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My favourite podcast channels

As podcasts are becoming more and more
professional and entertaining I want to take the chance and share
some of my favourite podcast channels/sites with you.Ehrensenf:
one of the best german daily
podcasts
Geek Brief TV:
the most of the time Mac side of
life…
Rocketboom:
the long traditional internet
podcast
CinemaTech
G4TV: focussed on latest computer
games
Lynne’s SciFi
News: all about the latest
developments in the SciFi scene
FrenchMaid TV:
focussed on, of course, french maids
Winking
Galacticast:
a SciFi comedy
show
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For subscribing to these podcasts channels you can either use
iTunes, or as I recommend you the free and opensource Democracy player available
for almost any platform.

Have fun…
Kobaan.

P.S.: Leave me a note if you know amazing and popular channels that
I’ve missed so far…

Archive

My favourite podcast channels

As podcasts are becoming more and more
professional and entertaining I want to take the chance and share
some of my favourite podcast channels/sites with you.

Ehrensenf:
one of the best german daily
podcasts
Geek Brief TV:
the most of the time Mac side of
life…
Rocketboom:
the long traditional internet
podcast
CinemaTech
G4TV: focussed on latest computer
games
Lynne’s SciFi
News: all about the latest
developments in the SciFi scene
FrenchMaid TV:
focussed on, of course, french maids
Winking
Galacticast:
a SciFi comedy
show
img_screen
For subscribing to these podcasts channels you can either use
iTunes, or as I recommend you the free and opensource Democracy player available
for almost any platform.

Have fun…
Kobaan.

P.S.: Leave me a note if you know amazing and popular channels that
I’ve missed so far…

Archive, Operating System

Linux with Compiz + Xgl – beating the Apple desktop

Apple’s Aqua graphical user-interface was the absolute leader in
eye-candy desktops for home computers. Now Linux can offer a quite
similar but also further extended desktop environment like on
Mac’s. The new XServer with integrated OpenGL support Xgl, enables
owners of 3D graphics cards in their computers to use the new
compiz
framework to draw their favourite desktop like Gnome or
KDE in a
3D context. Thus enabling beautiful window-effects and workspace
usage-features never seen before. Check it out here:

WARNING: The only distribution at the moment which enables compiz
by default on supported hardware at the moment is the latest Fedora
Linux. Although you can easily enable compiz on Gentoo Linux,
Ubuntu and others, there’s still some things to do by hand which
requires a lot of reading howto’s, especially if you want to
fallback to your old “working” configuration.

Archive, Operating System

Linux with Compiz + Xgl – beating the Apple desktop

Apple’s Aqua graphical user-interface was the absolute leader in
eye-candy desktops for home computers. Now Linux can offer a quite
similar but also further extended desktop environment like on
Mac’s. The new XServer with integrated OpenGL support Xgl, enables
owners of 3D graphics cards in their computers to use the new
compiz
framework to draw their favourite desktop like Gnome or
KDE in a
3D context. Thus enabling beautiful window-effects and workspace
usage-features never seen before. Check it out here:

WARNING: The only distribution at the moment which enables compiz
by default on supported hardware at the moment is the latest Fedora
Linux. Although you can easily enable compiz on Gentoo Linux,
Ubuntu and others, there’s still some things to do by hand which
requires a lot of reading howto’s, especially if you want to
fallback to your old “working” configuration.