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In this video, I give a walkthrough of Socialmedian. For more information, read my blog post at bwana.org. http://www.bwana.org/2008/10/07/socialmedian-provides-a-refreshing-take-on-news-aggregation/ Author: iobuffa Keywords: socialmedian social networks web2.0 twitter facebook friendfeed news rss aggregator screencast bwana bwana.tv bwanatv Added: October 7, 2008

In this video, I give a walkthrough of Socialmedian. For more information, read my blog post at bwana.org: http://www.bwana.org/2008/10/07/socialmedian-provides-a-refreshing-take-on-news-aggregation/

In this video, TuxedoJericho asks how to best propel your status on social networks. While there is no silver bullet to make this happen, here are three techniques to increase your clout: 1. Participate 2. Passion 3. Courtesy. These three traits will most likely increase your recognition in your favorite social network, but are not guaranteed to work. I do these things but I also exhibit my personality which some people like and some people don't. This is a hard question to answer and ultimately, it depends on many factors. I will say, you employ the three things I mention in this video, it definitely can not hurt your situation. Hope this answered your question. Author: iobuffa Keywords: social networks status clout techniques commentary opinion web2.0 network bwana bwana.tv bwanatv bwan Added: October 6, 2008

In this video, I give an overview of what DNS Cache Poisoning. Bwana.TV member, TuxedoJericho requested this topic in the Bwana.TV group on geeks.pirillo.com. First off, the textbook definition: "DNS cache poisoning is a maliciously created or unintended situation that provides data to a Domain Name Server that did not originate from authoritative DNS sources." Confused? Probably. What this means is that DNS Cache Poisoning fools your computer to take you to malicious sites instead of where you intended to go. For example, if you want to go www.paypal.com and your DNS cache is poisoned, you could end up at a different site built to harvest your username and password and ultimately steal your information. To protect yourself from DNS cache poisoning, contact your ISP and ensure they are patched against all current exploit. If you or they are unsure, setup OpenDNS which is a free service that is currently secure and also gives you other benefits that I'm sure you could benefit from. I use OpenDNS here at Bwana.TV headquarters and I highly encourage you to visit their site and educate yourself on how to set it up. Enjoy! Author: iobuffa Keywords: dns cache poisoning poison opendns security vulnerability malicious commentary bwana bwana.tv bwanatv bwanamccall Added: October 6, 2008

In this video, I talk about privacy, specifically privacy surrounding your email and files on your computer. This topic was suggested by jrblaze of the Bwana.TV community. Security is hot topic when it comes to data on your computer. An older solution from the 90s which I used to protect my data is called PGP. PGP was a commercial software package which had a very good reputation. The Gnu foundation took the notion of PGP and created a free version called GnuPG. All of the functionality found in PGP is available for you today, absolutely free. GnuPG may be a bit intimidating on the surface if you don't understand PKI or encryption techniques, but after a bit of education, you'll be a semi-expert. To utilize GnuPG for webmail, I highly recommend and demonstrate FireGPG which is a Firefox extension to sign and encrypt email messages from webmail clients. You'll find my public key here: http://www.bwana.org/gpg-pubkey.txt . Enjoy. Author: iobuffa Keywords: gnupg gpg pgp pretty good privacy encryption keys sign firegpg screencast bwana bwana.tv bwanatv bwanamccall Added: October 6, 2008

In this video, I give an overview of Alltop. This continues the previous conversation I had about reading news from the web without having the deal with RSS. Alltop gathers news from various sources from around the web without the knowledge of RSS. It is inspired by old news aggregators of the 90s that categorized web content for you rather than indexing the web. (Yahoo, Lycos, etc) Alltop took the look of Popurls which lists multiple sites on the same page in a tabular format. In this video, I demonstrate the new, revamped interface of Alltop and also some of the ways to utilize it to get your news fix. Enjoy. Author: iobuffa Keywords: alltop web social rss news categorization reading aggregation bwana screencast bwana.tv bwanamccall bwanatv Added: October 6, 2008

In this video, TuxedoJericho asks how to best propel your status on social networks. While there is no silver bullet to make this happen, here are three techniques to increase your clout: 1. Participate 2. Passion 3. Courtesy. These three traits will most likely increase your recognition in your favorite social network, but are not guaranteed to work. I do these things but I also exhibit my personality which some people like and some people don't. This is a hard question to answer and ultimately, it depends on many factors. I will say, you employ the three things I mention in this video, it definitely can not hurt your situation. Hope this answered your question.

In this video, I give an overview of what DNS Cache Poisoning. Bwana.TV member, TuxedoJericho requested this topic in the Bwana.TV group on geeks.pirillo.com. First off, the textbook definition: "DNS cache poisoning is a maliciously created or unintended situation that provides data to a Domain Name Server that did not originate from authoritative DNS sources." Confused? Probably. What this means is that DNS Cache Poisoning fools your computer to take you to malicious sites instead of where you intended to go. For example, if you want to go www.paypal.com and your DNS cache is poisoned, you could end up at a different site built to harvest your username and password and ultimately steal your information. To protect yourself from DNS cache poisoning, contact your ISP and ensure they are patched against all current exploit. If you or they are unsure, setup OpenDNS which is a free service that is currently secure and also gives you other benefits that I'm sure you could benefit from. I use OpenDNS here at Bwana.TV headquarters and I highly encourage you to visit their site and educate yourself on how to set it up. Enjoy!

In this video, I talk about privacy, specifically privacy surrounding your email and files on your computer. This topic was suggested by jrblaze of the Bwana.TV community. Security is hot topic when it comes to data on your computer. An older solution from the 90s which I used to protect my data is called PGP. PGP was a commercial software package which had a very good reputation. The Gnu foundation took the notion of PGP and created a free version called GnuPG. All of the functionality found in PGP is available for you today, absolutely free. GnuPG may be a bit intimidating on the surface if you don't understand PKI or encryption techniques, but after a bit of education, you'll be a semi-expert. To utilize GnuPG for webmail, I highly recommend and demonstrate FireGPG which is a Firefox extension to sign and encrypt email messages from webmail clients. You'll find my public key here: http://www.bwana.org/gpg-pubkey.txt . Enjoy.

In this video, I give an overview of Alltop. This continues the previous conversation I had about reading news from the web without having the deal with RSS. Alltop gathers news from various sources from around the web without the knowledge of RSS. It is inspired by old news aggregators of the 90s that categorized web content for you rather than indexing the web. (Yahoo, Lycos, etc) Alltop took the look of Popurls which lists multiple sites on the same page in a tabular format. In this video, I demonstrate the new, revamped interface of Alltop and also some of the ways to utilize it to get your news fix. Enjoy.

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You ever wonder what would happen if two planets got too close to each other? Or what if one of the planets in our solar system decided to spin out of control towards earth? Well now you can! Bwana did a review of Universe Sandbox for us, and loved it. Smash planets together, introduce rogue stars, and build new worlds from spinning discs of debris. Explore our solar system in 3D or destroy everything you ve created with a super massive black hole. Tinker with your creation or sit back and watch the effects of gravity unfold. It s fun, accessible, and easy to use. Universe Sandbox is free to try for 60 minutes. After the free trial expires you can continue to open, view, and explore systems, but you can no longer interact with them. Once you buy a license all functionality is restored. According to Bwana, the possibilities with Universe Sandbox are endless. While it provides great educational information concerning the stars, planets, and solar systems, it also provides endless entertainment with simulations. If you are intimidated by the broad range of options provided, the application provides a Fun things to do section, which gives you a quick springboard for powerful simulations in the tool. For example, if you want to see Earth with 200 moons, you can! Or, if you want to create a black hole in the middle of our solar system, you can do that as well in your own sandbox! If you have 3D glasses with you, it supports 3D as well!! LunarPhase Pro For Moon Watchers. Moon Phase Prediction Software object width= 425 height= 350 param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/IFokyYbLTds /param param name= wmode value= transparent /param embed src= http://www.youtube.com/v/IFokyYbLTds type= application/x-shockwave-flash wmode= transparent width= 425 height= 350 /embed /object br / a href= http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris /a | a href= http://live.pirillo.com/ Live Tech Support /a | a href= http://media.pirillo.com/ Video Help /a | a href= http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow Add to iTunes /a What is the Best iPhone Astronomy App? Microsoft s Free Astronomy Software Register or Name Your Own Star for Free Astronomers eat Kittens, Scientists are Assholes A Planet Nowhere Near Mars Apollo UFO Join the Geeks Community Do You Want Some 3D Astronomy Software?

In this video, I discuss the change Twitter has gone through over the past 4 months. I give a background on my decision to leave Twitter indefinitely due to their seemingly lack of interest in the instant messaging and track features of the service. Over the past few weeks, Twitter has received a great deal of praise on keeping their system more stable than in times past. I went on record to say this was due to their decision to completely disable instant messaging and track. Last week, I came to the realization that the track capability of Twitter is not coming back. I've realized that the track capability cannot be globally rolled out with the current implementations of microblogging software. So in this video, I explain this, and also my decision to return to Twitter to try to find a new way to utilize it without track. Enjoy. Author: iobuffa Keywords: web development ietester internet explorer ie8 ie7 ie6 ie5.5 testing windows software utility bwana bwana.t Added: September 19, 2008

Really Simple Syndication (RSS), is a hot topic on the web today. Many of us like to read many different websites and gather news from different sources. RSS aims to make that process easier by syndicating your website so that news can be aggregated in an RSS reader. RSS readers are not popular among everyone, but email is a preferable means. Some people like to read newsletters and digests as email rather than fumble with an RSS reader. A website by the name of feedmyinbox (http://www.feedmyinbox.com) offers a dead simple method of using email for RSS syndication. To use feedmyinbox, simply input your email address and the web site you wish to aggregate. That's it! It doesn't get much simpler than that. So try feedmyinbox if you prefer to receive news via email. Author: iobuffa Keywords: rss news really simple syndication email feedmyinbox software utility bwana bwana.tv bwanatv bwanamccall Added: September 19, 2008

In this video, I discuss web development testing of your website, in particular, with different versions of Internet Explorer. A program exists for Windows called IETester (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage) This program gives you a one stop shop of testing your web development efforts. If you've ever tested a website on various browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer, you know that its sometimes a bit frustrating as they all have their subtle differences. So give IETester a try to satisfy all your Internet Explorer testing needs. Author: iobuffa Keywords: web development ietester internet explorer ie8 ie7 ie6 ie5.5 testing windows software utility bwana bwana.t Added: September 19, 2008

In this video, I discuss a brand new social network/community using the widly popular Ning platform. This community was started by Chris Pirillo and he has named it simply, "Geeks". It utilizes all the nifty features that Ning provides: A personal profile, groups, forums, pictures, video, and audio. Chris has done an excellent job of getting the word out about the network, and it has already grown to almost 5000 users in less than a month. I have started a group for Bwana.TV on Geeks and it is growing quickly. If you'd like to join Geeks, visit http://geeks.pirillo.com and sign up today! Author: iobuffa Keywords: geeks chris pirillo ning community social network bwana bwana.tv bwanamccall bwanatv Added: September 19, 2008

In this video, I discuss the change Twitter has gone through over the past 4 months. I give a background on my decision to leave Twitter indefinitely due to their seemingly lack of interest in the instant messaging and track features of the service. Over the past few weeks, Twitter has received a great deal of praise on keeping their system more stable than in times past. I went on record to say this was due to their decision to completely disable instant messaging and track. Last week, I came to the realization that the track capability of Twitter is not coming back. I've realized that the track capability cannot be globally rolled out with the current implementations of microblogging software. So in this video, I explain this, and also my decision to return to Twitter to try to find a new way to utilize it without track. Enjoy.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS), is a hot topic on the web today. Many of us like to read many different websites and gather news from different sources. RSS aims to make that process easier by syndicating your website so that news can be aggregated in an RSS reader. RSS readers are not popular among everyone, but email is a preferable means. Some people like to read newsletters and digests as email rather than fumble with an RSS reader. A website by the name of feedmyinbox (http://www.feedmyinbox.com) offers a dead simple method of using email for RSS syndication. To use feedmyinbox, simply input your email address and the web site you wish to aggregate. That's it! It doesn't get much simpler than that. So try feedmyinbox if you prefer to receive news via email.

In this video, I discuss web development testing of your website, in particular, with different versions of Internet Explorer. A program exists for Windows called IETester (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage) This program gives you a one stop shop of testing your web development efforts. If you've ever tested a website on various browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer, you know that its sometimes a bit frustrating as they all have their subtle differences. So give IETester a try to satisfy all your Internet Explorer testing needs.

In this video, I discuss a brand new social network/community using the widly popular Ning platform. This community was started by Chris Pirillo and he has named it simply, "Geeks". It utilizes all the nifty features that Ning provides: A personal profile, groups, forums, pictures, video, and audio. Chris has done an excellent job of getting the word out about the network, and it has already grown to almost 5000 users in less than a month. I have started a group for Bwana.TV on Geeks and it is growing quickly. If you'd like to join Geeks, visit http://geeks.pirillo.com and sign up today!

In this video, I give my thoughts on Apple's latest software revision of the iPhone dubbed version 2.1. At the Sept 9th event, Steve Jobs touted this update as being "huge" and promised it would address all of our concerns including: application crashing/hanging, dropped calls, poor battery life, system slowness, long backup times, and the like. Over the past 3 days, I've been using my iPhone with the 2.1 software for quite a bit, and I must say, I believe Steve kept his word. Some of the areas I noticed the most were backup times, 3rd party application stability, 3rd party application installation speed, overall stability, and overall speed. This update also brought the "Genius" feature to the iPhone which allows one to generate "super smart" playlists based a certain song. Genius has been hit or miss for me, but generally, it does a decent job. My personal playlists will always be better in my opinion. So overall, if you are a user of the 2.0 software on the iPhone, I highly recommend you upgrade immediately. This update fixes a lot of issues that I think you could benefit from. Enjoy! Author: iobuffa Keywords: Apple iPhone software 2.1 update bug fix thoughts commentary applications app store genius bwana bwana.tv Added: September 15, 2008

In this video, I give my thoughts on Apple's latest software revision of the iPhone dubbed version 2.1. At the Sept 9th event, Steve Jobs touted this update as being "huge" and promised it would address all of our concerns including: application crashing/hanging, dropped calls, poor battery life, system slowness, long backup times, and the like. Over the past 3 days, I've been using my iPhone with the 2.1 software for quite a bit, and I must say, I believe Steve kept his word. Some of the areas I noticed the most were backup times, 3rd party application stability, 3rd party application installation speed, overall stability, and overall speed. This update also brought the "Genius" feature to the iPhone which allows one to generate "super smart" playlists based a certain song. Genius has been hit or miss for me, but generally, it does a decent job. My personal playlists will always be better in my opinion. So overall, if you are a user of the 2.0 software on the iPhone, I highly recommend you upgrade immediately. This update fixes a lot of issues that I think you could benefit from. Enjoy!

In this video, I discuss a must have piece of software for Mac OS X, called Fluid. (or Fluid.app) I've been using Fluid for quite some time now but oddly enough, I've not talked about it before. Fluid provides Site Specific Browsers (SSB) for your favorite web applications. If you are a big user of Google Mail, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, or Pandora then you could definitely benefit from Fluid.app. Fluid also supports MenuExtra SSBs which means you can run tiny web sites from your system-wide menu bar in Mac OS X. This is perfect for mobile versions of websites if you wish to have a quick peek at self updating information. (Twitter, Digg, Identi.ca, etc). You can download Fluid.app absolutely free at http://www.fluidapp.com/. Enjoy!

In this video, I talk about the VLC media player. I've been using this player for quite some time as a primary means of playing video that I download from the world wide web. One the biggest benefits of using the VLC media player is that you don't have to worry about video formats and codecs. In my experience, VLC media player has done an excellent job with format and codec support right out of the box. In this video, I demonstrate some of the new features of version 0.9.2 which includes an overhauled interface, new video filters, new audio filters, and playback support of Youtube videos. If you have not tried VLC media player, I highly recommend you visit http://www.videolan.org and downoad it today. It's absolutely free for Windows, Mac OS X (UNIX), and Linux.

Author: l0ckergn0me Added: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:36:08 -0800 Duration: 482live.pirillo.com - geeks.pirillo.com - Bwana is an active member of our community, and has done some video reviews for us in the past. This time, he's reviewing Poptiq... a great service that delivers videos from the internet to your iPod touch or iPhone.

live.pirillo.com - geeks.pirillo.com - Bwana is an active member of our community, and has done some video reviews for us in the past. This time, he's reviewing Poptiq... a great service that delivers videos from the internet to your iPod touch or iPhone. Author: lockergnome Keywords: blog bwana gadgets help information iphone ipod ipod-touch pirillo poptiq video youtube Added: September 13, 2008

live.pirillo.com - geeks.pirillo.com - Bwana is an active member of our community, and has done some video reviews for us in the past. This time, he's reviewing Poptiq... a great service that delivers videos from the internet to your iPod touch or iPhone.

In this video, I talk about an exciting service that gives you great statistics for your website. The downloadable application for Windows, Mac, and Linux gives you a Star Trek like dashboard for your website visitors. Woopra is free, but it takes some time to get your website approved for the system. Once approved, you get a live view of what's happening on your website as well as statistics and analytical information regarding visitor behavior. If you host a website on the internet, then Woopra is almost a must have, especially since it's free! Enjoy! Author: iobuffa Keywords: woopra website statistics analytics hits pages graphs geekbrief software utility screencast bwana bwana.tv bwanatv Added: September 9, 2008

In this video, I talk about a great new iPhone application for the Rejaw social network. I've talked about Rejaw before on Bwana.TV and one of the cool features about it is that it provides real time conversations around updates. The iPhone client does not disappoint in this area as new conversations are automatically updated on the client while it is running. It is easy to reply to shouts and the view your friends shouts while on the go. The only issue I have with this client is that it is limited in finding new friends on Rejaw. For example, you can't browse the public shout list to find new people to follow. If you are a new Rejaw user looking for people to follow, I recommend you use the website first, then utilize the iPhone client. I'm liking what I see and I hope you give it a try! Author: iobuffa Keywords: mobile rejaw iphone social networks microblogging software utility apps real time chat bwana bwana.tv bwanatv Added: September 9, 2008

In this video, I talk about an exciting service that gives you great statistics for your website. The downloadable application for Windows, Mac, and Linux gives you a Star Trek like dashboard for your website visitors. Woopra is free, but it takes some time to get your website approved for the system. Once approved, you get a live view of what's happening on your website as well as statistics and analytical information regarding visitor behavior. If you host a website on the internet, then Woopra is almost a must have, especially since it's free! Enjoy!

In this video, I talk about a great new iPhone application for the Rejaw social network. I've talked about Rejaw before on Bwana.TV and one of the cool features about it is that it provides real time conversations around updates. The iPhone client does not disappoint in this area as new conversations are automatically updated on the client while it is running. It is easy to reply to shouts and the view your friends shouts while on the go. The only issue I have with this client is that it is limited in finding new friends on Rejaw. For example, you can't browse the public shout list to find new people to follow. If you are a new Rejaw user looking for people to follow, I recommend you use the website first, then utilize the iPhone client. I'm liking what I see and I hope you give it a try!