GWH #14: Giving Thanks

On this The GamerWok Hour this week, Nguy brings you security talk for XBOX Live and other online services, Social Networking VS. Spam, New Macbooks and their graphics issues, 8 reasons to stick to the iPhone, Bolt impressions, noise canceling headphones, and your comments and emails. All this and more on Episode 14 of GamerWok Hour.

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Show Notes

Wok My World

Dan Hsu wrote a feature on IGN this week on how to keep your Gamertag safe
Backing up is important, especially when you are upgrading your backend of the blog!
Gmail vulnerbility: Possible way for someone to get your login information without you even clicking on anything

Hot Off the Wok

Social Networking: Facebook wins suit against Montreal Spammer
Related News, Facebook tries and buys Twitter with $500M of their own stock
New Macbooks exhibiting some familiar graphical glitches
Apple Rumor Mill kicks in again: low cost netbook from Apple
PC World: 8 reason to buy iPhone and not Storm
BFG offers free AGP to PCI-E upgrades
WoW Lich King Sells 2.8M in 24 hours, beating BC’s 2.4M previous record
Is Microsoft getting into the Zune Phone market again?
Blockbuster gets into the Set Top Business

Wok or Not

Bolt: Disney film that you might mistaken for Pixar
Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 Quietpoint
Shure SE210 Noise Isolating Earphones
Kensington SlimType Keyboard for Mac VS. Official Apple Keyboard

Wokie Talkie

Listener Pete writes that Apple TV has been hacked again, Boxee is now available on the ATV 2.3 firmware via reports from TUAW great news for all you ATV fans out there
I have received a few emails commenting on last week’s episode on the i7 launch. The consensus is that it’s a great architecture and that I wasn’t nearly excited enough about it. Truth be told, I’m very excited but maybe it came across as a bit more synical than usual. Gizmodo explains it pretty well but the truth and my point was that it’s a very costly upgrade for most and that the immediate gains won’t be fully realized until software catches up to the current hardware.