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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 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.
Miracast and a Community Computer Build
- Episode 516
- August 9, 2017
- 6,850
This week we look at a device that lets you clone your phone, tablet, laptop or computer to your TV wirelessly. You also have a chance to help Sasha build a dream computer.
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The Tiny, Easy-To-Use Video Player
- Aug 2, 2017
- 10,129
Things You Should Know From The World of Tech
- Jul 26, 2017
- 4,328
Taking A First Stab At Kodi
- Jul 19, 2017
- 4,582
Hexachords Orb Composer - The AI Musician
- Jul 12, 2017
- 13,464
Virtual Reality And Reality
- Jul 5, 2017
- 15,926
Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Episode 433
- January 5, 2016
- 752,189
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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Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 736,357
Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Nov 12, 2013
- 735,951
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 727,412
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 702,460
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 August 9, 2017
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- Remember ‘Marcus Hutchins’ - the security researcher who single-handedly found and used the WannaCry kill switch? Well, he has now been arrested and charged with unrelated malware offences in the U.S.
- Scientists at IBM Research have created a new world record for storing over 330TB of uncompressed data on a single tape cartridge that can easily fit into the palm of a person’s hand.
- Although always the ultimate plan, Ubuntu devs expressed doubts about making the switch to Wayland last month, with Will Cooke, Ubuntu's desktop team leader saying he felt “Wayland isn’t ready yet”. But several weeks later, after a lot of testing, a decision is now in place: Ubuntu 17.10 will ship with Wayland as the default session.
- If you thought American or British copyright fights were petty, consider the case of Canadian Adam Lackman – who had a bailiff, lawyers, and computer experts burst into his home, seize his gear, and grill him for hours.
- The U.S. Army has ordered its members to stop using drones made by Chinese manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd because of "cyber vulnerabilities" in the products.
Top Stories for the Week of August 2, 2017
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- The UK government recently launched a £400m fund to boost investment in "full-fibre" broadband.
- A car made from biodegradable natural materials has passed road safety tests in the Netherlands.
- The relentless march of the self-driving car is in danger of grinding to a halt in Australia because the technology cannot cope with kangaroos.
- If you want to play the original version of Doom II, the game will set you back just £1.49 during the current Steam Summer Sale. If you want a boxed copy of the original floppy disk version, circa 1994, there's a copy available on eBay right now for $75.
Top Stories for the Week of July 26, 2017
- 1,361
- A crewless ship to be christened the Yara Birkeland is expected to start sailing in 2018, initially delivering fertilizer along a 37-mile route in southern Norway.
- Those disappointed when Britain rejected the name Boaty McBoatface for a polar research ship should find joy in the name of a new train in Sweden.
- Google’s healthcare arm Verily announced just before the weekend it will release twenty million sterile male mosquitoes into the wild, in Fresno County, California.
- According to the Federation Against Copyright Theft, British magazine "KODI" is directing readers to copyright-infringing software.
- Transport Canada has issued an update in recent weeks to its interim order governing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, which include consumer and professional drones.
Top Stories for the Week of July 19, 2017
- 1,302
- The sleek, low-slung driverless Roborace car was on display in New York City for the Formula E races this weekend, but it was the workhorse DevBot that took to the track.
- The science of prosthetics has been advancing by leaps and bounds over the last few years, and research into soft robotics has been especially complementary. The same techniques that go into making a robot arm that flexes and turns like a real one can go into making more complex, subtle organs — like the heart, as Swiss researchers have demonstrated.
- A security robot in Washington DC suffered a watery demise after falling into a fountain by an office building.
- Google is reviving its failed Glass project, the smart headset designed to augment everyone's vision, as a product for businesses.
- Microsoft's long, gentle embrace of Linux continues with the first release candidate of SQL Server 2017.
- Are you an Ubuntu user? If you're using Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, it hits end of life tomorrow, July 20.
- Unwitting customers in the United Kingdom who didn't read the terms and conditions for use of a public WiFi hotspot agreed to perform 1,000 hours of community service, including unclogging sewers and scraping gum off the street.
Top Stories For The Week Of July 12, 2017
- 1,305
- In May of last year, speaker and fitness tracker company Jawbone ended production of its fitness trackers and started seeking a buyer for its speaker business, leading to speculation that the company was going out of business.
- RED, the company that makes professional digital cameras for shooting Hollywood movies, is making a "holographic" phone called the Hydrogen.
- Most experts believe the first industry to be upended by autonomous driving will be the trucking sector. What better use case for driverless technology than long-haul trucking where most of the driving is confined to the highway?
- Intel is shedding nearly 140 staff from its Internet of Things business lines.
- Tuxedo, a German computer company selling a range of Linux laptops, has announced it is launching it own Ubuntu-based Linux distro.
- Linux users need to check out their distributions to see if a nasty bug in libgcrypt20 has been patched.
Top Stories for the Week of July 5, 2017
- 1,247
- A drone flying close to Gatwick Airport led to the closure of the runway and forced five flights to be diverted.
- Facebook has completed its second test flight for its solar-powered, internet-beaming drone called Aquila.
- A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Facebook accusing it of tracking users' internet usage between April 22, 2010, and Sept. 26, 2011, regardless if they've logged out of the network.
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.
I Didn't See That Coming - Part 4
- Episode 111
- August 11, 2017
- 1,275
In Part 4 of our study of Acts 9, we learn what's next in Saul's conversion story as this man who persecuted and killed Christians did an unexpected about face and began preaching boldly about Jesus.
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I Didn't See That Coming - Part 3
- Aug 4, 2017
- 1,220
I Didn't See That Coming - Part 2
- Jul 28, 2017
- 1,231
I Didn't See That Coming - Part 1
- Jul 21, 2017
- 1,262
Living in the Danger Zone - Part 4: The Scattering of the People
- Jul 14, 2017
- 1,253
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,152
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
- 338,774
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 338,721
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,298
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,233
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
- 4,248
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
- 2,716
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 3,809
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)
- Mar 19, 2017
- 7,473
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)
- Mar 11, 2017
- 6,268
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 148,497
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
- 148,442
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 145,628
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 141,979
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
- 138,139
Immersive Nature Sounds
Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds recorded in 360 VR.
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The Drone Zone
Drone unboxing, flight demos and reviews.
Fall Flight with the FreeX MCFX-01
- Episode 8
- September 26, 2016
- 268
A fall flight over Haliburton Ontario.
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CX-STARS Flight Demo - The Drone That Fits in a Controller
- Episode 7
- August 28, 2016
- 9,743
Cheerson CX-Stars are a fun beginner drone or handy little carry-along for those times you want to fly but can’t take your larger drones.
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Syma X5C-1 Speed Trap
- Oct 10, 2015
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How To Fly Any Quadcopter Nano Drone Multi-Rotor
- Dec 24, 2015
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- Oct 5, 2015
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