Tag: TWiT

  • The Skypeasaurus is still a Gold Standard

    Equipment – The Official TWiT Wiki: “Skypeasaurus: used for Skype calls beginning 3/7/2009. Four Acer V173b monitors attached to four separate Windows PCs running Synergy KM sharing software. The motherboards (Intel BOXD945GCLF2 945GC ATOM330) on these machines have S-video out built into their onboard video adapters; each goes to a separate video input on the…

  • DadCast Episode 24 • Spinning Meatloaf on Tuesdays

    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… We continue were we left off form last week’s show with as Francois was accusing Steve of being a Digg Apologist, which ends up becoming a review on the state of PodCasting. We review what we used to keep in iTunes and highlight some of the…

  • The Leo Laporte Clause

    Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event: “Any reproduction or distribution is strictly prohibited without prior written approval from Apple. Please contact Apple Public Relations with any questions.” This one line will forever be known as the Leo Laporte clause. Leo Laporte Live blogging… Joshua Topolsky As live as possible. Leo Laporte…

  • Google Announces GMail Buzz

    In this week’s TWiT #243, Kara Swisher of AllThingsD.com talks about how Google has often missed the mark in their social networking because they hold off releasing products form the Labs until they are completely satisfied that it can be automated 100%. Whereas, most of the successful social networking start-ups have heavily focused and even…

  • Three Weeks With An Android – Part DEUX

    One of the perks of being the resident geek, is every once in a while a new smart phones lands on your desk and your asked to review it and give it your honest opinion. Just before Christmas , my bosses gave the gift of an Android. In fact Samsung had launched their HSPA capable…

  • Rolling Your Own ShortURL Service

    Today we are announcing the 2FatDads.com ShortURL service, this is the first product or service that 2FatDads has ever launched. And it is very much in pre-beta form right now. In fact this post should be the first link to actually use the service itself, and the only people who will have access to it…

  • Snow Leopard: Hands On

      Before I even get started with this, let me just that this hands on review will not rival John Siracusa’s in depth analysis of the latest flavour of Mac OS X. If you need that much detail, please go ahead and read his article here. It’s no secret that most of the Fat Dads…

  • You Look Nice Today Mr Gruber!

    For anyone who is wondering, this is John Gruber. John is the author behind Daring Fireball, a blog that I read almost religiously in Google Reader multiple times a day. John is very vocal with opinion and has an uncanny ability of being right more often than not. And when he is wrong or way…