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Time to raise the hairs on the neck of all Wifi-enabled laptop and mobile phone users in this interesting interview with Gerjon McVries ( @mcvries on Twitter) about “The pineapple” and its awesome (and malevolent) potential when it comes to exploiting basic flaws in Wifi enabled devices. If you were worried about the NSA sniffing your traffic in the Prism debacle, then try not to realise that a 14 year old scriptkiddie with a paypall account could buy this awesome toy and sniff every bit you transmit. Shownotes Little Brother and Homeland by Corry Doctorow (Free books) The Hak 5 Forum for Pineapple users. What are you waiting for : Buy one. Rickroll everyone with your pineapple. The Prism Scandal McVries’ personal website. Linux Basement Podcast.

We got a nice and juicy hardware review for you on one of our favourite topics : Laptop bags. We take a closer look at the 13 inch Macbook pro and iPad attache Case (what a mouthful) from Thule. We take a good and decent look at the appearance, style and finish of Thule’s carry-case for the Macbook pro .. but most importantly we answer the question no-one dares to ask : Is it waterproof ? All of that and more in this weeks Knightwise.com podcast. Shownotes. Thule.com The thule “Gauntlet”

Together with some great community content from viewer Cyberpunk Librarian who is showing us “How he uses cross platform technology at work” we also have a guesthost for this weeks videoblog. Shownotes Find Cyberpunk Librarian at … bibliosophs.com | qcfriends.org/notallbits youtube.com/user/cyberpunklibrarian @bibrarian | gplus.to/bibrarian Music by Incompetech.com

We dive behind the microphone and give all of you Apple users a slice of pie you don’t want to pass up on. We talk about making your Mac “Slider” friendly and how to put up ladders and crawl out of Apple’s walled garden. We have quite a slew of interesting tips and tricks on how to run “cross platform” applications, files, filesystems and connections through your favorite Mac. Learn and listen to this episode of the podcast that is filled to the rim with community feedback and contributions and great music by Youtube princess Juless. Shownotes. Why ? How to get started. Remapping your brain and your body. Desktop enhancements.  Loginox. PathFinder. iTerm 20 Best command line hacks. TextWrangler QuickSilver Crashplan Make executable scripts on OSX. Cross platform applications. Use Virtualbox in Seamless mode. Web tools. Online Photoshop Pixlr Macports. Cronnix. Dropbox Bittorrent Sync Macfuse Tweak code (Copy and paste in your OSX command line) #make dock appear instantatiously defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock #don’t reopen every file when you reopen your app. #in preview defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false #in quicktime defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false #kill the dashboard defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES killall Dock #show the path in the finder defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES #disable window animations defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false #enable direct scrolling defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO #no more bouncy windows when scrolling defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0 #set time machine backup to 1800 sudo defaults write/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 1800 #force expanded save-and-print  dialogs defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -boolean true defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -boolean true #no 3d-glassy dock defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean yes #show hidden files in finder #defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE #killall Finder #3d glassy dock defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean no #make hidden app icons semi transparent defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -boolean yes #create a ‘recent items’ stack defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’ #screen grabs in jpg defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg Music by Juless Feedback by Mr Gadgets and Matt McGraw Join the community on Google+  

We are back with another weekly videoblog and fill you in on whats going down in the Knightwise.com sliders community. We drop a couple of big names on who is signing up for our “Avengers assemble” project where we are looking for guestbloggers, content creators and backend mavens. As a bonus we swivel the camera around and take a close look at the production desk and what kind of clutter we use to punch the show together. 

We grab our camera kit once more and hop over to London to cover Samsungs 2013 premiere event where their new product line of Phones, Tablets, Laptops, Desktops and other devices is presented to the public. We take a close look at the new Galaxy phones, the new NX Camera, and Samsungs first Windows-Android dualbooting sideloading Slabtop : The Ativ Q.  Shownotes. Our first impressions of the event. The Ativ Premiere event on Youtube. Stefaan Lesaage’s coverage of the event (Dutch) An overview of all the covered products. 

We have a special guest in the studio this week as we give you the tips and tricks you need to know when you are ready to buy your first second hand DSLR camera. House photographer Konrad drops by and tells us the DO’s and the Don’t ’s of buying a digital camera and how you can get the most bang for your buck. All of that in this weeks video edition of kw604.   Shownotes : www.konraddwojak.com http://www.myshuttercount.com/

We pick up the weekly video blog tradition at Knightwise.com to give you a peek behind the scenes of whats going down. I talk about the new google hangout client and how I accidently connected 62 ‘wiseguys’ from over the world AND how YOU can contribute to the Knightwise.com community. We also ask you whether or not you want these episodes in the mediafeed or on just on the blog. In short : It’s time for your feedback people.  

Privacy is at a premium these days and on the heels of the whole Prism scandal, we also look back at Microsofts apparent ‘interest’ in the links in your Skype Chat Conversations. Is your favorite peer to peer voip client not that safe anymore  ? And if not, what are the alternatives. We talk to expert CafeNinja about the ultimate Slider Friendly Cross Platform VOIP client that will have you “mumbling away” in no time. Shownotes. The Skype Scandal Mumble HIlariously simple guide on getting started with Mumble. CafeNinja

Do you have any USB Thumbdrives lying around collecting dust or data that you haven’t used in quite a while ? Those days are gone after you listen to this weeks episode of the Knightwise.com podcast. We show you how to “live of a stick” and have both your data, your applications and even your complete operating system .. running on a stick. Shownotes Different kinds of drives Portable Apps Clonezilla System Rescue Cd Gparted Spinrite Backtrack & Orphcrack (not mentioned in the show) Unetbootin Pendrivelinux MultisystemOS Truecrypt Install Linux on an encrypted drive

We kick off season 6 of the Knightwise.com podcast with a classic episode of “Storytime” where we take you down a good old fashioned rant about the “Average Hick” of the cyberspace community : “The Norms” If they are not buying the latest gear for no reason, they might be out trolling your Facebook feed. These 2 short stories will probably sound very familiar for any advanced geek. Add some cool music to the mix and welcome to season six of the Knightwise.com podcast. Shownotes. Intro Music : Nordlight   Pictures of the bookstore in Maastricht  Story : Not the latest thing. Music : Carbon based Lifeforms Story : Welcome to wherever you are. Outtro.

We take up part 2 of our Sliders Academy series and take the Linux system we installed in lesson one a step further. Follow the tutorial and learn how to connect to your Linux machine from any operating system and with multiple users. Build your own terminal server or “slide” from Windows to OSX while taking your personal Linux desktop with you anywere. Using the NX Server and the NX client we slide another powerful tool into your Sliders toolbag. Shownotes. Installing SSH Installing NX Server Installing the NX Client on Windows Installing xQuartz on OSX. Installing the NX Client on OSX.  Part one of the series : Installing the Ubuntu system.

The internet is a valuable source of information but the question is : How can we get the most out of it ? In this show we take a look at the possibilities of gaining knowledge and experience from the wide wide web. We look at the different sources of information that are out there and how you can streampunk these informationstreams into your way of life. Last but not least we give you some essential tips on where and how to consume your carefully selected information to “curate the library of your mind’. Shownotes. Music by Aes Dana : Principles of Gravity.

We start out a new series of Video tutorials on Knightwise.com called “Sliders Academy” where we give you step by step guides to ‘learn how to slide’. We start out with chapter one of Sliders Academy where we show you how to setup a central Ubuntu system that will serve as the nervecenter for your upcoming slider activities. In this episode we show you how to download and install Ubuntu, Partition your drive, update your system and install some alternative desktop interfaces. 30 minutes of educational edu-tainment coming right up. Shownotes. Ubuntu Linux UnetBootin Lxde Xfce Download the video HERE.

In KW503 we give you the secret sauce to turn your 5 year old netbook into a machine thats powerful enough for day to day use. With a combination of OS Tweaks, light applications, remote desktops, cloud applications and een a terminal server hack, you can bring your netbook back to life. You can also watch the “making of” this podcast episode as it was recorded as a Google Hangout .. here  Shownotes. Linux Ubuntu Xubuntu Lubuntu Crunchbang. Streamlining Streamline Windows with Nlite Disable Windows processes Speed up Linux with sudo apt-get preload Choosing your applications. Chrome Firefox Midory (linux) Sylpheed (linux) Hottot (linux) Xchat (linux) Mirc (windows) Notepad Alternatives (Windows) Leafpad (linux) Focuswriter (linux) Portable Apps (Windows) Remote access. Enable remote access on linux. Enable remote access on windows. Vnc clients Vnc servers Ssh server (linux) Ssh server (mac) X11 forwarding (linux) NXFree Terminal Server (linux – windows – mac) (PDF tutorial) Teamviewer (linux – windows – mac) Command line applications. Putty (windows) Elinks for Google Reader. (linux) Alpine for Gmail (linux) Twidge (linux) Irssi (linux) Centerim (linux) Fbcmd (linux) Wordgrinder (linux) Midnight Commander (linux) Feedback Audiocomment from Cody Cooper Track : Solar Fields : Discovering Donations