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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.
Robbie Attempts to Fix a Dead Network Switch
- Episode 604
- April 17, 2019
- 812
In his quest to become capable of performing his own electronics repair, Robbie has come a long way with his soldering abilities. This week, we'll tear down the dead network switch and see if it can be fixed for around $3.
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A Torrent NAS, Dead Switch and a Tricorder
- Apr 10, 2019
- 916
A Couple Tinker Boards and An AI-Powered Picture Frame
- Apr 3, 2019
- 1,014
SSD for Business Data Centers
- Mar 27, 2019
- 2,257
600 Weeks of Tech TV and a New SBC
- Mar 20, 2019
- 7,650
Blocking Internet Ads and Porn With a Single Board Computer
- Mar 13, 2019
- 2,215
Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Episode 321
- November 12, 2013
- 754,495
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
- 753,551
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 738,097
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 729,371
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 703,886
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 April 17, 2019
- 117
- Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp experienced outages on Sunday — which brought down their systems worldwide for over two hours. Now, single point of failure is being blamed, and we're looking at decentralized solutions like BitCoin for an answer.
- Microsoft has admitted that its Outlook.com security breach was worse than the company initially revealed.
- Sony has finally released the first details about its upcoming PlayStation 5 console.
- Nintendo fans, you may want to update your bucket list; the world's first Super Nintendo theme park is set to open its doors next year.
Top Stories for the Week of April 10, 2019
- 125
- A piece of malware has been found on both iOS and Android that has been stealing contacts, audio, location data and more for several years.
- Sony has created a colossal 16K screen which will soon be on display in Japan.
- A newly-discovered privilege-escalation flaw in the Apache web server allows malicious users to gain root access to the underlying OS.
- Astronomers have revealed the first ever image of a black hole that exists in a galaxy called M87, 500 million trillion km away.
Top Stories for the Week of April 3, 2019
- 118
- Mark Zuckerberg says regulators and governments should play a more active role in controlling internet content.
- TP-Link's all-in-one SR20 Smart Home Router allows arbitrary command execution from a local network connection.
- Office Depot and Support.com have settled out of court and coughed up $35m after they were accused of lying to people that their PCs were infected with malware in order to charge them cleanup fees.
- Effective immediately, Microsoft is ending all ebook sales in its Microsoft Store for Windows PCs.
Top Stories for the Week of March 27, 2019
- 365
- A taskforce led by Spanish cops has dealt TV piracy a heavy blow after shuttering a network of illegal sports streaming sites operating across Spain, the UK, Denmark, Latvia, the Netherlands and Cyprus.
- Stadia, a brand new game streaming service from Google, has been revealed — and it’s powered by open source technology.
- Apple has unveiled its new TV streaming platform, Apple TV+, at a star-studded event in California.
- A self-driving shuttle service is to be deployed in New York City by the middle of the year.
Top Stories for the Week of March 20, 2019
- 400
- MySpace, one of the first online social networks, has apologised after a server migration caused a huge loss of data.
- There’s a critical vulnerability in a model of Fujitsu wireless keyboard that makes it easy for hackers to take full control of connected computers.
- AI is going to be huge for artists, and the latest demonstration comes from Nvidia, which has built prototype software that turns doodles into realistic landscapes.
- One of the world’s biggest producers of aluminum has been hit by a serious ransomware attack that shut down its worldwide network, stopped or disrupted plants, and sent IT workers scrambling to return operations to normal.
Top Stories for the Week of March 13, 2019
- 145
- 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.
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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.
Christ's Death Changed All The Rules
- Episode 190
- April 19, 2019
- 36
In 1 Corinthians 15:1-3 Paul speaks to the church in Corinth about Christ's death on the cross. Paul, being a scholar in the law, knew the rules and regulations (Old Testament) for the atonement of sin through animal sacrifice and how Jesus rewrote the play book on forgiveness of sins by His death.
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A Friend of God
- Jan 18, 2019
- 520
Beyond The Breakers: Part 2 - Destination
- Jan 11, 2019
- 436
Beyond the Breakers: Part 1 - The Compass
- Jan 4, 2019
- 497
Spirit of Sonship
- Dec 21, 2018
- 487
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,811
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
- 339,267
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 339,175
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,797
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,721
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
- 267
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
- 509
Discovering Xanadu
- Apr 23, 2017
- 5,796
The Mysterious Room
- Apr 9, 2017
- 3,590
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 4,548
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 149,697
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
- 149,482
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 146,558
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 143,163
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
- 138,648
Immersive Nature Sounds
Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds recorded in 360 VR.
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