobile Now Available
