LabRats needs 3 volunteers
October 7th, 20061)Bloggerâ€â€We find it’s hard to keep this blog up to date. So we’re looking for someone with good writing skills to become our LabRats.tv blogger. The volunteer would drop Sean and I an email once a week or so and see what’s up with the LabRats project. It would be helpful if you are in Toronto as you can come to the Labrats shoot as well. But not absolutely necessary. We’ll also ask you from time to time to check in with Matt our director and Maurice our associate producer for other ideas for posts and news.
2) Production Assistantâ€â€Also looking for a Toronto-based production assistant who can commit to coming out to the LabRats shoots twice a month and learn camera, sound and producing and help with setup. It’s helpful if you have a car to get to our shoots in Etobicoke, however the MIMICO GO train station is 10 mins walking distance.
3) Marketing directorâ€â€We need someone to take charge in getting the word out about LabRats. That means getting us nominated for awards, inspiring viewers to help spread the word, coordinate contests, arrange t-shirts and giveaways and come up with interesting and exciting ways to promote the podcast. If you would love this opportunity to use your imagination and marketing savvy and learn more about the inner workings of a video podcast then we’d like to talk to you.
All positions are volunteer, and we need a minimum 6 month commitment from you.
If any of these positions interest you, please drop me a note at andy at labrats dot tv expressing your interest, location, availablity and experience, if applicable.
Thx,
Andy
New LabRats survey
October 7th, 2006If you like LabRats, the tech help video podcast I host weekly with Sean Carruthers, then please fill out our latest survey. Thanks!
PIX: LabRats in LA
October 7th, 2006Betsy Weber of TechSmith (a LabRats sponsor) shot a bunch of great pix of Sean and I when we were down at the Podcast Expo in Ontario, California (just east of LA area). See her Flickr account
Andy and Sean on techPhile.ca from Ontario, California
October 2nd, 2006The latest episode of the techPhile podcast from the show floor of the Portable Media and Podcast Expo is up on the site NSightProductions techPhile.
It’s a great take on the show and features Andy and Sean from LabRats.tv.Video coverage by Sean and Andy of the show (and an interview with techPhile’s Frank Linhares) will be available on 9 Oct and 16 Oct. Here’s a direct link to the show here.
Help us launch Cyberwalker 2.0
September 23rd, 2006We’ll be launching Cyberwalker 2.0 website in October and we need some assistance in the next few weeks (and likely beyond) to help get us there. If you’re interested in volunteering and have good writing and editing skills (English majors and journalism students or grads preferred, but not necessary if you have similar experience) as well as a little HTML knowledge please drop an email to Craig Worden, our ops manager, at craig at cyberwalker dot com. Thx, Andy
2nd edition of ABG Security
August 31st, 2006I have a new book deal to write a second edition of the Absolute Beginners Guide to Security Spam Spyware and Viruses for Que. The book did so well that Que has asked me to write the next edition and include new material about Vista. The new book will be out in May/June 2007.
Andy and Sean on Techphile.ca
August 20th, 2006My Toronto Includes…
August 17th, 2006I recently was photographed for Rannie Turingan’s My Toronto Includes Project. Check it out — http://www.photojunkie.ca/archive/2006/08/my-toronto-includes-andy-walker/
If you have a favorite spot in Toronto and want to be part of the project, then visit the site here http://www.photojunkie.ca/my-toronto-includes
and sign up here http://www.photojunkie.ca/my-toronto-includes-form
Rannie has over 200 participants signed up for the project so far and he’ll be shooting through to the end of 2007.ÂÂ
Oh, and here’s a Google map of people that have been photographed for the project and their favorite locations…
http://www.seemsartless.com/map/map-mti.php?ent=mtirn - Can you find mine?ÂÂ
 -Andy
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$20 off memory
August 4th, 2006We promote Crucial memory on Cyberwalker.com, and I just got an email from them saying they have a $20 rebate available to sites that promote their products. It runs 4 Aug 2006 to Aug 18 2006. So if you have been thinking about upgrading your memory and use DDR, DDR2 or SODIMM notebook memory then here’s your chance to get US$20 off on a 512 MB DIMM/SODIMM.
Use this link: $20 Crucial Rebate Offer
Looks like its only valid for US residents, though I have sent an email to Crucial to ask about people outside the US.
Seeking online volunteer for Cyberwalker Mondays
July 25th, 2006As you may know I do a radio show in Toronto on Monday nights at 6:30 PM EDT. We have been recording the show and posting it to http://mondays.cyberwalker.com, but my volunteer that does this is no longer available. So I am looking for a replacement. If you’re interested pls drop me a note at andy at cyberwalker dot com. We’ll train you on updating the XML page, writing show notes and will provide a software tool to record the WMV audio feed of the show from www.640toronto.com.
Thx
Andy
New look for labrats.tv
July 18th, 2006LabRats.tv has a new easier to use interface, created by Steve Huntriss. click here
LabRats update
July 15th, 2006Wanted to point you to some LabRats news…click here
First sponsored show
June 27th, 2006Our first episode of LabRats with our first Viewsonic sponsor commercial has just been released. See the show here.
Want your own dinosaur?
June 17th, 2006
I’ve been researching lots of cool stuff of late about future tech and when I came to the topic of robotic pets, I found Pleo, a toy robotic dinosaur available this holiday season for US$199. It’s just awesome. Check out the video. = More info | Video (27.3 MB, WMV)
Cyberwalker beta testers wanted
June 8th, 2006Cyberwalker.com would like to invite you to become a part of our Usability Testing Team. Team members will be asked to undergo a series of website scenarios such as accessing content, conducting searches in the help forums, and submitting requests to the help desk. Your Cyberwalker.com website experience is reported and evaluated by a team of usability professionals. With the data you provide problem areas are identified, and improved upon to make the website more “user friendly”.
Submit an e-mail to chris at cyberwalker dot com for more information on this great opportunity! This is an excellent chance to work with the Cyberwalker team as we endeavor to create the new standard in tech help websites.
LabRats sponsors!
May 26th, 2006I am delighted to tell you that we’ve signed two sponsors for LabRats the video podcast Sean Carruthers and I have been producing since October 2005 that teaches you about your technology.
Starting in late June or early July we’ll be featuring video ads from Viewsonic and TechSmith in the show.
ViewSonic as you may know is a great display company. And TechSmith is a fabulous software company that makes the screen capture program SnagIt and the video capture app Camtasia. (we use Camtasia to capture our video screen grabs on the show).
ViewSonic will also be running a contest to giveaway one of their state of the art monitors on LabRats.tv. And TechSmith will also be sponsoring a Flash-based version of the show on LabRats.tv, which will be created with Camtasia.
The funds the sponsorships bring will help us keep the show free for everyone so we can not only continue the show, but also improve its quality.
Seeking PHP/MySQL programmer
May 24th, 2006If you have experience as a PHP and MySQL programmer, please make contact. We have a series of pressing programming projects on Cyberwalker.com and LabRats.tv and need someone to take on the task on a contract basis. Please email me - andy at cyberwalker dot com.
Vista hardware specs announced
May 19th, 2006Looks like you’ll need a 800 MHz machine plus 512 MB of RAM to run Vista as a minimum. But 1 GHz plus 128 mb of video RAM to run it optimally.
Microsoft specs here
Plus the co. announced the various versions.
Gadgets & Gizmos on Google Video
May 19th, 2006If you never saw me co-host Gadgets & Gizmos - now’s your chance
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3882568772679243871