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DIY Media Server, Cheap Notebooks, Songza and Songbird

Friday, November 16th, 2007 – running time 29:52
The simplest DIY media server. Ex Machina. Using the Xbox 360 HD DVD with your PC. Find Music: Songza and Songbird. Cheap Notebooks, Buying Online, is WiFi 802.11n done yet?
Sharing media throughout your house isn't too hard if you have a home network... even if, like Walt, you have "3 Macs, 2 iPhones, and numerous iPods." The trick is putting all the audio/video/photos you want to share on one machine you can always leave on, then turning on file sharing. And mapping your various machines at home to it. Call it the simplest home media server possible...

Looking for music on the web? We've got nifty tools for you to check out!

Songbird is billed as a "Desktop media player mashed up with the web." We think of it more as a media browser. Built on the Mozilla application framework (the code underneath Firefox!), Songbird skims web pages for downloadable audio files when you load them, can play your local audio, and thru plugins, even manage your iPod. (And this just scratches the surface.)

Songza is pure music search. And playback. And one click posting to your website. You can even build playlists. We just can't figure out just exactly where it searches... tho we suspect it plays the audio tracks from files found in Google Video searches... you can't download the songs you find to your desktop, but there's a lot of stuff being played from YouTube thru Songza!

"Any ideas when or if Draft n will become standard?" Sure, Scott. The 802.11n spec has one last IEEE vote in early 2008, then should be finalized and on the shelves around September 2008. The years of staring at Pre-N and Draft-N on boxes is almost over... Wi-Fi Alliance certification has already begun.

Certification would be nice, since we've bought Draft n products off the shelves recently that wouldn't work together.

Do you need 802.11n? It's not going to make your Internet connection faster (not unless your existing Wi-Fi network is saturated with too many clients... rather unusual for a home setup) but, in theory, it should give you four times the bandwitch of 802.11g... which is nice for transferring big files across your network. (Gigabit Ethernet stomp it, speed wise, tho you'll have to run a cable!)

The ground has been doing the earthquake thing here in San Francisco, so we sent our fearless producer Neha Tiwari to the Berkeley Seismological Lab to get the latest on earthquake science.

Nintendo fans have a whole new Mario experience: Super Mario Galaxy will probably be the biggest title on the Wii this season... and with 40 galaxies, gorgeous art, and a whole new style of play, it's living up to the hype.

Ex Machina, Heather's producer pick this week is one of Patrick's favorite comics, too. Penned by Brian K. Vaughan, the series follows the exploits of retired super hero Mitchell Vaughan, who was elected Mayor of New York City post 9/11. Are all his powers -the ability to communicate with and control machines- gone? Not exactly...

"Power Down": is the latest trade paperback in the series... if you're starting from scratch, you'll want Ex Machina VOL. 1: THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS.

Code Red is where Jessica tells you about her latest obsession... this week it's FFFFOUND!.com, a neat little place on the Internet where you can post and share your favorite images. The service also has the ability to recommend images it thinks you'll like based on your interests. This isn't another Flickr clone. The makers call it "an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!" Jessica agrees.

John needs a cheap notebook, he's a "full-time student living off water, sunshine and take-out" that needs to talk with his family overseas. We've got ideas, from a Nokia's $250 N800 Internet Tablet to the name brand notebooks showing up at CompUSA for $650 with 1.5GHz Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of RAM and 160GB hard drives... we're talking Sony and HP here, not no brands.

That said.. John, we know you don't trust posting your credit card info on the web... but, like Jessica said, it's time to get over that. If you like to shop local and support local business, that's awesome, but millions of folks shop online safely every day. And US federal law limits the liability of card holders to $50 in the event of theft, regardless of the amount charged on the card.

Why didn't we recommend a used notebook? Did you see that pile of parts Patrick had at the beginning of the show? That was a used notebook... make sure it works before you hand over any cash!

Yes, Andrew, you can use the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player as the HD DVD drive in your computer/Home Theater PC... if you want to play movies, you'll need Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra, $99, which can also play back Blu-ray movies, if you have a Blu-ray drive. (Only the Japanese version of Intervideo's WinDVD has HD DVD playback.)

One catch: you'll need an HDCP compliant graphics card and monitor to get the full HD resolution out of those pre-recorded movies. (Tho we hear you can get around that with a copy of SlySoft's AnyDVD. Email us if you're curious.

You'll also need a powerful system to play back HD DVD or Blu-ray movies. Run CyberLink's Blu-ray/HD DVD Advisor before you drop the cash on the software!

As Jessica pointed out, this isn't much of a bargain. You're paying $180 for the drive and $99 for the software (not to mention the whole HDCP ready graphics card question). You can buy Toshiba's HD-A2 for $230 at Walmart and lots of other stores. Sure, it's not the latest HD DVD Player (there's no 1080p out), but it does a pretty good job.

The online shoe store Jessica and Patrick mentioned? It's called Zappos.com.

Got a tech question? Email us: tekzilla@revision3.com!

Highlights
hard wired ( 4:32, 4:45, 4:32, 4:45 ) Super Mario ( 18:20, 18:20 ) hard drive ( 1:59, 3:44, 3:45, 22:03, 1:59, 3:44, 3:45, 22:03 ) search engine ( 15:15, 15:15 ) hard wired ( 4:32, 4:45, 4:32, 4:45 ) Super Mario ( 18:20, 18:20 ) hard drive ( 1:59, 3:44, 3:45, 22:03, 1:59, 3:44, 3:45, 22:03 ) search engine ( 15:15, 15:15 )

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" For basically finding music on mine one -- sort of the music browser called song word that we can pull that up right now. We're gonna pleads called savage pockets of music blog about -- I. And you'll -- is this thing at the bottom there by open that page for refresh the page. It's gonna look at the website and it's gonna pull the website up and also this thing's going to sign up at the bottom that's really cool it's essentially. A collection of all the music that's linked on the web -- rather than actually if you scroll down and read through the blog does go straight to that and start clicking. On downloads are downloading with music."

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" That definitely shop around and try local mom and pop. Computers first and wait for sales at the big box stores like that's -- to -- you say it."

" If you get over that fear of online shopping check out Newegg dot com Dell dot com just shop around it's okay use your credit card to use it responsibly -- and in the other thing. If you're gonna buy computer always going to get more computer for your dollar in the desktop machine and you worn notebook is notebooks are going to be portable to get an LCD gets expect."

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" It's been very strange few days. Well first of all there's been total sleep deprivation beanie baby I've seen ratatouille like seven times. And I went to build a notebook as a server after that the motherboard was dead. And the whole Apple will fix it thing on the website incidence uses. An instant wisely ended and -- for exchange the website. So I bought. They you know old G three notebook that's dad. And it's useless. What part of Craig's list apparently not -- I figured okay you know -- they're still doing the warranty service and apples and replace it. But it went well I think of is is sort of you know. The we're expecting a computer that's exactly the -- was inside a notebook place quite yet he borer. Using some of these parts in the future for -- if you are asking to -- that's the ups again the basically this is no longer going to be -- notebook because it's like 300 dollars to replace the dead motherboard. So there's the graphics processor. The cooling fans stand here. The exodus cool was gonna go to one machine -- of these yes CD RW drive dvd drive thirty my hard drive can read news for little home server and so we're gonna Wi-Fi card here -- I think reasons of the house so -- basically it's -- local -- Respect is -- reduce recycle recycle or reuse reduce -- agrees on is -- and if this failure ever. Plus with the -- matter. Later had to recharge -- you. -- probably in some yet -- Like that. I should point out I always a question about reusing old notebook monitors. It's almost impossible to do unless you actually find it and graphics or like earth LCD might solemn sometimes. That'll actually power these is they're essentially digital and the -- basically designed and powered off the motherboard. For basement backlight and the actual. Digital before -- also possible find a graphics -- that -- case with a so it would be nice to be able to reuse this is nice monitor. It probably costs if I'm lucky I about 200 dollar graphics card that has no performance -- on -- upon us -- So that's and we investment much but yet it's like the innards of the notebook."

" That was the last three days connect very well these last couple. Okay so we just Scotty now and it said. Are my hat's three Macs to iphones and iPod is -- at one place to store all audio and that is that we don't need to have copies everything on each machine to eight. From -- I'll point Oakland or rumors that stands out."

" Actually yes the answer the question if you have a home network. It's easy and all you do is figure out one machine -- actually build a machine like you know what that was going to be -- against 300 dollar notebook to get off Craig's list. And he dedicated to be your media server. So you get an external hard drive and internal hard drive for Alec notebooks because that Robert heron reveal TV Tommy. Like notebooks are cheap and -- lot of power so they're great for home servers. -- you're gonna do it's pretty easy is acting like an extra USB firewire. Drive that's big enough the whole all the audio and video and photo files you want. Attach it to this use windows XP OS-X minutes of every like turn on file sharing for those files. And it's connected to your home network every machine in the house will be able to see those files and and basically show -- ankle and iTunes or pretty much anything malicious files. So it's really easy -- real ground near like this easily turn on file sharing political links on the website that show you how to basically turn on file sharing. And take a look at those things from across -- them. And yeah. This is all hard wired but it certainly it is wireless absolutely basically this is going to be this can be plugged into your wireless access point you could use a wireless card on you can use an ethernet card on it. The only difference between basically the wireless and hard wired just how you connect into the network in because if your home networking by your home that was probably a mixture of ethernet like they had eaten an interpreter or -- old machines and then wirelessly notebooks. As long as they're on the same network the same note on the network you're totally go."

" Are right that coming up we all about the richter scale but what else is there you know not measuring earthquakes cool find out. But hurts your -- frank burns. More and more this it tiger pocketbooks. With earth plane hit the."

" Yeah this week I've chosen the X marking a series and books that power down is hot off the -- This -- decent comet wild firms series created by Brian Cabell. Is it political -- us formal support and years. -- program. Freak accident at Brooklyn Bridge left -- with the ability to control and talked. -- goes by the name of missile 108 -- eight at great. Actors fable the second World Trade Center towers falling at communicating with this at."

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