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Best of E3, Computing In Bed, SSD Lifespan, Easy Registry Repair, Lunchwalla, Bombproof iPhone Cases!

Thursday, June 17th, 2010 – running time 42:03
How Long Will An SSD Last? Brian Brushwood Reports from E3, The Biggest Event in Video Games! Practice Safe iPhone: Get A Better Case, Boxee Box Release Date, Recording Audio In Audacity Via USB, Viewer iPad Stand Alternatives

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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.

E3 News, Boxee Box Release Date!

We know you want a Boxee Box by D-Link review... Boxee says the release is set for November and tells the WSJ why it's taking so long. E3 Expo, the biggest event in video games is on this week, here's the scoop on Microsoft's Kinect and the new Xbox 360.

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AT&T 3G MicroCell, Update... EeePC Innards!

Lots of folks wrote in to tell Patrick that their AT&T's 3G MicroCell hands of just fine to their local AT&T towers when they leave the house... we'll have more on that next week. Meanwhile, for everybody that asked to see what the Asus EeeBox patrick eviscerated looked like, he's got it on the show!

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SSD Lifespan?

Kevin wants to know how long Solid State Drives will last. We talk MLC, SSD, wear leveling and why that SSD will probably last a -lot- longer than you think! (Props to Anandtech.com's article on the Intel X25-M and True SSD Write Life Expectancy)

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Free Software: Registry Repair

Is your Windows machine giving you weird software errors? Does Windows take forever to load? Then chances are you might have a registry issue. Sure you can edit the registry yourself and hopelessly poke and prod things... but you'd probably be better off with Glarysoft's Registry Repair. It cleans out and repairs your registry from left over uninstalled applications, bad software installs, and missing or corrupt drivers. All you need to do is start it up, scan your registry and click "Repair" then wait while it cleans things up. Give it a try!

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3DS, Wii and Xbox 360 with Brian Brushwood!

With announcements from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and a long list of Video Game publishers, E3 is one the biggest video gaming event of the year. Joining us by phone from the E3 show floor is the host of Scam School and NSFW, TWiT, E3 reporter and serious gaming geek, the most awesome Brian Brushwood...

Dice.com is the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals, and the companies that seek to employ them, in the United States. As a company, we speak the language of tech, knows the particular needs and wants of these fields, works to connect the tech community and, most importantly, empower those in tech with resources and advice tailored to them and them alone. With almost two decades of experience in meeting the ever-changing needs of companies, recruiters and job-seekers, our specialty focus and exposure to highly-skilled technology and engineering professionals enables employers and employees alike to find what they're looking for without having to sift through what they'd like to avoid.

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Lunchwalla, A Website We Can't Get Enough Of

You know the drill: Noon rolls around, and suddenly everyone at the office is scrambling to figure out where and what to eat for lunch! Now, thanks to Lunchwalla, you can browse and vote on places to eat all in one place. You can read reviews about the restaurants you want to visit from Yelp, make reservations using Opentable, and then check in to the locations on Foursquare or import your friends. Slick!

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Bombproof iPhone Cases!

Want to keep from breaking your iPhone? Patrick's got a collection of iPhone 3G and 3GS cases from Pelican, Otterbox, Speck, Incipio, InCase, iSkin along with the case that started this whole hunt: Magpul's iPhone Field Case, which has been delayed.

With the newest release of Adobe® Flash® Platform tools and runtimes-including Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe AIR® 2, Adobe Creative Suite® 5, and Adobe Flash Builder™ 4-designers and developers can use the same code, assets, frameworks, tools, and services to create rich applications, web content, and videos that deploy in and outside the browser and across devices. The Adobe® Flash® Platform provides professional tools, an open source framework, and ubiquitous clients and servers, allowing you to deliver apps that run consistently across browsers, operating systems, and devices for the widest reach. Try the tools and download the runtimes. Adobe Flash® Builder™ 4 and Adobe Flash Catalyst™ CS5 offer free trials; plus, you can learn Flash Builder for free with online video training. Go to adobe.com/flashplatform.

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Computing in Bed?

David writes in, "Do you two have any ideas on what the best/cheepest ways to enjoy computing while relaxing in bed? Something especially useful for cold mornings when you don't have to go to work?" We do, David, be want to know how -you're- going to type if you have a projector pointed at the ceiling!

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Audacity Recording and USB

After watching Tom and Veronica's podcasting advice on Episode 134 Tom went out and bought the Alesis MultiMix8 USB mixer for recording his podcast.... but how do you use USB audio devices with Audacity?

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Viewer iPad Stand Alternatives

The Tekzilla Crew wrote in with lots of picks in place of our DIY iPad stand ideas, including Apple's iPad Case, the Tiko Fold and Lifehacker's 30 second coat hanger iPad stand!

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