BestTechVideos: Tag technologies Videos http://www.bestechvideos.com/tag/technologies Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:56:22 GMT BestTechVideos: Tag technologies Videos with short descriptions Android Overview http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/19/android-overview

Android Overview

A look at the Google experience on the world's first Android-powered phone

http://www.android.com

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Systm Episode 71 - Free $500 Router Upgrade (For your junk $50 Router!)

Your router gets a major upgrade with the free Tomato Firmware: monitor bandwidth consumption, boost your WiFi signal, make major QoS tweaks, track the results with shiny graphics... and more!

Frank wrote in:

I'd like to give you a project suggestion for Systm: show us the proper method for upgrading an older wireless router with ddwrt firmware.

Frank in Tulsa

Great idea, especially since Patrick's long suffering Linksys WRT54G has been a touch flakey after the last firmware upgrade.

We just want to make one change: DD-WRT is great, but we're more into the Tomato Firmware upgrade... it's a tad less polished looking, but has slightly better quality of service contol than DD-WRT, allows boosting your your WiFi output, and has amazing bandwidth monitoring tools, which are great to keep in mind in wake of the new Comcast cap!

It runs on Linksys' WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers, and, as Wikipedia puts it, is "based on the GPL sourcecode released by Linksys, but includes proprietary binary modules from the chipset manufacturer Broadcom. Portions of the code are licensed under the GNU General Public License, but the source code for the user interface is under a more restrictive license which forbids use without the author's permission." Which is to say, it's Open Source.

You can download the Tomato firmware at polarcloud.com/tomato.

The Tomato Firmware Wiki is incredibly helpful.

Here's the Tomato FAQ if you're curious.

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TechTutor TV: Create a New Document in Flash CS3

A new document needs to be created in Adobe Flash CS3 before you can begin to create a flash movie. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a new document in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Edit Guides in Flash CS3

The guides in Adobe Flash CS3 can be edited to have a different appearance than the default. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to edit guides in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Set Snapping Options in Flash CS3

Objects can be set to snap or not snap at different levels in Adobe Flash CS3. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to set snapping options in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Use the Zoom Tool in Flash CS3

The zoom tool in Adobe Flash CS3 can be used to zoom in and out of areas on the Flash stage. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to use the zoom tool in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Align Objects in Flash CS3

Object can be aligned in relation to each other in Adobe Flash CS3. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to align objects in Flash CS3.

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Chrome - Importing settings

To import your settings after you've installed Google Chrome, click the wrench menu and select "Import bookmarks and settings." Select the browser and uncheck any items you don't want to add, then click "Import."

 

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Chrome - Dynamic Tabs

You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish -- quickly and easily.

 

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Chrome - Instant bookmarks

To save your favorite pages, just click the star next to the search bar, then select 'bookmarks bar' to access the link from any page.

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Chrome - Crash Control

Every tab you're using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won't take anything else down.

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Chrome - Simpler Downloads

No intrusive download manager; you see your download's status at the bottom of your current window.

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The story behind Google Chrome

Watch a video from the development team on the thinking and features behind Google Chrome.

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10 Features of Google Chrome

Learn 10 quick tips about using Google Chrome.

Google Chrome: a new web browser for Windows
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

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Google for Webmasters Tutorial: Discoverability

A webmaster tutorial video that covers how Google can find your site.

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Google for Webmasters Tutorial: Other Resources

A webmaster tutorial video that introduces other useful Google resources for webmasters.

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Google for Webmasters Tutorial: Intro to Webmaster Central

A webmaster tutorial video that introduces what Webmaster Central offers.

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TechTutor TV: Save a Document in Flash CS3

After you have put some work into your latest Adobe Flash CS3 creation, you will need to save the document. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to save a document in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Change the Stage Background Color in Flash CS3

The background color of the stage in Adobe Flash CS3 can easily be changed to another color besides the standard white. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to change the stage background color in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Paint With the Brush Tool in Flash CS3

The brush tool in Adobe Flash CS3 can be used to add brush strokes to your Flash stage. In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to paint with the brush tool in Flash CS3.

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Velocity 2008: Javier Soltero, "Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence"

Just as people are beginning to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise “Ops-Free” computing. Soltero talks about the emergence of web operations as a discipline, and how cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating, the importance of web operations.
Javier Soltero (Hyperic, Inc.)

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Velocity 2008: Bill Coleman, "Green Data Centers"

Bill Coleman (Cassatt Corporation) has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.

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Velocity 2008: Robbins & Souders, Opening Welcome

Steve Souders of Google and Jesse Robbins of the O'Reilly Radar welcome participants to the first-ever O'Reilly Velocity conference.

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Velocity 2008: Chaudhary & Gonzalez, "Keynote Systems Launches KITE"

Get an early look at KITE – the Keynote Internet Testing Environment. KITE tests and analyzes the performance of web applications from your desktop and locations around the world. KITE allows advanced scripting, detailed network performance and DOM analysis, and the ability to gather data from hundreds of geographic locations worldwide. In this preview the Keynote team demo KITE on some of the world’s most popular web sites and announce its Early Adopter Program for this new free product.
Vik Chaudhary and Abelardo Gonzalez (Keynote Systems)

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Velocity 2008: Scott Ruthfield, "Jiffy: Open Source Performance Measurement and Instrumentation"

Most tools for measuring web performance come in two flavors: Developer-installed tools (Firebug, Fiddler, etc.) that allow individuals to closely trace single sessions or third-party performance monitoring systems (Gomez, Keynote, etc.) that will hit your site occasionally and report back component-level metrics (for a fee). Neither of these tools give you real-world information on what’s actually happening with your clients—how long are pages really taking to load, what’s the real cost of client-side execution, and what’s the impact of your loading or dependency chain. This talk will provide more information on the problem and the current solutions, and why we rolled our own, provide a technical overview of Jiffy, and show some real-world lessons we’ve had using it in our own production environment.
Scott Ruthfield (WhitePages.com)

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Velocity 2008: Sean Quinlan, "Storage at Scale"

Google has built several large-scale storage systems on top of commodity machines and networking. This talk will briefly describe the storage infrastructure, highlight some of the approaches used to achieve reliability and availability, and discuss future challenges.
Sean Quinlan (Google, Inc.)

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Systm Episode 70 - DIY Electroluminescence: Great Light Without The Shocks

Lighting a tech project with Electroluminescent material can look super professional, but it's easy to damage it or shock yourself. Learn how to safely add EL to any tech project in this episode of Systm!

Light without heat? It's called Electroluminesce when a material generates light directly from electrical current. It's found everywhere from aircraft control panels to Indiglo watches. It's a great way to light up your tech project, from backlighting LCD panels to prettying up a case mod. If you're not careful, however, you could damage the material, or, worse, give yourself a really really nasty shock.

In this episode of Systm, Dr. Kiki and David Calkins give you all the info you need to safely add EL to any project.

Wondering where to buy EL material? It's easy to purchase online from sites like Electro Luminescence Inc. but it's not super cheap. Think around $60 for an A4 sized sheet and toss in another $10 - $30 for a power inverter.

 

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Systm Episode 69 - Insane Origami! aka How to Fold a Satellite

What does origami have to do with technology?

What does origami have to do with technology? Apparently a lot. From folding space-based telescopes and camera lenses, to the packaging of your car's airbag, origami is everywhere. Robert Lang is one of the premiere origami theorists and artists in the world. His work has been featured in a number of venues including motion pictures, TV and exhibitions. He joins Patrick and shares his techniques and the mathematic principles behind origami, along with a link to his free origami model generation program Treemaker, which assists users in creating new origami designs by marking out fold patterns and flaps.

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Systm Episode 68 - Build a 1080p HD Projector

1080p projectors still cost mounds of cash: in the long awaited conclusion of our Home Theater Month, David and Patrick build one up from a Lumenlab DIY Projector Kit.

Some projects take a little longer than we planned... our DIY projector buildup is a stirling example. From broken LCDs to shipping delays caused by hurricanes, it's been an interesting project. The end result, tho, a scratch built 1080p projector with a 400W bulb that sells for under $50, and has a life expectancy of 20,000 hours, is pretty sweet!

The build, however, was tough.

First off, the kit we chose, Lumenlab's 120V S15 Mega-Kit is less a kit than a collection of parts you're not likely to find locally. It includes a pair of Fresnel lenses, the 400W 6500K bulb (and the ballast to power it) and the triplet lens use, ultimately, to focus the video on your wall.

That's all good. You then have to make a heap of design decisions based around the image size and distance you want to project (unless you decide to build a fox with a variable focal length), punch them into the (incredibly useful) FocalCalc II calculator, and get your favorite tool for measuring millimeters, 'cause precision is key for making this project work!

The other key is finding an LCD flat panel monitor you can scavenge that will work with a projector... many won't. If you can find a monitor listed in the LumenLab LCD Monitor Database you'll save yourself a ton of time (and cash) cracking open monitors that won't work!

We ended up buying a 15.4 inch WUXGA (1900x1200) panel and HDMI controller kit from Manhattan LCD: the bundled controller gave us HDMI input and HDCP compatibility so we can play Blu-ray discs, along with 1080p resolutions... sweet!

Before you try out this project for yourself, download the DIY Projector Guide and spend some quality time in the Projector Builder section of the Lumenlab Forums

It's a doable project but it takes some time and dedication... and patience, even without the comedy of errors we had!

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Systm Episode 67 - Build Yourself A 'Segway'

Learn how this high school student did the Segway one better... by building his own self balancing scooter!

Daniel Fukuba might look like an ordinary teenager but this gadget building maestro designed and fabricated his very own Segway-like scooter!

It works... and chances are you can build one, too.

It wouldn't hurt to have access to a place like Menlo Park, CA's fabulous Tech Shop, a DIY haven of of expertise and space to make. Think 'co-op' for people that like to build. In exchange for a modest monthly fee, Daniel had access to tons of tools he might not have been able to a afford.

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Systm Episode 66 - Photo Archaeology

Using the power of digital photos, common web tools and photo sharing sites we show you how Cassidy Curtis is documenting the changes to living breathing cities that's accessible to almost everyone with the click of a mouse.

When Google started taking street level photos for Google Maps, a lot of folks commented on what a wonderful historical tool it could be. The ultimate "digital archive" of cities, communities and neighborhoods accessible by anyone with a Internet connection and web browser. One would be able to go back and see how streets, stores, signs and city life change through time.

Now one doesn't need to be a huge corporation like Google to accomplish a similar task. In fact Cassidy Curtis through his site Graffiti Archaeology is doing just that. Recording and documenting the every changing landscape of graffiti within the cities or New York, LA, London and San Francisco.

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TechTutor TV: Edit the Grid in Flash CS3

The grid in Adobe Flash CS3 can be edited to change the color and spacing among other changes. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to edit the grid in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: View Rulers in Flash CS3

Rulers can be turned on in Adobe Flash CS3 so you can get better placement of objects on the stage. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to view rulers in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Resize the Stage in Flash CS3

The standard stage that appears when you start a new project in Adobe Flash CS3, can be resized easily. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to resize the stage in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Open a Document in Flash CS3

In order to work on an Adobe Flash CS3 file you have previously created, you will need to open that document. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to open a document in Flash CS3.

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TechTutor TV: Deselect Objects in Flash CS3

If you don’t want to have an object in Adobe Flash CS3 selected anymore, than you can deselect it. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to deselect objects in Flash CS3.

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Systm Episode 65 - Build The Perfect Windows Media Center PC

DVR, HD Tuner, Blu-ray and more... Our fave HDTV expert, PCMag.com's Robert Heron, joins us with a host of tricks for turning Vista's Windows Media Center into a great Home Theater PC

Building a Home Theater PC? Thinking about HDTV, Blu-ray, and how serious a GPU or CPU you need if you don't want to run video games on your HDTV? Can you get away with 1GB of memory? What about hard drive size, or the best tuner for HD?

You're gonna love this episode! Our fave HDTV expert, Robert Heron, from PCMag.com and DL.TV, joins Patrick with a host of expert ideas tips and tricks for turning your Windows Media Center into the ultimate media PC.

BTW, our new fave tool for playing Blu-ray movies in Windows Media Center is AcrSoft's TotalMedia Theater or TotalMedia Extreme...

Vista centric? Sure! It comes standard with Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate does a solid job playing DVDs, recording TV and handling your favorite audio and video files.

Looking to integrate Blu-ray playback into your WMC machine? Check out TotalMedia Theatre, $90, which not only plays well with the WMC interface, but still plays HD-DVD disks. It's definitely a more convenient than our former fave, CyberLink's PowerDVD 8 Ultra, $99.95, which bumps you out of the WMC GUI.

Vista... not so much? We also give you a list of WMC alternatives on the show... so you can turn just about any XP or Vista PC into an amazing Home Theater PC.

On the commercial front:

 

 

Free and Open Source:

 

 

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Systm Episode 63 - 3 Secrets To Awesome Surround Sound

Dolby’s wizards reveal the three key tips to getting the best multichannel audio out of your home theater

"How far apart should my front speakers be in my surround sound system?"

That was the most repeated question when we asked you to submit your surround sound questions for the crew at Dolby.

It turns out that distance isn't nearly as critical as the angle at which they point toward the listener!

Dolby was generous enough to share some more tips for maxing out the performance of your multichannel audio system... watch the show to find out what they are, along with what the extra speakers do in a 7.1 system... and a nifty way to use houseplants to soup up your surround sound system!

Dolby's got a great Speaker Setup Guide... and if you're trying to figure out the difference between all the 'flavors' of surround sound, the Tech Overview is quite informative, from the original analog Dolby Surround found on VHS tapes to the latest lossless technology found on Blu-ray disks, Dolby TrueHD.

 

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Systm Episode 62 - Bluetooth Speakerphone Mod

With the sudden interest in hands-free operation of cellphones while driving Pat though it would be cool to take it one step further and use a speakerphone instead. Speakerphones are louder, easier to understand and sport that retro-Charlie's Angel cool geek chic that no in-ear handsfree system can match.

 

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Systm Episode 61 - Build an Android

Master Robot Builder David Calkins reveals the basics of putting together and programming your very own android. Plus find out what happens when we combine Patrick and non-dairy creamer.

You may remember David Calkins, RoboGames organizer and instructor at SFSU, from Systm Episode 40. The episode where David walked and talked us through the steps of building a Combat Robot. In this episode David takes us through the process of putting a pint sized android, more properly known as a humanoid robot, together and programming it to do Patrick's unholy bidding.

Now if you want to get in on the robot action yourself, check out the RoboGames's special humanoid robot offer for Systm viewers here.

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GTAC 2008: Atom Publishing Protocol - Testing Your Server Implementation

GTAC 2008: Atom Publishing Protocol - Testing Your Server Implementation

The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th.

Speaker: David Calavera

Google Tech Talks
October 24, 2008

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Systm Episode 60 - Build Your Own NAS

If you're just itching for an excuse to reuse that retired desktop PC or laptop sitting in your closet there here's your chance. Today we'll be looking at the basics of installing FreeNAS, an open-source DIY NAS. So instead of spending money on off the shelf options why not save yourself some cash and make use of the stuff you already have and get a super customizable network storage device to boot.

Need a place to back up your most important files? MP3s or corporate documents, we build a FreeNAS and prove that Network Attached Storage doesn't have to be expensive. Article: Itching for an excuse to reuse that retired desktop PC or laptop sitting in your closet? Here's your chance! Today we're building a FreeNAS. This FREE Open Source DIY Network Attached Storage software means you can save some cash by recyling stuff you already have, instead of spending big bucks on an off the shelf box. On the show our beloved Series Producer Roger Chang steps out from the control room and in front of the camera to walk you step by step through building this super customizable network storage device. FreeNAS makes it easy to set up: you'll see how little time and effort it really takes!

All you need to build your own is a copy of the FreeNAS installer, and a PC. It doesn't take much of a PC: just 96MB of RAM a NIC, and a CD-ROM to install from along with a hard drive, and you're ready to go. Tho you'll probably want at least one fat new hard drive to stash your stuff on!

FYI: FreeNAS isn't the only option if you're intent on rolling your own NAS. Other options include Openfiler a great alternative to FreeNAS.

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Systm Episode 59 - Install Blu-Ray Playback into your HTPC

Patrick takes you through the steps of adding Blu-Ray playback to your Home Theatre PC, and highlights the issues you need to be aware of before you take the plunge.

With Blu-Ray drives selling for as little as $129 it makes sense to include one in your next HTPC build. You'll get access to true 1080p content unmolested by digital TV providers and provide justification for that pricey HDTV you just bought. Adding Blu-Ray isn't rocket science, but it does have its share of potential pitfalls. So follow along as Pat breaks it down for you in simple and easy-to-understand steps.

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Systm Episode 55 - Dead Motherboard Delays Systm 55

It's back to the PC parts store and a late delivery for this episode of Systm, thanks to a few well placed drops of coolant between our mobo and CPU.

Episode 54, Super Cooling Your PC, triggered a pretty big response from y'all, so we decided to delve deeper into water cooling, primarily hooking our radiator up to a higher flow pump and testing it against the AquaGate 80's water block along with a dedicated water block.

Then we fried our testbed. (Warning: Coolant and motherboards don't mix well.)

It only took a few drops, but they somehow managed to soak in between our Core 2 Duo and the Socket T (aka the LGA755) on our motherboard. The CPU, tho scorched, still works, but the Mobo was DOA. We'll say it again: coolant and electronics don't mix well.

Our apologies, on the delay, our (final) water cooling episode (for now) will be up late this week!

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Systm Episode 58 - The Best Way To Run Windows On Your Mac: VMWare vs. Parallels

CNET's Tom Merritt answers the great VMWare vs. Parallels question. Which is best for running Windows applications inside of OS X? Watch the show and find out!

There's nothing wrong with running Windows on your OS X machine: all you need is Boot Camp, right?

Wrong. There's a better way: virtualization software, such as the Parallels Desktop for Mac or VMware's Fusion.

If you run virtualization software, you can run Windows operating systems like XP and Vista -inside- of OS X. Features like "Coherence" or "Unity Mode" even let you run a Windows application as if it were just another OS X app.

But which software should you choose?

Our friend Tom Merritt, the host of CNET's Buzz Out Loud has spent more time playing around with virtualization software and OS X than anybody we know... so we invited him to join us and show off his favorite tools and tricks for running Windows (and Windows applications!) on your Mac!

Now all we have to do is check out VirtualBox and see if this open source tool for running Windows in OS X works just as well!

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Systm Episode 56 - Drop Your CPU Temp 10 Degrees For Only $213!

Not counting the motherboard we fried, dropping our CPU temp 10 degrees Celsius cost us $21.30 per degree in parts. I think we've got all your water cooling questions answered!

Dozens of emails came in after we bolted a car radiator to a water cooling kit in Episode 54... we tried to answer all of 'em in this episode, where we up the ante on our water cooling system and see how low we can drop our processor temperature.

What kind of questions? Ambient room temperatures vs. cooling, the accuracy of our testing software, the impact of high flow pumps and superior water blocks... we try 'em all, and come to a basic conclusion: you can drop your temps big time.

Just be prepared to spend some cash doing it... and try and keep your motherboard dry!

We wish we'd found Petra's Tech Shop back before we shot our intro to water cooling: they're an hour South of us in San Jose, California, and they stock an amazing supply of water cooling gear, including the http://www.petrastechshop.com/eksuuncpuwa1.html and Swiftech MCP655 high flow pump we used to upgrade our water cooled PC.

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Systm Episode 54 - Super Cooling Your PC

Back in episode 48 we showed you how to water cool your PC. Perfect if you want to overclock your system. But what happens when we bolt on a car radiator to that very same water cooling system?

Back in Episode 48 we showed you how to water cool your PC. Perfect if you want to overclock your system. But what happens when we bolt on a car radiator to that very same water cooling system?

It all started with a snarky friend back East that took great pains to call and say, "Nice intro to water cooling, but I expected something a little more over the top!"

OK... we can do that.

A quick trip to the local auto recycler and we had a radiator from an old Dodge in our hands.

Now we can find out what happens if you radically increase the size of the heat exchanger attached to the water block that cools your CPU in a water cooled PC.

We've also learned quite a bit about "proper thermal conductor installation" since Episode 48, specifically, how Arctic Silver wants you to apply the spiffy thermal grease we use between our processors and heat sinks. Check the the instructions on their website, they vary between AMD and Intel and by model!

Annnnnd, while we're rooting around with 5/8 inch hose and a car radiator, we throw a Zalman Zalman CNPS9500 AT air cooler and compare the temperate results for all three.

Which combo did the best job keeping our CPU temps down? You'll have to watch the show to find out!

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Systm Episode 53 - The diyMod: Ultimate Audio or a Dead iPod

The diyMod skips the headphone amp in your iPod to get pure audio straight from the source... this is one of the toughest mods we've ever attempted!

In the tradtion of Epic Failure on Systm... the diyMod, an audiophile hardware hack for the iPod, doesn't really rank. We -did- have it working. We just couldn't keep this slick Do It Yourself take on Red Wine Audio's $250 iMod running long enough to properly test it. Or get the sacrificial iPod Nano buttoned up again. (It's not dead, just a bit... naked.)

The buzz around this mod for the iPod is pretty huge. Why? Many models of the iPod contain a Wolfson MicroelectronicsWM8975 CODEC. This chip converts the digital audio stored on your iPod's drive into the analog audio your ears can hear. Serious audio geeks believe the WM8975 does a spectacular job.

They also tend to believe the amplifers on the iPod don't do a very spectacular job of making that sweet sound loud enough to hear on your headphones.

The solution? Bypass the onboard amplifiers in your iPod and run the audio out from that Wolfson DAC to a quality headphone amp or your home stereo.

In this episode we make some spudgers so we can crack open a couple of iPods, solder with the tiniest wire we've ever used and get all kinds of excited. (That 30 guage wire might have been the problem... Patrick's working with some sturdier stuff in a new attempt to make his diyMod work for more than 20 minutes!)

Spend some serious time reading The Apple diyMod: My Take on the Famous iMod [56k killer] Featuring 3G, 4G, 5G and nano 1G!. Joneeboi has done a great job getting the info together on how to do this... but, as we learned, the difference between reading about this hack and performing it is pretty major. (The thread is over 113 pages long... lots to learn there!)

Opening your iPod is the easy part: iFixit's Guides are your best friends if you're opening an iPod. Or an iPhone or a Macbook/Macbook Pro... they sell repair parts, and they're the best step by step instructions we know of.

Inside, you'll be soldering wires to SMD: Surface Mount Devicesso tiny you'll be begging for a magnifying glass.

You'll need to modify the iPods headphone outputs or Dock Connector, to get the audio outside the case.

And, of course, you'll need to put the whole thing back together, and fabricate a cable with a pair of 47uF capacitors between the iPod and your headphone amp or preamp.

Patrick's still hammering away on this one, 'cause he wants to hear what it sounds like first hand... he's also

PS: if you spend a lot of time listening to music through headphones/earphones/earbuds, the Head-Fi.org forums are awesome. Go check 'em out!

PPS: Let's be clear: this is not the iMod, that's something Red Wine Audio does for $250... and judging from the look on Patrick's face while he was working on that iPod nano, it's $250 well spent if you don't enjoy starting at tiny parts until your eyeballs are ready to fall out of their sockets!

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Browse the archive of posts filed under Screencasts, Broadcasting, Technologies]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:01:12 GMT http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/15/systm-episode-53-the-diymod-ultimate-audio-or-a-dead-ipod Dmytro Shteflyuk http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/15/systm-episode-53-the-diymod-ultimate-audio-or-a-dead-ipod Systm Episode 52 - Build a Must-Have iPod Accessory http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/15/systm-episode-52-build-a-must-have-ipod-accessory

Systm Episode 52 - Build a Must-Have iPod Accessory

We show you how to replace an expensive iPhone/iPod dock with a small, cheap and very portable cable.

Mike wanted a DIY "cable that will allow my iPod / iPhone to charge and give me a audio line out connection."

Sounds simple enough, but Mike didn't want to try it out on his $500 iPhone.

In 20/20 hindsight, we don't blame him: Patrick nearly bricked his iPhone while puzzling out how to get the audio out to work on a home brew Dock Connector using an easy to solder PodGizmo PodBreakout... the pins on the Dock Connector are tiny, and not much fun to experiement with.

We're sticking with the Pinouts.ru iPod Pinout charts in the future... the iPodLinux.org charts are numbered backwards... mixing the two caused us some serious pain.

Did we mention the pain of soldering those tiny pins on the Dock Connecor? We've already bricked three... good thing we ordered six.

Sparkfun Electronics isn't the only source of Dock Connectors: Ridax offers both DIY Dock Connectors and an excellent array of (pricey, but useful) connectors and extenders.

Did we say DIYMod on the show? Yes we did show off our start on the audiophile hack for the iPod... we'll be walking you thru it soon!

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Browse the archive of posts filed under Screencasts, Broadcasting, Technologies]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:00:58 GMT http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/15/systm-episode-52-build-a-must-have-ipod-accessory Dmytro Shteflyuk http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/15/systm-episode-52-build-a-must-have-ipod-accessory TechTutor TV: Select With the Selection Tool in Flash CS3 http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/14/techtutor-tv-select-with-the-selection-tool-in-flash-cs3

TechTutor TV: Select With the Selection Tool in Flash CS3

The selection tool can be used to select objects in Adobe Flash CS3. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to select with the selection tool in Flash CS3.

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Browse the archive of posts filed under Technologies, Flash, Broadcasting, Development, Screencasts]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:53:38 GMT http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/14/techtutor-tv-select-with-the-selection-tool-in-flash-cs3 Dmytro Shteflyuk http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/11/14/techtutor-tv-select-with-the-selection-tool-in-flash-cs3