Episode 1 Show Notes
What is a podcast?
A podcast is like Internet radio, it's a downloadable show that isn't specific to Ipod, although the name hints that. You can use any mp3 player or your computer. You can manually download podcasts or actually get software like iPodder to download new episodes for you via RSS feeds. Check out a more detailed defintion here.
Our Favorite Podcasts
- This Week In Tech. - All about tech. brought to you by the old TechTV show The Screen Savers.
Our Favorite Internet TV/Videozines
- Systm - A professional tech. show brought to you by Kevin Rose and Dan Huard. Each episode covers a specific how to topic. Systm.org
- The Broken - An "underground" tech. show brought to you by Kevin Rose and Dan Huard. This covers everything from wardriving to blowing up a laptop. TheBroken.org
- From The Shadows - A show about computer security and hardware hacks. FromTheShadows.tv
News
- Apple's move to Intel CPU's from the PowerPC Link to keynote speech
- Jackson Virus (Virus that refers to Jackson's possible suicide note)
- Wi-Max (Another way of giving people Internet access)
- New set of Windows updates coming (good ol' update Tuesdays)
- Bluray (the next DVD, 80 GB disk with HD quality video)
Main Subject: Web Design
Web Design Tools
Matthew uses Microsoft Frontpage and Adobe Photoshop.
Jonathan uses Notepad and Microsoft Paint and/or Jasc Paint Shop Pro.
Annoying Web Site Traits
- Animated GIFs
- Advertisements "Nuke Anything" Firefox Extension
- Scrolling Marques
- Frames, but IFrames are nice
- Annoying and Unneccessary borders
Web Design Tips
- Make things readable, like your grandmother was looking at the page.
- Try to be Mozilla/Netscape or IE friendly
- Make your site viewable at a common screen resolution (i.e. 800 x 600)
- K.I.S.S. method (Keep It Simple Stupid), it's why everyone loves Google
We hate Myspace
b/c of stupid music videos
b/c of background images where you can't read text worth crap.
Software of the Episode
Firefox, a wonderful web browser. A great alternative to Internet Explorer.
Its features include:
- Better security
- Tabbed browsing
- Download added features called "extensions"
Site(s) of the Episode
Tech. News:
Slashdot.org
Digg.com
Caller Segment
What do we think of next generation gaming consoles?
Playstation 3 specs.
Xbox 360 specs.
Nintendo Revolution (full specs. not released yet)
Matthew would buy a PS3
Jonathan would buy a Revolution
Additional Episode 1 Links
(some we forgot to mention)
EchoEcho (Web design information/tutorials)
WebMonkey (HTML/Javascript resource)
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