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  • TL0062 - 2012, Week 15 and 16 Highlights

    4/9/12 - How to play Shuffleboard.

    • Shuffleboard Table Care and Maintenance
    • 4/12/12 - About the French Wars of Religion

      4/13/12 - Foobar2000 shows the current time of the music in the status bar.

      4/15/12 - The response to Christos Anesti

      4/16/12 - Russia photoshopped people out of stuff before Photoshop existed.

      • How Photos Became a Weapon in Stalin’s Great Purge
      • 4/17/12 - Stuff about the Henrician reformation

        4/20/12 - the HTML element was implemented drunkenly after a discussion in a bar

        • The origin of the tag | HTML Blink Tag – W3C | The blinking text element - Mozilla
        • 4/22/12 - I can preserve VirtualBox settings across OS installs


          Extra Topic 1: Cap and Gown Pickup Day + MightyText and DeskSMS

          Extra Topic 2: Crazy schedules on 4/11/12

          Extra Topic 3: Wisdom from a computer science professor

          Extra Topic 4: Spring Film Festival filming and editing

          Extra Topic 5: State of the Podcast and future episode plans!


          This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and YouTube free music repositories.

          Tracks featured in this episode include:

          • Jason Shaw - 12 Mornings
          • Kevin MacLeod - Silver Blue Light [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
          • TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
          • Doctor Turtle - The Kid In The Bins
          • Doctor Turtle - His Last Share Of The Stars
          • 21 min
          • TL0061 - 2012, Week 13 and 14 Highlights

            3/26/12 - You can apparently buy items in shops in D&D

            • Why Magic Shops Ruin the D&D Fantasy
            • 3/27/12 - The origins of the Amish/Mennonites

              3/28/12 - Netbeans has a specific Python edition.

              • Get nbPython | NetBeans Python Editor | NetBeans - Python Wiki
              • 3/29/12 - The Python Programming Language

                • Python 0.9.1. part 01/21
                • 3/30/12 - Transport Layer uses port numbers for addressing

                  • Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry (IANA)
                  • 4/1/12 - Facebook timeline didn't roll out to everyone despite them saying they did

                    • Safer Internet Day 2012 – Overview of Facebook Timeline | Facebook Timeline Rolls Out to All Brand Pages
                    • 4/2/12 - A kill in LoL=2.5 minion waves

                      4/3/12 - How to make an air cannon out of a box.

                      • The Vortex Cannon – Student Science
                      • 4/4/12 - Sorta figured out Content-Aware fills in Photoshop

                        • Adobe Launches Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended | Photoshop CS5 New Features – Content Aware Fill Tutorial | Remove objects from your photos with Content-Aware Fill
                        • 4/5/12 - The Dos Equis man owns a house in Vermont.

                          • Interesting
                          • 4/6/12 - John Snow is basically the pioneer of Anesthesia

                            • The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World | John Snow, MD: anaesthetist to the Queen of England and pioneer epidemiologist
                            • Extra Topic 1: OnlyOffice

                              Extra Topic 2: Draw Something
                              Extra Topic 3: Air Display
                              Extra Topic 4: The Future of the IT Major
                              Extra Topic 5: Upcoming Commencement

                              This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, Apple iMovie, and YouTube free music repositories.

                              Tracks featured in this episode include:

                              • Dee Yan-Key - Minor Angst
                              • De Yan-Key - Wade in the Water
                              • Apple - Park Bench
                              • Apple - Fifth Avenue Stroll
                              • Apple - Acoustic Sunrise
                              • TrackTribe - A Night Alone
                              • TrackTribe - Walk Through the Park
                              • Doctor Turtle - Doctor Talos Answers The Door
                              • 25 min
                              • TL0060 - 2012, Week 11 and 12 Highlights

                                3/12/12 - Set Affinity in Task manager pertains to CPU cores.

                                • Processes, Threads, and Jobs in the Windows Operating System | What is Windows Priority and Affinity and what advatanges does it provide?
                                • 3/14/12 - What Speccy is.

                                  • Speccy Tutorial for Beginners | Hackers compromised free CCleaner software, Avast's Piriform says | Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data
                                  • 3/15/12 - Windows 7 takes forever to update.

                                    • Further simplifying servicing models for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 | Microsoft to end decades-old pick-a-patch practice in Windows 7 | Convenience rollup update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
                                    • 3/19/12 - About Nocturne for Mac, and that I can invert the menu bar with it.

                                      • Nocturne for Mac | What Does It Mean When Apple “Sherlocks” an App?
                                      • 3/20/12 - Mac OS X Has the biggest security hole ever in its password reset feature on the recovery disk.

                                        • Reset a Lost Password in Mac OS X with a Boot Disk | Set a firmware password on your Mac |  How to reset local user passwords from the macOS recovery partition
                                        • 3/21/12 - Everything in Unix is treated as a file, even the Kernel Memory

                                          • In UNIX Everything is a File
                                          • 3/22/12 - More about Zwingli

                                            3/24/12 - What Lane Freezing is in League of Legends

                                            • How To Slow Push And Freeze A Lane In League of Legends
                                            • This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive

                                              Tracks featured in this episode include:

                                              • Doctor Turtle - Baldanders Strikes The Set
                                              • Doctor Turtle - Jonah's Message for New York
                                              • Doctor Turtle - Ladies, Take Me With You
                                              • Doctor Turtle - The Kid In The Bins
                                              • Doctor Turtle - Unexpected Hoedown In Bagging Area

                                              • 26 min
                                              • TL0059 - 2012, Week 09 and 10 Highlights

                                                2/26/12 - Figuring out Erasmus's The Praise of Folly

                                                2/27/12 - cat command in Terminal

                                                • cat(1) — Linux manual page
                                                • 2/28/12 - Concatenate function in Excel (wasn't able to really get it work though)

                                                  2/29/12 - How the Elo touchscreen computer works

                                                  • ELO touchscreen does not respond to touch or has lost alignment at point of sale.
                                                  • 3/1/12 - Emperor Kangxi had the longest reign in China history.

                                                    • The Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor, 1670
                                                    • 3/2/12 - I haven’t written in a while so my wrist cramps up a lot when I write.

                                                      3/4/12 - How to play Dota 2

                                                      • The Story of Dota 2
                                                      • 3/6/12 - How to use nc in Terminal.

                                                        • nc linux command man page | nc/netcat
                                                        • 3/7/12 - Putting torches on the right side of caves in Minecraft is a good idea.

                                                          3/8/12 - There's apparently a cloud menu bar icon that looks like iCloud but is for MobileMe.

                                                          • How do I remove the MobileMe icon in the menu bar? | iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses | Apple reminds users of MobileMe closure
                                                          • 3/9/12 - FTP is an insecure protocol.

                                                            • FTP Server – Beware of Security Risks
                                                            • Extra Topic 1: An IT executive and an unexpected awkward moment

                                                              Extra Topic 2: Livestream's content purge of 2012


                                                              This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive

                                                              Tracks featured in this episode include:

                                                              • Gillicuddy - Instrumental #2 Revisited
                                                              • Gillicuddy - Jupiter the Blue
                                                              • Lee Rosevere - Places Unseen
                                                              • The 126ers - The Low Seas
                                                              • Zero V - Don't Rush
                                                              • 25 min
                                                              • TL0058 - 2012, Week 07 and 08 Highlights

                                                                2/12/12 - IBM's Thinkpad was the first laptop to have a keyboard light

                                                                • THINK: A brief history of ThinkPads, from IBM to Lenovo| IBM ThinkPad 701C: The Iconic Butterfly Keyboard| The ThinkLight: Shedding Light on the Legend (ft. David Hill)| What was the first backlit keyboard?
                                                                • 2/14/12 - How to burn a USB Lion disk and rotate multiple pages at once in Preview

                                                                  • Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive| How can you rotate all the pages of a PDF file in Preview? 
                                                                  • 2/15/12 - Clear command in terminal

                                                                    • Clear(1) – Linux Manual Page
                                                                    • 2/16/12 - I can middle click things in the Windows 7 Taskba

                                                                      • Middle-Click on the Taskbar to Quickly Open and Close Application Windows
                                                                      • 2/17/12 - You can move the chat bar in League of Legends

                                                                        2/18/12 - The Dice app on Android can lock dice as well as have multiples/change dice color.

                                                                        2/19/12 - Windows 7 can condense down to 2GB in size.

                                                                        • Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all | Mark Russinovich Explains MinWin Once and For All
                                                                        • 2/20/12 - About Potosi, the city of Silver

                                                                          2/21/12 - The "College Freshman" meme picture was taken in the upper quad courtyard.

                                                                          • Know Your Meme: College Freshman | Why Every College Freshman Should Start a Roth IRA | My Picture is Internet Gold Right Now
                                                                          • 2/22/12 - Henry Morgan = Captain Morgan, and he wasn't a pirate, he was a privateer. Also, purge in OSX Terminal clears out inactive used memory

                                                                            2/23/12 - Ton of stuff on Martin Luther. Also figured out IRC.

                                                                            2/24/12 - defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1 will turn on debug mode for ical in 10.7

                                                                            • How to enable iCal's debug menu
                                                                            • 2/25/12 - How the Frenzied Barbarian works in D&D

                                                                              • Ultimate Barbarian (3.5e Class)
                                                                              • Extra topics:

                                                                                • Club Bing's shutdown
                                                                                • Housing damages bills
                                                                                • This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and Apple iMovie

                                                                                  Tracks featured in this episode include:

                                                                                  • Kevin MacLeod - Dat groove [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 
                                                                                  • Apple - Daydream
                                                                                  • Apple - Coming of Age
                                                                                  • Jason Shaw - Thingamajig
                                                                                  • Jason Shaw - Mountain Sun
                                                                                  • Jason Shaw - Solo Acoustic Guitar
                                                                                  • 26 min
                                                                                  • TL0057 - 2012, Week 05 and 06 Highlights

                                                                                    1/31/12 - The 4th Lateran Council

                                                                                    2/1/12 - About the Ming Empire

                                                                                    2/4/12 - What a "dirt block" drink is.

                                                                                    • Dirt Block (Minecraft cocktail)
                                                                                    • 2/5/12 - Using Foobar2000

                                                                                      2/6/12 - Christopher Columbus did a lot of terrible things.

                                                                                      • Was Christopher Columbus a Hero or Villain?
                                                                                      • 2/7/12 - Setting up Google Sync with Exchange on iOS.

                                                                                        • Sync heck: DalDAV vs Exchange Server – a Google Apple review | What are the pros and cons of IMAP/CalDAV vs. Exchange for Gmail and Google Calendar for iOS 4?
                                                                                        • 2/8/12 - iMovie has a built in way to move projects to other drives.

                                                                                          • Problem Solved: How to Move iMovie 09 Projects to Other Drives
                                                                                          • 2/11/12 - About QTTabBar

                                                                                            • QTTabBar| QTTabBar fork
                                                                                            • Extra topic - random things about DTV - The Final Moments of Analog Broadcast


                                                                                              This episode's music comes from archive.org, YouTube free music repositories, the Free Music Archive, and Apple iMovie

                                                                                              Tracks featured in this episode include:

                                                                                              • TrackTribe - Walk Through the Park
                                                                                              • Kevin MacLeod - Virtutes Instrumenti [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
                                                                                              • Siddhartha Corsus - Count Your Blessings, Count Your Stars
                                                                                              • Siddhartha Corsus - Bhagavan
                                                                                              • Siddhartha Corsus - Pure of Heart
                                                                                              • 22 min
                                                                                              • TL0056 - 2012, Week 03 and 04 Highlights

                                                                                                1/15/12 - Minecraft's sun rose and set in the wrong places until 1.9

                                                                                                • Sun – Minecraft Wiki
                                                                                                • 1/16/12 – Soundcloud

                                                                                                  • MySpace lost 13 years worth of user data after botched server migration
                                                                                                  • 1/18/12 - Some correct proportions for tablet compatible clickable images.

                                                                                                    1/19/12 - Re-learned Lion's signature feature in Preview

                                                                                                    • How to use Preview in OS X Lion to digitally sign documents | Fill out and sign a PDF form in Preview on Mac
                                                                                                    • 1/21/12 - How to play D&D

                                                                                                      1/23/12 - ITSM Process Modeling

                                                                                                      1/25/12 - No more Macbook keyboard cover. Did more damage than good I think.

                                                                                                      1/27/12 - The difference between an NSP and an ISP.

                                                                                                      • NSPs vs ISPs – still a deal?
                                                                                                      • Extra topics:

                                                                                                        • Various days I skipped
                                                                                                        • OnLive Desktop: ComputerWorld - Run Windows on your iPad | OnLive vs. Microsoft Licensing Issues Resolved: OnLive Desktop Moves to Windows Server 2008

                                                                                                        • This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and YouTube free music repositories

                                                                                                          Tracks featured in this episode include:

                                                                                                          • TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
                                                                                                          • TrackTribe - Lights
                                                                                                          • TrackTribe - Cover Charge
                                                                                                          • Lee Rosevere - Try Anything Once
                                                                                                          • Lee Rosevere - I'm Going for a Coffee
                                                                                                          • Doctor Turtle - Over the Water, Humans Gather
                                                                                                          • Kevin MacLeod - B-Roll [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
                                                                                                          • Lee Rosevere - Wandering
                                                                                                          • 19 min
                                                                                                          • TL0055 - 2012, Week 01 and 02 Highlights

                                                                                                            1/1/12 - How to play Words With Friends

                                                                                                            1/2/12 - Food Poisoning really sucks

                                                                                                            1/3/12 - Microsoft released the Critical Update Notification Tool for Win98, but then changed the name to Critical Update Notification Utility to avoid using the unfortunate acronym.

                                                                                                            • /r/todayilearned post
                                                                                                            • 1/5/12 - 10.4 is probably the last OS you can get to run well on a G4.

                                                                                                              1/6/12 - id and Apogee Software's histories

                                                                                                              • All Your History: Id software | All Your History: The History of Apogee & 3D Realms
                                                                                                              • 1/8/12 - IMAP folder subscriptions

                                                                                                                • IMAP Folder Subscriptions | How to Subscribe to IMAP Folders in Thunderbird | Thunderbird Tip: Change IMAP Folder Subscriptions
                                                                                                                • 1/9/12 - What Windows + T does (focuses the taskbar)

                                                                                                                  • Keyboard shortcuts in Windows | 30 Essential Windows Key Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 10 | Missing suggestion to press Win+T to focus taskbar icons
                                                                                                                  • 1/10/12 - About 2/11/12 and 2112

                                                                                                                    1/11/12 - There's a WMUR app for the ipad

                                                                                                                    1/12/12 - Amazon Flow for the ipad

                                                                                                                    • Powered by Amazon, Flow Scans Products You Can Buy Online | TechHive: Get this app: Flow | Amazon Flow: Try Firefly on your existing phone (sort of)
                                                                                                                    • 1/14/12 - netstat -a -b will show network traffic

                                                                                                                      • NetStat – Microsoft Docs | Netstat Command in Linux - 28 Commands with Examples

                                                                                                                      • Extra topics:

                                                                                                                        • SOPA
                                                                                                                        • Life after graduation
                                                                                                                        • Roommates
                                                                                                                        • This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive

                                                                                                                          Tracks featured in this episode include:

                                                                                                                          • Doctor Turtle - Lullaby For Democracy
                                                                                                                          • Doctor Turtle - Manly Nunn Steps Out
                                                                                                                          • Doctor Turtle - Rocinante's Lament
                                                                                                                          • Doctor Turtle - Always The Teasmade, Never The Tease
                                                                                                                          • Doctor Turtle - Beaconsfield Villas Stomp
                                                                                                                          • Doctor Turtle - Unexpected Hoedown In Bagging Area
                                                                                                                          • 27 min
                                                                                                                          • TL0054 - 2011, Week 51 and 52 Highlights

                                                                                                                            12/18/11 - Red Robin has bottomless fries

                                                                                                                            • If I order bottomless fries at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, how many fries would I have to eat in order for the restaurant to lose profit on my order?
                                                                                                                            • 12/19/11 - Ping google.com -t will give some more info on pings

                                                                                                                              12/20/11 - Gas gauges have an arrow pointing which side of the car it's on.

                                                                                                                              • The Fuel Gauge Arrow
                                                                                                                              • 12/22/11 - How to use Combofix

                                                                                                                                • ComboFix – Bleeping Computer
                                                                                                                                • 12/23/11 - Napoleon Dynamite had a $400,000 budget, but grossed $46,140,956.

                                                                                                                                  • Napoleon Dynamite Quotes | Napoleon Dynamite – Box Office Mojo
                                                                                                                                  • 12/24/11 - Mario originally was supposed to have a gun.

                                                                                                                                    • Miyamoto: Mario originally had a gun | Super Mario Bros.' 25th: Miyamoto Reveals All
                                                                                                                                    • 12/26/11 - Ultrabooks have specific specs needed to be called ultrabooks.

                                                                                                                                      • Intel Capital launches $300M ultrabook fund
                                                                                                                                      • 12/27/11 - Dell laptops in 2001 used to cost $1200

                                                                                                                                        • The Cost of a Computer the Year You Were Born | $2,400 Laptop From 1994: Packard Bell Statesman | Dell Inspiron 9100: $4,800 Pentium 4 Laptop from 2004 | $5,399 Laptop From 1997: Gateway Solo 2200
                                                                                                                                        • 12/28/11 - There is a Fantasy Starcraft league.

                                                                                                                                          • BlizzConn ESL Fantasy Leagues | Fantasy eSports | Jung "FanTaSy" Myung Hoon | Fantasy (map) | Forget football: These fantasy e-sports sites mix League of Legends with cold, hard cash
                                                                                                                                          • 12/29/11 - How to register Apple products and where to see them.

                                                                                                                                            12/30/11 - 250x250 is a good resolution for Skype profile pictures.

                                                                                                                                            • What's the default Skype Profile Picture Size?
                                                                                                                                            • 12/31/11 - VNC on the ipad


                                                                                                                                              This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive

                                                                                                                                              Tracks featured in this episode include:

                                                                                                                                              • Kevin MacLeod - Batty McFaddin - Slower [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
                                                                                                                                              • Doctor Turtle - Curse You, Fingers (edit)
                                                                                                                                              • Doctor Turtle - Faster, Sons Of Vengeance, Faster!
                                                                                                                                              • Doctor Turtle - Go Tell It On The Molehill
                                                                                                                                              • Doctor Turtle - Doctor Turtle's Maggot
                                                                                                                                              • 28 min
                                                                                                                                              • TL0053 - 2011, Week 49 and 50 Highlights

                                                                                                                                                12/5/11 - Deja Vu is your brain is trying to apply a memory to a situation you are in, failing, and then making you feel like it's familiar anyway.

                                                                                                                                                • Vuja De | The Matrix - Deja vu | Deja Vu: What It Is, When It May Be Cause for Concern | What Causes Déjà Vu? Neuroscience May Finally Have the Answer | Neuroimaging and cognitive changes during déjà vu| Presque Vu: An Annoying Mental Effect You Have Probably Experienced | How Words Get Stuck on the Tip of Your Tongue
                                                                                                                                                • 12/6/11 - Preference file locations for Final Cut and DVD Studio.

                                                                                                                                                  12/7/11 - chflags nohidden ~/Library will unhide the Library folder in Lion.

                                                                                                                                                  • Show Hidden Library and User Library files and folder in macOS
                                                                                                                                                  • 12/8/11 - Cmd 8 will show/hide paragraph marks in Word 2011.

                                                                                                                                                    12/10/11 - How to root a Nook Tablet

                                                                                                                                                    • Nook Tablet Rooted! That Took Less Than A Week | How to root the NOOK Tablet, install the Android Market | Nook Tablet Update 1.4.1 Breaks Root And Ends App Sideloading
                                                                                                                                                    • 12/14/11 - 3rd Gen Macbook Airs don't have an eject button.

                                                                                                                                                      • What's the purpose of the eject button on the MacBook Air?
                                                                                                                                                      • 12/15/11 - I can finish a music final before most people even after being 30 minutes late

                                                                                                                                                        12/17/11 - I can move my room in 30 minutes.

                                                                                                                                                        Extra Topic 1 - Other Final Exams

                                                                                                                                                        Extra Topic 2 - TV Station theft

                                                                                                                                                        Extra Topic 3 - Internet2 senior project - Performance and Analytics Tools - Internet2


                                                                                                                                                        This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive

                                                                                                                                                        Tracks featured in this episode include:

                                                                                                                                                        • Jason Shaw - Sidewalk
                                                                                                                                                        • Jason Shaw - Travel Light
                                                                                                                                                        • Kevin MacLeod - B-Roll [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
                                                                                                                                                        • Lee Rosevere - Wordless Language
                                                                                                                                                        • Lee Rosevere - Wordless Language II
                                                                                                                                                        • Lee Rosevere - Going Home
                                                                                                                                                        • Lee Rosevere - Heat Haze
                                                                                                                                                        • Lee Rosevere - Keep Trying
                                                                                                                                                        • 33 min

                                                                                                                                                        About Things Learned

                                                                                                                                                        From the publisher's feed

                                                                                                                                                        What did you learn today? Steve looks back and reflects on daily things he's learned over the course of a decade and counting. Come listen to a relaxing journey and retrospective of things learned.…