Sunday, January 29, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcast 35 (1-29-06)

Amit and Herb join Phil for the 35th ROW show! This week we covered many educational topics. We had a few tech problems, that is how a podcast happens sometimes, no matter what ROW will have a cast up every week. This is a fun podcast to listen to. Thanks Phil for joining this week's podcast!


Return of Whatever (Podcast 35 1-29-06) 25.6 megs mp3

Links:
Mac Software Review (One of Phil's webpages)
http://www.macsoftreview.com/

Will the university survive?
http://www.mises.org/story/2013

Apple's iTunes U Puts School Lectures and More on iTunes
http://playlistmag.com

What to do when they ask for your Social Security Number
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/political_spew/ssnfaq.html

Best language for teaching Computer Science?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/01/which-language-for-teaching-computer.html

Dance Dance Revolution School weight loss program
http://news.yahoo.com

Why parents must mind MySpace
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11064451/

25 Words That Hurt Your Resume
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/Careers/01/20/cb.words.hurt.resume/

Video: 30 years of Apple
http://unirrelevant.be/30years

Mac Tips from Woz Himself!
http://video.google.com/

Common Mistakes Made by New Mac Users
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/01/25/common-mistakes-made-by-new-mac-users/

XP on an 8 Mhz Computer?
http://winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm

How to use BitTorrent to transfer files
http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/bittorrent

How To Use BitTorrent in 5 Easy Steps
http://www.commonwebsense.com/2006/01/27/the-bittorrent-post/

Amazing List of Tech facts
http://tech-facts.blogspot.com/

$6000 to Anyone Who Can Dual Boot OSX and Windows XP on New Intel-Macs
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=452

A big list of FREE music making software!
http://making-music.blogspot.com/

Music video tells story of doomed E.T. for Atari 2600
http://keithschofield.com/et/

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcast 34 (1-22-06)

Amit and Herb join John for the 34st ROW show! Next week another guest co-host. This week we covered many educational topics. Thanks John for joining this week's podcast!


Return of Whatever (Podcast 34 1-22-06) 25.6 megs mp3

Links:
Social College rate site
http://www.pickaprof.com/

8 mistakes when creating PowerPoint presentations
http://www.symplebyte.com/

Geek to Live: Lifehacker Pack
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/

The Socratic Method
http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html

Google + Facebook + alcohol = trouble
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060119-6016.html

The FREE html editor 1st Page 2006 has been released!
http://www.evrsoft.com/

What Technology Will Be Like in 2001
http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/

Computer First Aid Using Knoppix
http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/

Tracing An Email
http://www.onimoto.com/cache/50.html

Students want file-sharing sites to pay RIAA settlements
http://online.wsj.com/public/

DoJ search requests: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes.
http://www.boingboing.net

Cool telnet sites
http://www.telnet.org/htm/places.htm

25 Most Connected Campuses
http://www.forbes.com/connected

Quicktime Patches for Windows and Mac OS X
http://isc.sans.org/diary

How-To: Use Gmail as a Server
http://www.sheerboredom.net/modules

Convert you DVDs to iPod Video
http://www.sheerboredom.net/modules

Capt. Kirk Sells Kidney Stone for $25,000
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire

Indian Man Must Prove He Isn't a Ghost
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world

New Highschool in Columbus, Ohio Focuses on Math, Science, Technology and Engineering
http://www.washingtontimes.com

FIRST Seeks to End 'Quiet Crisis'
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Return of Whatever Podcast 31 (1-1-06)

Happy New Year!! The Kool-Aid is only one part this week again. Herb stars in this podcast. We hope all hope to have the gang back together after the holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 31 1-1-06) 10.5 megs mp3

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Links:
Free MIT Video Lectures
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/avocw.htm

AJAX Translator
http://ajax.parish.ath.cx/translator/

Why to switch from Linux to OS X
http://currentlyfabulous.com/blog2/index.php?itemid=30

Free online file storage and sending
http://www.jdempsey.com/2005/12/08/free-online-file-storagesending/

How to Setup a Wi-Fi Hotspot
http://www.howtoforge.com/wifi_hotspot_setup

The Million Dollar Homepage Sells the Last Pixels Today
http://www.i4u.com/article4809.html

New digital camera? Know how, where you can use it
http://www.kantor.com/blog/2005/12/legal_rights_of_photographers.html

The Evolution of a Programmer
http://www.icarus.net/johnjo/evolutio.htm

Sony to offer FREE downloads from iTunes.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051229-5863.html

10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-12-31-n34.html


Here is a Kung-Fu movie that Herb made in iMovie. Who is the bully, is it someone we know?
I Got Game 14.6 megs mov

Here is a link to a videocast that Amit and I recorded a few days after Christmas.

You have to have Quicktime 7 to view it.

Return of Whatever 12-28-05 videocast 20 megs Quicktime 7 mov

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Return of Whatever Videocast 12-28-05

A shot from the videocast
Amit and Herb got a chance to get together and recorded a videocast a few days after Christmas.

You have to have Quicktime 7 to view it. Herb will put it on google video in a few days.

Return of Whatever 12-28-05 videocast 20 megs Quicktime 7 mov

Links:

Facebook

Myspace

Become our friends:

Herb's Facebook page
Herb's Myspace page
Herb's Myspace artist page

Amit's Myspace page

And yes those are the stairs in "Death Stairs". You know you want to watch Herb fight a trash can.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 30 (12-25-05)

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!! The Kool-Aid is only two parts this week again. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 30 12-25-05) 21.2 megs mp3

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Links:
Online AJAX word processor
http://www.writely.com

Savings With Open Source in Schools
http://spidertools.com/oss.php

Make your own info web page
http://www.protopage.com

Herb's Protogage
http://www.protopage.com/herbertmidgley

Infinite Bandwidth Everywhere for Free
http://nocat.net/

Build your own Linux distro in minutes
http://www.rpath.com/

SCO has to show proof
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1904737,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Google to start renting videos?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=59

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard At Macworld ?
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/12/23/could-we-meet-10-5-at-macworld-06/

Free PC software links
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/alp.htm

iTunes and the 7-burn limit
http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/ipodblog/2005/12/7burn/index.php

First Clear Picture Of The Center Of Our Milky Way Galaxy
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6693

The "Must Have" Toys of Christmas Past
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2005/12/23/rear-view-mirror-the-classics-of-christmas-past/

Herb's favorite Christmas present
http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/800xl/800xl.htm

Getaway the coolest game on Atari 800XL
http://www.atariarchives.org/APX/showinfo.php?cat=20195

Mark Reid interview (He made Getway!)
http://www.qlam.com/atari/s_getaway.html

Amit's favorite Christmas present
http://www.vgmuseum.com/systems/nes/

NES clone
http://www.estarland.com/index.asp?page=NintendoNES&cat=&product=22535&q

Old radio programs
http://radiolovers.com/

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 29 (12-18-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week again. Dan was out fighting dragons we think. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 29 12-18-05) 18.7 megs mp3

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Links:
Child's Play
http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplaycharity/index.php

Microsoft drops IE for Mac
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And The Invention Of The Computer
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/books/review/18johnson.html?ex=1292562000&en=1147f35e13b48b65&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

PC and Mac applications that every gamer should have
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000900072697/

Google spending $1 billion to get 5% of AOL
http://news.com.com/AOL+to+stick+with+Google/2100-1030_3-5998600.html

What Google REALLY gave up to get AOL
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/5042

How Google woos the best and brightest
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/18/GOOGLE.TMP

Electronics 101
http://www.ffldusoe.edu/Faculty/Denenberg/Topics/Electronics/Alex_Pounds/Index.htm

Theater owners want cell phones blocked
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051217-074635-6362r

U of Minnesota newspaper does online parody version in Windows XP style
http://www.mndaily.com/finals/2005fall/index.php

Webpage guesses what band/singer you are thinking of, in 20 questions!
http://music.20q.net/gse

HOW TO: Run Other OSes On Your PC
http://linux.wolphination.com/?p=18

Disabled Fans Shut Out of Star Wars Galaxies
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1308320

Powers of Ten
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5555313278261147278&q=powers+of+ten

A Photoshopped Magazine Cover
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=14537


Pi Trainer
http://x42.com/cgi-bin/pitrainer.cgi

Have a Nerdy Christmas! The CD!
http://herbertmidgley.blogspot.com/2005/12/have-nerdy-christmas-cd.html

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 28 (12-11-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week again. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 28 12-11-05) 17.7 megs mp3

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Links:
Answers.Yahoo.com Goes Live
http://answers.yahoo.com/

Wikilaw: Your free legal resource
http://wiki-law.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

How to: Build a Webpage
http://www.pingmag.jp/2005/12/09/the-website-development-process/

Students raise funds for roommate sued by RIAA
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/12/09/news/14093.shtml

What is accessing my hard drive when I'm not using my PC?
http://www.help2go.com/article251.html

A free-for-all gets people on planes quicker than starting at the back.
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051205/full/051205-11.html

Intel calls MIT's $100 laptop a 'gadget'
http://news.com.com/Intel+calls+MITs+100+laptop+a+gadget/2100-1005_3-5989067.html?tag=nefd.top

FireWire not dead, but it's on life support
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=57

New record speed for bandwidth 150 gigabits per second!
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/network_prize_release.html

Free Guitar Lessons for iTunes and your iPod w/ video
http://www.iplaymusic.com/

Auto-lock your computer on start-up
http://www.geekbb.com/showthread.php?t=494

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 27 (12-4-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 27 12-4-05) 17.7 megs mp3

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Links:
Firefox 1.5
http://www.mozilla.com/

Macromedia RIP
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200512/120105MACRAcquisitionClose.html

French government lobbied to ban free software
http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html

Need a discount on an iPod? Just create your own barcode!
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3270764

Is eBay going to be shut down?
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/28/hncourtebay_1.html

Take a Screenshot of DVD Player in OS X
http://highschoolblows.blogspot.com/2005/11/take-screenshot-of-dvd-player-in-os-x.html

"Stuff you can Make" Gift Guide
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/12/makes_mostly_under_100_gift_gu.html

Play Sega Genesis, Nintendo, & TG16 Online
http://www.thesmartass.info/index.php?main=genesis

Play doom and doom 2 online Free
http://www.codeimp.com/connector_tutorial.php

Head-over-heels in love? You'll get over it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10252428/

Car Shuts Down if you dont pay the bill
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-11-29-tech-repo-man_x.htm

HOW TO: Survive worst case scenarios!
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/worst_case_scenario/

Funny - Network Traffic Ticket
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/ticket.gif

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 26 (11-27-05)

The Kool-Aid is finally complete two weeks in a row!!!! Amit, Dan and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you had a great Thanksgiving.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 26 11-27-05) 26.7 megs mp3

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Links:
Students in trouble over Blogs
http://online.wsj.com/

Guide for Student bloggers
http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-students.php

Swap your textbooks
http://www.swapyourtextbooks.com/

Free Physics Textbook online
http://www.motionmountain.net/

Havard class podcast Story
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/11/26/harvard-podcasts-available-to-everyone/

MIT's $100 laptop to run Redhat
http://www.tectonic.co.za/viewr.php?id=731

Physics, Math and Engineering concepts using Java Applets.
http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

Teaching Computers the Stuff We All know
http://commonsense.media.mit.edu/

Google orgins
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8091/diglib/pub/slides/berkeleydlijan98/berkeleygoogle2/

Firefox Canvas based First Person Shooter
http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/

Try your social engineering skills (click on play this game)
http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/4364

How to be Lonely
http://wiki.ehow.com/Deal-With-Loneliness

Girlfriends Against Video Games
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000337069569/

Holographic disk storage
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,106288,00.html

Xbox BSOD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990158/

Programming bacteria
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-11-27/35012.html

Pro-evolution website sued because it recieves public funds
http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=51460

Jesuit speaks out against Intelligent Design
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_evolution

Some Herb stuff
New Star Wars fan film by Herb
The Last Battle
http://herbertmidgley.blogspot.com/2005/11/last-battle-new-star-wars-fan-film.html

http://www.herbertmidgley.com/rft/thelastbattlem4.mov

And if you missed it, here is my first Star Wars fan film, The Last Stand SE.
http://www.herbertmidgley.com/stormtrooper/The%20Last%20Stand%20SE.mov

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Return of Whatever Podcast 25 (11-20-05)


The Kool-Aid is finally complete! Amit, Dan and Herb star in this podcast. We hope you heart this podcast before Thanksgiving.
Return of Whatever (Podcast 25 11-20-05) 19.9 megs mp3

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Links:
DB for free?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051118-5601.html

Free - Oracle?
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2005_oct/103105_databasexe_finalsite.html

Home school podcast
http://bezahlt.podomatic.com/

Playing Music Can Be Good For Your Brain
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/17/MNGQ9FPODP1.DTL

Mom Makes Teen Stand on Street With Sign
http://home.peoplepc.com/

Intellectually Stimulating Game ( How Fast Can You Think? )
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/games/matter/

Video of the $100 MIT laptop
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/news.html

Cheap iBooks in Jan.
http://www.thebusinessonline.com

Black Friday 2005 Complete List
http://www.flexdeals.net/forums.php?m=posts&q=16

Parents Sue World of Warcraft
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000997068547/

The Mathematical Magic of the Fibonacci Numbers
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibmaths.html

Owner brings 1990 Macintosh Classic to Genius Bar for "upgrade" NO JOKE!
http://50lbslater.com/blog/?p=45

RootkitRevealer see if you have the Sony Root Kit
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html

Scarf Girl (A Sung that Herb wrote the music to and a few of the good lyrics. James did the rest!)
http://www.herbertmidgley.com/james/scarf%20girl2.mp3