5May/120
XobotOS pwns BB10 in God of War :LTG Episode 91
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 Gerrit Vermeulen |
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- God of War: Ascension multiplayer revealed
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/36972-god-of-war-ascension-multiplayer-revealed.html
- God of War: Ascension multiplayer video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mtEYi41p_0
- Asus Padfone, Transformer Pad TF300T SA details emerge:
- Asus Padfone facing delays due to Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 shortage?
- Google patent app points to possible Nexus slider phone:
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/quick-news/48883-google-bringing-slide-out-keyboard-to-nexus.html
- While the HTC G1/Dream wasnât a âNexusâ it was the first Android phone and it had a keyboard.
- Sleeping Dogs preview â blood on our hands
- Darren Scott Radio Station:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 officially revealed
- Xamarin releases XobotOS, the .NET-powered version of Android:
- Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated):
- Win7 Xbox360 Germany Bann
- http://mybroadband.co.za/new s/business/49027-microsoft-windows-7-xbox-360-banned-in-germany.html
- What Diablo II players can expect from Diablo III
- BlackBerry 10: a closer look:
- Max Payne 3 DLC rollout plan revealed
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- Portal turret puts Beyoncé to shame
26Apr/120
Derek Hershaw on Mweb, Tetris on a Building, and Turing’s Code Math revealed :LTG Episode 90
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- 14 May 2012 - Midnight release of Diablo ]|[
- BTGames and Kalahari (CT only - http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/36608-kalahari-com-announces-diablo-iii-midnight-launch-event.html)
- 26th April - Ubuntu 12.04 gets released
Topics
- We are joined by Derek Hershaw via phone from Cape Town. Derek is the CEO of MWEB ISP and speaks to LTG about MWEB's plans for the future of broadband in South Africa.
- Voip Service
- Steam confirmed for Linux
- Industry-Standard Video Editor Lightworks Demoed on Linux:
- 22Seven beta ending
- ZX Spectrum 30th anniversary
- Turing's rapid Nazi Enigma code-breaking secret revealed
- Google Drive! released (no Linux client :( )
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19Apr/120
Cyborg snails almost 2 hours late, zing! :LTG Episode 89
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- 14 May 2012 - Midnight release of Diablo ]|[
Topics
- Diablo 3
- MWeb ADSL Price cuts
- New Adsl Speeds (posted on mygaming)
- Bitstream date
- One step closer to the matrix
- A Cyborg Snail That Is A Tiny Power Plant | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
- http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679602/a-cyborg-snail-that-is-a-tiny-power-plant
- Gerrit rants about people saying that devices with hardware buttons [will] have problems updating to Android 4.0/ICS
- Guild Wars 2
- Samsung's ChatON IM app now available for BlackBerry phones, optimized for Android tablets
- Tolls increase
- ZTE takes partner to court over Telkom interdict
- Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android (have until May 18 to fund)
- European carriers: Lumia phones are 'not good enough' to compete with iPhone and Android
- Samsung Galaxy invite - could this be for the Galaxy S3, and do we care?
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- Using maths to not pay a speeding ticket
- Silly putty for potholes
12Apr/120
Darpa challenges Upcon to make whiskey in spaaaaaaace :LTG Episode 88
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- 14-15 Apr - UPCON
- 14 May 2012 - Midnight release of Diablo ]|[
Topics
- Google celebrated Eadweard Muybridge in a Google doodle on 9 April 2012
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/09/google-doodle-eadweard-muybridge
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
- Janâs password techie story
- You may pay more for lower interconnect rates
- Instagram? (zomg wtfbbq)
- The worldâs most exasperating alarm clock
- Titanic is actually real
- Whisky IN SPAAAAACE: Zero-G Scotch is matured aboard the ISS
- ADSL SA vs Hong Kong FIGHT!!
- Darpa challenge
- Introâs in 64k
- Jan & Simon Dingle having it out on Twitter over iPad 3 LTE support in SA
- US DoJ suing Apple and book publishers
- Nokia Lumia 710, 610, and 808 SA launch dates and pricing
- Nokia appeases angry mob, gains life-long loyalists
- Spam opt-out lists: TrustFabric versus DMASA « General « MyBroadband Tech and IT News
- Google+ gets interface overhaul, new features « Internet « MyBroadband Tech and IT News
5Apr/120
Quick ipad 3 review,etags live and the Mass Effect 3 ending :LTG Episode 87
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- 14-15 Apr-UPCON
Topics
- Tablet stats
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/gadgets/47084-ipad-versus-android-tablets-surprising-stats-for-sa.html
- Quick Ipad 3 Review
- Gerrit does a quick some up on his feelings on the IPAD3
- E-Tags
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/general/47114-live-e-tag-testing-start-this-week.html
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/general/47054-e-tags-not-actually-compulsory-says-sanral.html
- For The Price Of Two iPads, This Machine Can Sequence An Entire Human Genome
- Banking Youth: Otoy's Technology Allows Actors To Stop Time
- Mass Effect 3
- NAG Online
- IPC price cuts! Woo!
- Google reCAPTCHA
- Telkom getting sued by ZTE
- Dropbox - referral program now gets you up to 22.25Gb. Up from 10.25Gb.
Kicker
- Inglip
31Mar/120
Electric graphene guns shoot angry space birds :LTG Episode 86
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- http://www.house4hack.co.za/energy-shield-startup
- 30 Mar-1 Apr-AIM Wild Expo
- 14-15 Apr-UPCON
Topics
- A new kind of fire extinguisher system: NASA discoveries used in practical applications
- HP Engineers shoot laptops with electricity guns: HP Reliability Lab Tour
- Angry Birds in Space is finally here!
- A cloaking device from off-the-shelf superconductors and magnetic tape
- Graphene battery claim triggers 2nd Law debate
- http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/qubits-and-pieces-10017876/graphene-battery-claim-triggers-2nd-aw-debate-10025685/; **http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/20/self_charging_battery/ (See also: Graphene, the wonder material thatâs going to improve batteries by an order of magnitude: **http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105343-graphene-improves-lithium-ion-battery-capacity-and-recharge-rate-by-10x)
- New education channel
- A supercapacitor in your optical drive: DVD-RW used to burn graphene capacitors
- BrowserQuest â MMO HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment
- Telkom VDSL trial finally official
- Khan Academy releases iPad app
- More evidence that neutrinos are NOT faster than light
- Games: Warface (Images)
- Cloud Storage
- Box.com is giving away 50Gb of cloud storage to anybody installing the client on Android platform - http://goo.gl/wtmzU
Box.com free account has no PC client, so have to use web interface. Gladinet ( http://www.gladinet.com/) gives a free Windows client that will use Dropbox and give you access to Box.com. They do not support DropBox, but they do support:
Box.com - 50Gb / SkyDrive - 15Gb / Google Picasa - 1Gb / Google Docs - 1Gb
Kicker
- Something fun to end the show with.
- Got lots of time and lots of snails?
- Cheetah robot
16Mar/120
Dr Mime and the Ion Cannon vs the BlackBerry users :LTG Epsiode 85
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- 3/14: Pi Day, Albert Einstein's Birthday & Akira Yoshizawa’s Birthday
- March 14th is the 133rd birthday of Albert Einstein (1879) and 101st birthday of Origami Master Akira Yoshizawa (1911)
- March 14th is also known as Pi Day (3/14 = 3.14). The ultimate Pi Moment will be on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53... 3.141592653!
- Vihart gives a primer on why Tau is better than Pi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ)
- "New iPad" and 4G: Is it really?
- Free SMS's from Gmail now in SA (on MTN and 8ta)
- MIME Attachments Standard Turned 20 on March 11th
- An infographic on the history of MIME:
- Show Guest: Dr Nathaniel Borenstein
- We talk to Nathaniel about him, MIME, Mimecast and other things!
- Opposition of Urban Tolling Alliance
- Solar panels made with Hyperion ion cannon are 50% cheaper
- Beware of being sued for your Blackberry Transfers: Vodacom threatens users who transfer files downloaded on their BBs to other devices.
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- A real-life Jedi Academy in NY City:
8Mar/120
GIT me my spectrum payments :LTG Epsiode 84
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- Diablo 3
- Its awsome i want them to take my money so I can keep playing.
- The Miura Fold: The most awesome Map Fold technique ever
- http://lifehacker.com/5888022/the-miura-fold-is-how-youd-fold-a-map-if-you-were-awesome
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_fold
- http://wheatpond.com/images/miurafold.png
- http://wheatpond.com/2012/02/22/miuraori.html
- CircuitLab: Build and Test Circuits in your browser
- https://www.circuitlab.com/
- http://t.co/WOFZNAQo
- Robotic Bee assembled in pop-up origami method
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57385893-1/robot-bee-assembles-in-pop-up-origami-trick/
- http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/
- Nashua Mobile Xtreme Data Service
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/45137-r59-flat-rated-nokia-data-bundles-all-the-details.html
- ICASA on Spectrum: Use it or Lose it
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/general/44925-specrum-use-it-or-lose-it-says-icasa-chair.html
- 80Mps broadband possibly planned
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/44889-80mbps-broadband-access-on-telkoms-roadmap.html
- MIT App Inventor is back
- http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/0553258/mit-app-inventor-back-online
- http://appinventor.mit.edu/
- Red heads feel pain differently from everyone else
- http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/0149252/redheads-feel-pain-differently-than-the-rest-of-us
- basically - sharp stingey or burney pains are less, but cold is more intense
- AIDE - An Android Java IDE
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id
com.aide.ui
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id
- Google Play launched (also, theyâre celebrating with some sweet specials on apps and games)
- https://play.google.com/about/
- https://play.google.com/about/features/
- http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/google-play-a-closer-look.ars
- Flying Swarm Of Robots Gives Protesters and Activists Free Wi-Fi, On The Go
- http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669200/flying-swarm-of-robots-gives-protesters-and-activists-free-wi-fi-on-the-go
- (finally, a use for swarmbots beyond giving Skynet minions with which to take over the world)
- Gitolite
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- The invisible Mercedes:
- http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/04/mercedes-f-cell-gets-led-camouflage/
- Quadrocopter / MikroKopter play the music of James Bond
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature
player_detailpage&v=rJ8I1XWrjE4
5Mar/120
PSP Vita, Quantum qubits, WUGs and LEAP YEAR FACTOIDS :LTG Epsiode 83
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LEAP YEAR FACTOIDS CONTEST
- Win a Cell C Data SIM with 20GB of data!
To celebrate February 29th, LTG had a special competition during the show.
The prize Cell C Data SIM with 20GB of data or, if you're were unlucky, a copy of Norton Internet Security 2012!
All you had to do to enter was send the LTG team an email containing your weirdest, wackiest, or coolest factoid about Feb 29th or Leap Years.
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- 10Mbps tv white space trial
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/44397-10mbps-tv-white-spaces-trial-network-for-sa.html
- Quantum qubits
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57386317-52/ibm-claims-huge-strides-in-quantum-computing/
- Wugs are growing
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/44089-no-speed-limits-or-caps-wugs-are-growing.html
- Linux Computer the size of the flash drive now available for order:
- http://www.fxitech.com/products/
- http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/linux-computer-the-size-of-a-thumb-drive-now-available-for-preorder.ars
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- Rasbery PI released
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/28/2347222/raspberry-pi-now-has-distributors----and-will-soon-have-boards-for-all-video
Gaming
- PSP Vita Released
- The most-pirated games in SA
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/features/32848-the-most-pirated-games-in-sa.html
- Team SA Battlefield 3 hopes dashed by Russian forfeit » MyGaming News and Reviews
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/33073-team-sa-battlefield-3-hopes-dashed-by-russian-forfeit.html
- MSSA Gauteng LAN Championships 2012 registrations open » MyGaming News and Reviews
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/features/32765-mssa-gauteng-lan-championships-2012-registrations-open.html
- StarCraft II NAG Gaming League announced » MyGaming News and Reviews
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/32869-starcraft-ii-nag-gaming-league-announced.html
- Diablo III beta keys up for grabs » MyGaming News and Reviews
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/32980-diablo-iii-beta-key-winners-chosen-round-1.html
- PS Vita launched
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/32771-ps-vita-launched-in-south-africa-all-the-details.html
- PS Vita review » MyGaming News and Reviews
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/reviews/33055-ps-vita-review.html
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/33104-ps-vita-how-to-get-trophies-in-your-second-hand-games.html
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/33087-ps-vita-sees-post-launch-sales-spike.html
- Introducing the PC Gaming Wiki 2.0 » MyGaming News and Reviews
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/33069-introducing-the-pc-gaming-wiki-2-0.html
- Pinball inventor Steve Kordek passes away, age 100 » MyGaming News and Reviews
- http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/33027-pinball-inventor-steve-kordek-passes-away-age-100.html
- Piratebay mostly torrent less
- http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/44575-the-pirate-bay-mostly-torrent-less.html
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This special edition of LTG was recorded at the Mindset Learn Studio2 in Randburg, Johannesburg! Thanks to Mindset and Traffic for allowing us to play in their professional studio for a night and use their sets and equipment.
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