With the shiny fancy walled garden that OSX Mountain Lion is today, we sometimes forget what is under the hood. Apple’s minimalistic and well designed interface might be clutter free, but the downside of this “Designer kitchen of computing” is that there are not a lot of hints to what powers lurk beneath its glossy…
A Dutch short scifi movie featured in Amsterdam about a boy and a girl. Are you asleep yet ? Sounds unimpressive .. doesn’t it. However the folks from “Tears of Steel” turned it into 12 minutes of awesomeness. Lets call it a passionate lovescene between Ridley Scott in Bladerunner, Minority report and The Matrix. Just…
Since I’ve ported my brand new 11.6 inch Macbook Air to Ubuntu Linux, I’ve noticed that I seldom boot back into OSX on this little machine. Life is good on the Ubuntu side. Because for where it might lack powerful video editing tools or multitrack recorders that come with the same ease of use as…
Setting up and running your own little SSH server is not really hard. Just punch in sudo apt-get install openssh-server on your Ubuntu command line and you’ll have a server that allows you to run remote commands, send over files via SFTP or even forward graphical applications over X-Forwarding. But when you open up a…
We take a good look at the hubbub around Ubuntu 12.10 with Mister Alan Pope. Canonical employee deluxe and host on the UUPC podcast. We try to find out whats awesome about Ubuntu, Who is Who in the world of benevolent dictators, New features in the upcoming Ubuntu release and the difference between Youzeewoozees and…
This weeks picture of the week comes from listener Jay as he shows us a cross-platform setup that would probably rip a hole inside a proprietary universe. However it does make us proud as Jay lines up his Windows phone, his Nexus tablet and his 13 inch Macbook pro running Ubuntu 12.04. Quite a setup…
We are very happy to line up one of our new guestbloggers on Knightwise.com. Its @McVries_ who kicks of the series with a great article on “sliding” from Ubuntu to IOS and hooking up your iPad .. without iTunes .. on a Linux machine. Ubuntu 12.04 : Mount that iPad : Play .Avi : No…
We kick off season 4 with a great tutorial podcast on how to let the internet work for you. A deep dive into the functionalities of ‘If This Then That’ enlightens you how to tie all of your social platforms together and through automation, have cyberspace work for you. Shownotes Intro If this then that…
Since we are doing some home renovation over at Casa del Knightwise for the moment, living space is at a premium. While our downstairs looks like its been raided by a group of angry drunken Constructicons, both @Niejana and I need to “flee” to my upstairs office to spend our evenings watching tv and doing…
The one thing I’ve always detested when it came to using my mobile devices like my iPad, my iPod Touch or my iPhone (or any “smart device” for that matter) was that you needed to “link” it to your desktop. If you think about it, behavior like that is something you might expect from a…
Thank you to listener and fan of the show @jaymartinez for this one. A three minute parody with one single line of truth : “At least 2 millimeters taller, thats gotta be worth at least 400 Dollah’ Related PostsKW1702 – What’s in My Bag Now?Movie week : Movies every geek should see (1 of…
This weeks question of the week is quite simple : What three books do you think are essential for a geek to read. Answers in the comment section or via the hashtag #kwpow on twitter. Our top 3 list. – Dune, by Frank Herbert. – 2001 quadrillgy by Arthur C. Clarke. – Ghost in the…
This week in our ‘picture of the week’ section we challenge you to show us where you use your gear. You can add links in the comments or use twitter, hashtag #kwpow to share your shots. Most exotic one wins geek points. Our entry ? Sony prs-505 ebook reader ( Currently reading ‘The Hobbit’ ).…
We take a look at one of the hottest devices currently on the market and stare down the bellybutton of the Google Nexus 7. After looking at hardware software and specs its time to answer the important questions : How can this technology work for us AND what will it do to the market. A…
We take a deep technical dive into the “sliders workstation” and how you can “do your computer thing” independant of hardware, operating systems and software and slide from OS to OS. We talk about hardware, browser platform, desktop productivity, communications, entertainment and storage and how to do it between all of your different devices. This…
After our little unscheduled hiatus we are back in the saddle with a superlong and fun packed episode with the hardest working man in podcasting : Doortodoorgeek. We talk about a wide variety of tech topics ranging from Android to Ios, Apple Windows and Linux , Rooting phones, Rasberry pies and life as a geek.…
I think its from the bottom of my heart when I say : Boy its good to be back ! After being offline and almost off-planet the last couple of weeks, popping my head back into the realms of cyberspace feels very good indeed. For those of you who don’t know : A couple of…
I come to you today with a little bad news for you cross platform geeks who like nothing more then to slide from OS to OS , letting technology work for you. In the coming week(s) you’ll have to do without your daily dose of Knightwise.com articles as I’m gonna be out for the count…
Its tinker time again as we swap out a spinning 4200 RPM harddrive from my 2.1 Macbook air and swap it out with a 60 gigabyte SSD Drive from Macsales.com. A good howto, some smart tips, a cameo from scotty and a speedrace. All of that and more in this weeks KWTV. Shownotes. www.macsales.com Related…
In this episode we give you some ideas and possibilities when it comes to building your own home Linux server. While putting an old clunker back to good use or using a VM, we give you tips and tricks on using the command line, CLI applications, web based interfaces remote desktop sessions or even terminal…
Please join us today as we wish my beloved wife and pinnacle of the Knightwise.com awesomeness a happy 35th birthday !!! www.twitter.com/niejana Related PostsYow Charlie ! Its your birthday.
This week we talk about the line of Zoogue products to keep your gadgets safe. We review the different Zoogue iPad cases, carry cases and accessories, how they look like and how they hold up the test of time. Shownotes. www.zoogue.com Related PostsKc301 "Gear and Workflows" Season 3 of Knightwise.Com is approaching. (Audio Message)Season 3…
There is a command line command to top up my bank account with an almost infinite amount of cash. The only thing is .. i forgot what it is. Like keyboard shortcuts, command line commands are awesome and can save you a lot of time. BUT you need to remember them. Sure things like CTRL…
We close up the hectic week with a great track from “Carbon Based Lifeforms” When I’m not listening to podcasts in the car, I usually switch to some downbeat music to chill me out and make the drive to work a little more bearable. My monday morning routine does require me to ONLY listen to music…
Time for some desktop porn here : The Ubuntu 12.04 install on my 11.4 inch Macbook Air. Specs are : Stock 12.04, Launcher tweaked with Myunity and some added Conky Dials. Related Postskw606 : Making your Mac cross platform friendly.Saynonara mr Desktop#KWPOW : Jay’s Sliders WorldThe Knightcast Episode 32 : My Macbook.KW1605 – Data and…
My hairdresser ( of all people ) came to me with an interesting question. He had 14 copies of Michael Jackson. I suggested he would start hiding his children, but it turned out he referred to his iTunes library. These 14 duplicate songs resided in several playlists throughout his massive library. His question was ”…
A long time ago, when podcasting was still young, I found out about a writer who was nuts. This author, instead of just writing his book, decided to narrate every chapter and publish it as a podcast BEFORE the book got published. The first book – podcast series he did was called “infected” about a…
One of these days you are bound to have offspring (yes nerdy boys, even you) and if you have any parental geek skills in your body, you and whatever kid you spawn will one day be watching Star Wars. After you have secretly thrown out “The phantom menace” dubbing it “George Lucas’ biggest boo boo”…
” There are no games on Linux “. I get to hear that a lot, but in fact, nothing is further from the truth. There are no “big titles” on Linux, that might be true, but that also might change soon. As the rumor mill spouts talk of game developer STEAM working on a Linux…
Bootcamp is a pretty sweet invention. Allowing you to run Windows (or Linux) on your Mac, alongside with your favorite OSX install. Now the boys in Redmond and Cupertino might have you believe this is a completely flawless experience, but on a compact Macbook air keyboard, I dare you to find the Delete key (not…
