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Google Wave Preview, HTC HD2 Crushes iPhone, DIY Windows Home Server, Automated Driver Tools, ODROID vs. Zune!

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 – running time 36:52
Tekzilla On The Roku, HTC Phones: HTC Sense Makes Windows Mobile 6.5 Wonderful! Build Yourself a Windows Home Server: it's not just backing up! Automated Driver Tool Recommendation, Maximum PC's Will Smith is in the house! ODROID vs. Zune HD for 720p video. Feeling ill? Try WebMD Symptom Checker!

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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.

How To Get Tekzilla: Daily, Weekly, Both, on Software or Hardware!

There are a ton of ways to get Tekzilla. Yone thing we get a lot of email about: subscribing to just the weekly or just the daily feeds, or to both. To make it a bit easier to find the RSS delivery feed you want on the application or hardware you want to watch on, we've got a whole new 'subscribe' page up at revision3.com/tekzilla/subscribe

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We're Gonna Be On The Roku

Coming soon, Revision3's programming, including Tekzilla will be available on Roku's Digital Video Player, right alongside Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand, MLB.com and lots of other great networks!

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Google Wave Preview!

Google's wave preview, a real time communications and collaboration tool has people all kinds of excited. Veronica demos the invitation only application and tells you what to check out if you're lucky enough to get an invite!

Got that invite? Gina Trapani has written the ultimate Google wave primer!

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Automated Driver Updater Reccomendation

Jason's looking for an automated driver updater. We talk about what we use under Windows XP, Vista and 7, along with Mac OS X, and explain how we feel about most of the driver updaters we've seen on sale.

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Build a DIY Windows Home Server with Maximum PC's Will Smith!

Andrew's wants server software that will do full backups along with incremental backups, and he wants to build it on an old PC he's got. Windows Home Server is awesome for backups, and can be customized with lots of nifty add-ins!

Maximum PC's Editor in Chief, Will Smith is a big Windows Home server fan, he joins us to talk DIY WHS, from CPU bjhbhjhjb,,,ments to minimizing power consumption, avoiding drive issues, and getting things up and running in the most painless way possible!

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Website We Can't Get Enough Of: WebMD Symptom Checker

*cough, cough!* Feeling a little under the weather, but aren't sure if you should feeding a cold or starving a flu? One quick way to self-diagnose is WebMD's SymptomChecker.

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Why Are My Digital Camera Pictures So Grainy In Low Light?

We took a pile of viewer questions using DimDim, the free browser based web conferencing service, including one from Psychosis. (DimDim is one of the sponsors of this episode!) Psychosis asked about grainy pictures on his digital camera and writes, "I've narrowed it down to the lighting - outdoors when it's sunny the shots are nice and clear, and indoors with a flash the shots are nice and clear. When it isn't lit well, the shots come out grainy. Why?" We talk CCD sensitivy, lens speed, size and gathering light in the video!

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Defragmenting Portable Media Players, OS X, Windows...

Brian asked a question about defragmenting over DimDim: "Is defragmenting a hard drive or portable media player absolutely necessary? I've done it a few times on various PCs running various versions of Windows and it doesn't seem to do very much. Also, is it true that defragmenting Mac OS X isn't necessary?" We've got answers in the video!

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New Android and Windows Mobile Phones From HTC!

Just when you forget that there's a Windows Mobile 6.5, Veronica finds a stack of WinMo and Android based phones from HTC that almost have us forgetting the iPhone! HTC had done an amazing job customizing WinMO with HTC Sense, and the custom interface rocks. The Android phones feel good and we're all totally lusting over HTC's HD2.

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Odroid vs. Zune HD

Jeff wants us to compare the Android based ODROID with Microsoft's Zune. Both offer 720p video playback, but the ODROID has an HDMI port built in, while the Zune requires a pricy dock to bring HD video to your TV. One minor problem: The ODROID isn't available yet, it's just shipping to developers that want to bring media tools, games and other apps to the open hardware platform!

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