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Dying Hard Drive 911, Yowza!!! Greg Grunberg! Green Drives For Your RAID, Nokia Surge

Thursday, August 20th, 2009 – running time 37:52
Patrick's HD Hits The Freezer, Heroes star Greg Grunberg joins to talk iPhone Development, Veronica Reviews Nokia's Latest,

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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.

District 9

District 9 vs. the Halo movie

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Dying Hard Drive

Dying hard drive? Step one is to get your data off before it dies!

Then you can decide whether to salvage it with a tool like SpinRite, or replace it with a new drive.

Do yourself a favor: back up your data -before- your drive crashes!

Did the hardware fail? Then you've got a serious check to sign to a data recovery company, or a lot of work to do... one of the only folks talking about DIY recovery from HD hardware failure is Scott Moulton. It's not an easy thing to do even with his knowledge behind ya!

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Freebie Download Of The Week

Free Software! This Week's Freebie download pick is FastStone Photo Resizer! Need to re-size, crop or trans-code all your photos, but don't want to spend any cash? Then step right up and try FastStone Photo Resizer. This spiffy utility re-sizes, crops, rotates, tweaks color depth, adds text, or watermarks almost any image in your photo library. Just pick a folder or select the images you want to process and click add, select your options, and finally an output folder and click convert. There's even a batch rename tool so you can re-label all those image files into something a bit more intelligible.

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Greg Grunberg's iPhone App, Yowza!!

Heroes star Greg Grunberg joins us to talk about his iPhone app Yowza!! and his experience as an iPhone developer!

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Website We Can't Get Enough Of!

This week's "Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of!" is RecipePuppy.com. Veronica gets all "domestic goddess" on your butts this week with Recipe Puppy, the perfect webpage when you have a fridge full of random ingredients, and no idea what to make for dinner!

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Nokia Surge Review

Nokia's got a new phone, the Surge, on AT&T, and they're actually offering subsidies, which makes it price-competitive in the US. Can it take on the iPhone, Sidekick or Blackberry?

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Viewer Questions

When does your processor start taking damage? When Veronica rolls 20s, of course! Just kidding Nate... we've got the word on why you don't need to worry as much about CPU temps these days, along with the temperatures you should still watch out for.

Green drives in a RAID? What about Black or Blue drives? Mike wants to know if green drives will wreck his RAID, and if he should be thinking Enterprise class RE drives... obviously he's thinking about Western Digital drives here... Seagate's still an option, too!

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Highlights

hard drive: 0:10, 2:20, 6:11, 35:04
guitar hero: 25:20
operating system: 3:21
tv show: 10:16

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" Don't know what Tekzilla a new iPhone app for my hero hacking green dries your rate well my kids got a new cell phone and I'll put my hard drive went into the freezer both -- the -- could -- not only accounts even for pizza Tekzilla starts now. Yeah."

" This episode of Tekzilla is made possible by. Godaddy Squarespace and national fight against -- drive over the limit under all the rest. I'm Patrick Norton product out my welcome to Tekzilla him overused the latest tactic had the most that of the year you already got."

" Whether beginner tech support for your friends and if you've got a question about tech. But that's what it troubles me take to take we've got to Korea will treat it and we did that yet we have will -- people recognize them when it does."

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" Yeah I don't think we limit in tropical regions know what you go to France look at it today it's oh my goodness so you had an amazing Friday night yeah it -- to district it was amazing it was. Too enthusiastic thumbs up. They're -- do except for like one person. Has been insanely enthusiastic yeah I want to face the that was admit boring and like how you possibly think that this is boring. There's no way that it it was boring yeah it was eight you know pretty New Castle lot of South African. -- actors that have really done and it. -- Yeah feature that sort of from. The original video that they got the -- witnesses on the timeliness yeah he has a lot of inspectors and BE halo landfall series. When he was supposed to be directing. -- halo film which obviously."

" I'm glad that just ignite this means that because it is you know it's how you look at. Even better --"

" Rather than being like me to videogame movie editor of every one -- dvds to all your old completely insane."

" I don't know that do two videos that they had enough of that halo. Movies back he was going to make for pretty off until it looked more than just a videogame."

" If you -- the -- inducement like that whole camera shot. And a half hours or in my case to happen sport -- I equality Friday night with my hard drive that is recovering did data from -- because. I just about the -- in the freezer. Which caused a lot of people who to. It works. It does or sometimes it is not the first thing you wanna do you write the idea it. Yet if you so hard drive -- can access it means you can't -- different windows machine the master boot record or recovery. Basically you you remove the hard drive Mikey is from notebook at the -- You know that it's it's not as much fun now is negative file folder of the question mark in -- senate sent this in the sad Mac with the crosses little dead Mac on the middle of your screen which is almost as good as the bomb. Don't have their response I'm throwing Macintosh they had the bomb wants and they literally launched the thing across the room are being -- how appropriate. Yes actually considering that -- mild mannered person in question was is really amazing to watch who's very cathartic thing but that. Yeah the if if it -- it beat -- kick you know the machine can access the data either by directly opening up the drive. -- operating system. Or by running file recovery software the first figure -- you keep your idea off the lobby portrait here's an erotic spam which doesn't really run very well under OS-X age and be. -- a great tool for maintaining drive but not my favorite tool for doing data recovery I want tools that are basically wrapped bite my files from -- aid but the one drive B. Because the first thing when it usually get my feet up off just in case it is a physical problem with the drive and it's it's give me in the minister's support guys that almost all my files a few files are corrupted. The -- so if if it is a physical failure on the drive. Things go downhill really really quickly the freezer thing. Is. -- you get only -- tried it the day off but -- and recovery software because the idea is that you cool the drive down. And it will temporarily restore functionality to drive really crazy people war basically cool the drive down you're -- isn't locked bag from the freezer for 24 hours. Bring it out put a -- drives on top of the idea is that it's gonna sort of tighten everything up long enough to. Keep the drive running. The other thing -- people safe. And this is one even I'm not really brave enough to do. If there's like this fiction issue where the heads contacted the platter which usually means your views do in the head on the drives game. That YouTube could drive against a surface that's gonna break the head free I mean we don't recommend Africa -- and it makes -- them. -- I guess -- recovery software is really interesting that goes around like I'm copying files but you know. They get to this one folder about half the files are trashed them not be able to move them. The last super popular file recovery tools now make you pay by the amount of data you saved. There's a flat rate for the software there's you brought the software it's like we can save these files and these files will cost this much money. Or you pay a pretty healthy annual fee for unlimited use of the of this software."

" think it's -- linking a blessing and curse at the same time like yeah don't let bouncer back but. Boo and 112000 all this is."

" you know it's like for 500 dollars for up to it here by. I think it's more like really brilliant marketing because let's say you haven't backed up. You've you've lost the Ferguson presentation and you're gonna lose your job and it's like 3 o'clock on Friday so you can't call the IT guy works Lee download this thing off of downloads dot com -- you run. It shows you the fungus that file only have to do is write your credit card and you can save that file it's it's pretty clever marketing. What. Posting due right now six of money in time and pain frustration and it's been equality Friday night in the yes and he scary -- office building. Back your stuff up now and keep a copy of that. Off site best practices you have your backups at home and then whether using on -- answers like carbonate or you swap hard drive to the friends. Preferably not one that's it lives and partisan system can relax in the -- faction fall this year. The -- to copy that the off -- also like once a month or once a week."

" Yeah I mean that's true you don't really think about that humans county. You can have as many drives you want it all your data on their backed up over and over again yeah but if something happens to your house is not really much you can do -- that was gone."

" I have and I -- smiling right now because you know there's a lot of sadness involved is much better than keeping openly on the show with. I -- numbers that were part of a two houses we live in San Francisco where it's not. If it's win the next big earthquake is whether our houses collapsed -- don't collapsed into rubble. Folks flew on an island Jersey shore which basically threatens to be swamped by hurricane anytime. So big gone off site data -- to cut into her -- and -- remember I'd actually been up to date with my back -- on the strap it wouldn't -- Yeah I've got to hear like 5 AM on Saturday morning. There's ugly. But I have both my data. You know back up now -- Speaking of which -- it wouldn't look you on the -- to have -- will need as drive forensics data recovery which really cool about him is unlike most of the people like you. We secret technology magic wizards and if you all the tools you'll -- you -- actually heavily does drive cover but he loves to -- the techniques. That most big drive saving companies do now when shares as -- panels are painted panels like lectures. Educational speeches at Defcon so what would those adjustable plus people come on the show we talk about the best practices of these what this is probably."

" Now don't. It will screw there."

" Up and select the C data. It's good to it and it is if you backed up this week."

" Now to back up tonight yes."

" Before after dragons after -- line federal twenties still to come here a start -- bird couldn't start -- his new iPhone app. -- whole iPhone development experience. While Boettcher takes those take a moment to thank one of our sponsors."

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" next guest is best known recently for playing -- park and on the popular television series heroes but today we have Greg -- on to talk to us about his iPhone -- yeah such as experience developing for the iPhone. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much -- it love shelves of the year thank you very much I'm now being cast member of a popular TV show and creating iPhone -- search. Two very different things we don't normally associate them with one another how did you get involved an iPhone app development."

" I consider myself the William Shatner today. Big -- OG g.'s UI's a great actor is a businessman I have always had this kind of does the street and love. This thing right here I'm a huge iPhone -- and live my life. You know. We using all the apps that'd that'd has to offer. And done -- to twittering one day and I ads these two guys on Twitter Rick Yeager in August drama there and both those guys are kind of rock stars. In the MacWorld. I'm August developed other apps. We got to talking and and I -- you know I've got this idea my wife and I. Always. You know lose coupons and and forget them whatever and yeah also it was it was in my head on call -- about. I just -- this idea out and and we we start working on it and and about 67 months later. We went live in the app store and it's been this huge kind of explosion ever sense it tells exactly how the -- works. So. So called yeah -- and it's a free download because savings should cost you money. Okay so so you'd see download thousand I have the new version is coming and a couple days where under review process for version 2.0 which is. Unbelievable but. It down my guess when you click gals that's what comes out. And it immediately starts searching. It knows where your location is usually GPS in the phone. And it immediately searches all of the stores restaurants retailers. All around you you set the proximity from. One mile -- fifteen miles on this new version. And they all come up right there on your phone. And it's all of the deals that are unique to Yeltsin we don't we don't aggregate coupons -- you're gonna get coupons and deals sale announcements. I mean it's everything from. You know it will moments guitar sent her you know sports authority finish -- all these great stores to. Playing golf discount on playing golf to buy tickets of the Oakland -- game. Or radio city music caller -- to solid. We've had so many. Companies retailers businesses come on recently. And it's it's pretty amazing so so here's a list it's a list in order proximity and then let's say you you find the store do you want. All of their locations come up so. -- closest to -- the sorcerer's kind of search tools well. And then once you find the location you wanna go to you press on allocation. And three offers that that location. That they're presenting cover it up on your phone so. I'm what you find the offer that you want you press on that offer details come up. And along with a bar code or coupon code at the registry showed -- server show that's at the register and -- either type in coupon code or scan a bar -- rat out your phone. And you're on your way I mean. It took me about seventeen times as long to explain that as it is to use it historic. It's it's honestly daddies and you're the containers -- just literally showed them and you say 15%."

" So what kind of fun and hurdles that you encounter developing an -- Anything particular. You know it just did it. Your imagination can really go crazy. August. Is is really the one had to ask about that I'm usually genius and text side but every time that I had some great idea about paint. How -- let's track our savings you know and and always would say okay that's great but but. You know he's working on this version of the app so it's it's a progressive thing you have to at some point say okay this is fantastic let's run with this. -- submitted to Apple and hoped to get approval and something like this is it's it's kind of a -- thing between the retailers and you know you can come of the graduate unless it's filled offers and -- it's it's not useful to people so. There are these constant -- that we have to get over and we're at a real tipping point now with all let me see yours is on their -- one REI. And there's all these great retailers on the so you're gonna find something you're you're gonna -- and we need to deal with Sysco foods supervised restaurants within a 13 of every restaurant United States gets everything from Cisco. They're providing to -- so sooner panacea you know local places on and -- down the street from you on there but it's really just an overall. You know be careful what you wish for you come up with a good idea to work really begins its its done for me it's it's two way. -- use this opportunity. To kind of you know exploit myself and and it's amusing you know my image my celebrity or whatever to get the word out. I co created this are really really passionate about it it's not like -- on a paid spokesperson you know this is something that. Yes it's a revenue generating things from day one because -- these companies are paying a list of stuff but it takes time to build up this business and I'm not here talking about all these products for me in the in the past to talk about even one name it after -- me it you know lot of it that's the way it works but. I know this is my business and I see a real future worldwide it."

" Imagine getting approval from Apple how does the experience of working with Apple and for you."

" It's pretty incredible when when you think about how many people are actually submitting. You know applications for approval and trying to get their ideas and and Apple has filtered through all of them I mean obviously they have many different layers you have to go through. And up like this has to be tested in the real world you can't just say okay let me just -- I think it. You have to tested graphical coupon and -- user and these guys are in Cupertino on their their up north and I'm done LA. And so are. I'd like to say that we got these celeb treatment and you know is a lot easier for us and anybody else. But it's not the case it's it's kind of Everyman for themselves and if they like the -- they're gonna get behind it to happen to really like what we're doing. He didn't use office you're trying to -- that they came out it we are more than taking advantage of both on the map side. Would push notification and and linking to web sites linking to other apps and so so. They like what we're doing it's always I would recommend to. If somebody is and again August can talk to this much when I can't -- yes if there's somebody out there and there have -- have an idea. You helped push the technology that they're providing you push to investigate don't like set back your laurels and okay well how about this if you want they're supporting you really want. I mean -- their support. You really wanna take advantage of of the technology that they're -- you and but they've been they've been an absolute dream -- mean everything they've said they're gonna do they've done we've done the same on -- but. It's which -- standing in line like everybody else in a right now we have a new version. And waiting for their approval to put up on the store."

" So we did cool our Twitter followers to find out what they wanna know about -- and probably the biggest question was so we expect to see it coming to Blackberry your end right sometime in the future."

" Absolutely that's on the road map there's so many people have Blackberry and Android phones. And we we hear you believe me on my Twitter followers you you have more followers of the I love. But I yeah I mean I'd I'd love my peeps listen to them all the time I get a lot so. Yes it's coming to Canada yes it's coming to the UK and Australia all over the world. There are certain regulations in those other countries for a coupon discount and we have to. Attention -- those and yes it will be coming to the other devices the problem is there's so many different varieties versions of the Blackberry. It's kind of hard the other eight different blackberries you have to -- eight different versions of the app. -- and the analytic information at the retailers get back like how many people are viewing the scoop on where their viewing it. You know and where they're using it -- using it. That information is not as accurate as it is on on the iphones were trying to work all that stuff out but yes it's on the road map and and it's coming out we wanted to -- as fluid process a process -- possible. And we always look at this from the consumer side. Walk into the store. Pushy ALZA show as a -- save -- your on your way you know hold the line and so we have to make sure that's the case with all these devices."

" Did kind of answer that's TM next question which was is -- coming to Canada."

" It is I love. In Canada. Yes and and and -- are one of our partners. Is up -- again he's in the Vancouver area so you more than anyone else is screaming about getting this up there and so. Yes it's definitely come to Canada where we're we're looking at. Possibly partnering with somebody up there but we may just venture out ourselves a lot of the companies that we have we're lucky that. A lot of the the retailers -- where we're just now are already. In other countries so he's he's just don't turn on those other locations. And those and and you know the GPS coordinates the geo codes of the same all of the world so yes it's it's very possible. That by the end of the year we we will be in Canada. Fantastic and I'm I'm not -- want to know when he going to open up the app for third party developers. We. That's again that's an August question we have definitely thought. Of opening it up -- listing of their relentless immersion over. I also opening of yesterday but that's not something I can even answer. But did the the the possible we start thinking in that area the possibilities are endless so it's actually something where where we're considering."

" Well thank you so much for joining us here today -- thank you. And for taking the time and you guys can learn more about does that WWW and get out as a dot com and Greg people on the -- you where can ago."

" I have a bunch of different places I've got Greg rubber dot com. But follow me on Twitter -- Greg ground -- and you know good luck following my Twitter is because they get crew. And I have fun -- and and and you can also -- Hugh Laurie. TV dot org if they wanna know more about that but. Thank you so much for having me on to talk about -- can get some coupons for free and show sometime in the future. Oh yeah he didn't want to be doing outside coupons for fancy shirts and all I do a Yasser could possibly eat you. And you -- grocers are for tomatoes and you push it says you just wanna set visit to the -- of the Euro cents. How cold it got me -- super."

" All I. I -- again I want and make it happen to thank you so much again for coming on today. Thank you coming up next we give it up close and personal look at Nokia's latest -- the surge but."

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" Out -- puppy to. Nokia recently released a surge -- latest on for AT&T to the we'd expect to see from Nokia so if you're not to hold touch screen idea elegant iPhone you are really nice keyboard for typing emails and text on the not look different level Blackberry form factor and deal. And this could be a really good option for you before I get ahead of myself let's take a look at the fun."

" Ask a question we get lot of emails person from Australia and Europe it's like why did you guys from new Nokia phones -- superior phones of the planet's. I -- and it they may be for you but no he's beating her ass kicking and sees the Smartphone category five you know the iPhone and Blackberry -- area. And it partially because they don't really played the subsidy -- the way to in the United States."

" they do now this fondness subsidize an AT&T but we'll get to that a little bit towards the end to have some things to say about it. Yet this is a Symbian phone it runs at sixty and so it's got all the Essex -- say you're used to seeing in a Nokia phone. -- it's not that I really enjoy the form factor actually it's my favorite parts about it when I first looked out of my cousin is seeing little. Brick of a phone but the keyboard and the slices function here is so nice --"

" More T-Mobile sidekick -- that horrible LG chocolate phone a return after having for three days did you actually bought that Anton turned it -- later I am sidekick fan I had a sidekick for years and so I think that's part of the deal for me is that it really like being a slide -- underneath and -- here this is lovely snappy too and live its very fast. So got a full QWERTY keyboard here which makes it super easy for tightening -- hands and text messages emails. On the has built email client you have to do a little bit of -- work -- to get email working properly. But you know it's very fast that's another thing this OS it's fast right -- of applications like. That done. And you can run multiple applications at the same time. Which does it's a little bit of -- background -- running some quality glass and is a multitask. Yes and downloaded this from do. Do you download you apps on their medium -- story you isn't there comin' up and you don't that's."

" movie store earlier this year that base we want an open forum for people to sell applications and stuff I don't think it's available until later this year on the search and I'm not sure about the reason I."

" Currently I played a little bit of rock band. On -- the surge -- it it was Guitar Hero don't tell him which was. Sounds like the full game wouldn't I was ten -- it -- finally got kicked and one downside talking about music is -- two point five millimeter headphone Jack here which I'm not a big fan of non standardized headphone jacks. I guess it's kind of standard standalone."

" Most phones. You know you put the little tiny jagged go to RadioShack and get an adapter you have your big stupid cable company and your phone via real headphones."

" And even music isn't media manager on -- well these -- storage -- storage is available there 128 megs of storage micro SD card there is a micro SD card spot which is good because you don't act like without the battery and the sim card in order to get to it. It's on the side there. There is say the AC power port here next to the headphone Jack. We've got me volume rocker here on the side as well as -- camera button the cameras a two megapixel camera that also does video. On the chemical does not stellar but it's okay and you can record videos and upload this all your social networks like Twitter and FaceBook. And MySpace got to two point four inch screen here the screen as nice and bright that -- like that."

" It's not my favorites screen it's gonna stay in the and an ice cream but it it's also think about him and it's really fast but it's got a very DOS kind of guilty it's."

" It was something you might like you said the web browser to support flash that is often so well it's not the most advanced web browser ever gonna see smart speaking of looking like no. That's. What it'll but all of the website that. People won't run via but I know. You know I think it's a pretty good device and it does have that subsidies in his image and you can get it for 7999. Connie T and TV have to do. The thirty dollar data plan I guess. Have to get what you want only that -- Lan feature is its going to be thirty dollars it's not only is it kind of value from the data and he -- from -- Because it's not as -- vibrant data. Features and is maybe an iPhone but you know if that's what you're looking for it's a little bit cheaper to start with a group of monkeys and Bluetooth. Like the kind of that you give to a teenager maybe one against the smart thing don't necessarily want with the rest of the crown and I. And like accidental social networking things built in as well is it more for some of these does a lot of text fingers and that's I would definitely yes -- keyboard is perfect. As text on a field day. He -- them and then there is -- there is the IAT and TG PS app built in as well so that's three G. -- Not that that's the certificates have any questions about it let us know reticent to Tekzilla Revision 3 com."

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" Neighbor and an about the heat. Yes this -- is are you -- and us. Wondering how cool my Intel processor needs to be to keep it running salute. Different mindset that Intel's or kidney damage around a 140 degrees Fahrenheit is this true me."

" It's like he's racking up hit points is -- forty degrees it's gonna fail. If we did this but it's not quite evidently we're back -- you could overheat and pretty much have melt down your own little personal China syndrome Britain earlier motherboard. Especially say the family your CPU cooler divers and we yank the plug outer mostly on candidacy U cooler that. Nowadays the chip throttled down when its specific threshold that it shuts down before massive damage to at least in theory right. Possible if there's some massive influx of he'd like to throw blowtorch -- it -- attack. But go figure yeah. Here's -- you organize it in the wrong data errors -- somebody some some weird confluence of bad things -- shut closet door 120 degree weather but. Generally speaking at the core I -- close -- hundred degrees Celsius it turns out the clock speed of the courts keep it under a hundred degrees I think like a hundred -- there and five degrees Celsius and it actually just like you know. Pulls the plug everything at that you don't wanna get to that point generally speaking when keeper eighty degrees Celsius -- about 176 degrees Fahrenheit. If you have a hot part of the country you'd definitely wanna watch your CPU tabs especially for a place where again you know you may have poor relation he seemed like it shut down the rolling blackouts or stuff like exit rolling blackouts and so the computer down but. You know generally speaking it's hard to hurt the TP these days the stock cooler notebook or desktop should keep things at the right hand if you haven't over clocked at -- turned down the family over microprocessor it generates more easily -- your hands. It keeps working in the process."

" You're overclocking your processor you've probably have a good idea about how to keep it cool in this kind of hopefully imagined that it would have a certain working non excessive how to keep things running."

" This does the stock CPU cooler is great for the stocks if you the stock settings -- we -- that you need more cooling. In another place to watch this is it here if you're playing around with things that better light if you I don't want you Fred noise about providing fast and so little -- fan back keep and I and sepia because. There's two of doing things one -- you know you increase heat which is generally bad for things to even more importantly. If it throttles back performance you can do likewise my systems those look is you turn the fans down."

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" If you -- the -- inducement like that whole camera shot. And a half hours or in my case to happen sport -- I equality Friday night with my hard drive that is recovering did data from -- because. I just about the -- in the freezer. Which caused a lot of people who to. It works. It does or sometimes it is not the first thing you wanna do you write the idea it. Yet if you so hard drive -- can access it means you can't -- different windows machine the master boot record or recovery. Basically you you remove the hard drive Mikey is from notebook at the -- You know that it's it's not as much fun now is negative file folder of the question mark in -- senate sent this in the sad Mac with the crosses little dead Mac on the middle of your screen which is almost as good as the bomb. Don't have their response I'm throwing Macintosh they had the bomb wants and they literally launched the thing across the room are being -- how appropriate. Yes actually considering that -- mild mannered person in question was is really amazing to watch who's very cathartic thing but that. Yeah the if if it -- it beat -- kick you know the machine can access the data either by directly opening up the drive. -- operating system. Or by running file recovery software the first figure -- you keep your idea off the lobby portrait here's an erotic spam which doesn't really run very well under OS-X age and be. -- a great tool for maintaining drive but not my favorite tool for doing data recovery I want tools that are basically wrapped bite my files from -- aid but the one drive B. Because the first thing when it usually get my feet up off just in case it is a physical problem with the drive and it's it's give me in the minister's support guys that almost all my files a few files are corrupted. The -- so if if it is a physical failure on the drive. Things go downhill really really quickly the freezer thing. Is. -- you get only -- tried it the day off but -- and recovery software because the idea is that you cool the drive down. And it will temporarily restore functionality to drive really crazy people war basically cool the drive down you're -- isn't locked bag from the freezer for 24 hours. Bring it out put a -- drives on top of the idea is that it's gonna sort of tighten everything up long enough to. Keep the drive running. The other thing -- people safe. And this is one even I'm not really brave enough to do. If there's like this fiction issue where the heads contacted the platter which usually means your views do in the head on the drives game. That YouTube could drive against a surface that's gonna break the head free I mean we don't recommend Africa -- and it makes -- them. -- I guess -- recovery software is really interesting that goes around like I'm copying files but you know. They get to this one folder about half the files are trashed them not be able to move them. The last super popular file recovery tools now make you pay by the amount of data you saved. There's a flat rate for the software there's you brought the software it's like we can save these files and these files will cost this much money. Or you pay a pretty healthy annual fee for unlimited use of the of this software."

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" you know it's like for 500 dollars for up to it here by. I think it's more like really brilliant marketing because let's say you haven't backed up. You've you've lost the Ferguson presentation and you're gonna lose your job and it's like 3 o'clock on Friday so you can't call the IT guy works Lee download this thing off of downloads dot com -- you run. It shows you the fungus that file only have to do is write your credit card and you can save that file it's it's pretty clever marketing. What. Posting due right now six of money in time and pain frustration and it's been equality Friday night in the yes and he scary -- office building. Back your stuff up now and keep a copy of that. Off site best practices you have your backups at home and then whether using on -- answers like carbonate or you swap hard drive to the friends. Preferably not one that's it lives and partisan system can relax in the -- faction fall this year. The -- to copy that the off -- also like once a month or once a week."

" Yeah I mean that's true you don't really think about that humans county. You can have as many drives you want it all your data on their backed up over and over again yeah but if something happens to your house is not really much you can do -- that was gone."

" I have and I -- smiling right now because you know there's a lot of sadness involved is much better than keeping openly on the show with. I -- numbers that were part of a two houses we live in San Francisco where it's not. If it's win the next big earthquake is whether our houses collapsed -- don't collapsed into rubble. Folks flew on an island Jersey shore which basically threatens to be swamped by hurricane anytime. So big gone off site data -- to cut into her -- and -- remember I'd actually been up to date with my back -- on the strap it wouldn't -- Yeah I've got to hear like 5 AM on Saturday morning. There's ugly. But I have both my data. You know back up now -- Speaking of which -- it wouldn't look you on the -- to have -- will need as drive forensics data recovery which really cool about him is unlike most of the people like you. We secret technology magic wizards and if you all the tools you'll -- you -- actually heavily does drive cover but he loves to -- the techniques. That most big drive saving companies do now when shares as -- panels are painted panels like lectures. Educational speeches at Defcon so what would those adjustable plus people come on the show we talk about the best practices of these what this is probably."

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" next guest is best known recently for playing -- park and on the popular television series heroes but today we have Greg -- on to talk to us about his iPhone -- yeah such as experience developing for the iPhone. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much -- it love shelves of the year thank you very much I'm now being cast member of a popular TV show and creating iPhone -- search. Two very different things we don't normally associate them with one another how did you get involved an iPhone app development."

" I consider myself the William Shatner today. Big -- OG g.'s UI's a great actor is a businessman I have always had this kind of does the street and love. This thing right here I'm a huge iPhone -- and live my life. You know. We using all the apps that'd that'd has to offer. And done -- to twittering one day and I ads these two guys on Twitter Rick Yeager in August drama there and both those guys are kind of rock stars. In the MacWorld. I'm August developed other apps. We got to talking and and I -- you know I've got this idea my wife and I. Always. You know lose coupons and and forget them whatever and yeah also it was it was in my head on call -- about. I just -- this idea out and and we we start working on it and and about 67 months later. We went live in the app store and it's been this huge kind of explosion ever sense it tells exactly how the -- works. So. So called yeah -- and it's a free download because savings should cost you money. Okay so so you'd see download thousand I have the new version is coming and a couple days where under review process for version 2.0 which is. Unbelievable but. It down my guess when you click gals that's what comes out. And it immediately starts searching. It knows where your location is usually GPS in the phone. And it immediately searches all of the stores restaurants retailers. All around you you set the proximity from. One mile -- fifteen miles on this new version. And they all come up right there on your phone. And it's all of the deals that are unique to Yeltsin we don't we don't aggregate coupons -- you're gonna get coupons and deals sale announcements. I mean it's everything from. You know it will moments guitar sent her you know sports authority finish -- all these great stores to. Playing golf discount on playing golf to buy tickets of the Oakland -- game. Or radio city music caller -- to solid. We've had so many. Companies retailers businesses come on recently. And it's it's pretty amazing so so here's a list it's a list in order proximity and then let's say you you find the store do you want. All of their locations come up so. -- closest to -- the sorcerer's kind of search tools well. And then once you find the location you wanna go to you press on allocation. And three offers that that location. That they're presenting cover it up on your phone so. I'm what you find the offer that you want you press on that offer details come up. And along with a bar code or coupon code at the registry showed -- server show that's at the register and -- either type in coupon code or scan a bar -- rat out your phone. And you're on your way I mean. It took me about seventeen times as long to explain that as it is to use it historic. It's it's honestly daddies and you're the containers -- just literally showed them and you say 15%."

" So what kind of fun and hurdles that you encounter developing an -- Anything particular. You know it just did it. Your imagination can really go crazy. August. Is is really the one had to ask about that I'm usually genius and text side but every time that I had some great idea about paint. How -- let's track our savings you know and and always would say okay that's great but but. You know he's working on this version of the app so it's it's a progressive thing you have to at some point say okay this is fantastic let's run with this. -- submitted to Apple and hoped to get approval and something like this is it's it's kind of a -- thing between the retailers and you know you can come of the graduate unless it's filled offers and -- it's it's not useful to people so. There are these constant -- that we have to get over and we're at a real tipping point now with all let me see yours is on their -- one REI. And there's all these great retailers on the so you're gonna find something you're you're gonna -- and we need to deal with Sysco foods supervised restaurants within a 13 of every restaurant United States gets everything from Cisco. They're providing to -- so sooner panacea you know local places on and -- down the street from you on there but it's really just an overall. You know be careful what you wish for you come up with a good idea to work really begins its its done for me it's it's two way. -- use this opportunity. To kind of you know exploit myself and and it's amusing you know my image my celebrity or whatever to get the word out. I co created this are really really passionate about it it's not like -- on a paid spokesperson you know this is something that. Yes it's a revenue generating things from day one because -- these companies are paying a list of stuff but it takes time to build up this business and I'm not here talking about all these products for me in the in the past to talk about even one name it after -- me it you know lot of it that's the way it works but. I know this is my business and I see a real future worldwide it."

" Imagine getting approval from Apple how does the experience of working with Apple and for you."

" It's pretty incredible when when you think about how many people are actually submitting. You know applications for approval and trying to get their ideas and and Apple has filtered through all of them I mean obviously they have many different layers you have to go through. And up like this has to be tested in the real world you can't just say okay let me just -- I think it. You have to tested graphical coupon and -- user and these guys are in Cupertino on their their up north and I'm done LA. And so are. I'd like to say that we got these celeb treatment and you know is a lot easier for us and anybody else. But it's not the case it's it's kind of Everyman for themselves and if they like the -- they're gonna get behind it to happen to really like what we're doing. He didn't use office you're trying to -- that they came out it we are more than taking advantage of both on the map side. Would push notification and and linking to web sites linking to other apps and so so. They like what we're doing it's always I would recommend to. If somebody is and again August can talk to this much when I can't -- yes if there's somebody out there and there have -- have an idea. You helped push the technology that they're providing you push to investigate don't like set back your laurels and okay well how about this if you want they're supporting you really want. I mean -- their support. You really wanna take advantage of of the technology that they're -- you and but they've been they've been an absolute dream -- mean everything they've said they're gonna do they've done we've done the same on -- but. It's which -- standing in line like everybody else in a right now we have a new version. And waiting for their approval to put up on the store."

" So we did cool our Twitter followers to find out what they wanna know about -- and probably the biggest question was so we expect to see it coming to Blackberry your end right sometime in the future."

" Absolutely that's on the road map there's so many people have Blackberry and Android phones. And we we hear you believe me on my Twitter followers you you have more followers of the I love. But I yeah I mean I'd I'd love my peeps listen to them all the time I get a lot so. Yes it's coming to Canada yes it's coming to the UK and Australia all over the world. There are certain regulations in those other countries for a coupon discount and we have to. Attention -- those and yes it will be coming to the other devices the problem is there's so many different varieties versions of the Blackberry. It's kind of hard the other eight different blackberries you have to -- eight different versions of the app. -- and the analytic information at the retailers get back like how many people are viewing the scoop on where their viewing it. You know and where they're using it -- using it. That information is not as accurate as it is on on the iphones were trying to work all that stuff out but yes it's on the road map and and it's coming out we wanted to -- as fluid process a process -- possible. And we always look at this from the consumer side. Walk into the store. Pushy ALZA show as a -- save -- your on your way you know hold the line and so we have to make sure that's the case with all these devices."

" Did kind of answer that's TM next question which was is -- coming to Canada."

" It is I love. In Canada. Yes and and and -- are one of our partners. Is up -- again he's in the Vancouver area so you more than anyone else is screaming about getting this up there and so. Yes it's definitely come to Canada where we're we're looking at. Possibly partnering with somebody up there but we may just venture out ourselves a lot of the companies that we have we're lucky that. A lot of the the retailers -- where we're just now are already. In other countries so he's he's just don't turn on those other locations. And those and and you know the GPS coordinates the geo codes of the same all of the world so yes it's it's very possible. That by the end of the year we we will be in Canada. Fantastic and I'm I'm not -- want to know when he going to open up the app for third party developers. We. That's again that's an August question we have definitely thought. Of opening it up -- listing of their relentless immersion over. I also opening of yesterday but that's not something I can even answer. But did the the the possible we start thinking in that area the possibilities are endless so it's actually something where where we're considering."

" Well thank you so much for joining us here today -- thank you. And for taking the time and you guys can learn more about does that WWW and get out as a dot com and Greg people on the -- you where can ago."

" I have a bunch of different places I've got Greg rubber dot com. But follow me on Twitter -- Greg ground -- and you know good luck following my Twitter is because they get crew. And I have fun -- and and and you can also -- Hugh Laurie. TV dot org if they wanna know more about that but. Thank you so much for having me on to talk about -- can get some coupons for free and show sometime in the future. Oh yeah he didn't want to be doing outside coupons for fancy shirts and all I do a Yasser could possibly eat you. And you -- grocers are for tomatoes and you push it says you just wanna set visit to the -- of the Euro cents. How cold it got me -- super."

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" Out -- puppy to. Nokia recently released a surge -- latest on for AT&T to the we'd expect to see from Nokia so if you're not to hold touch screen idea elegant iPhone you are really nice keyboard for typing emails and text on the not look different level Blackberry form factor and deal. And this could be a really good option for you before I get ahead of myself let's take a look at the fun."

" Ask a question we get lot of emails person from Australia and Europe it's like why did you guys from new Nokia phones -- superior phones of the planet's. I -- and it they may be for you but no he's beating her ass kicking and sees the Smartphone category five you know the iPhone and Blackberry -- area. And it partially because they don't really played the subsidy -- the way to in the United States."

" they do now this fondness subsidize an AT&T but we'll get to that a little bit towards the end to have some things to say about it. Yet this is a Symbian phone it runs at sixty and so it's got all the Essex -- say you're used to seeing in a Nokia phone. -- it's not that I really enjoy the form factor actually it's my favorite parts about it when I first looked out of my cousin is seeing little. Brick of a phone but the keyboard and the slices function here is so nice --"

" More T-Mobile sidekick -- that horrible LG chocolate phone a return after having for three days did you actually bought that Anton turned it -- later I am sidekick fan I had a sidekick for years and so I think that's part of the deal for me is that it really like being a slide -- underneath and -- here this is lovely snappy too and live its very fast. So got a full QWERTY keyboard here which makes it super easy for tightening -- hands and text messages emails. On the has built email client you have to do a little bit of -- work -- to get email working properly. But you know it's very fast that's another thing this OS it's fast right -- of applications like. That done. And you can run multiple applications at the same time. Which does it's a little bit of -- background -- running some quality glass and is a multitask. Yes and downloaded this from do. Do you download you apps on their medium -- story you isn't there comin' up and you don't that's."

" movie store earlier this year that base we want an open forum for people to sell applications and stuff I don't think it's available until later this year on the search and I'm not sure about the reason I."

" Currently I played a little bit of rock band. On -- the surge -- it it was Guitar Hero don't tell him which was. Sounds like the full game wouldn't I was ten -- it -- finally got kicked and one downside talking about music is -- two point five millimeter headphone Jack here which I'm not a big fan of non standardized headphone jacks. I guess it's kind of standard standalone."

" Most phones. You know you put the little tiny jagged go to RadioShack and get an adapter you have your big stupid cable company and your phone via real headphones."

" And even music isn't media manager on -- well these -- storage -- storage is available there 128 megs of storage micro SD card there is a micro SD card spot which is good because you don't act like without the battery and the sim card in order to get to it. It's on the side there. There is say the AC power port here next to the headphone Jack. We've got me volume rocker here on the side as well as -- camera button the cameras a two megapixel camera that also does video. On the chemical does not stellar but it's okay and you can record videos and upload this all your social networks like Twitter and FaceBook. And MySpace got to two point four inch screen here the screen as nice and bright that -- like that."

" It's not my favorites screen it's gonna stay in the and an ice cream but it it's also think about him and it's really fast but it's got a very DOS kind of guilty it's."

" It was something you might like you said the web browser to support flash that is often so well it's not the most advanced web browser ever gonna see smart speaking of looking like no. That's. What it'll but all of the website that. People won't run via but I know. You know I think it's a pretty good device and it does have that subsidies in his image and you can get it for 7999. Connie T and TV have to do. The thirty dollar data plan I guess. Have to get what you want only that -- Lan feature is its going to be thirty dollars it's not only is it kind of value from the data and he -- from -- Because it's not as -- vibrant data. Features and is maybe an iPhone but you know if that's what you're looking for it's a little bit cheaper to start with a group of monkeys and Bluetooth. Like the kind of that you give to a teenager maybe one against the smart thing don't necessarily want with the rest of the crown and I. And like accidental social networking things built in as well is it more for some of these does a lot of text fingers and that's I would definitely yes -- keyboard is perfect. As text on a field day. He -- them and then there is -- there is the IAT and TG PS app built in as well so that's three G. -- Not that that's the certificates have any questions about it let us know reticent to Tekzilla Revision 3 com."

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" Neighbor and an about the heat. Yes this -- is are you -- and us. Wondering how cool my Intel processor needs to be to keep it running salute. Different mindset that Intel's or kidney damage around a 140 degrees Fahrenheit is this true me."

" It's like he's racking up hit points is -- forty degrees it's gonna fail. If we did this but it's not quite evidently we're back -- you could overheat and pretty much have melt down your own little personal China syndrome Britain earlier motherboard. Especially say the family your CPU cooler divers and we yank the plug outer mostly on candidacy U cooler that. Nowadays the chip throttled down when its specific threshold that it shuts down before massive damage to at least in theory right. Possible if there's some massive influx of he'd like to throw blowtorch -- it -- attack. But go figure yeah. Here's -- you organize it in the wrong data errors -- somebody some some weird confluence of bad things -- shut closet door 120 degree weather but. Generally speaking at the core I -- close -- hundred degrees Celsius it turns out the clock speed of the courts keep it under a hundred degrees I think like a hundred -- there and five degrees Celsius and it actually just like you know. Pulls the plug everything at that you don't wanna get to that point generally speaking when keeper eighty degrees Celsius -- about 176 degrees Fahrenheit. If you have a hot part of the country you'd definitely wanna watch your CPU tabs especially for a place where again you know you may have poor relation he seemed like it shut down the rolling blackouts or stuff like exit rolling blackouts and so the computer down but. You know generally speaking it's hard to hurt the TP these days the stock cooler notebook or desktop should keep things at the right hand if you haven't over clocked at -- turned down the family over microprocessor it generates more easily -- your hands. It keeps working in the process."

" You're overclocking your processor you've probably have a good idea about how to keep it cool in this kind of hopefully imagined that it would have a certain working non excessive how to keep things running."

" This does the stock CPU cooler is great for the stocks if you the stock settings -- we -- that you need more cooling. In another place to watch this is it here if you're playing around with things that better light if you I don't want you Fred noise about providing fast and so little -- fan back keep and I and sepia because. There's two of doing things one -- you know you increase heat which is generally bad for things to even more importantly. If it throttles back performance you can do likewise my systems those look is you turn the fans down."

" Media that we feel left right for the you bought it you I'm on it you'll twenties. Rule 25. At the our next email comes from -- in Lake Worth Florida he writes. What's the attraction is in every eight. Right now IC three main types green drives that have the largest size but some problems running in a raid. The regular everyday I'd better performance but smaller sciences and the -- class drives such as Western Digital RE three series. -- it doesn't make much of a difference I would love to be able to rent for your fortunate terabyte tracts in the system. But don't wanna be constantly restarting because a drive goes green sleeves to -- on the server. On the other hand I don't wanna spend extra money on -- grade class drive that will really get me anything. Mike."

" Great question. And bikes and your mentioning green black and or you drive your property Western Digital. Effort green black and blood drives are sort of fading bruise but green energy saving. Which is played slower black -- performance of blues kind of something between. The rate class structure talked about are actually read addition and it applies class -- basically -- them in blue. Versions for critical and green for energy -- versions. The issue really with greed drives isn't so much that it's basically some rates don't like them. But it's like -- throttling down from power protection assistance of people don't like the so people like the performance. Specs on them the other thing is. In theory if the consumer drive -- of them goes into an error detection code it can do me -- recovery site which basically tries to figure out what went wrong on the platter. Which can last of the two minutes. That's actually what causes the drive to be dropped from the rain basically crashes you ray. -- addresses the -- drives have what they call it high and limited error recovery which takes fifteen seconds max was the seven seconds normally. Keeps the drive from getting dropped from reading crash in the raid. Some books -- one that turned off for different reasons is a lot of research and he just research on wanna be curious about it I'm currently running a stack of green Western Digital one terabyte drives in various read rate my options. I had problems. Some folks have and some -- western Digital's time limit error recovery utility WT do you DTL York thought yeah exceed. Just rolls right off the -- We'll -- you actually tweak the settings for how does the air detection so you can actually turn them off or change them the idea is that you'll be able to make -- consumer drives. Better Macs are -- drive type performance. My understanding is it's not working for drives period one terabyte and frankly I'm not really sure are ready duke spirit with this one. A lot of folks part of CP -- well it mostly talking about the smaller sized drives. Best that you can use it with the maker of your raid card or the forms of folks using like the opensocial software used to create a raid and see if they've qualified to drives. -- kept cool and in place. Cool place like decent cooling incited your case black drive to deliver the best performance it to be favor. To do raid zero or raid one Doolittle raid five with -- performance he's a decent hardware. Tool for that because a lot of the a lot of the that the this thing about a raid right if -- for raid controller goes down you will lose the contents of that raid if you can't please read replaced -- controller. So there you know the rate is higher the hardware raids are higher performance if you do DIY. But you run a higher likelihood of -- thing if the rate card there is not a likely be used to be accused of -- And do much research online and see what people had success with or take the performances and go pays off. Well. -- that backed the whole back up saying yeah I. Think about the greens is -- it's ultimately they wanna power down but but the favorable bit slower and they run will be quieter and you have slightly lower performance missile but there's no -- you're running like. Give me you know you -- remotely related you are going to be like."

" Outlets and those hard drive spinning it's like having my own personal. Without -- travel in the convenience of avoiding the TSE inspections."

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" This topic that's been there done that sucked the wind that is that you actually throttle down and it appears that third. I tribes. We do them all week now but that hit good drives certain specific. Mario you're apt word begin it and."

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Started discussion: August 20, 2009 @ 3:09pm GMT

Episode 102 - Dying Hard Drive 911, Yowza!!! Greg Grunberg! Green Drives For Your RAID, Nokia Surge [Discussion]

Patrick's HD Hits The Freezer, Heroes star Greg Grunberg joins to talk iPhone Development, Veronica Reviews Nokia's Latest

Watch or download now!

Revision3Fan
3 months ago
Just saying this first: Veronica, like your hair - great highlights!
Fee
3 months ago
In reply to revision3fan:
Just saying this first: Veronica, like your hair - great highlights!


Agreed it looked very nice!

Just got done watching the episode! and now leaving for the Rifftack show to see more Veronica and others! Also I think show should start with Veronica singing what the show is about with her Stevie Nicks voice all the time now ;)
crabcakes
3 months ago
Literally am in the middle of backing up. Paused the show because Patrick Norton said so.
Revision3Fan
3 months ago

Nokia Surge - Audio Jack and Java plus Symbian

Is the 2.5 mm jack strictly stereo audio out like a headphone jack or a combined mic in and stereo audio out for phone calls?

If the jack is just used for headphones, isn't there an audio adapter that doesn't have a cable (unlike the adapter shown in a slide during the review) that will go from the jack to a 1/8" plug?

How does the Nokia Surge handle Java?

Symbian is the most popular smartphone operating system in the world. It is open-source and does true multitasking from what I understand. Why isn't there more of it i the United States? Is device availability an issue?
crabcakes
3 months ago
Regarding the LG Chocolate phone:
Patrick returned it after three days, but the Chocolate 3 is by far the best phone for a high school or college kid like myself. There is no internet or data plan, so its super cheap. It also has really good media controls, a standard headphone jack, and the Chocolate 3 has a built in FM transmitter for the car. Its a cheap phone with a good mp3 player that you will need a microSD memory card for, but it is WAY cheaper than a Blackberry, iphone, or separate Zune or ipod.
rvkugan87
3 months ago

Do some search

In ep 102 Patrick Norton said that Nokia and other great phones(out side US) get their ass kicked by the phones in USA, but that's not the case, people in USA didn't have a chance to use all the phones that are available worldwide, which people out side of USA does. In US only a few types of Nokia and other phones are available.

So before saying any statements like this please say the situation in US


love the show guys
keep rocking

PS: sorry about my English
davmoo
3 months ago
I've never used the freezer method so I can't say anything about whether or not it works. But I have, and regularly it seems, use the "smack the drive on the desk" method for sticktion or other reasons the drive motor won't initially spin up. Whapping the side of the computer case with the fist also works for that. Three Stooges School of Computer Repair :cool:

Yowza sounded interesting, and so did the new Nokia phone. Too bad they're both on a piece of cow dung network like AT&T.

I had a Chocolate, and it really is a good phone. Only reason I got rid of it is I started texting more and wanted something with a qwerty keyboard.

All of the FastStone utilities are good, not just Image Resizer. If anyone takes away my Image Viewer I'll definitely go postal on 'em.
computoman
3 months ago
As for the locked up hard drive, I have used the twist the wrist method first before going rambo on a drive. Besides most hd makers have software that comes in the box that will help you recover a drive by moving bad sectors and allow the drive to be bootable or at least readable more often than not. You did not chunk that cd did you?

With some of the new Arm based cpu's coming out will not even need a fan. The old Via cpus could also almost run without a fan also.

Yowza reminds me of the payola days of radio.

Don't use a cell phone, but I do use voip.

Using green drives in a raid is like using street tires on a race car,,,,,,,
fishtoprecords
3 months ago
In reply to computoman:
Yowza reminds me of the payola days of radio.


Yes, its just product placements. Probably will work well, but after listening to the segment, I wanted a shower.
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