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Category5 Technology TV
Weekly live digital TV show with Robbie Ferguson focused on topics of interest to tech minds. Ask your questions and get live answers. Recipient of 2014 and 2017 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.
Techie Christmas Gifts and Cheap Portable Audio Recording
- Episode 537
- January 3, 2018
- 3,295
Happy New Year! This week we chat about some of the most techie gifts that found their way under our trees, some of our favorite shows on TV, and a life hack-worthy method of recording exceptional audio for your videos for under $5.
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An Introduction to GIMP
- Dec 27, 2017
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Plex Media Server on Microsoft Windows
- Dec 20, 2017
- 1,592
Finding Space Hogs On Your Linux Server
- Dec 13, 2017
- 1,348
Batteries and Chargers
- Dec 6, 2017
- 1,811
Auphonic in Linux
- Nov 29, 2017
- 3,074
Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Episode 433
- January 5, 2016
- 752,405
We continue setting up our Pi web server with PHP and a strong Linux firewall (CSF/LFD). We also get things going on deploying MariaDB, but haven't quite got there yet. On GIMP Tips, we look at creating gradients and how to make the edges super-smooth.
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Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Nov 12, 2013
- 738,725
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 736,630
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 727,748
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 702,738
The Category5.TV Newsroom
A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
Top Stories for the Week of January 3, 2017
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- The loss of an expensive Russian satellite was due to an error in the coordinates that were programmed into it at launch.
- Apple has apologised after facing criticism for admitting that it deliberately slows down some of its ageing iPhone models. The company now says it will replace batteries for less; and will issue software in 2018 that will enable customers to monitor their phone's battery health.
- In a major step towards its "AI first" dream, Google has developed a text-to-speech artificial intelligence (AI) system that will confuse you with its human-like articulation.
- An American fraudster has been caught in relation to the Nigerian Prince scam.
Top Stories for the Week of December 27, 2017
- 1,237
- The surveillance camera network in the US Capital was hijacked by Romanian ransomware, and charges have been filed against a pair that were arrested abroad.
- Nissan Canada's vehicle-financing wing has been hacked, putting personal information on more than a million customers into the hands of miscreants.
- Tesla's Elon Musk has pledged to make a pick-up truck as part of future plans for the electric vehicle-maker.
- Talk of long-range wireless charging has been around for some time, but we’ve yet to see a product that can charge devices from relatively long distances. Thanks to startup Energous, however, room-scale charging will soon be a reality, and available to everyone.
- Apple has changed the rules around how games on its app store will be using loot boxes.
Top Stories for the Week Of December 20, 2017
- 153
- For about eight days, some versions of Windows 10 bundled a password manager that contained a critical vulnerability within its browser plugin.
- A San Francisco animal shelter has announced it will no longer use a Knightscope security robot to patrol its office, after a widely-circulated report described the robot being used to “deter” nearby homeless encampments and rising crime.
- The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to deregulate the broadband industry, and to eliminate net neutrality rules that prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and slowing Internet traffic.
- Google will be using lasers instead of fiber to deploy high-speed internet in India.
Top Stories for the Week of December 13, 2017
- 121
- Since World War II, Japan has struggled with a work culture that consists of excessive overtime. To curb that behavior, one firm is planning to use drones that fly around the office blasting Auld Lang Syne to get employees to realize it’s time to go home.
- In a blow to the growing robot delivery industry, San Francisco officials have voted to restrict where these robots can actually go in the city.
- DanTDM has been named richest YouTuber of 2017 after making more than $16m this year alone.
- TeamViewer has issued an urgent patch to fix a vulnerability that allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of another PC without permission. This vulnerability affected versions of TeamViewer running on Windows, macOS and Linux machines.
Top Stories for the Week Of December 6, 2017
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- Google has announced the “AIY Vision Kit,” opening up a new way for Raspberry PI users to access its AI tools.
- Effective immediately, cellphone-unlocking is now free in Canada.
- The serious and surprising root security bug in macOS High Sierra is back for some users; shortly after Apple declared it fixed.
- Facebook Messenger is coming to pre-teens.
Top Stories for the Week of November 29, 2017
- 1,207
- Members of an exclusive club that is restricted to selected graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities are being warned that computer data containing their personal details is feared stolen.
- The Pentagon's “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency” (DARPA) is funding researchers who are working on some kind of "mind control" chips that can be inserted into human brains to fix mood disorders.
- Thinking of getting a drone for Christmas? Just a heads up: you may need to qualify to fly it in the UK under new legislation planned by the government.
- The UK's information commissioner has "huge concerns about Uber's data policies and ethics" following a breach that exposed the details of 57 million customers and drivers.
- Skype's call and messaging service has been removed from app stores in China, including the Apple app store.
New Every Day
Join Jenn Wagar and Carrie Webb as they sit down for a heart-to-heart discussion each week, addressing many of the issues Christians face in their day to day lives, and building your faith and focus through relevant conversation.
To Be A Good Listener
- Episode 132
- January 5, 2018
- 1,051
Have you ever found yourself misunderstood? Or perhaps you have trouble understanding where others are coming from. This week on New Every Day we'll explore some seemingly simple life lessons from the Bible that if taken to heart will change our relationships and improve our understanding of others.
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Come On In, You're All Welcome - Part 4
- Dec 29, 2017
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Come On In, You're All Welcome - Part 3
- Dec 22, 2017
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Come On In, You're All Welcome - Part 2
- Dec 15, 2017
- 88
Come On In, You're All Welcome - Part 1
- Dec 8, 2017
- 128
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,253
Being an effective witness for Christ starts with one truth: the Bible is the infallible Word of Almighty God. Join Carrie Webb, along with her father and guest, Rob Webb, as we explore the divine nature of the Word of God.
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Jesus' Claims to Deity
- Sep 11, 2015
- 338,862
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 338,805
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,391
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,316
The Pixel Shadow
Minetest (The Free Minecraft Alternative) runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, and we'll show you how to play.
Discovering Xanadu
- Episode 24
- April 23, 2017
- 4,733
A mysterious teleportation gate hidden deep beneath BaldNerd's dome whisks BaldNerd and MangleFox70 away to the strange, unknown land of the Xanadu, where the locals are able to eat bananas and corn, bounce around in a massive soccer field and take a minecart ride through the depths of the underworld.
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The Mysterious Room
- Apr 9, 2017
- 2,938
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
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Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)
- Mar 19, 2017
- 7,651
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)
- Mar 11, 2017
- 6,437
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 148,745
On the first episode of #thepixelshadow we'll get things started with the basics of Minetest with a simple goal: to build a house using nothing but resources which we've chopped down, dug up or crafted in survival mode! Here are the main topics of this episode: - Mining wood and stone. - Crafting wood sticks. - How to make wooden planks. - Crafting a furnace. - Smelting glass from sand. - Granting fast and fly privileges. - Making a pickaxe. - Crafting fancy doors using VanessaE's Home Decor mod. - Crafting a storage chest. - Crafting ladders. - Crafting a survival house. Hope you enjoy the show! Please give us a thumbs up, subscribe and share!
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Building a Mine in Minetest
- Jan 3, 2016
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VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
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Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 142,231
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
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Immersive Nature Sounds
Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds recorded in 360 VR.
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