Chase and Sam

Welcome to ChaseandSam.com! We're tech journalists, web designers and computer security consultants from Birmingham, Alabama. Hear Tech Talk on Saturday at 11:00am on WAPI 1070 and see us on TV (Thursday night, 9:55pm) hosting Tech Check on WBRC6 - the local Fox affiliate. Call us on Saturdays at: 1-866-927-1070

Websites of the Week

This is our old Websites of the Week Page. When we first started it (2004?), we would put interesting websites here. Beginning in 2006, it became more of a show notes page. Not it's mostly retired, and we put our shownotes and interesting sites on the home page.

Free Christmas album, Googlepedia, free programs!

Download a full and high quality Christmas album before Midnight Sunday. (Features Jars of Clay, Leigh Nash, Sarah Mchlaclan, Matt Wertz and more. Of special note: Wert’s What Child is This, Nash’s The First Noel and BNL’s God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

4 Excellent Freeware programs discussed by Sam and Chase on Fox6’s Tech Check.

Google working on Wikipedia rival
: NYTimes article of the same - Wikipedia Competitor Being Tested by Google - New York Times

Snow Globe Boy Seeking World Record | Cleveland Leader
:CLICK HERE to watch him 24/7… kinda creepy I know but he asked for it.

Unreal Tournament 3 review.

PC World - Opera Seeks Tougher Remedy in Microsoft Case

NBC attorney suggest that copyright violations should be policed more vigerously than burglary, etc. Here’s the exact quote, “Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned,” Cotton said. “If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year.”
***In other news - copying cds you own, even just for your own use is theft - and you are a thief (according to the RIAA)

Watch it Apple: Apple publishes QuickTime fix for streaming flaw | One More Thing - CNET News.com

36 Current Ebay scams

Compusa clarifies details on store closing

Medgle - A very interesting medical search engine. Allows you to enter your symptoms, and suggests a series of possible ailments.

Nintendo and Gamestop address Wii shortage.
;)

Updated GarageBand does custom ringtones for iPhone

Popular Mechanics 10 worst 2007 Gadgets
Cnet’s list of the same thing
5 Tech Stocking Stuffers
While we’re at it - here’s a bunch of best/worst of 2007 lists

Uncle Monster’s Section:
MS hates open source:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/12/10/dutch/index.php

I’ve seen it all now.
http://www.xoxide.com/usb-warming-gloves.html

A very good resource for a very bad problem.
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.html

The dictionary is catching up.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/12/12/tech-woot.html

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