Aug 28th 2005
This Week in Tech 20
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- New LCD displays with LED backlights
- Old-style LCDs take half an hour to reach optimal color, CRTs can take hours
- LED pocket projectors
- TWiT pocket protectors
- Intel strives for VIIV
- Shorter pipelines, lower power consumption, but will it be fast?
- Multi-threading does not benefit games
- L2 cache is key
- Felony charges are dropped for the Kutztown 13
- VoIP providers get an extension on 911
- Otis hacking
- Life hacking with lifehacker.com and 43Folders.com
- Google talk is no big whoop - but it does sound good for voice
- Voice stuff is by Global IP Sound - not Google
- Jabber support is a good thing, though
- Getting studio quality over the Internet cloud
- Early drinking experiences
- NY AG Eliot Spitzer wins judgement against AOL for making it hard to cancel
- Bank account drainers
- Tivo makes its first quarterly profit
- Leo's looking for BitTorrent-based media center
- We're Family Guy fans but what's the deal with the podcast
- The not-so-mighty mouse
- Real geeks covet the Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
- Pinewood Derby hacking
- Patrick reviews the Vista Beta
- Finally decent security in Windows
- But automatic P2P connections don't seem like a good idea
- Zeroconf, on the other hand, works
- Steve's 2 TTL security hack
- A Microsoft worker brings a virus to Redmond. Measles.
- Halo - the movie
- The best and worst geek movies of all time