Allright. First and foremost, thanks again to everyone who helped us make our goal in what was possibly the most painless on-air membership drive ever. It was definitely a creative use of technology that went outside our normal channel to achieve our goal in a previously unheard-of time. It was an excellent hack, if you […]
Allright. Something to go check out AFTER we’re off the air: The Independent Film Channel is midway through it’s Monty Python-athon. In what is probably a nod to the troop’s birthday, the channel is running several hours of Python fare each night, including episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, interviews, and most (if not all) […]
This Saturday, September 19th, the Houston Area Apple Users Group will host a talk by Apple’s Dreaux St. Marie on OS Ten dot Six, aka Snow Leopard. This month’s meeting will be held at the Bellaire Civic Center, located at 7008 South Rice Avenue in Bellaire, Texas. Special Interest Group Meetings run from nine AM […]
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! No, that’s not a distress call from the RIAA’s legal team, but rather the day on which all Houston metropolitan and surrounding area geeks gather for the month of May. This month’s geek gathering will continue to go down at the Coffee Groundz in Midtown Houston at the corner of Bagby and […]
It wasn’t too long ago that if you wanted to run a piece of Open Source software, you have to have an open source operating system to go along with it. As a large number of Open Source projects have been ported over to the Microsoft Windows Operating System, this is no longer true… Now […]
I was originally going to come up with a list of the top ten techy things that I am thankful for this year, but with the DMCA, my broken oh key and the makings of another exploding battery, I thought I’d go back and borrow from what other people in technology had been thankful for […]
Originally heard during Barrett Time and shamelssly ganked from the Geek Speak Blog here are the major events that occured over the 12 year life-span of Technology Bytes: The First Year: 1995 Twelve years ago this month, Windows 95 hit store shelves. The day was August 24th. Microsoft Internet Explorer is also launched as part […]
Tonight I’d like to give all the listeners who don’t want to hear about the iPhone the finger. Well, a finger primer, that is. We’ll get to why it’s important in a moment… For the purpose of this BarretTime, we’ll count the thumb as the first finger. Ours is opposable, though contrary to popular belief, […]
The Houston ITEC show is happening next week at Reliant Park. On May 16th and 17th, Houston’s biggest technology expo comes to town, this year foucsing it’s sights on small and midsize businesses. This year’s show is actually made of six seperate conferences with 24 sessions covering technical topics such as networking, wireless technology, security […]
If you’re sporting any mac hardware running OS ten, you might want to fire up the Software Update Utility to download and install the QuickTime update that became available today. QuickTime 7.1.6 includes numerous bug fixes, including a critical security issue with QuickTime for Java. The download is a little over 45 megs, so if […]
