Jaan Pehechaan Ho! This week's show is chock full of goodness. We talk about Orb Networks, Extending the Media Center PC with an Xbox, the Super-duper green laser, cool (and free) audio from around the web, Apple suing folks, Monster cable meanies, some iPod hacks, news from Suprnova and how we're all made of Quarks!

Host: Phillip Torrone.
Format: 30 minutes, 7 MB, MP3

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Minutia...
02:30- Orb Networks, I think it's the best of 2004. Gartenberg scoop.
07:50- Media Center Extending, stream your stuff anywhere in the house.
11:10- Super green laser, holy sweet photons!
14:30- NASA Podcast, I'm SO going to win this bet.
16:00- Free old Sci-Fi radio shows, x minus one.
18:30- Real hackers, er RealNetwork's crackers.
20:25- Apple taking enthusiast sites to court, bah!
22:25- Monster, monster jerks.
25:00- iPod hacks, non-iPod hardware, control from a phone.
26:10- Linux, text changes, free your music and more...
28:00- SuperNova.org, something coming soon!

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We finally got around to setting up a Media Center PC 2005 box and we've got to say, it's a great deal better than the previous version(s) of MCE. Especially with its ability to use Media Extenders. A Media Extender is basically just software or a device used to extend the Media Center PC's interface and content to another PC, or, in this case, an Xbox. So, if you have videos, pictures, recorded TV, podcasts, and downloaded media (like we showed you here and here) on your Media Center PC, you can use the Xbox to access them all just like you would on the Media Center. It was a little more complicated than we think it needs to be for average users, but it's certainly nothing you probably couldn't handle.

iPod sock it to'em! In this show we talk about hacking the SideKick II, the Creative support system, class action suits for PVP makers, Microsoft and the DVD ripper, Time-Warner selling you out, Google Suggest's How-Tos and its lunchroom starts, the 100 oldest domain names, the history of "Internet", podcasts, getting content on the ScoblePhone, Wal-Mart dropping the f-bomb, and a letter about the world's largest photograph.

Host: Phillip Torrone.
Format: 45 minutes, 10MB, MP3.

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Minutia...
02:45- Hacking the Sidekick II, more apps!
06:20- Creative Zen support, or lack of, DVD ripper, class action...?
13:00- Time-Warner to erase your recordings.
17:00- Google Suggest, how to... version.
19:20- Where Google suggest came from, a suggestion.
21:40- 100 oldest domains, 03-15-85.
23:40- History of the net, a network called "Internet" 1993.
31:40- History of the castin' October 2003.
35:35- How-To get content on the ScoblePhone.
38:00- Wal-Mart, getting sued over CDs.
41:30- Email, biggest photo, from the biggest kite.

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This week's HOW-TO is what we hope will be a trend, a venerable avalanche of other how-to'ers which will help people get content like web videos, Internet radio shows (podcasts), and other media automatically delivered to their phones. For our example, we're going to use free tools to get the Engadget show and popular web videos sent over to a Windows Mobile-powered Smartphone, specifically an Audiovox SMT 5600 Smartphone (Orange SPV C500).

If you're wondering what type of video you'll be able to grab, click here to view a video (Windows Media) of what we synced up last night. Squirrel launcher, yikes.

Oh, and one bit of housekeeping, we're a bit late with this week's HOW-TO, we've literally been on hold with Earthlink tech support for the last four days getting our home access back up, it's sad, trite, but true. Worst part: the outsourced tech support in India actually asked us to defrag our drive because "that might fix it." Sigh. Anyway, on with the HOW-TO.

Google just rolled out Google Suggest, which basically helps you find what you're searching for by suggesting words based on popularity. Over on Davenetics.com there was a list of A-Z, so we thought it would fun to go through the alphabet and record it so you can see the words suggested as of December 10th, 2004. We tried to use Google Suggest on our Windows Mobile Smartphone (Orange's SPV C500) but it didn't work (image here). Not that we expected it to, but if it did, that would have been a great app for mobile searching.

Click here to view (WindowsMedia).

Hey there, bad bananas and Mr. Grinches. On this show we discuss the Time Magazine article on the coming extinction of the radio star, Palm + Linux, more Apple rumors (cells and phones), the new iPod firmware hack, IBM going to China, Xbox modders arrested, DVD police, City of Heroes and Marvel's suckage, the Do Not Call list, Broadsnatching, Feed Speaker, and Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah, of course.

Host: Phillip Torrone.
Format: 40 minutes, 14MB, MP3.

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Minutiae...
02:30- Time Magazine, killing the radio star, again.
3:40- Palm Linux, good or bad? Audio from the CEO.
14:30- More Apple Cell Phone rumors.
16:00- ...and more iPod flash rumors.
18:00- iPod hack, Hello Kitty mod.
21:00- IBM sells PC biz to Lenovo, China 0wns.
25:55- Xbox Modders arrested, for good reason actually.
27:30- DVD police, $30k gets you nothing but hassle.
30:35- City of Heroes, Marvel needs to read Greek mythology.
34:00- Do Not Call list, get on it soon for cells.
35:10- How-to: BroadSnatching, it's naughty, but nice.
37:10- FeedSpeaker, robots read the feeds.
38:30- Chrismahanukwanzakah, the only holiday for all of us.

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So on Monday over at Hack A Day we posted a link to an iPod hack over at iPodHacks that let you extract all of the fonts and graphics from the player's firmware. Since then, a new application came out, and we wrote up how to change all the graphics on your iPod.

Before we get started, here's a video (QuickTime) of our first hacked firmware to give you an idea of what we changed.

In this How-To we're going to show you how to change the "Do not Disconnect" circle/slash icon that endlessly and annoyingly flashes all the time on our desk. We replaced ours with the Engadget logo, the Sony CEO, and Hello Kitty but any graphic will do. You can also change battery icons, power status, boot up logos and fonts, or so it seems. We sprinted to write this up, so we might update it as we try some new things. Now on with the How-To!

Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, but not because it's all that hard, it's just because no one has ever shown folks how. It's a lot easier if you have a Media Center PC (MCE), but even if you don't have an MCE, we showed you how to put DVDs on your Portable Media Center when we reviewed the Creative Zen.

Walt Mossberg's most recent Personal Technology column smacked hard on the complicated nature of this as well, but instead of just complaining, we're going to show you yet another way of getting some pretty amazing, scary, and completely random videos from around the web automatically uploaded onto your Portable Media Center.

On a related note, we do think if people don't know how and where to easily get content on their devices, they'll likely turn to file sharing networks and become pseudo-pirates, and now with broadcasting flags stopping any type of recording, this will happen more and more, but that's another story-content _is_ the destination.

This week's How-To will use a video feed (RSS) from BlogDigger, WindowsMedia 10, iPodder, and a Portable Media Center to "BroadSnatch" video from many sources. A couple weeks ago we used RSS and Bittorrent as a way to download large files, to do something similar, but this is entirely new and different. We're calling this BroadSnatching, we'll see if it gets picked up.

Walt says you're only stuck with old baseball and bad movies, which isn't true, at least not for our readers. With our first How-To about getting DVDs onto your Portable Media Center and now with this one about BroadSnatching, you'll fill that 40GB monster up in no time.

Good eggs! On this show we talk about last week's Microsoft Mobius conference (with audio from the event), requests to Microsoft, more Apple phone rumors, a new iPod hack from Hadley Stern, blog shills, word of mouth shills, Google and the rising problem click fraud, the Elegant Universe, sending IMs to Santa, voting for us, and our new phone number for leaving us messages (206-339-6257!).

Host: Phillip Torrone.
Format: 60 minutes, 14MB, MP3.

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Minutia..
02:00- Microsoft's Mobius 2004 conference in Seattle, lots of mobile peeps.
29:20- More Apple Phone rumors.
30:40- iPod hack tip from Hadley Stern, album artwork.
32:40- Blog shills, Word of mouth shills? Is this the future?
42:55- Google CFO, clickfraud.
46:10- Brian Greene's Elegant Universe online.
53:30- Add Santa to AIM, Santa has a TOS.
56:00- Vote for us for best Tech blog here and best podcast here.
56:00- This puppy likes Dawn and Drew.
57:45- Call and leave us a message! 206-339-6257

Left out Grand Theft Audio carjacking mashups (modologues), but here it is.

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Part of the Engadget gang trekked out (on our own dime) to Seattle, WA last week for the annual Microsoft Mobius event focusing on the present and future of Windows Mobile. Not as many sneak peeks at all the new Pocket PCs and Smartphones as last time around, but Jason Gordon, Product Manager for Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices Division, did put together a couple of really good days of presentations by people from Microsoft, Motorola, Orange and others about what they're working on and where all this stuff is headed (and they all had to put up with an earful of complaints and suggestions from the attendees about what they're doing wrong and should be doing right).

We took some snapshots of a couple interesting items that were passed around, like some early  Pocket PC Phone and Smartphone prototypes, and in this week's podcast we have interviews and more with a bunch of Mobius participants. Click here to listen.

Flickr is quickly becoming one of the most popular "moblog" and photo sharing site, is it the interface? The APIs? Caterina talks about this and more!

Caterina Fake, co-founder and jill of all trades. As you know, this being a small startup I do a lot of everything: marketing, pixel pushing, strategy, product development, janitorial duties, money raising—you name it. :)

In a nutshell, what's Flickr (including cost for user, etc..).
Flickr's originality as an online photo sharing site comes from the marriage of content that users create the online community that they share their photos with…  

Firefox (our fave browser) has a handy feature that lets you add search engines to the search bar, so it was only a matter of time until Macromedia programmer superstar and Engadget pal Mike Chambers cooked up a custom Engadget search engine plug-in. All you need to do is visit this site, click the link, and you too can add Engadget to your Firefox search options.

On a side note, if anyone is wondering why Firefox is grabbing a bigger chunk of the browser market, it's not just because of the security issues involved with IE, it's also because of a ravenous community of creators making cool plug-ins, add-ons, and hacks to personalize the browser and make it better and more useful for people.

Hugo Schotman has been a pioneer in sharing his early sound engineering setups for recording podcasts on the Mac.  His initial diagram showing how we was able to combine GarageBand, Soundtrack, iChat, and Soundflower to record a podcast with another person remote over iChat enabled Phil and I to record our first Engadget Podcast.  Phil and I modified his original set up slightly and cut Soundtrack out of the mix to save money and enable others to get in at a low barrier to entry and posted it on Engadget.  We combined Line-In from Rogue Amoeba to route the mic, iChat for remote audio, Quicktime for music and clips, and recorded the whole shebang in Garageband routed through the Soundflower driver.  

and Phillip Torrone.

Format: 82 minutes, 19MB, MP3.

This show was recorded at Whistler Canada this week with a little static and Tylenol with codeine- on the show; Votes on PodcastAlley, Firefox is blowin' up, hopping on the HughTrain, Hope 5 Audio online, Froogle adds wish lists, Xeni on gadgets on NPR, iPod hack from Hadley Stern, Newspapers and TV demographics, and French films not being French enough.

Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with iChat, LineIn, GarageBand and Audacity. There was a little static with some interference here in Canada and the show ran long, sorry about that.

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Minutia..
00:00- Live from British Columbia, Whilster Canada.
05:00- Thanks for the votes, the cookie cheat.
09:55- FireFox, browsers wars, yay!
24:00- Hop on the hughtrain, deck chairs ahoy!
34:30- Hope 5 Audio online, Social Engineering clip is amazing.
37:00- Froogle adds wish list.
41:00- Xeni on gadgets, NPR.
58:00- iPod hack tip from Hadley Stern, wireless iPod!
62:00- Newpapers, ut oh, TV next?
70:00- French film, not French enough, Phil still hates Wal-Mart.

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Looks like Microsoft is going to introduce an SDK (software development kit) for SPOT, or Smart Personal Object Technology, their platform which uses MSN Direct's FM subcarrier network to wirelessly deliver instant messages, stock quotes, news flashes, weather, etc. to wristwatches (and eventually other devices, too). And it's about time. Since SPOT watches are mostly being picked up by geeks (the general public seems oblivious to them), the first thing they'll want to do is add their own content like RSS feeds and custom channels. We'll try and cook up an Engadget channel (if it's possible), because you know you want Engadget on your wrist 24/7.

[Thanks, jazadamz]