Episode 2:
We are at it again, your end user source for all your technology info cravings. We discuss some usefull tips for your SSD, the future of television as we know it, Microsoft SteadyState, mixed with more discussion of Apple vs. Microsoft. And also a long history of our notebooks we have owned and what we liked about each of them. Show notes Below:

(1:15 – 5:30) eXoid Quick Tip
We give you some tips on optimizing windows OS for SSD
We also discuss a few apple iPhone tips.

(5:45 – 11:45) The new Samsung LED TVs

(12:00 – 20:45) Future of Television
Discusion ensues about Hulu Desktop, the future of advertising in television, and the DTV changeover that occurred.

(20:45 – 37:45) Microsoft Steadystate and another classic Apple vs Microsoft Debate.

(38:00 – End) Discussion about our long history with notebooks and our preferences in a mobile computer.

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According to some sources; Apple is at it again, and may release a new device to their lineup of phones, ipods and computers. Some speculate that apple will release some sort of iTablet device; whether this will be a fully featured tablet running on an intel processor remains to be seen. It is entirely possible that the new device (if it indeed exists) will utilize the Arm Cortex A8 processor on a larger device than the iPhone. We mentioned some more details on our podcast earlier this week. Give it a listen.

The bottom line in my opinion is that it is about time that Apple does release some sort of tablet device. So much of Apple’s company is tied into the desktop computing market and with their prowess with touch interfaces; It makes perfect sense to combine the two. Not to mention the success of the iPhone and iPod Touch which both make excellent use of touch. The marriage of the two into a tablet like device could be a winner. Especially after seeing the success of “netbooks” if apple released something similar with a touch interface that worked well, they might be onto something very profitable. Either way, we will have to wait till Apple’s press conference to find out.

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The debut of the eXoid.com Technology Podcast is Here!

Guest: Tyler Butterfield – Cell Phone Specialist [http://www.connectionsmobile.com]

Today In our debut podcast we will be covering the following topics:

-eXoid.com Tip of the Day
-Solid State Disks – We Discuss the latest SSDs from OCZ and Intel
-Mobile Devices / iPhone 3Gs / Windows Mobile Phones / Android and G1
-We discuss the future of mobile devices, and what we love hate about the current tech.
-Windows 7 – The new operating system from Microsoft, hear about the new features and what people are saying about the new OS.

Download the podcast here:
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Let Windows Nerds around the world rejoice!
As of 03:40 PM Wednesday Jul 22, 2009 Windows Seven has gone official! Congratulations to the Windows 7 Team.

Can’t wait till it is released in stores now. Then my never ending journey to have the latest and greatest of everything can continue on….. and on…

Exerpt:
I am pleased to announce that Windows 7 has RTM’d!
As I mentioned previously, RTM officially happens only after sign-off occurs. What happens is a build gets designated as a RTM contender after going through significant testing and meeting our quality bar for RTM. Then, it goes though all the validation checks required for RTM including having all languages of that build completed. If all the validation checks have passed – sign-off for RTM can occur. Today after all the validation checks were met, we signed off and declared build 7600 as RTM.

Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

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Everyone knows that Intel shocked the tech market when it released it’s x25-m SSD which outperformed by an incredible margin all current SSDs on the market. Since then, other manufactuers have released SSDs that closed the performance gap, but most people and reviewers agreed that the Intel SSD was still the better drive.

Intel is now launching new 34nm (nanometer) SSDs as a new product, apparently even though this is a completely new product on a new manufacturing process, intel is keeping the model number the same: X25-M. (Editor’s Note: Way to go intel, you provide thousands of confusing model names for your CPUs, yet can’t pony up a new name for a completely new product….)

Despite the confusing naming that will most likely create confusion for consumers wanting to buy the new product, and will cause thousands to get screwed on ebay; The new product looks promising! It offers better write performance, some say it ‘doubles the write speed’ (I’ll wait for the benchmarks on that one..)

The new SSDs even comes in at a lower price. (Smaller nanonmeter processes usually provide more units per production run and make things cheaper.) Therefore the new 80GB x25-M is geared to come in at $220 which is very reasonable! especially since most likely it is the quickest thing on the market!

There is still no word of larger capacity drives from intel (wouldn’t a 320GB X25-M be awesome!) but these puppies are expected to be available starting today.

UPDATE: Riot! Riot! It appears that INTEL has announced TRIM support for the newer 34nm drives, yet states that the older x25-M versions won’t be given the TRIM goodness! It appears that there isn’t any real reason they can’t give the older x25-m SSD drives TRIM support other than they just don’t feel like it. They feel like you should buy one of the new ones…. Grrrr… Rabble Rabble.

P.S. Voice your opinion in the forums.

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Hello all,
I have recently posted a new video guide on how to setup your ipod touch (2G Required) to work with Skype, I will show you how to get your internal speaker to work on the iPod touch even when a microphone is plugged in. I have tested this with an iPod Touch 2G with a speakeasy thumbtack mic and also apple’s own microphone / headphone set I also show how to setup skype so it runs in the background. This involves using a program called “Backgrounder”. Take a look at the video for complete details. Also, I am not using the 3.0 Firmware in this video. You may need a jailbroken ipod to perform all of the tips and tricks in the video.
Take a look:

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Windows 7 RTM Confusion

Confusion is Understandable

With the Windows 7 RTM (Release To Manufacturing) on the horizon, or wait, did it already happen, some people say yes, or wait the RTM build has leaked… or wait, Microsoft says it hasn’t RTMed Windows 7 yet… Oh wait the transcript of microsoft’s press conference says that “this morning we will release windows seven to manufacturing” oh wait, he really said “this month” but the transcript did stated “this morning”, oh wait.. it was ammended to say “this month”..
You can see that things are getting pretty out of hand especially with all the forum chatter and buzz.

I don’t intend to give the answers to the RTM confusion that is going on, but maybe clarify what it is that we do know.

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Introduction:
AutoVid is an automated WMV video encoder suitable for encoding high quality video from mkv and avi formats to wmv formats which are playable on the PC and also the XBOX 360.

AutoVid allows you to setup source and destination paths, and automatically encode the files that show up in the source path to a wmv file in the destination path. When teamed with automated torrent downloads, it is a powerful method of automatically download, encoding and placing videos or television shows into your media library that can be accessed by both computers and media center extenders.
It should also be noted that AutoVid is not a true program, it is a BATCH FILE SYSTEM, or collection of scripts and programs that facilitate encoding, the work is done by the programs used by AutoVid

Download the latest build (AutoVid_x64_OS.zip) by clicking here

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For More information, read the AutoVid Instructions Here

Also visit the forum if you have questions: http://www.exoid.com/ephpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2547&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

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Hello everyone,
The exoid.com folding@home team has pulled in over 2,804,637 points!, and in a short period of time has risen in the ranks to 850th place in the world. That may not sound that much, but there are over 15,000 total teams out there, and going purely off of our points per active user, we are 125th in the world! Good job team, I especially want to thank a new user ‘KJ’ who has shown up on our team, KJ, if you are checking this, shoot me an email, or post on the folding forums, I would love to get in touch.
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