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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.
Blocking Internet Ads and Porn With a Single Board Computer
- Episode 599
- March 13, 2019
- 1,188
With March Break in full swing, our two resident dads are looking for ways to keep their kids safe online. Enter Pi-Hole: a free DNS server program that turns any single board computer into a sophisticated DNS filtering service. It's built to block ads, which in turn improves your Internet speed. But using third-party lists, you can also use Pi-Hole to optionally block sites that serve up pornography.
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Improving Lighting In Your Photos
- Mar 6, 2019
- 845
Debian Linux BitTorrent Server with the ODROID HC1
- Feb 27, 2019
- 2,401
It's Illuminating When We Go Live
- Feb 20, 2019
- 1,320
Pocophone F1: A Low Cost Phone with High-End Features
- Feb 13, 2019
- 2,108
Software-Free Encrypted Flash Drive
- Feb 6, 2019
- 2,505
Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Episode 321
- November 12, 2013
- 753,896
Not a big fan of the new "start screen" on Windows 8? We'll show you how to return the traditional Start Menu to the latest version of Microsoft's desktop operating system.
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Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Jan 5, 2016
- 753,485
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 738,018
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 729,282
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 703,816
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A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
Top Stories for the Week of March 13, 2019
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- Billions of records have been breached and you may be part of it, even if you've never heard of the service that was compromized.
- Efforts to recover millions in crypto-cash from the digital wallets of a man who died without revealing passwords to access them have hit a snag: The wallets have been found to be empty.
- Sorry Amazon: Philadelphia has banned cashless stores.
- Have a Windows update that is messing up Windows 10? Now it'll automatically remove and block itself to allow Microsoft to fix the problem.
Top Stories for the Week of March 6, 2019
- 163
- Sony has officially ended production of its PS Vita games console.
- Amazon has announced a new way for environmentally-conscious shoppers to help reduce emissions: a voluntary program that lets a Prime member schedule one specific day per week for deliveries.
- Microsoft is creating Windows Lite for dual-screen and Chromebook-like devices.
- Linux Kernel 5.0 has been released, and we'll tell you what's new.
Top Stories for the Week of February 27, 2019
- 164
- A nasty code-execution bug in WinRAR threatened millions of users for 14 years
- Ready for another fright? Spectre flaws in today's computer chips can be exploited to hide, run stealthy malware
- A pair of Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers sent up to the International Space Station in August 2017 as an experiment have still not come back to Earth, three months after their intended return.
- Microsoft's HoloLens 2 has been announced for $3,500, and is available to preorder now to ship out later this year.
Top Stories for the Week of February 20, 2019
- 145
- Research suggests thousands of websites are being hit by cyber-thieves who implant code to scoop up payment card numbers.
- The no-fly zone for drones around airports is to be extended following the disruption at Gatwick in December.
- A wakeup call as Quadriga's founder takes $135m of their customers' cryptocurrency to the grave.
- A New AI is able to generates freakishly realistic people who don't actually exist.
Top Stories for the Week of February 13, 2019
- 105
- A security vulnerability has been disclosed for a flaw in runc, Docker and Kubernetes' container runtime, which can be used to attack any host system running containers.
- Canonical has released a new kernel update for Ubuntu systems to address a regression introduced by the last kernel security patch.
- SpaceX is seeking US approval to deploy up to 1 million Earth stations to receive transmissions from its planned satellite broadband constellation.
- Raspberry Pi has opened its first bricks-and-mortar store in Cambridge.
Top Stories for the Week of February 6, 2019
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- A consumer DNA testing company has given the FBI access to its two million profiles
- Microsoft plans to expand Xbox Live to other platforms, including Nintendo Switch and mobile.
- Google’s new Chrome Extension automatically checks that your passwords are still secure
- Google's new Android apps could help your hearing
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New Every Day
Join Jeff Weston and Pastor Lawrence Crews as they sit down for a practical heart to heart conversation each week exploring everyday life as a Christian in today's society.
Eternity to Eternity: Understanding Hell
- Episode 175
- December 7, 2018
- 274
This week Lawrence welcomes special guest Craig Pitts, author of Eternity to Eternity before a live audience. In our discussion on Hades, we'll come to understand hell, and what it actually means to spend eternity there.
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Talkback #2 - God's Grace, Marijuana, and Being Bored for Eternity
- Nov 30, 2018
- 1,469
Talkback #1 - Church and Unanswered Prayer
- Nov 23, 2018
- 1,459
Happy Thanksgiving
- Nov 16, 2018
- 1,477
Acronyms and the Christian Walk
- Nov 9, 2018
- 1,491
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,757
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
- 339,234
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 339,138
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,759
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- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,681
The Pixel Shadow
Minetest (The Free Minecraft Alternative) runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, and we'll show you how to play.
Super Smash Bros Ultimate with Piranha Plant DLC
- Episode 26
- February 3, 2019
- 196
The new Piranha Plant DLC is out, and Mortimer (Zech), Daddo (Robbie) and Blackout (Liam) play Super Smash Bros Ultimate, featuring the new Piranha Plant downloadable content.
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - TPS Let's Play Nintendo Switch
- Jan 1, 2019
- 431
Discovering Xanadu
- Apr 23, 2017
- 5,736
The Mysterious Room
- Apr 9, 2017
- 3,543
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 4,499
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 149,629
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
- 149,429
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 146,508
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 143,109
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
- 138,619
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