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Apparently Samsung's airplane mode sometimes may involve burning through the plane's carpet.

Do you have friends or family that have no idea how to use their phones? If so, then these apps will be perfect for you! Jason has a variety of apps that range from basic to advanced in their abilities to screen share. Now you no longer need to be there in person to show your friends or family the cool new feature that none of them can figure out. Send in your app tips to arena@twit.tv. Vote for your favorite apps on our subreddit at androidapparena.reddit.com. Subscribe to Android App Arena at https://twit.tv/shows/android-app-arena. Bandwidth for Android App Arena is provided by Cachefly.

Frida is a Greasemonkey for native apps, or, put in more technical terms, it’s a dynamic code instrumentation toolkit. It lets you inject snippets of JavaScript into native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. Frida also provides you with some simple tools built on top of the Frida API. These can be used as-is, tweaked to your needs, or serve as examples of how to use the API. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

CEO Marissa Mayer complied with a government directive to scan hundreds of millions of incoming messages, according to Reuters.

We also chat about Amazon's newest Prime perk and a confusing ad campaign for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

Commercial software licenses are a total FRAUD! That's how our feedback starts this month. We get into the difficulties of installing Ubuntu on a dual-boot system with Win10, audio technical details, full-disk encryption, and much, much more. We even have a Gone Linux story. Episode 308 Time Stamps 00:00 Going Linux #308 · Listener Feedback 00:15 Introduction 00:52 Bill is off 01:13 Charlie: Commercial software licenses are a total FRAUD! 07:09 Scott: Network manager shows only strongest access points 11:25 Bob: Is full disk encryption really encrypting the whole disk in a dual-boot system? 19:50 Richard: Dual booting with Windows 10 is not always easy 22:40 Paul: Building a new computer and looking for a Linux MOBO 25:16 Göran: Writing bash scripts 26:38 Nancy: Audio is perfect now 27:27 John: Thank you! VNC to Ubuntu MATE with VPN 28:38 Bruce: More in-depth on audio 32:41 Dylan: Gone Linux 36:35 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 37:59 End

Hosts: Jason Howell and Scott Wilkinson Jason Howell and Scott Wilkinson talk with Kieren McCarthy from The Register about the US giving up control of DNS to ICANN. We're joined by two scientists, William Sparks and Jennifer Wiseman, to talk about the discovery of water on Europa and what this could mean when it comes to finding life on this moon of Jupiter. Next Saturday, October 8th, athletes with assistive technologies will compete against each other at the Cybathlon and Robert Riener, the founder and director, is here to discuss. Four U.S. states filed a lawsuit to stop the U.S. from giving up control of DNS to ICANN. Some see the role American provided as purely administrative. Kieren, Jason and Scott discuss the possible politics in play.Learn how the team uses ultraviolet light and other imagery to find water on Europa. They share how the discovery was made and where this fits into the overall scope of NASA and life in outer space.We learn how Cybathlon athletes with disabilities are using the latest technologies at the intersection of machine and man. We also discuss the future of transhumanism.Ron Richards has a cool tool he uses for web development.Patrick Norton has some advice when it comes to surge protectors.Scott will answer a Call for Help about cutting the cord and over-the-air DVRsGuests: Kieren McCarthy, Jennifer Wiseman, William Sparks, Patrick Norton, Robert Riener, and Ron Richards The New Screen Savers will record live, every Saturday at 3PM Pacific on live.twit.tv. It will be made available for download and streaming later that evening at https://twit.tv/nss. Thanks to Cachefly for bandwidth for this episode.

This week, Alex, Jerry, Daniel, and Flo talk about the Google event happening on October 4, and how Google's Pixel phones need something truly special to make a mark on the industry in ways the Nexuses never could. And BlackBerry is no longer making its own phones. Is that a big deal when the company pledged years ago to be a software company first? Finally, Android Wear 2.0 has been delayed. Boo! But its scope is much bigger than when it first debuted earlier this year, so when smartwatches finally are released with it, we'll actually have some pretty cool new stuff to look forward to.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jon Strickland Guest: Sam Machkovech Facebook's Snapchat-like Messenger Day that enables shared photos/video for 24 hours (before expiration), Amazon's Alexa Prize competition for university students, Arduino is launching the ESLOV IoT Invention Kit, Nintendo unveils new NES Mini features like save states, and an old Teddy returns with today's tech. Plus, Sam Machkovech discusses Amazon Game Studio's recent Stream+ announcement. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

New MacBook Pros are coming at the end of October, a guy destroys iPhones in an Apple Store -- and Apple knows about the iPhone 6 "Touch Disease" issue!

Hosts: Lou Maresca, Brian Chee, Curt Franklin Guests: Tim Hockin, Aparna Sinha A large iOS 10 exploit bounty, Blackberry exits the hardware business, China's 2 Gigawatt Solar Project, Facebook At Work announced for October 10th, Firefox loses trust in WoSign's certificate authority, the Electronic Frontier Foundation piles on HP for their DRM firmware, and more! Plus, Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha discuss Kubernetes, Google, and containers. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Steele Saunders (@SteeleSaunders), host of I Love Green Guide Letters and Steele Wars, joins Matt and Andy to talk about mice and apologies, more body (not head) transplants. smoke bombs, weed vs. opioids in car crashes, bumper sticker flashing, Australians origins, and giraffes actually being many giraffes.

The US hands over control of the domain system to ICANN. Tom Merritt thinks he can explain what will happen in one sentence. Plus Darren Kitchen on the rising cost of exploits. Does it mean you’re safer? MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org. Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. Follow … Continue reading DTNS 2869 – The Domains We Name Stay Mainly In Our Reign →

On this week's episode of SyrupCast, we dig into the downfall of BlackBerry's hardware division. Zach Gilbert, previously of TheBerryFix and Crackberry.com, and now MobileSyrup's director of social media and community manager, joins the podcast to give us his views on what went wrong. Also providing his views on Blackberry's decision, Douglas Soltys, editor in chief of BetaKit and former blog manager at RIM. As always, MobileSyrup senior editors Patrick O'Rourke and Igor Bonifacic also drop knowledge on both BlackBerry and Shomi on this week's podcast.

On this week's show: Google's shadowy Andromeda operating system - merging Android and Chrome - begins to reveal itself. Plus: Google Home, Google Wifi, Chromecast Ultra, and Google's big 10/4 event nears.