Tekzilla

Hosted by Patrick Norton, Robert Heron and Veronica Belmont. New episodes Tuesdays & Thursdays

Tekzilla feeds your tech hunger! Patrick Norton, Robert Heron and Veronica Belmont bring you hands on reviews of the latest gear, tips and tricks that improve the tech you already own and conversations with the most informative experts around. Read More

CO2 Overclocking Done Wrong! Safe Backup 101, Hit-Girl: the Kick-Ass Interview, Microsoft KIN, Google's Doc Upgrade, Free Music!

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 – running time 33:02

Memory: Ganged or Unganged? Make a Free Timelapse Video, Free Music for Videos and Podcasts. What do perfect pouring and super-overclocking have in common: CO2! Backup 101 (Data or drive, Incremental or overwrite, Recovery Disk or Data Only? We've got help!)

Welcome to Tekzilla... hands on reviews of the latest tech, and how to make the most out of the gear you already own! Veronica Belmont and Patrick Norton are your hosts.

Kin Phone, Google Drawing, iPhone OS 4 FCC vs. ISPs

Veronica's got the scoop on Microsoft's Kin Phone (The Loop and Spot are Verizon's new Sidekick!) and her favorite bits from the new OS 4 for the iPhone. Google Docs gets real time and Drawing... and Patrick learns how to eject a Bluetooth keyboard from the iPad.

01:05 | Play

Help Backing Up Your Drive

Rick the Recruiter doesn't know which options to choose when he's setting up software to back up his hard drive. Should he backup folders, the whole computer, or create a disc image? Are incremental backups, better than overwrites. If his hard drive fails, should he restore from a disc image, or re-install windows then move his files back over? Veronica and Patrick walk you through their choices for backing a computer, Windows or OS X! (BTW, Paragon Backup and Recover Free Edition, Sync Toy, Cobian Backup, SuperDuper! rock!)

07:06 | Play

Make a Free Timelapse Video: Gawker!

No it's not the gossipy blog site! Gawker is a free app that lets you create stunning time lapse videos from a webcam attached to your OS X machine

11:13 | Play

CO2 Overclocking: Patrick's Doing It Wrong!

Dry Ice, aka CO2 is cheap, easy to find, and boils at -59 Celsius. Can Patrick use it to (temporarily!) oveclock his Core i7 to new heights? (Hint: too bad he didn't find the Koolance DIY Liquid Nitrogen Evaporator Chamber before we started shooting!

12:00 | Play

Website We Can't Get Enough Of: Instapaper: Build Your Own Custom Newspaper!

Instapaper creates your very own daily periodical filled with stuff you want to read! Drag it into your bookmarks bar, install a plugin, or add Instapaper as a Send To options in Google Reader, and when you see an article you want to save for later, just add it to the queue. Instapaper puts all your articles in one, easy to read place. It's an easy and elegant way to stay on top of all your news feeds!

17:59 | Play

What's Faster: Ganged or Unganged Memory?

Is it faster to run memory in ganged or unganged mode? We've got an answer for Raymond in Texas... but read iXBT labs AMD Phenom X4 Memory Controller in the Ganged/Unganged Mode before you choose!

19:09 | Play

Kick-Ass Interview with Chloe and Chris

We don't normally do celeb interviews but Kick-Ass has us seriously stoked, and had the opportunity to interview Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse about their roles... and social networking. Watch the video to find out what Hit-Girl and Red Mist have to say!

20:17 | Play

Royalty Free Music for Podcasts and Videos

Bill wants to find music he can safely use in his podcast... Veronica's got the music available under create commons licensing (pay attention!), and suggests Mevio's MusicAlley and Magnatune as good sources!

27:51 | Play

Podcasting Setups!

This week we've got the gear behind WKBB La Nico!

29:40 | Play

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Show Title:
Tekzilla
Description:
Tekzilla feeds your tech hunger! Patrick Norton, Robert Heron and Veronica Belmont bring you hands on reviews of the latest gear, tips and tricks that improve the tech you already own and conversations with the most informative experts around.
Categories:
How-To & DIY, Technology & Gadgets
Launch Date:
Sep 1, 2007
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