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Password 101: Change Your Password or Die! Free WiFi Tool, Ultimate Computer Desk, SSD Picks, Be On Tekzilla!

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 – running time 35:04

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Admiral Adama Is Watching Over Us. Is It Time To Upgrade to an SSD? Anand Has The Answers! TigerBow, The Unarchiver, Password Security: Password Managers and Top Tips, Fix WiFi Problems for Free with inSSIDer, The Ultimate Computer Desk Turns With The Sun. WTF is PING? Your Help for Dadditude!

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.

Admiral Adama and the Ultimate Workstation

Thanks to Gerardo for the picture of Edward James Olmos in full BSG glory... it's watching over us on the set. In the we're Afraid To Find Out How Much They Cost department... check out the workstations from Poetic Technologies: they can even rotate automatically to keep glare off your monitor as the sun moves across the sky!
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Change Your Password Or Die!

We're always talking about backing up, but we don't touch on password security too often. The recent phishing assault on Windows Live Hotmail has us thinking about it this week! One critical thing to to is changing them regularly. We talk about why you should change 'em, passwords you should avoid if you want to stay safe online, and why password managers make staying secure a lot easier. Password managers we mention on the show include: KeePass, RoboForm, OS X's Keychain.
04:06 | Play

DimDim promo

Want to be a part of Tekzilla? We're taking questions during our taping Monday, September 12th via a meeting using DimDim, the free open source web conferencing tool. That's right - you get a chance to have your question used on Tekzilla and hang out with us online. Just sign up at DimDim.com/Tekzilla, and you'll automatically receive an email invite to join us on September 12th!
07:24 | Play

Free Sofware: Unarchiver!

This week's Freebie Download Pick is The Unarchiver. Everyone needs a good unzipping tool, especially OS X users, since OS X's built in tool leaves you high and dry when it comes time to un-pack RARs, 7-zips, Stuffit and a host of weird formats like NDS and ADF. The Unarchiver's goal is to be able to extract anything you give it... and it's well on it's way, and even pretty tolerant of foreign characters in your file names if you're getting files from overseas. Check it out!
08:38 | Play

Fix WiFi Problems With A Free Tool!

Michael's friends are having major problems with WiFi reception in their house... what can he do to help? We'd reccomend downloading inSSIDer an awesome open source tool for scanning WiFi that's great for tracking down interferance and mapping out reception quality in your home. Check out inSSIDer on Hak5 for more info! (We haven't talked about inSSIDer since Episode 59!)
09:32 | Play

Website We Can't Get Enough Of: Tigerbow

The interesting thing about social networking is that you can make a lot of friends that you, well... don't really know all that well. So when it's time to send that special internet someone a gift, but you don't know their address, send it through Tigerbow! This site lets you send real world gifts to people's virtual address: their handle on Twitter, Facebook, or even their mobile phone number. Those handles are connected to a real address that the recipient gives to TigerBow when a gift is pending -- never does that information get to the sender!
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Is It Time To Go SSD? Anand's Got An Answer!

Solid state drives are a hot topic amongst PC enthusiasts. They're super fast, fairly expensive, and, earlier this year, prone to various kinds of FAIL. Are the latest crop of SSDS worthy of your hard earned dollars? Patrick sat down with the best SSD expert we know, AnandTech.com's Anand Shimpi to get the cold hard facts on performance, longevity and future of these solid state wonders. Check out The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD for even more info!
13:46 | Play

WTF Is Ping?

Alec wants to know what Ping is... it's not really a hack, Alec, more a common network tool that's super useful. We explain some uses for it, and another tool everybody should know, Traceroute in the video!
27:20 | Play

Help For Dadditude!

We had tons of great responses to the question from Dadditude two weeks ago, who was trying to batch edit some extra silence into his audio files... Sound eXchange, aka SoX was a popular suggestion... dBPoweramp came up, too. Watch the show to find out more... and see some nifty scriptage!
28:44 | Play

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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
Episodes:
430
Credits
Veronica Belmont (Host)
Robert Heron (Host)
Patrick Norton (Host)