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

Make Google Voice Your Landline, Ceton's 4 Channel USB TV Tuner, How To Color Match Your PC Monitors, And Record Great Audio From a Camcorder

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 – running time 30:49

Does the Obihai VoIP make a good landline replacement? Ryan Block for gdgt.com is here with his experiences. Robert explains how to color match multiple monitors on the same PC. We show you the secret to recording great audio from a camcorder. And we find out if Ceton's 4 Channel USB TV Tuner can record all simultaneously record all 4 channels over USB 2.0!

Does the Obihai VoIP make a good landline replacement? Ryan Block for gdgt.com is here with his experiences. Robert explains how to color match multiple monitors on the same PC. We show you the secret to recording great audio from a camcorder. And we find out if Ceton's 4 Channel USB TV Tuner can record all simultaneously record all 4 channels over USB 2.0!

Apple After Steve Jobs, WikiLeaks Springs a Leak, Google+ Says No to Privacy, Gamestop Says Sorry with $50 Giftcards!

Steve Jobs announced his resignation last week, what will this mean to Apple's long term future? WikiLeaks is once again in the news again but not for the reason you think. It seems WikiLeaks has a sprung a leak according to PCmag.com. A German Newspaper has claims to have "found" a batch of online un-redacted documents originating from WikiLeaks. Also from PCMag.com Google's Eric Schmidt believes that Google+ is for real names only. No pseudonyms or false identities allowed. Finally Gamestop will be issuing $50 giftcards for removing coupons for Onlive inside shrinked-wrapped copies of Deus Ex in a bid to restore is reputation.

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Can Ceton's USB TV Tuner Record 4 Channels Simultaneously?

Bill was interested in Ceton's new InfiniTV 4 USB tuner. He's wondering about the USB 2.0 connection being able to provide enough bandwidth to support 4 channel recording. It turns out that a HD channel will never exceed 2.42 MB/sec and at 60MB/sec total bandwidth USB 2.0 will have more than enough bandwidth to accommodate 4 channel recording!

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Color Matching Multiple PC Monitors

Yves from Brasil wants to color match his two PC monitors but is finding Windows tool unhelpful. Robert suggests first resetting both monitors to their factory settings and then use a tool like the Online Monitor Test to calibrate them via the contrast and brightness controls using a medium color temperature. For more precise calibration consider a hardware color meter like CalPC or Datacolor's Spyder3Express.

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Recording Good Audio with a Camcorder

Robbie was interested in recommendations for a new camcorder with a decent mic to record concerts. The truth is that all consumer level camcorders feature pretty atrocious microphones. They were meant to be cheap not good. Robbie's best bet is to pick up a 1/8" stereo mic jack to XLR adapter. We're partial to juicedLink. From there you'll need to pick up a single or pair of shotgun mics and cables. Another option is to use a portable digital audio recorder and then edit the sound into the video later.

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Learn what glues work best at ThisToThat.com

If you've ever been stumped by what adhesives work best when trying to bond material to another one of a completely different type. Well that's where thistothat.com comes in. They include toxicity, duration of adhesion and where you can buy the glue. A must for anyone planning on gluing things together.

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Make Google Voice Your Landline

In response to last week's question on IP telephony services a couple of you wrote in with alternate recommendations. One of those is Obihai is a VoIP device that supports Google Voice, SIP & OBiTALK VoIP. Ryan Block from gdgt.com just happened to install one recently and we pick his brain about his experience and pitfalls of this new Internet Telephony service.

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Don't Use Square Wave UPSs with PCs!

Dave, a Tekzilla viewer, wrote in to warn us about the dangers of using a square wave UPS with modern active Power Factor Correction PC power supplies. Although Robert has used a square wave UPS with his active PFC powered PC he has not encountered any problems with running his gear of its battery. However, we'd love to get an authoritative answer so if you're in the know lets us know tekzilla@revision3.com!

24:22 | Play

It's Photography NOT Phertography!

Efthimios from New Jersey took us to task, specifically, for pronouncing Photography as Phertography! Apparently it causes him great distress and wants us to stop. We'll try... maybe.

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Oyster Festival

In response to our reference to Oysters in the SF Bay Area in Episode 245 Rob suggested we look into the Arcata Oyster Festival.

28:34 | Play

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DICE:
For over 20 years, Dice has been designed for the specific needs of technology professionals, enabling them to perform highly targeted job searches based on specific criteria, including location, type of employment, skill set and keyword. Dice.com also provides job search tools such as search agents, resume posting and career-related content. The job postings available in the Dice.com database, from both technology and non-technology companies across many industries, include a wide variety of technology positions for software engineers, systems administrators, database specialists and project managers, and a variety of other technology and engineering professionals.

Gazelle:
Gazelle accepts more than 300,000 products from over 20 different electronics categories. Shipping is free on all items of value, and in most cases, they'll even send you a box to ship with. Also, for you green folks out there, Gazelle makes all their recycling partners adhere to some strict policies: no exports, no landfill policies, and tons of data security standards. Gazelle is a great way to get cash to upgrade to the latest iPhone or Android phone. Go to www.gazelle.com to learn more.

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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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