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S02E25 – Your Weekly Tech History Listen

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:18:51 +0000

Chaos theory, Cyber shields, Braking Nexus One, Burning Cortes’ Ships, and Facebook’s founding…really just a load of awesome history.

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Show Notes – 03.07.2010

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:18:19 +0000

In this week’s episode of my Untitled Folder, Wilt finds himself a little under the weather and I have some serious issues with elephants. Usually the show notes are put together and mostly chosen by me, but this week I decided Wilt should do the dirty work because he usually produces a pretty kick ass show. Without fail, Wilt has out done himself and we have an…”exciting” show for everyone. We talk about, chaos and how it defines our lives along with how those lives need to remain tight-pant free if we want to enjoy our Nexus Ones (Hipster’s need not apply). We even dive into a cyber shield code-named ‘Einstein’, what Microsoft could possibly spend 9.5 billion dollars on, burning ships and what Mark Zuckerberg saw while rifling through your Facebook accounts. So, as always, grab the show notes below, a beer and sit back for a ruff ride through this week’s technology.

Show Notes

Weekly App Wilt: ClickToFlash Braden: Alfred Mac App

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S02E24 – Email Is No Laughing Matter (Braden gets too serious)

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:22:16 +0000

inbox zero, Palm and open heart surgery, Cook and Apple as a “Mobile Device” company, Opera drops 10.5 on OS X, Asus debuts some hot netbooks, and Steam might be on it’s way to the Mac

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Show Notes – 02.28.2010

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:42:33 +0000

This week’s episode of my Untitled Folder will undoubtedly go down in history as possibly one of the most insane and nerd-tastic. Wilt, Special Guest, and myself go heads up with the continued problem of email and dealing with people who plainly have no idea what they are doing before and after they click that send button. Before that, we get to the possibility of Valve porting Steam to the Mac platform. In addition, we look at Cook’s mention that Apple is now a “mobile device company,” Asus bringing the netbook heat, Palm’s lifeline and the recent release of Opera 10.5 for OS X; which, might possibly be the fastest browser out there. Get your nerd caps on, plug in those 150 clammed headphones, and strap in for something awesome. Oh year, and check out our Show Notes if you want to follow along. One more thing, our Love Affairs of the week can be found below.

Love Affairs: Will: Wired for War Wilt: AppleScript Braden: Markdown

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S02E23 – Up Yours Stupid People…Signed, Schmitdy

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:33:57 +0000

iPad pre-orders, Schmidt refuses an apology, VOIP over 3g apps, productivity killers, and Google Energy

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Show Notes – 02.21.2010

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:29:56 +0000

Oh this week! Wilt and I sit back down and through what definitely seems like a drunken stupor, give everyone a simple synopsis of last week’s tech news. We talk about possible iPad pre-orders coming up next week, the flood of VOIP over 3g iPhone apps, Schmidt refuses to apologize to stupid people, Apple bans…some apps, and 5 schmucks who will sap your productivity. As always you can find the show notes here or over on scribd.com. I have been keeping a close eye on the amount of reads and I want to thank everyone for being a huge participant in the podcast.

Show Notes

Love Affairs Braden: Meebo for Iphone Wilt: Hiren’s Boot CD

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Your Keyboard Is Tres Sexy

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:14:40 +0000

Ok, I know not the best way to start out a blog post but bare with me. Keyboards and mice happen to be the biggest interaction factor we deal with each day when playing with computers. And, I would put some serious clams on this bet, you spend the least amount of time thinking about what your little fingers are pushing on or moving around during that time. Humans are creatures of habit and the more we get into these “rhythms” the more we are likely to think less and less about the little things in life, even if they end up being very important.

Enter this post and why the keyboard is something that is OK to take lightly but why not have some fun, stroke the geek in you and do something WAY better? Before we get too deep down this rabbit hole, we need some history on the two types of keyboards we are going to talk about. One is known as the “buckling spring” based keyboard which was developed by IBM and to this day is the only manufacture of these style keyboards. These are by far the creme-de-la creme of keyboards and have a very distinct sound when each key is depressed. The second style is known as a “key switch or mechanical switch based” keyboard and will be the main focus for the remainder of this post. For a little reference they sounded just like this…and much different than their IBM counterparts which can still be bought if you are hankering,

The two keyboards you see at the beginning of this post are made from two different companies yet they both have the same mechanical, switch based key-structure from a company known as ALPS. The black one is brought to us by a company named Das (bet you can’t guess where they hail from) and has been around for maybe 2-3 years. It is based on a standard PC based key layout and like its white brother, is based on the ALPS mechanical switch. The other, is a Mac or Apple based keyboard from a company named Matias. Both are quality keyboards and both are rated for 10-12 million key-cycles (this is nearly 30 years under normal typing conditions) which is dwarfed by the 25 offered by the IBM’s mentioned above.

So after all that history, why again should you spend what seems like a lot of money on one of these keyboards? Several reasons actually, they are actually better for you to type on, they are great for the typist who can absolutely fly and they are by far…seriously cool. Because keyboards these days are so damn cheap, they actually hurt the normal typist. Our fingers can become seriously damaged from typing long stints on flat keyboards because the “throw” of the key is so short. These are long throw keyboards that offer wonderful tactile response for all you hardcore typists. Are you a writer, coder, enthusiasts or geek lover? Yeah you apply and by far should be lining up to order the Das or Matias.

So now you are up to speed with why keyboards ARE cool, are you planning on buying the Das or Matias? Or would you like someone to pick up IBM’s old technology and make something way different?

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S02E22 – Yahoo…da I Mean Google Delivers a Non Buzzkill

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:20:43 +0000

Amazon ponders free kindles, Google consumes an Aadvark, Facebook wants a hIPO, a surge of iPad developers and, yep you guessed it, Google Buzz.

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Show Notes – 02.14.2010

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:43:43 +0000

This week on my Untitled Folder, Wilt and myself find our basics and go ape shit wild on the news of the week. Because we often times flip flop between software and hardware, Wilt takes lead for most of the show. Speaking of the show, we get in deep with Google’s big “Buzz” worthy announcement this week. In addition, we talk about Amazon giving away Kindles, Facebook shooting for the elusive IPO, Vark being bought up by Google, and a Flurry of iPad apps. Overall this week was a little dry when it comes to Apple news (even with Macworld going on) but be patient, we have some amazing stuff to talk about. You can download the show notes below and as always, keep an eye out on Facebook or here for great tidbits of news over the week. Hope everyone is having an amazing V-Day, ciao!

Show Notes

Love Affairs o’ Week Braden: Clyppan Wilt: Pastor

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S02E21 – I Despise the Word…Synergy

shout@myuntitledfolder.com (Braden Douglass and Wilt Johnston) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:44:38 +0000

at&t and sling, 15% rebate on faulty iMacs, multi-touch lands on the nexus one, facebook’s new design, and Flash vs HTML5

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