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Category5 Technology TV
Weekly live digital TV show with Robbie Ferguson focused on topics of interest to tech minds. Ask your questions and get live answers. Recipient of 2014 and 2017 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.
Community Soldering Tips
- Episode 556
- May 16, 2018
- 819
As Robbie endeavors to become a reasonably good solderer, the community surrounds him and fills the inbox with some exceptional tips for becoming better at soldering. It's a process, and this week's show is one more step toward solder perfection.
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Beginner Electronics with a Digispark Micro-Controller
- May 9, 2018
- 4,727
The Robot Named OhBot
- May 2, 2018
- 4,616
Blockchains and Bunkers
- Apr 25, 2018
- 4,973
Retro Gaming in 2018 on a Pi 3 B+
- Apr 18, 2018
- 13,608
The Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and the Future of Finances
- Apr 11, 2018
- 4,940
Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Episode 433
- January 5, 2016
- 752,712
We continue setting up our Pi web server with PHP and a strong Linux firewall (CSF/LFD). We also get things going on deploying MariaDB, but haven't quite got there yet. On GIMP Tips, we look at creating gradients and how to make the edges super-smooth.
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Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Nov 12, 2013
- 741,934
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 736,960
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 728,052
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 703,008
The Category5.TV Newsroom
A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
Top Stories for the Week of May 16, 2018
- 170
- Malware has been found hiding inside software in the Ubuntu Snap store.
- After 33 years, Notepad finally displays text files properly.
- Facebook is launching its own blockchain division as part of a broader reorganization of its executive lineup.
- Nintendo is bringing back its outrageously popular $60 NES Classic Edition console next month.
Top Stories for the Week of May 9, 2018
- 1,466
- Twitter's 330 million users are being urged to change their passwords after some were exposed on its internal network—in plain text.
- Ford is developing a new smart car window that will enable blind passengers to experience the passing landscape.
- Imagine the frustration of playing a game where the difficulty level can constantly change. That's what an experiment in AI technology is doing to some retro classics.
- Equifax has published yet more details on the personal records and sensitive information stolen by miscreants after they hacked its databases last year.
Top Stories for the Week of May 2, 2018
- 1,373
- After raising more than $2 million last year to build a Linux-powered smartphone with a focus on privacy and open source software, Purism hopes to deliver the first “Librem 5” smartphones early next year.
- Yes, it has already happened. We talked about the Tegra exploit last week, which is now in-the-wild . . . and already, a user has Ubuntu running on the Nintendo Switch.
- A company which specialises in delivery robots plans to expand its operations from two campuses to twenty by 2019 with a fleet of one thousand.
- A driver who moved into the passenger seat after putting his electric car into autopilot while at 40mph on a highway has been banned from driving.
Top Stories for the Week of April 25, 2018
- 1,550
- Germany's supreme court has rejected a legal case that sought to stop people using the popular Adblock Plus program that removes ads from websites.
- A Chinese web giant has found a “Windows zero-day,” and is keeping the details quiet while working with Microsoft on the issue.
- An unpatchable vulnerability has been found in the Nintendo Switch that can be exploited to run custom code.
- Do you run Drupal? You need to upgrade immediately as an in-the-wild exploit aims to take over your server.
Top Stories for the Week of April 18, 2018
- 1,441
- The world’s first electrified road that recharges the batteries of cars and trucks driving on it has been opened in Sweden.
- Amazon claims it does not eavesdrop on customers' conversations to target advertising at them, after it emerged that it had patented "voice-sniffing" tech.
- A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully used a facial recognition process on photos without user permission.
- Veteran game maker Sega announced it is getting back into the hardware game at the Sega FES 2018 event over the weekend, with a shrunken version of its classic Megadrive (or Genesis) console.
Top Stories for the Week of April 11, 2018
- 1,448
- If you thought the Raspberry Pi was a small computer, this will blow your mind: IBM just unveiled the “world’s smallest computer,” and it measures just 1mm by 1mm.
- The mind-reading AlterEgo headset communicates with Alexa . . . through telepathy?
- Retro programmers may need to reconsider using the Linux beep command as an activity or progress alert.
- Apple plans to replace Intel chips and will use its own custom Mac chips beginning in 2020.
New Every Day
Join Jeff Weston and Pastor Lawrence Crews as they sit down for a practical heart to heart conversation each week exploring everyday life as a Christian in today's society.
The Two Sides of Mentorship
- Episode 148
- May 18, 2018
- 18
In our walk with God, it's a good goal to become a mentor to others, but no matter how well we're doing, we can never lose sight of the fact that we too need mentors. Let's explore what it is to be on the two sides of mentorship: both the mentor and the person being coached.
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Hitting the Restart Button
- May 11, 2018
- 1,437
Finishing Well - Part 3 of 3
- May 4, 2018
- 1,321
Finishing Well - Part 2 of 3
- Apr 27, 2018
- 1,298
Finishing Well - Part 1 of 3
- Apr 20, 2018
- 1,329
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,393
Being an effective witness for Christ starts with one truth: the Bible is the infallible Word of Almighty God. Join Carrie Webb, along with her father and guest, Rob Webb, as we explore the divine nature of the Word of God.
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Jesus' Claims to Deity
- Sep 11, 2015
- 338,985
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 338,928
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,506
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,451
The Pixel Shadow
Minetest (The Free Minecraft Alternative) runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, and we'll show you how to play.
Discovering Xanadu
- Episode 24
- April 23, 2017
- 5,163
A mysterious teleportation gate hidden deep beneath BaldNerd's dome whisks BaldNerd and MangleFox70 away to the strange, unknown land of the Xanadu, where the locals are able to eat bananas and corn, bounce around in a massive soccer field and take a minecart ride through the depths of the underworld.
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The Mysterious Room
- Apr 9, 2017
- 3,176
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 4,191
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)
- Mar 19, 2017
- 7,868
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)
- Mar 11, 2017
- 6,609
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 149,050
On the first episode of #thepixelshadow we'll get things started with the basics of Minetest with a simple goal: to build a house using nothing but resources which we've chopped down, dug up or crafted in survival mode! Here are the main topics of this episode: - Mining wood and stone. - Crafting wood sticks. - How to make wooden planks. - Crafting a furnace. - Smelting glass from sand. - Granting fast and fly privileges. - Making a pickaxe. - Crafting fancy doors using VanessaE's Home Decor mod. - Crafting a storage chest. - Crafting ladders. - Crafting a survival house. Hope you enjoy the show! Please give us a thumbs up, subscribe and share!
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Building a Mine in Minetest
- Jan 3, 2016
- 149,004
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 146,095
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 142,557
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
- 138,390
Immersive Nature Sounds
Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds recorded in 360 VR.
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