The DogHouse Podcast

#5 The DogHouse – Go – Go Gadget Airplane Direct Download

Computer Technology News

Time Warner backs off the consumption cap but also stalls on the DOCSIS 3.0. We discuss this new 50Mbs service as well as Alex Dudly’s comments regarding the cap.
D-Link’s new DXN-221 hits the market carrying Ethernet over coax.
Belkin designs a USB charger for automobiles. Create burgers on your George Foreman USB Grill in your car!…..or charge your iPhone/iPod.

Steve Eve’s record breaking model rocket stands at 16 feet and blasts off with 8,000 pounds of thrust with a perfect landing to boot!

PC Gaming

We discuss in-flight internet with Gogo by Aircell. Play games like World of Warcraft on 3G speeds at 35,000 feet! Expect to see Gogo technology on over 1,000 planes by the end of this year.
We discuss some of the new items in World of Warcraft 3.1.

Technical Corner featuring Q&A

We review a call on wireless security and some possible solutions. Thanks Dustin!
Email regarding System building questions and some advice on a new gaming rig specification.

New Contest!

The next 2,000 gold from J!NX will be given next week to our favorite call / feedback / and comments regarding geocaching.

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We welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions! If you would like to submit a question for a future podcast you can leave a message for us at 214-705-3788 . Try and keep your message under a minute so we can play it back on the next show. We can also be reached by email: podcast@doghousesystems.com

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#4 The DogHouse – IYQ J!NX!- Direct Download

Computer Technology News

Time Warner to implement 40GB Bandwidth Cap.  We discuss how Time Warner is coming out with 5, 10, 20, and 40GB caps for their customers.  They claim they are doing this for their customers.  For customers that don’t use much bandwidth, they will be able to save more each month.  What do you think?  We’d love to hear your feedback!

Microsoft announces that downgrade rights for Windows 7 will go back to Vista and XP!  This is great news for many and we explain in detail what downgrade rights means for you.

Western Digital is getting into the SSD (solid state disk) game!  With the acquisition of SiliconSystems, who specializes in SSD technology, Western Digital will be looking to establish themselves in the quickly growing market.

PC Gaming

We play back a message from one of our listeners who asks our thoughts on DRM in gaming and how Steam is positioned in the midst of this.  This leads us down a rabbit trail of good ole gaming talk!

Technical Corner featuring Q&A

Charles gives a call and asks about the feasibility of upgrading a 6 year old budget gaming rig.  Keith explains some of the challenges of upgrading a system this old.

New Contest!

It’s time for a new contest courtesy of J!NX!  For a chance to win 2000 gold (equals $20 at jinx.com), email us an action screenshot from any game or browser.  A caption should accompany the screenshot.  We will announce the winner in the next podcast!

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We welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions!  If you would like to submit a question for a future podcast you can leave a message for us at 214-705-3788 .  Try and keep your message under a minute so we can play it back on the next show.  We can also be reached by email: podcast@doghousesystems.com

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#003b The DogHouse – Exxxxxtreme! – Direct Download

Interview with Kyle “Superfly” McCarthy of J!NX

We couldn’t wait till Episode 4 to tell everybody about our new sponsor, J!NX (http://www.jinx.com)!  The main reason is because of a new product line they just announced today:  Exxxxxtreme Gaming Products.  They are well known for their incredible clothing line, but now they are getting into gaming accessories!

Head over here to check out their new product line: http://www.jinx.com/exxxxxtreme.aspx

Kyle talks to us about their new lineup and he will also be joining us in episode #4!

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#003 The Doghouse – Stop the Cap! – Direct Download

Computer Technology News

WiMAX is in rolling out and coming to a city near you!  We spend some time reviewing some of the possibilities and future uses of 4G networks.  We also talk about how Sprint has now joined AT&T and Verizon in the 5GB monthly data cap for their mobile customers.

Gadgets

iPhone 3.0 OS revealed to launch this summer. We discuss some of the new features such as Cut, Copy, Paste and MMS.

iPhone Application Reviews:

reQall application for the iPhone and its functionality.  (Note: reQall has just be updated and there is also a Pro version available.  We will talk about this in a future podcast).

Metal Gear Solid Touch for the iPhone

Cadillac is now offering an in car hotspot package with the ability to connect to the internet virtually anywhere! In this episode we pick our minds on the many different uses this offers.

PC Gaming

Want to make $500,000 a year playing video games? Pick up Warcraft III and move to Korea!

Need for Speed : Shift has released a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuq9HZw_T2g

Sina gives us a WoW Tournament Realm update and some more thoughts on 3.1.

Technical Corner featuring Q&A

Tyberiuss asks us about routers and firewalls.

Aero has some questions about the WoW shadow flicker issue and some other good questions that we go over in this show.

At the end of the show (after the outro music and right before the outtakes) we play Dustin’s voicemail regarding his question last week about why he was getting 60 fps.

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#002 – The DogHouse- Direct Download

 Computer Technology News

OCZ 1TB solid state disk (SSD) that could be mistaken for a video card!  We also talk about the Samsung marketing group.  They take 24 SSDs configured in a RAID 0 and show off what kind of speed they are able to achieve with 6TB of storage!

Gadgets

BMW and Thermaltake team up to make a chassis that is sure to have folks do a double take!  In this epidode of The DogHouse we also spend some time discussing the Palm Pre and the iPhone Application Store.  We plan to do an iPhone App of the Week beginning with episode #3.  We’d love for you to participate!  If you have a review you would like to submit, please email the .MP3 to us at podcast@doghousesystems.com.

PC Gaming

Sina talks about the new Need 4 Speed title.  Also, we discuss the new Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.K. game that will be coming out soon.   We also go over some updated WoW news.

Technical Corner featuring Q&A

We feature two calls this week that both have very good questions about frame rates.  In one call, Tom from Wisconsin asked if we could show the difference between low and higher frame rates.  Sina put together a video and we have a link to it here:
http://forums.doghousesystems.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=281

We will have a link to a higher resolution video on Monday.

Thanks for the Technical Corner voicemails…keep them coming!  In fact, we will pick our favorite call for next week and give the winner a DogHouse / Instance t-shirt!

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We welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions!  If you would like to submit a question for a future podcast you can leave a message for us at 214-705-3788.  Try and keep your message under a minute so we can play it back on the next show.  We can also be reached by email:  podcast@doghousesystems.com

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#001 The Doghouse – Mobius – Direct Download

Computer Technology News

Ion from Nvidia:  Low power consumption, small footprint and it can decode HD video.  We talk about how this relates to PC gaming.  ATI is coming out with the Radeon HD 5870×2 in June and Keith goes over somethings we can expect from the next generation video card.

Gadgets

Nanotech research could fit 10.5TB of data onto disk the size of a quarter!  It’s future technology, but we are cheering these guys on!

DogHouse News

We launched Mobius, our new laptop line a week ago.  We discuss what we learned during the R&D stage of the laptop.  Does the Extreme processor make sense for gaming?  We have the answer in this segment.   Also, in DogHouse news, we recently began shipping to Canada!  EU is next on our list!

Technical Corner featuring Q&A

We will feature calls in next week’s episode.

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We welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions!  If you would like to submit a question for a future podcast you can leave a message for us at 214-705-3788.  Try and keep your message under a minute so we can play it back on the next show.  We can also be reached by email:  podcast@doghousesystems.com

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