At Random Podcast

We welcome Johnathan and Scarlett from the Kubuntu Linux team to talk about what sets Kubuntu apart from Ubuntu Linux, what's in release 14.10 and what goes into maintaining a Linux distribution.

Back after a long, extended break our intrepid trio return with a plethora of news and opinions on the latest movements within the tech scene. We invite you to join us for the first episode of Season 2 as we discuss Windows 10, the Apple Watch and graphics card buying advice.

Those of us fortunate enough to have left school before IBM built the first PC, will go all misty-eyed with this latest episode of AtRandom. We are taking you back to Basic! In this episode we have a wonderful guest – Gordon Henderson author of Return to Basic.

Rick, Jack and John talk about the recent scares that have been appearing about UEFI Secure Booting, in particular with regards to the possibility of our own PCs becomming lock-down to a single Operating System of the hardware manufacturers choice.

NVidia 3D vision is a 3-part setup which provides a mechanism for displaying 3D gaming and media content from your PC through a compatible monitor. The AtRandom team have got their grubby paws on some NVidia 3D Vision 2 gear and give you a full and in-depth review in their usual friendly way.

From retro 2D arcade games to epic story-driven 3D cinematic wonders, all of our gaming needs require thousands of man hours of work to drive each and every little piece of the action. Today we take a look at the programming and development that goes into creating a game-engine which handles all of the behind the scenes magic in a computer game.

SOPA and PIPA, the controversial USA bills recently being introduced, aim to give the government a much greater degree of control of the content and continued running of websites, and have caused extensive concern that their vague and far-reaching nature could mean the beginning of the end for truly free speech on the Internet.

Kinect for Windows brings the tracking and camera technology of Microsoft's Kinect Sensor to the PC. Join the AtRandom team as we chat about some of the projects that have already been released with the Kinect and what we might see in the future.

The AtRandom team take a step away from the norm and discuss the topical issue of the recent conflicts that have been taking place in Syria. We then take a bit of a look at the technology that might be in use by the military at the time, complete with a nice handful of techie, moral and random elements.

After a deeply scientific process involving numbers ranging between 1 and 10, the AtRandom Podcast Team are now proud to present an our favourite iPhone / iPad and iPod Touch apps that we were using through 2011.