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

$2 HDMI Cables Rule! DIY Dropbox Clones, Steve Jobs Steps Down, Stop WiFi From Dropping Out, 8th Grader Tops Angry Birds, Double Encrypted WiFi Banking, 2D Content on 3D HDTV? Better Neflix Streaming!

Thursday, January 20th, 2011 – running time 27:27

Sony's Personal 3D Camcorder, Rebuild Your Blog From AN XML Backup! Magic eSATA USB Adapters? 10 Needles, 1000 Stitches Per Minute and an LED Flatpanel: Brother's High Tech Sewing Machine!InstantWatcher Makes Netflix Streaming Better. Wow, did the Tekzilla Crew have some great Dropbox Alternatives for business use.

Steve Leaves Apple, 8th Grader Beats Angry Birds, iPad Switch Choice!

Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave of absense to focus on his health... get well soon! (He'll still be involved in "major strategic decisions," mind you...) An 8th grade student and his mom made a game more popular than Angry Birds. Also, Patrick says "thanks" for letting iPad users decide for themselves in iOS 4.3 beta if the hardare orientation switch

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Double Encrypted WiFi Banking!

Michael from Glasgow, KY wrote in last week to ask if banking over WiFi with WPA2 encryption is safe. Gabriel in Chicago wrote in "The sessions initiated by the users to a bank are encrypted so that data passing through your router to and from your financial institution benefit from an additional layer of security." What exactly does that mean for banking over WiFi networks? Watch the video!

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Tekzilla's New Charity: Water Challenge!

A very nice man named Karl is looking to fire up our Charity: Water donations one last time... he'll match up to $2500 dollars in donations to our Charity: Water Campaign. Let's dig our third well!!!

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How do 3D HDTVs look With 2D Content?

Dan B from Philly asks, "Could you go over how these 3D HDTVs act in normal 2D mode? Is the brightness of the picture still changed cause of the polarization on top of the glass, or can they turn that off on the fly?" We've got answers in the video!

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Cheap HDMI Cables Rule, HD Projector Reccomendations!

We'll say it again for Pri in Naperville: skip the $100 HDMI cables and get a low cost Monprice HDMI cable. Then spend that money on Blu-ray movies! Meanwhile, if your whole Home Theater budget is $4k, max, your best projector option is Optoma's HD20.

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Magic eSATA USB Adapters?

Can you turn a spare eSATA port into a USB or FireWire hub? Nope, Emmet, but turning your USB 3.0 adapter into your ExpressCard slot might be a start!

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WiFi Router Drops Everything!

Keith in Lodi has a major problem with his WiFi Router: All his gear loses connection (a TiVo box, a new iPod Touch and a Canon WiFi printer) and the only way to fix the problem is unplug the router and wait. We've seen that before, and have a few things to try before you buy a new router!

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Better Netflix Streaming: InstantWatcher!

The hardest part about streaming Netflix is finding awesome movies and TV shows to add to your queue! Luckily, Tekzilla viewer Steven3x pointed us to Netflix InstantWatcher.com. It not only allows you to easy browse movies by genre, it also shows you which titles are hottest right now with reviewers, what's being streamed the most, and what films are being queued up as we speak. Find out more in the video!

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Sony's Personal 3D Camcorder

While 3D HDTV's with and without glasses were making waves at this year's CES 3D video cameras were just as popular. Check out Sony's new 3D Camcorder here!

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1000 Stitches Per Minute: Brother's High Tech Sewing Machine!

It's got a built in LCD monitor, 10 needles and can zip through 1000 stitches in a single minute and help you turn a photo into an embroidered anything. Check out the Brother Entrepreneur® Pro PR-1000... did we mention there's a LOT of cool stuff at CES?

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DIY DropBox Clone

Last week Don wrote in asking about secure DropBox alternative that his company could build. You guys wrote in with force, starting with Lifehacker's link to fak3r.com's Build Your Own Open Source Dropbox Clone article. We've got lots more ideas for hosting your own Dropbox-ish service -including Al's comprehensive list of alternatives- in the video!

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Question: Rebuild Your Blog From AN XML Backup!

Allan's been using Blogger Backup Utility for several years now. The backup generates an XML file. He's "always wondered how to use this file?" Veronica explains how to restore -or move- your blog using an XML backup in the video!

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Isaac Clarke returns for another blood-curdling adventure in the sequel to Visceral Games' critically acclaimed blockbuster Dead Space. After waking from a coma on a massive space city known as "The Sprawl," the lone survivor of a horrific alien infestation finds himself confronting a catastrophic new nightmare. Equipped with a new arsenal of tools to dismember the Necromorphs, Isaac will face the challenge head-on. Fire up Isaac's suit boosters to rocket around in zero gravity like never before. Explore the depths of the Sprawl and encounter new weightless combat and physics-based puzzles with full 360 degree movement. For the first time, experience the horror of a Necromorph outbreak with others. Fight in skirmishes around the Sprawl and strategically dismember your friends in online multiplayer gameplay. Dead Space 2 In Stores January 25.

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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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