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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.
A 6-Core SBC and Some Viewer Comments
- Episode 578
- October 17, 2018
- 1,521
We've finally got our hands on a RockPro64, and it's an incredible looking little single-board computer: 6 cores, 4 GB RAM and a PCIe slot. We've also got some great viewer comments that spark some interesting discussions.
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Making LibreOffice Look and Feel More Like Microsoft Office
- Oct 10, 2018
- 1,215
Wireless Mics, Discord and Ubuntu in Hyper-V (Part 2)
- Oct 3, 2018
- 949
Linux in Windows and Stage 9 Needs Our Help
- Sep 26, 2018
- 6,444
An Early Look At The Rock64 Single Board Computer
- Sep 19, 2018
- 1,902
Fake SD Cards Are Real!
- Sep 12, 2018
- 41,555
Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Episode 433
- January 5, 2016
- 753,102
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
- 748,204
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 737,363
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 728,454
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 703,323
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 October 17, 2018
- 128
- If you're one of the victims of the recently revealed hack of Facebook, you should be extra careful on the internet — and extra watchful of your other online and offline accounts.
- Someone has reportedly siphoned personal information on 30,000 or more US Department of Defense workers.
- The UK Government wants to secure smart home gadgets.
- Someone Used a Deep Learning AI to Perfectly Insert Harrison Ford Into Solo: A Star Wars Story
Top Stories for the Week of October 10, 2018
- 126
- The US federal government has just authorized its staff to shoot down any drone they consider a threat.
- Google+ is shutting down after it was revealed that Google covered up a data-exposing bug.
- Default passwords such as "admin" and "password" will be illegal for electronics firms to use in California from 2020.
- Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. unveiled its first full-scale passenger capsule, offering the world a peek at the future of travel.
Top Stories for the Week of October 3, 2018
- 152
- Elon Musk has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the charges filed last week over his abandoned attempt to take Tesla private. Musk will have to step down as the chairman of Tesla within 45 days, and will not be able to take that role with the company again for three years. He will be able to remain Tesla’s CEO during that time.
- Another brick-and-mortar Amazon store opened its doors on Thursday: Amazon 4-star, at a new location in New York City's Soho district. The retail giant's new store only sells products that have been rated four stars or above on Amazon.com, plus Amazon's own products.
- ESET Research has published a paper detailing the discovery of a malware campaign that used repurposed commercial software to create a backdoor in a computer's firmware.
- Kepler’s resurrection from hibernation has been short-lived - NASA has put the veteran space telescope back in sleep mode after it was up and running for less than a month.
Top Stories for the Week of September 26, 2018
- 342
- Remember when Apple's FaceTime stopped working years ago? Turns out it was a deliberate part of Apple's planned obsolescence tactics.
- Well, it just got easier to run Ubuntu on Windows 10 as a virtual machine—and SURPRISE: it’s all thanks to Microsoft.
- Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year.
- Health officials, who are looking at how to apply blockchain technology to public health issues, consulted with Walmart on improving food supply traceability, and they plan to use the technology in the produce department.
Top Stories for the Week of September 19, 2018
- 286
- Bristol Airport has blamed a cyber attack for causing flight display screens to fail for two days.
- It could soon prove expensive for media makers to chase online pirates in Canada. The country's Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that internet providers are entitled to "reasonable" compensation when asked to link pirates' IP addresses to customer details.
- A few lines of CSS is all it takes to bring Apple devices to their knees.
- The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, would like to apologize for years of being a jerk, and is taking time off to learn empathy.
Top Stories for the Week of September 12, 2018
- 1,375
- Bitcoin and other digital currencies have continued to tumble in value, amid concerns that Wall Street institutions are shunning cryptocurrencies.
- The British-built Aeolus satellite has begun firing its laser down on Earth to map the planet's winds.
- An autonomous vehicle billed as “the future of transportation” is spending the month ferrying passengers between two neighbouring tourist attractions in Calgary, Alberta.
- We may not have colonies on Mars and faster-than-light travel yet but, if you have a Vizio TV, you will get a taste of a bizarre future where gadgets turn against their makers after first betraying their owners. Also: a pop-up informing you that your TV has been spying on you will prompt you to sue its own manufacturer.
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.
The Holy Spirit Is Our Refiner
- Episode 167
- September 28, 2018
- 2,435
The Seven Roles Of The Holy Spirit is a devotional series by J. Lee Grady available as part of the YouVersion Bible App. This week we focus on #7: The Holy Spirit Is Our Refiner.
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The Holy Spirit Is Our Comforter
- Sep 21, 2018
- 1,387
The Holy Spirit Is Our Intercessor
- Sep 14, 2018
- 1,512
The Holy Spirit Is Our Uniter
- Sep 7, 2018
- 1,241
The Holy Spirit Is Our Guide
- Aug 31, 2018
- 1,307
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,578
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
- 339,102
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 339,043
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,618
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,556
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
- 5,464
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
- 3,347
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 4,344
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)
- Mar 19, 2017
- 8,013
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)
- Mar 11, 2017
- 6,736
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 149,281
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
- 149,217
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 146,265
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 142,811
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
- 138,504
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