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Host: Sarah Lane arah’s gold 5S has arrived, TouchID is the future of happiness, Photosynth for spherical panoramas, block phone numbers and websites, edge swiping tricks, & more! Email us at ifive@twit.tv Leave a voicemail: (614) ON-IFIVE Running time:: 0:11:47

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Curtis Franklin Live from Interop New York 2013, we interview the Chief Network Architect of Interop, talk about WiFi, and more. Guests: Glenn Evans, Scott Lamham, and Mike Rydalch Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twiet. For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 1:11:21

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Why Apple and Google are bigger than Coke, NSA maps your social graph, PS4 beating Xbox, and more. Guest: Ryan Shrout Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full show notes for today's episode. We invite you to read, add to, and amend the wiki entry for this episode at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 45:53

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Jason Howell, Natali Morris, Molly Wood, and Justin Robert Young Kindle Mayday, tale of two Surfaces, Balmer raw, YouTube comments plus, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twit. For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode. Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by Cachefly. Running time: 1:35:48

The Tech Guy for Sunday 29 September 2013 - Show 1018 Host: Leo Laporte. Google knows your Wi-Fi passwords, best video editor for Mac, making text larger on tablets, and your calls. Guest: Chris Marquardt Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/ttg. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com. Bandwidth for the Tech Guy podcast is provided by Cachefly.

The Tech Guy for Saturday 28 September 2013 - Show 1017 Host: Leo Laporte. Different ways to lock your Android phone, using Google Voice, cinema sound experience, and your calls. Guest: Johnny Jet, Scott Wilkinson, and Dick DeBartolo. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/ttg. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com. Bandwidth for the Tech Guy podcast is provided by Cachefly.

Hosts: Denise Howell and Evan Brown. Special guest Lee Cheng from Newegg and Jonathan Bailey, patent trolls, copyright in curriculum, and more. Guest: Lee Cheng, and Jonathan Bailey. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twil. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. TWiL on Friendfeed TWiL on Facebook Attorneys may submit a self-study form to their local CLE board seeking MCLE credit approval. Please check the rules and requirements for your specific jurisdiction before submitting any forms. Special thanks to Nigel Clutterbuck for the TWiL theme music. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Photo credit: Kathleen Tyler Conklin Running time: 1:24:44

Hosts:Patrick Norton. AMD and Intel announce new GPU, left handed mice, Haswell performance, and more. Guest:Robert Heron. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twich. Send your computer hardware questions to twich@twit.tv. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 55:29

Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane. Amber & Sarah chat with This Week in Law host Denise Howell about the legal side of social, big week for Twitter spats, the insanity of hashtags, & more! Hosts: Denise Howell Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tsh. Contribute to our show! Send us an email at thesocialhour@twit.tv or leave us a voicemail at 2626-SOCIAL (262-676-2425). We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Bandwidth for The Social Hour is provided by AOL Music and Spinner.com. Running time:: 1:03:49

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Steam drops the third shoe, Microsoft might steal Ford's chief, Evernote's thunder, and more. Guests: Sean Hollister and Len Peralta Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full show notes for today's episode. We invite you to read, add to, and amend the wiki entry for this episode at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 57:42

Looking for a Electronic Kit Project? When shopping for an Electronic Kit project, look for the following: 1. Clear and Detailed Instructions 2. Labeled PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) Quick Notes about soldering for beginners: 1. Heat the PAD, not the solder. You don't want a lump of grey goop on the tip of your iron. You "DO" want a small coverage of solder that looks silver. 2. Tacking is your friend! For those hard-to-mount components, you can always put it into "best-guess" position and solder one pin. With the component held in place, you can now easily reheat the solder and move the component into position. 3. Proper heat in your friend! An iron that is too cool will take too long to heat the pad and will possibly damage the component. An iron that is too hot will burn things. And adjustable iron lets you dial-up exactly as much heat as you need for the project. LED Notes 1. The "Light Emitting Diode" is, first a foremost, a diode: meaning that it is a polarized component. It has a positive side and a negative side and will not work if you reverse them. 2. LEDs use the phenomenon of “Electroluminescence” to create visible and invisible light. EL is an optical/electrical phenomenon in which a material emits light when an electric current is passed through the material. EL differs from incandescent lights, which are heat-based, and chemiluminescense, which is chemical reaction based. 3. A LED consists of a Lens assembly (the plastic around the LED), the Cathode (which is always shorter) and the Anode (which is always longer) and then a junction of semiconducting material that has been doped to create a P-N Junction. 4. The material of the "P-side" of the junction has "electron holes" while the material of the N-side" has free electrons. 5. When a current is passed through the semiconductor, the negatively charged electrons and positively charged holes are forced into the P-N junction. 6. The Electrons will fall into the holes, but since the holes exists at a lower energy state than the electrons, the electrons must lose energy -- In the form of a photon: light. 7. The wavelength of the light, from Infrared to red, to green, to blue, to white, depends on the band gap energy of the materials that form that p-n junction. (How much energy the electron needs to lose to fit in the hole) In other words, different materials get you different colors. Scott Wilkinson & Home Theater Calibration We asked Scott about calibrating the Know How... set. He said that open rooms make for terrible home theaters. The more reflective a room is, the more it's going to reinforce standing waves (a.k.a. room modes), which can create a very uneven sound. You want to make the sound more even so that when you have people in your home theater, they are all having the same sonic experience. To balance out, there are several ways. Scott says the best way is to build the room from scratch with special dimensions. You wouldn't want a cubicle room because it will reinforce sounds in three dimensions. A high-cost method of calibrating your home theater audio is by hiring an acoustician. They can treat the rooms with materials that can either absorb frequencies or diffuse or reflect them. Where these treatments are placed is a science and a bit of an art. Scott's low-cost solution is put some curtains up, put some rugs down, and put up some bookshelves. The rugs and curtains will help absorb sound. The bookshelves will act as diffusers as the different books with their different heights and depths. You'll want some reflection in your home theater. Creating an anechoic chamber (a room that absorbs all sounds) will make for a very unnatural experience. Auto-calibration of AVRs Most AV receivers these days come with a microphone that you should place around the middle of your room. Then you tell your AV receiver to start calibration. Place your speakers Your center speaker should be right in front of you, either above or below the screen. The front speakers are about 30-45 degrees to the left and right of where you are sitting. Your side surround speakers are about 110 degrees from center. Placing a subwoofer in a corner will reinforce the bass and create standing waves in certain locations in the room (meaning an uneven bass experience). Scott likes putting the subwoofer at the quarter or half-way point against a wall between the front and side surround speakers. That placement can reduce the standing wave issue depending on the dimensions of the room. What's going on when you do that calibration? The microphone and AVR are measuring the distance to each speaker, which sets the delays of the speakers. It's a very loud process with the reference level being around 85 decibels. The next part of Scott's segment will be focused on what you can do to tweak the auto-calibration settings. Quicktip: Unfreeze Finder or the Dock on OS X If you've used OS X, you know how annoying it can be for Finder to die on you. Added to that, trying to restart it is a pain. You can try Force Quit, but sometimes that doesn't work. You can try Activity Monitor. But if that all fails, don't forget you've got a powerful ally on your side in Terminal. You can find it via Spotlight or go into your Applications > Utilities > Terminal Then type the magic command: killall Finder killall is command "Finder" is the process we're trying to impact To kill the Dock, type this: killall Dock Connect with us! Don't forget to check out our large library of projects on this site. If you want to search for a topic, try this custom search engine. - Google+ Community at gplus.to/twitkh - Tweet at us using the hashtag #twitkh - Email us at knowhow@twit.tv

Host: Chad "OMGchad" Johnson Fight to the bitter, cold end with Dwarves vs Zombies in Minecraft. For show notes, including links to everything covered, visit http://OMGcraft.com/94/ Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/OMGcraftShow Email us at mail@omgcraft.com

Hosts: Sarah Lane and Shannon Morse. Sarah and guest host Shannon Morse cover maximizing iOS 7 iPad security, Google search is awesome on iOS, a duh tip for timestamps, eBay mania, throw out your scanner with Scanner Pro, & more! Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/ipt. You can contribute to iPad Today by leaving us a voicemail at 757-504-iPad (757-504-4723) or sending an email to iPadToday@TWiT.tv. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time:: 1:31:04

Hosts: Mary Jo Foley, Paul Thurrott, and Iyaz Akhtar Surface 2 launch event recap, the new-new Windows roadmap, and should MS be both in devices and services? That and more. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/ww. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Check out Paul's blog at the SuperSite for Windows. Check out Mary Jo's blog at the AllAboutMicrosoft.com. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Derek K. Miller. Running time: 1:44:52

Hosts: George Thomas (W5JDX), Gordon West (WB6NOA), and Don Wilbanks (AE5DW). Jamboree on the air, Antenna Analyzers, Ham made music video, and more! Guests: Dale Puckett (K0HYD), Cheryl Lasek (K9BIK) and Amanda Alden (K1DDN) Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/hn. Submit your own video to Ham Nation! HamNationVideos@twit.tv We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.