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Tech Rant 33

Solidad — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:11:44 +0000

On this momentous occasion. We are able to invite our fellow podcaster down from world 3 (G to be specific) to discuss serious gaming. Yes that’s right. This episode is all about gaming, console gaming to be exact. We discuss briefly Red Dead Redemption, Square Enix, Project Natal, Sony’s “Move”, Alan Wake, FF XIII, World tree and more. So what are you waiting for, grab you portable player download this sucker, because this is an all out blast!

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Also, this will be the last episode of Tech Rant. It’s quite sudden, but hey, this doesn’t mean were gone for good. Xagenda, and its whole podcasting network will now start its transformation. As I had said previously, I’m planning on expanding this site to a more, centralized state. Expect a show similar to this on the first parts of July. I’m also brining back our Anime podcast during that time as well, so expect 2 shows coming back this July.

The intro is The Lab with Leo theme, and the outro is Ameendayo, Omera!! from Gintama OST

Tech Rant 31 : Political Agenda

Solidad — Sun, 09 May 2010 04:00:02 +0000

On this special episode of Tech Rant. We jump to the political bandwagon and discuss the up-and-coming elections. We try to defend, and counter defend the presidential candidates to our most unbiased ways, only failing to Villiar.

Downlaod here (150min/108MB)

However, this episode won’t be left out, without a tech question. We talked about the Smartmatic screwup, and how, as IT guys, can mitigate the dire situation.

You can get some of the links here. The rest of the episode is composed of political stories, composing of Lacson’s death squad, Noynoy, Dick, and others.

The intro is The Lab with Leo theme, and the outro is Ameendayo, Omera!! from Gintama OST

Tech Rant 30 : Don’t touch that Mac

Solidad — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:00:25 +0000

On this episode. We celebrate our 3oth rant. Yehey! Now. To start off. We have a new guest, potentially may become a frequent guest (another way of saying a host) in the future episode of this network. He is young, interesting, and hip. But enough about that. You can find our news on our delicious page, here.

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The intro is The Lab with Leo theme, and the outro isAmeendayo, Omera!! from Gintama OST1.

Tech Rant 28

Solidad — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:53:10 +0000

On the latest episode of Tech Rant 28. We deal about Apple’s fresh line of laptop offerings, PICOS glitch, iBlog6, Angry Meralco customers, passport holdup, and a new round of MSI laptops featuring i3 processors.

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But wait. There’s more. We just had our first email question in history. Yes. Someone did emailed me about tech. He asks if his windows vista laptop can support Windows 7, in particular, will games run better on them? You can hear our joint answer on the last part of the show. I’ll also write a article about it. Since site visitors can ask, interesting questions.

The intro is The Lab with Leo theme, and the outro isAmeendayo, Omera!! from Gintama OST1.

Anime Conversations 7

Solidad — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:00:35 +0000

On this episode of Anime Conversation. We talked about Summer Wars, Ookiku Furkiabute, and our thoughts on Chu-bra, Nodame, Gintama endings. We also discuss briefly the Tokyo Anime fair, which gave a sneak peak of the up coming Animes this Fall, and ahead. And we finally did our weekly episode round-up of the latest winter animes.

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The Intro for the show is Dramatic by Base Ball Bear from Ookiku Furikabute, and the Outro, Ameendayo, Omera!! from Gintama OST1.

Anime Conversations 6

Solidad — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:00:59 +0000

Co-Hosted by Enza-chan

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In this long delayed episode. We start with Enza-chan giving us the heads up with her collaboration blog shizzaya.wordpress.com. After that. We mainly talk about the up coming April, with its spring releases. On the middle of the episode, we talk about Working! episode 1, and the other animes we are currently watching. She also mentioned this sports anime called Ookiku Furikabute, which I am currently watching, so do listen to the show. BTW, Enza mentioned on the show about an anime which has to something with cats, so here is the PV of the show. Enjoy!

Also, if you are an Anime Enthusiast with a voice. Please don’t hesitate to email us if you want to join our conversation. We love to hear what our fellow Anime fans wants to say on this great appreciation of moving art. To get in touch with us. You can always leave a comment below, or send me an email at pator@squirnet.co.cc. I’ll be waiting.

The intro for the show is Arigato,by Bon’z from Kyou Kara Maou (I like this Anime).

Tech Rant 25 : Playstation FanBoy

Solidad — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:00:43 +0000

Hosted:JD, Solidad

We have a unique episode for you this week. First of, sorry for the low quality audio.I was having a vacation here at Calamba, Laugna during the said recording. Fortunately, SmartBro connection here is adequate enough for a decent Skype conversation.

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On this episode. JD revealed the truth on how packet choose the correct path to its destination. We side lined on the difference between instructors with industrial experience, to those who are academe brewed. On later parts of the episode. We talk about my experience on God of War 3, and my reaction to FFXIII linear storyline. Some where in between. I recomended a site called, playtools.com. Its an old, yet interesting site, that explains various computer terminologies for the people who doesn’t have the necessary understanding on the particular facet of computing. I talk about, the molex connectors, and how a 4 pin molex can be converted to a 6-pin connectors used for mid to high-end range video cards.

On the news part. Since, we talk a lot about CISCO, and the new releases of games. We only talk about, PS3′s Philippine debut launch, this March 27 and 28. And Intel just released its BIG guns, with I7 980X, a 6 core processor costing 45K, here, in the Philippines.

This weeks show is brought to you by archive.org. Opening credits is from the theme of the defunct show “The Lab with Leo”.

Weekend Discussion: Final Fantasy XIII, Summer Tests, and Surf TV

Solidad — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:18:54 +0000

Its 10pm, Sunday, and we are going back to our vicious cycle of weekdays; Followed by the most hated day of the week, Monday. Before we suffer for another 5 days. Let’s recaps the stories that had happened in the past week. I have to say, last week was very chaotic, and perhaps changing, yet the over result was satisfying. Anyway, Here are the top stories that happened in the past week.

The Day the Playstation (Phat) stood still

Many old Playstation 3 owners are bewildered on that fateful day, as the beloved consoles ceases to function because of a programming error in its internal clock. Its mis interpretation of 2010 as a leap year confuses the internal clock, with the system clock which also monitor the time using the internet; rendendering the old models unplayable and with a risk of loosing the players trophies. Sony, surprised by the sudden chain of event. Squanders up and about on solving the issue. Luckily for them. The problem fixed itself, after the PS3s self imposed leap year had ended; making the old models usable as it was intended to. As far as i know, Sony hasn’t release a patch for this issue. Since this is a one time event. We just have to question. How important the internet is to our consoles, and how games, whether offline and offline, are heavily dependent on our internet connection?

Infinite Lawsuit

Another big story this week is the internal political play currently happening at Infinity Ward. Key figures of the uber hit franchise Call of Duty Modern Warfare, was relieved of its position and was speculated been “thrown” out by a groups of muscular old guys, that you see mostly on night clubs. Activision (the game published of Infinity Ward) releases a statement with regards of the replacement of the founders of the said studio, as it was contested of being insubordinate towards the head unit. It is unclear what kind of ” insubordination” was being pointed at, but with the head honchos gone. Activision has started producing plethora of Call of duty titles for the up and coming years.

Head founders filed a lawsuit, stating the lavish abuse of the franchise; also their sudden contract termination, and the their peruse of the royalties that their hit franchise acquired during its release span. It is in our best hopes, that Activision will be able to compensate with losing key figures on such a successful game of all time. However, with Activision habit of “Milking its IPs” it shows that the future is not as bright, nor hot as El-ninio is now.

Final Fantasy XIII

The most beloved hyped RPG of all time, FFXIII, is bound for its upcoming international release this March 9 (10 for Philippines). With its obvious linear story line, it will be interesting how the international market will respond on this game. Sadly enough, the Japanese market booed the product for what it has become. With Square Westernizing what, it was regarded as the foundations of JRPG, will this sudden shift of simplicity appeal to the western market? let’s just wait and see.

As for me, having a linear story line, and a cinematic bukake of HD action pack cutscenes. This is definitely the game for me. I’ll be buying this after i finished God of War 3, and take a look at Resonance of Fate. As much as i like XIII; the premisse of other good RPGs are whole and about for the PS3. I’ll give Resonance of Fate a try.

Baka to Test to Shoukanju 9

Going away from games to anime. Baka to test to shoukanjuu, simply makes my day bright. With random, comedic punchlines, to over rated, overly dramatic situations. It is simply an anime despite, its super cliche backbone. The presentation makes up all its potential faults.

On this episode, Akihisa receives a visit from his overly develop inscestly driven sister; to decide whether it was a good idea to leave our main hero by himself. With her sister in the picture, it is a sure comedic hell with its intended 13 episode run. It will be a short fun indeed, but with its over all success. The possibility of a sequel is definitely in the works. How long? that is the question.

Summer Wars

Tokyo anime award winner for best animation of 2009. Summer wars indeed deserves the award it received (moe than K-On deserves). With Mad-House as it key production studio. It has delivered a riveting online action glory, with a light hearted tone of bravery, and family union-ship. The stories premise, is saving the world of Oz. which is a universal security system (think of open ID) that controls almost all the world economic, and military credentials. With the unified system being attacked by a self-learning hacking AI. It is the job of a teenage math prodigy, with the help of a well honored family, to save the world from a potential social collapse.

I don’t see this as a Miyazaki contender, or any renowned minds of the Japanese animation of elites. This film stand for itself. I don’t have the deep mind of analyzing these kinds of films, but as far as i can see. This one is simple, and easy to digest. This give this movie as a “download now”.

Surf TV ad

If you are listening to my tech rant podcast (episode 23). We talk about smart surf TV. Its Smart’s idea of delivering broadband to the computer deprived masses. Just by plugging it on your TV, your TV becomes a living breathing computing device as it enables the users to chat,surf, email all in your TV.

Upon thinking. This is the most stupidest idea, that i have heard. Yes, it makes Internet available. But PC wise, you can get a bear bone PC for under 10K, which has more computing power than an Intel Atom processor (assuming thats the processor), and a low 480p resolution, limited color screen. However, this idea is not bad for a media center PC. Lacking a LCD TV, watching youtube or any other form of internet video on your TV, is much more relaxing that sitting in front of a computer.

That’s it for this discussion. tune in on xagenda for more issues, and stories. As i stated, JP will run 70% of the site.

Anime Conversations 5 – You got Shafted

Solidad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:15:43 +0000

Co-Host: JP Angeles, Enza-chan

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We got a special show for your this week. On this weeks episode, talked about some anime related news, and discuss the latest anime episode that aired last week. Titles include: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Chu-bra, Gintama, Baka to test to Shuukanju, Kimi ni no Todoke, and Durarara. Also, on this episode, we decided to spoil you on the anime; by telling what happened on the latest episode instead of just commenting about it. This way, we can start reacting on certain situations on the Anime we may see as worthy on that episode.

Opening is Choose Brigth by Chu-bra.

Tech Rant 22 – Buzz me if you can

Solidad — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:20:19 +0000

Co-host: JD

We have a great show this week. We talk about JDs adventure in discovering his notebooks 5.1 capabilities, our deteriorating eye conditions, and Net addiction. On the news part. Here is the stories i gather up and discuss over on the show.

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The intro song is The lab with leo.