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.

XP faster than Vista, OLPC, Gift Guide

Webware: Cool Web 2.0 apps for everyone

Windows XP benchmarks faster than Vista!

One Laptop Per Child PC reviewed

Geek.com 2007 Gift Guide

Cnet Video: Secrets of Tech Gifting

PcMag - 56 Top Holiday Gift Picks

Howto: Use your cell phone as a modem for your pc.

PcMag - Best Microsoft Office Alternatives

Always check for a coupon before you buy (At Retailmenot)

PDF ads are on the way

11 Great Firefox themes

Facebook modifies Beacon ads

From Uncle Monster:

British Data loss (of 25 million people) valued at over 3 billion!

A very, very cold Computer!

2.5 Gbps home internet!

A Chilean Rap Song. (really!)

New Apple Talk, Firefox 3 beta,Uk government loss, etc…

Check out Tollie’s new look Apple Talk/More Tech Talk site

Firefox 3 beta 1 (Ars Technica first look)

10 Hoax Gadgets

D’oh! UK Government loses financial data on 25 citizens. Oh wait, make that 25 MILLION citizens!!

WiFi and Autism link?
Maybe so, maybe no….

The Sun might be smaller than we thought.
(But still pretty big)

Amazon’s Kindle device out of stock | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
I just can’t believe this…. for the price?… and I wonder how long it will take for the free Internet service to be hacked.

Site of the Week: Zilok.com: At A Glance - Reviews by PC Magazine
This is a site that lets you rent out your personal items you do not use very much as well as find things to rent from others. Pretty unique idea. The link above takes you to PC Mags discussion on it. CLICK HERE to go to the site .

Harvard Physicist Plays Magician With the Speed of Light
Very fascinating stuff. I was just having a conversation last week about this very thing.

8 foot scorpion!

Always check here before buying online…you might save some $

Despite the fact that merely being in the game dramatically boosts music sales, The Romantics are suing the makers of Guitar Hero 3 for using a remake that sounds a little too much like the original. (they had a license…)

Thanksgiving Dinner under a microscope

From Uncle Monster:

A real Monster Truck!

Sharp (non-alien) crop circles

Robots infiltrate cockroach clans.
No really!

A new hero arises in the fight against the RIAA

Stopping Windows Vista adoption by promoting Free Software

Worst ads, Gifts for Geeks preview, Spybot…

PcWorld: Top 10 worst ads!

PC World - Chart - Top 10 External Hard Drives

PC World - Amazon to Debut E-Book Reader: WSJ

PC World - Storm Botnet Spreading Malware Through GeoCities

Vista suffering at the hands of XP

PcMag: 10 thrifty Gadget Gifts
and Ten Expensive Gadget Gifts

Marvel launches online comic reading site.

It’s been out for awhile, but still worth a mention: Spybot Search and Destroy 1.5

Comcast sued for blocking legit P2P

Guitar Hero for Wii review:
Crysis screenshots (for PC):

Memory Enhancer gadget

Dvorak: Microsoft eats its own dogfood, but doesn’t improve the taste.

Uncle Monster News:
LWD - “Look for the padlock” isn’t enough Crooks are buying SSL Certs now.

LWD - Shocking News! SCO Doesn’t Own UNIX After All!

Google’s 10 million dollar phone software challenge

Hacker of the year arrested

Google Phone, Gaming News…

10 Biggest Web Annoyances

Alicia Key’s Myspace page infects visitors

Firefox 3.0 Beta coming soon

Former Arizona Governor: I saw a UFO

John C. Dvorak: The Google Phone is doomed.

Gaming News:

Call of Duty 4: (Review)
Guitar Hero 3: (Review)
Half Life Orange for PC: (Review)
Super Mario Galaxy: Great Review
Metroid Prime 3 (Great Review!)
Ratchet and Clank Future (Another Great Review)

Uncle Monster:

New Email hit-man scam

Cal Physicists make a radio ten thousand times thinner than human hair!

Gphone coming soon?

Lego megachurch.

Xbox Live, OS X Leopard, 15 billion?

Mac OS X Leopard finally releases
More news (PcWorld)
Cnet reviews Leopard

Storm Worm Lashing out: Part 1 and Part 2

Xbox alive with family-friendly TV content | Entertainment | Industry | Reuters

MySpace Seeks to Create A Destination for Games - WSJ.com

Windows Live Skydrive offers 500mb of free storage space

Firefox 3 adds some nifty new security features….

But will Flock be the ultimate browser to beat?

Selected James Madison quotes, some of them quite prescient!

PDF related security attack underway
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Microsoft has shipped 88 million copies of Vista

Is Facebook worth 15 billion? Not according to Lance - (nor me)

Congressman tells Comcast to stop interfering with Bit Torrent.

From Uncle Monster:

Though Uncle Monster confesses to being a heretic, he believes this list of Free Bible Software will be beneficial to most non-heretics.

What to do with your old computers

Video: A backup for your letter opener.

Hammer juggling. (Amazing - but is it fake - and not only that, but I can’t understand these guys dialect - New Jersey, maybe?) ;)

iPhone apps, Google profits, Walmart legal rampage

We didn’t cover this last week: Ballmer claims Linux (Red Hat) owes Micro$oft money.

3rd party apps on the way for iPhone (next year)

Walmart looks to sue websites who post their black Friday ads early.

AT&T sues Vonage over patent issues.

Google profits up 46 percent for last quarter.

Comcast interfering with Bittorrent traffic.

New fangled spam - Mp3’s!

Windows XP Service Pack 3

Adobe looking to shift all of their programs online

Western Digital developing 3Tb hard drives!

Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) releases

Picknik + Flickr = online photo editing mashup.

AT&T Buys Big Chunk Of Wireless Spectrum - Forbes.com

AT&T Buys Big Chunk Of Wireless Spectrum - Forbes.com

PC World - Hackers Claim to Revive ‘Bricked’ iPhones

Google Earth + Youtube mashup

instant fundas: 15 Free CD/DVD burning alternatives to Nero

Why are pirates depicted with a parrot on their shoulder? Did that really happen?

Ugliest Tech Products

Ballmer claims that Red Hat Linux users owe Microsoft money!

Flubber armor?

Google has 60 percent of the global market on internet searches.

Internet2 reaches 100 Gbps!

From Uncle Monster:

WiFi detecting shirt!

PC World - Before They Spoiled the Software

Thunderbird R.I.P.?

WiFi phones, Storm Worm redux, RIAA judgment.

Finally, people are beginning to realize how dangerous the Storm Worm botnet is becoming.
related: Qwest ISP beginning to take action against infected ISP’s

RIAA wins $222,000 judgment against Minnesota woman for sharing 24 songs.

BT links up with FON for “people’s” Wi-Fi network | Breaking City News | Reuters.co.uk

Yahoo, eBay and PayPal to protect consumers against fraud and phishing

How to win the Tech Support game

Why are old DVD-Recorders selling for almost $2,000?

Alternatives to Microsoft Office

Microsoft Launches Healthvault?!

John C. Dvorak: Apple a “control freak” company

Uncle Monsters Picks:

This is geeks shirt of shirts b/c it’s so much more than a shirt: CLICK HERE

This doesn’t sound good at all: CLICK HERE

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