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This week’s show is an in-depth look at the Surface Pro 3 from Microsoft. We tackle the hardware, the software and the applications that make this device a contender for a daily driver. We also have another great track from Daniel Messer. Let’s get into it! Links Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Music Project Scorpion – … Continue reading "KW1004 Microsoft Surface Pro 3"

This week Knightwise travels to the Acer Green show and brings a couple of interviews with from the show floor as well as some “live” music. Links Acer Aspire Switch 10 E Acer Aspire Switch 11 Acer Aspire R11 Acer Aspire R13 Acer S7 Acer M220 Acer Liquid Jade Z Music The Map Trio – … Continue reading "KW1003 Acer Green"

This week’s edition of the Knightwise.com podcast brings another installment of Storytime. Sit back and relax to some tunes selected by the Cyberpunk Librarian, Daniel Messer, and two stories from the archives: “Offline” and “When Wanting is More Pleasing than Having”. Links When Wanting is More Pleasing than Having (original article) Amok Time (Wikipedia) Music … Continue reading "KW1002 Storytime"

We kick off season 10 of the Knightwise.com podcast with a hands on review of the BQ Ubuntu Phone. We review the hardware, talk about the fledgling OS and see how the phone holds up in “daily use”. Splice in some cool tunes selected by Daniel Mesner and you have yourself the first episode of … Continue reading "KW1001 First impressions of the Ubuntu Phone"

We pay tribute to  the late Leonard Nimoy in a special episode of Storytime. Shownotes. (Music) Star Trek Tribute by Acoustic Labs. Funeral Scene Star Trek II Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon. Leonard Nimoy’s adress at the college of fine arts in 2012.

Is your mailbox overflowing ? Is your to-do list getting out of control ? Have you forgotten to pick up your significant other from the airport 3 times in a row ? Sounds to me you need a system to organise the myriad of things you have to do. Good thing there is KW908 : … Continue reading "kw908 : Getting Things Done, the cross platform way."

We visit Fossdem 2015 in Brussels and interview several open source initiatives communities and projects. We talk to the OpenSuse guys AND the Debian foundation on what they have been up to and ask the people from Jitsy why their cross platform secure chatclient is the cats Meow. The CentOS project tells us why they are the favorite distro for system admins and we learn that Diaspora is the open source privacy aware alternative to Facebook. Furthermore we learn how TOR works (and how it can help you get more content on Netflix) and what tool to use if you need to deploy 50 High capacity streaming videoservers (For My little Pony video’s or your own Porn empire) with Puppet. So get  your propeller hat on and strap in for the Fossdem2015 interviews. Links Opensuse Debian Jitsy Puppet Diaspora TOR Fossdem 2015

This week we look for ways to make technology work for you instead of the other way around. No really ! Have you noticed how you are constantly interrupted by notifications from your smartphone ? How you spend hours on Social media without doing anything productive ? How adds and Tv sometimes make you feel agitated ? We go on a quest for some practical tips to cyber-zen your lifestyle. So lets tame your content stream and your devices so they will work for you .. instead of the other way around. Shownotes. Introduction Getting rid of cable tv Taming my devices The power of “Ding” The “Ding” hierarchy The results Signoff.

We deep dive into the world of Chromebooks and find an answer to the question : Can you survive on a Chromebook. We walk you through the possibilities and limitations of the Chromebook. We enlighten you  on how to use it for work, connect back to your home network and how to use your Chromebook to entertain you. If thats not enough we go beyond the design specifications and sideload Linux on your Chromebook turning into a low budget sliders dream machine. All of that and more .. in Kw905 : Life on a Chromebook. Catch the live recording of this podcast in the Youtube video below and see if you can catch Sulu the dog as our Podcast assistant. Shownotes. The Acer C730 First impressions Hardware – Software Taking the Chromebook to work (Article) Using the Chromebook to entertain you (Article) Connecting back to your home network via a Socks5 proxy over SSH (Article) Dual Booting your Chromebook with Linux (Distroshare.com) Sideloading your Chromebook with Crouton (Youtube instruction video) Epilogue

We get our greedy hands on one of the most desired smartphones of the day : The Oneplus One. Is it worth the begging for invites, the groveling, the craze ? We take a good hard look at the Oneplus One and give you our first impressions of the phone when it comes to hardware, software and its place in the Smartphone market of today.

F.A.C.T.S. is Belgians biggest cosplay anime scifi and comic expo and WE were there. Join our reporters as we interview guests, cosplayers and bootholders about the great fun they have at F.A.C.T.S.  A chat with the Cheshire cat, a fling with the fawn, Orks all around and a perfect replica of Kit and CAR from Knightrider. If that isn’t enough how about a talk to the mother of dragons ? Tea-Time at the Whovians and a fantastic look at how a Quidditch match is played.  Get your geek on : This is Knightwise.com at F.A.C.T.S. 2014 Shownotes. Rebel Benelux Base  Force Relics  Belgian Whovians United Belgian Muggle Quidditch Production. Camera 1 : Stefaan Lesage Camera 2 : Sarah Droogmans Photographer 1 : Dorien Goossens Photographer 2 : Bert Vandewynckele Interviews : Knightwise Drone footage : www.devia.be Music Pentatonix. More Behind the scene footage + exclusive pictures available on our Facebook page.

Its time for episode 2 in Season 9 of the Knightwise.com podcast. Today we take a long overdue look at Windows (Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone /RT) Triggered by a recent purchase of a Dell Venue 8 pro tablet we take a look at what Windows still has to offer. What are the cool apps in the store, what are the killer apps you need on your desktop and which tools give you the best “Cross platform slider – friendly” experience. You can download the show or watch the live recording (Which is full of glorious bloopers and distractions from the Live chatroom). Shownotes. Intro The Dell venue 8 pro The Surface 1 pro The best metro apps The best desktop apps Whats wrong with Windows Music : The Forest of Lights by Hiddeninside. (Music selected by Cyberpunk Librarian )  

Welcome back to season 9 of Knightwise.com where we kick off with another geeky video documentary. We head out to Belgiums best Retro Toystore as the Star Wars fanclub organises their annual fanday. We talk to the owner about retro toys and collectors, interview the people from Teekay-421 and talk to the troopers. (And did I mention we got shot ? ) If you got this video through our RSS feed, remember that you can pick up the high resolution version via our Youtube Channel or right here on the website. Shownotes. Gadget Belgium Teekay 421 Fanclub

We dive into the holiday madness with kw808 : Holiday Anonymity and talk about ways to stay safe when you are away from your trusty home network or personal 3G connection. Who might be snooping, Who might be watching ? Should you be worried about the 16 year old script kiddy in the Hotel Lobby or is he just doing is own thing .. or is he looking at your traffic. Be aware of the risks and learn how to stay safe. We tell you how in KW808. Shownotes; Dangers of open Wifi networks. Keeping it safe : https everywhere. https-everywhere for Chrome. https-everywhere for Firefox, Android and Operah The TOR browser The TOR project Sshuttle (Linux and OSX) Proxycap (Windows and OSX) Multiple Live distro’s on one stick. : Multisystem. More on Live Cds : kw606 : Life on a Stick Tails 1.1 Sniffing wifi traffic with a Pineapple PROMO : The Admin-Admin podcast. Music : Early Morning by The Watcher. Music sourced by the Cyberpunk Librarian, check out the Cyberpunk Librarian podcast for more cool music like this.

We go into depth into one of the most powerful command line programs to delve into the treasure chest of cat video’s we call youtube. We explore Youtube-Dl, its capabilities and the vast combination of switches and parameters you can use to turn Youtube (and other video sites) into your personal b*tch. Shownotes. What is youtube-dl How to get it Youtube-dl Homebrew List of supported sites Command line overview  Youtube Download  youtube-dl