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• Leo Laporte o' TWiT and The Screen Savers fame stops by to show off Parallels Desktop for Mac... running Windows inside of OS X. He also left us a list of his fave OS X applications... keep scrolling for it!
• Dump Winamp to avoid the AOL crud? No way, say Jake, Darren and Ryan! They've got ideas to keep Joey on his (formerly) favorite MP3 player: try Winamp Lite, download older versions from OlderVersion.com (This site rules!). Or go bandit, Reynolds' style, and try Portable Winamp 5.1 with iPod Support... not an approved distro, but designed to run from a USB key.
• Next week we'll cover the laundry list of non-Winamp audio players. It's a good list you sent in!
• Airport luggage hack: Nathaniel, Mark and Paul say pack a gun (actually, a starters pistol) to protect your expensive equipment if you have to check it on a flight! Why? The TSA rquires firearms be transported in a locked container... and they keep a close eye on it.
• You register a domain and get a bill from listingcorp.com? for, uh, listing services and domain submissions? Yup, JP, this is a scam. Well, it's actually a really sleazy piece of junk mail, er, 'solicitation' designed to look like a bill. All to get $65 out of you. In any case, it stinks. Any time you get a weird bill related to a domain name you've registered, google the name of the company, plus the word scam, and chances are you'll find if other folks were hit before you. BTW, scams like this are one of the reasons Robert keeps his personal information out of Domain Name listings... so scammers can't find it.
• Thanks to everybody that forwarded links on how to revive a Linksys WRT54G that's had a bad flash! Here's one, and here's another.
• Viewer tech pic of the week? Props to Paul's PC mod from 2004, he built a fridge into his gaming PC.
• Actually, there were two this week: Jenny sent in a picture of coolest DL.TV download yet: she packed a Thinkpad and a tiny Nera WorldPro 1000 BGAN satellite modem on a crosscountry ski trip in Southern Colorado... she says her girlfriends :foolishly brought essentials like food and clothing." Way cool! BTW, Robert loves the Yurt!
NEWS
• We buy a Mac Pro... Apple releases a version with 8 cores two weeks later. Sigh. At least they cost a grand more than what we paid for our quad-core box.
• Google Launches My Maps... t's all about personalized maps. You can draw on them, mark you favorite places, add text, photos and videos. And, of course you can share them, privately or publicly. Cool!
• The BBC reports that Lenovo "tops eco-friendly ranking". Even if you hate Greenpeace, that did the rankings, it's nice to know some companies have "eliminated toxic chemicals including brominated fire retardants, polyvinyl chloride, beryllium and phthalates from their factories." BTW, Apple came in last of 14 firms, and disagreed with both the rating and the criteria.
Leo's Fave OS X Apps
• Check 'em out... all descriptions are our words, not Leo's, btw:
Twitter: What's Leo doing right now? Uh-oh, Leo just dropped Twitter for Jaiku.
Joost: The next big thing in online video?
Netflix Freak: Manage your rental que on your Mac.
Quicksilver: We've got to demo this on air... "A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data," pre the description, doesn't really imply what this does.
SuperDuper: Fully bootable backup for your OS X system that doesn't suck.
SketchFighter 4000: An old school shooter that looks like sketches on paper.
Adium: The best darn IM app for OS X
Perian: Adds native support for video formats like AVI, FLV, DivX, XviD... the list goes on.
Applejack: Troubleshooting tool for OS X
Little Snitch: A firewall that likes to tattle!
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