Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcast 63 (8-15-06)

Amit, Dan and Herb star in this podcast. Fun times with the ROW boys. All three ROW boys talking tech!

Return of Whatever (Podcast 63 8-15-06)64.mp3 13 megs mp3

Links:
Digital music display
http://www.freehandsystems.com/

Roll up piano keyboard
http://www.dansdata.com/rup.htm

Slashdot for food?
http://www.slashfood.com

New Users Network for Ubuntu
http://www.linux.com

Handy reference site for units of measurements
http://www.ex.ac.uk

Science only search engine
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

Why is the sky blue?
http://www.why-is-the-sky-blue.tv

The Problem with Wi-Fi in the Classroom
http://www.news-leader.com/

Thailand Plans to Give 1 Free Laptop Per Child
http://www.siliconvalley.com/

Student releases "iProcrastinate" homework organization app, free
http://www.craigotis.com/

Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites
http://www.time.com/

Indian village uploads itself onto Internet
http://today.reuters.com/

Teens say NO to video on small screen devices
http://www.pvrwire.com/

OpenOffice.org Security Is Insufficient
http://www.infoworld.com/

Great drawing resource and Drawing Lessons - beginner to advanced
http://www.finearteducation.com/

The Evolution of Desktops: from 1984 to the present
http://r-101.blogspot.com/

Kiboze: Group Text Messaging Made Easy
http://www.somewhatfrank.com/

1982- 100gb Mass storage system
http://www.columbia.edu/

Famster - A safe way to upload and share your files... for free
http://www.famster.com/

ShowMeWhere: Google maps for everyone!
http://showmewhere.net/gmap/index.php

Customizing Your Computer! (Windows, OSX and Linux)
http://interfacelift.com/

First Look at a New Web OS : Desktoptwo
http://desktoptwo.com/

How to Pick a Linux Distro (Distribution)
http://thelinuxnewbie.blogspot.com

Social Network for Jobs
http://www.linkedin.com/

Wolfenstein Jammed Into 5K of Javascript
http://www.wolf5k.com/#

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcast 62 (8-8-06)

Amit and Herb star in this podcast. Fun times with the ROW boys. Only two parts are together this week, until Dan joins in half way in the cast! All three ROW boys talking tech!

Return of Whatever (Podcast 62 8-8-06)64.mp3 13 megs mp3

Links:
Apple stories
http://www.apple.com/

Reincarnating a discarded laptop with Linux
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT6185716632.html

Puppy linux
http://www.puppylinux.com/

How To Prevent Windows XP Users From Writing To USB Drives
http://www.tech-recipes.com/

Mom uses Technology to PWN Teens.
http://news.yahoo.com/

Gmail Vs Yahoo Mail Vs Hotmail
http://abduljaleel.typepad.com

Free spreadsheet app for Mac OS X
http://www.x-tables.eu/more/overview.html

TV streaming
http://www.streamick.com/

Who is the king of Wikipedia?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Networking 101: Understanding Tunneling
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com

Hackers Passing On Operating Systems....Now Focusing On Device Drivers
http://www.channelregister.co.uk

FCC Supports Broadband over Power Lines
http://www.eweek.com

College art students school Yahoo engineers in creativity
http://news.yahoo.com/

Google Launches Picasa Web Albums for Mac
http://googleblog.blogspot.com

Introduction to 90 Online File Storage Services
http://www.lifehack.org

Congress Lacks High-Tech Expertise.
http://www.latimes.com/

The 15 minute Windows XP tune-up
http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/xp15minutes/

Bands find large Web fanbase doesn't equal big money
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/

Original Star Trek Reborn in New Comic Series
http://www.contactmusic.com/

Entire F.E.A.R Multiplayer to be made available completely FREE
http://www.joinfear.com/us/

Tongue controlled Gameboy Advance
http://www.simmunity.com/gameboy.html

Gallery of stunning digital photography with tutorials
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com

Ω: my favorite strange number
http://scienceblogs.com/

Kids nicked for stealing 26 million veterans' data
http://www.theinquirer.net/

Lieberman's site not hacked, just too cheap to buy good hosting
http://www.dailykos.com

Rackathon 2006
http://osuosl.org/contribute/rackathon

Sprint to use WiMax for 4G wireless network
http://news.com.com/

1000 plus photos of Herb on Picasa
http://picasaweb.google.com/herbertmidgley

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcasts 61 (8-2-06)

Amit, Dan and Herb star in this podcast. Fun times with the ROW boys. The three parts are together this week! Wifi, Wimax and how to use Google this week! Dan is drinking tea Herb is drinking sugarfree Koolaid.

Return of Whatever (Podcast 61 8-2-06)64.mp3 21 megs mp3

Links:

Blackboard Patents the LMS
http://mfeldstein.com/

MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, banned from schools?
http://news.yahoo.com/

Personal Wiki Application As Easy As Notepad -It is FREE
http://www.gersic.com/zulupad/

Gopher servers still online
http://www.kottke.org

USA Bill Requires Schools & Libraries BLOCK Social Networking & Chat Sites
http://www.techcrunch.com/

Free math book published because they think textbook prices are too high...
http://www.totallyfreemath.com/

The Perils of the $100 Laptop
http://www.linuxextremist.com/

Cash strapped schools looking for corporate sponsors.
http://www.usatoday.com

College students find ways to drink safely.
http://news.yahoo.com/

Microsoft make MSDN Library free to download!
http://arstechnica.com

India plans free software for all
http://www.pcwelt.de

Can't find an IT job? Here are the reasons why.
http://computerworld.com/

Pentagon Watching Youtube Closely
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5226254.stm

25 Products That Defined 25 Years of Personal Computing
http://www.eweek.com/

If You Want to be Rich: First, Stop Being So Frightened
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

The 100 oldest .com Domains currently registered
http://www.jottings.com/

Burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data
http://www.instructables.com/

Make 2 people call each other!
http://www.jajah.com/

Postit type webpage
http://www.posticky.com/index.php

Make you own book on demand
http://www.lulu.com/

Flying Spaghetti Monster
http://www.amazon.com/

Subscribe to the story online instead of publishing as a real book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowmarch

The worst educational recruitment video ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg

Monday, July 24, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcasts 60 (7-24-06)

Dan and Herb star in this podcast. Fun times with the ROW boys. Two parts are together this week! Wifi, Wimax and how to use Google this week! Dan is drinking tea Herb is drinking sugarfree Koolaid.
Return of Whatever (Podcast 60 7-24-06)64.mp3 21 megs mp3

Links:
Wimax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Yahooligans!
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

The Official Internet Webpage
http://www.xprt.net/

MySpace feels the heat
http://news.com.com/

California temp's cause power outages, Myspace and yahoo are hit
http://www.canada.com

Wal-Mart's "MySpace-Killer" Is A Real Bomb
http://adage.com

Laptops pre-loaded with Linux getting popular (posted in 2004 too old to talk about)
http://www.hindu.com

Surfing The Web With Nothing But Brainwaves
http://money.cnn.com

How to Change a Windows XP 2000 Password without knowing the origanal pass.
http://www.wikihow.com

How much is your average fuel cost? Database of 25k cars from 1984-2006
http://www.mpgbuddy.com/

The 10 Coolest Technologies You've Never Heard Of
http://www.pcmag.com

Fake Google Website Hides Trojan Horse
http://www.cio.com

YouTube Is The Fastest Growing Website
http://adage.com/

Wireless Broadband Could Go Live Nationwide in Less Than 3 Years
http://www.businessweek.com

Free Tool Scans Sites For Threats
http://www.techweb.com

Do More Tech Toys Make You Happier?
http://news.yahoo.com

19 minutes - how long working parents give their children
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Email becomes the new snail mail
http://www.theage.com.au

Spell Anything with Google Images
http://www.progranism.com

Vanity Fair: The Story Behind "Loose Change"
http://www.vanityfair.com

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcasts 59 (7-18-06)

Amit, Dan and Herb star in this podcast. Fun times with the ROW boys. All three parts are together this week! A lot of WebCt talk this week.
Return of Whatever (Podcast 59 7-18-06)64.mp3 21 megs mp3

Links:
Top 10 Mac Applications For Students
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=11

Free 10 Week Online AJAX Course by Sun Microsystems
http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/

Conservative Christian Schools Perform Worst
http://www.nytimes.com

Artificial Intelligence Turns 50 Years Old
http://www.wired.com

70% Work For A Toxic Boss: Learning To Cope
http://www.thestar.com/

Myspace.com hijack is currently spreading like wildfire
http://chaseandsam.com/

YouTube Serves Up 100 Million Videos Per Day
http://go.reuters.com

In France you can get a PC and Broadband Wireless for a Buck a Day!
http://www.thebusinessonline.com/

Fixed an iPod by banging it on his desk
http://www.spillingcoffee.com

Almost Every file format in the world!
http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html

35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today
http://www.micropersuasion.com/

Street-Legal Jet Powered VW Beetle
http://www.ourlighterside.com/stuff/engineer/

Nintendo DS Booting Macintosh System 6
http://lazyone.drunkencoders.com/wordpress/

HOWTO: Make a Movie That Looks Like 'A Scanner Darkly'
http://barnt.org:81/~jared/scanner/scanner.html

One of Herb's Videos turn in to A Scanner Darkly'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmmfxsvUlQE

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcasts 58 (7-12-06)

Amit and Herb star in this podcast. Fun times with the ROW boys. Dan is at an educational convention and will report next week on the convention.
Return of Whatever (Podcast 58 7-12-06)64.mp3 19 megs mp3

Links:
Facebook, Myspace, etc. And Getting Hired
http://www.lsus.edu/

MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/

At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust
http://www.nytimes.com/

Ten signs you're tech obsessed.
http://www.theage.com.au/

A closer look at Apple's educational iMac
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1870

$40 Linux PC - Monitor/Keyboard Included
http://www.izzyscomputerdepot.com

Military-Grade PDA is Everything-Proof
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/08/recon-x-military-grade-pda-is-everything-proof/

List of the Most Controversial Books Ever Written
http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/

Free 3D Astronomy software for Windows, Linux, and OSX
http://www.shatters.net

Want to learn Chinese, China wants to teach you
http://news.yahoo.com

New Internet Tech 153,000 Times Faster Than Modem
http://news.nationalgeographic.com

Negroponte: $100 laptops due next year
http://www.infoworld.com

Trade Your Old CDs For A Free iPod
http://cbs4boston.com/

'google', verb, small 'g', added to Webster's Dictionary
http://www.latimes.com/

Wearable Wrist Computer From 1984
http://gizmodo.com/

A Link to a HUGE list of 80s Music Videos!
http://www.1500videos.com/

Magic Eye Image Creator
http://flash-gear.com/stereo/

Phone without talking
http://www.ospenterprises.com/phone/index.htm

Monday, July 03, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcasts 57 (7-3-06)

Dan and Herb star in this podcast. Tech and school is fun to listen to. Happy 4th of July!!

Return of Whatever (Podcast 57 7-03-06)64.mp3 19 megs mp3

Links:
Student sues over IM-related suspension
http://news.com.com

10 Ways to Tweak Your Tech Résumé
http://www.eweek.com

Teach your kids some real computers skills, the hard way - install linux
http://solodiscussion.blogspot.com/

Windows account password cracks
http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

HTML or CSS resource
http://www.htmldog.com/

6th grader featured on Google's Blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com

Library phone answerers survive the Internet - CNET News.com
http://news.com.com

Index of 1,000 Full Length Anime On YouTube
http://digguser.blogspot.com

Who's reading your e-mail?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5132512.stm

Common Music - an object-oriented music composition environment
http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/doc/cm.html

Must know tips & tricks for photographers using photoshop
http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/

Supposing ... I'm too old for MySpace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

10 worst arcade-to-console game conversions
http://pc.ign.com/articles/715/715301p1.html

Should Prisoners Be Entitled to Video Games?
http://www.i4u.com/article5990.html

Know your rights when you've been pulled over
http://www.lifehacker.com/

Gopher pre WWW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_protocol

Watch Herb sing his Nerd song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAyY68hyw9c

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Return Of Whatever (After Hours) Podcast 1(6-28-06)

Have you ever wondered what the Return Of Whatever boys talk about after the ROW podcast? Well now you can!

Dan and Herb tried out some new podcasting software and recorded this pilot test show. Let us know if you like it.

This week Dan tells some stories about Herb when the gamers all went to the movies.
If you are a Herb fan, you have to check this cast out!! You'll LOL!!!!
If you like the humor of ROW with out the tech, you'll love this podcast!

Return Of Whatever (After Hours) Podcast 1(6-28-06)

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcast 56 (6-25-06)

Amit and Herb star in this podcast. This isn't the samurai podcast, but there is a lot of the tech this week!

Return of Whatever (Podcast 56 6-25-06)64.mp3 17 megs mp3

Links:

Class room of the future
http://www.mayoclinic.org/

Guy arrested for using free WiFi without buying something
http://arstechnica.com

Student Tried to Warn Ohio University About Vulnerability in 2002
http://www.dispatch.com/

Opera for Nintendo DS: First Look and Hands on Review
http://my.opera.com/

Online Graphing Calculator
http://www.e-tutor.com/et2/graphing

Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless
http://www.wired.com/

Watch 120 live online TV channels for free
http://www.live-online-tv.com/

The majority of web surfers use 1024x768
http://www.onestat.com

Apple will staff the Best Buys selling Macs
http://www.thinksecret.com

Man Robbed by Teen Girls, Thought He was Meeting MySpace Friend
http://www.fox30online.com/

How to play a proper game of Tic Tac Toe
http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=55

"Superman Returns" Science: Decoding the Movie Hero's Powers
http://news.nationalgeographic.com

Command line for everybody
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Watch Herb sing the "I'm a Nerd" the cowboy way. A country version of his big hit!
I'm a Nerd (Country Version)

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Return Of Whatever Podcast 55 (6-18-06)

Amit and Dan and Herb star in this podcast. The parts are back together to complete the kool-aid. Fun times with the ROW podcast. Happy Father's day!!! This is the samurai podcast, which means there is a lot of samurai fun in with the tech!

Return of Whatever (Podcast 55 6-18-06)64.mp3 27 megs mp3

Links:
Report: 86% of E-Mail Traffic is Spam
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/ekZ8y0Ze2JxZkj/Report-Spam-Accounts-for-Most-E-Mail-Traffic.xhtml

How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, And Why
http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm

Mass. school punishes students with electric shocks
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=12222

The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless network
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/Ou/?p=43

How to Write a Master's Thesis in Computer Science
http://www.cs.fit.edu/~wds/guides/howto/

Now, Free Ways to Do Desktop Work on the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17money.html?ex=1308196800&en=4ebab743f01863c5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Over 9 years of events since Duke Nukem Forever was announced.
http://duke.a-13.net/

Social Networks: Future Portal Or Fad?
http://news.com.com/Social+networks-future+portal+or+fad/2100-1038_3-6083546.html?tag=nefd.lede

What Search Engine Spiders See
http://www.dlperry.com/what_search_engine_spiders_see.html

More of your information might be online than you think
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/06/12/idtheft.internet/index.html?section=cnn_tech

The Best: Accidental Discoveries
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/start.html?pg=3

A Students, B movies
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/start.html?pg=7

Bill Gates to step aside in 2008
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060615-7069.html

Windows Vista OEM requirements
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060614-7060.html

Researchers Find Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=97378

Advice to Students by a MAC!
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060614_650605.htm?sub=techmaven

A Display in Your Glasses
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,667638,00.asp

http://www.microopticalcorp.com/Products/HomePage.html

http://www.myvu.com/details.html