Important Note: These are specific, unique video views per week for videos released that week. If a particular show did not have a video released that week, it will show views as 0. This is not to say people are not watching videos in that series, just that there was no video that week, so no views are attributed to it.
Upgrade Minecraft Server to 1.17 on Ubuntu Linux with Pinecraft Server Upgrade for Raspberry Pi 4.
Watch NowLearn to build simple mechanical systems such as a lighting system in Minetest using the Mesecons mod--basically like Redstone in Minetest. Mortimer hosts the show this week and also takes us on a tour of some of his builds, including a parkour course he is constructing using a lot of interesting mechanisms.
Watch NowMycroft AI was contacted in December by a lawyer at a Texas law firm focused on intellectual property claiming Mycroft AI's technology infringed two US patents belonging to their client, Voice Tech Corp. It escalated from there.
Watch NowWe welcome back Eric Kidd and set out to create a promotional poster for all the gigs he's doing. We'll learn everything from RAW (NEF) images in GIMP to correcting levels and cropping for print.
Watch NowIt has built-in adjustable light, 1-600x zoom, 1080p recording, a 4.3" LCD screen and a solid-built adjustable aluminum stand--all for under $100 USD. This microscope is INSANE! Perfect for soldering tiny components or exploring the world of the microscopic.
Watch NowThe distant thunder rolls; the rain gently falls on the night. An open window in front of you gives you a front-row seat to the beauty of the calm storm. A roof overhead and glass windows all around you give a panoramic view, and a beautiful ambiance to the sounds around you.
Watch NowInstalling Zimbra Desktop on Ubuntu Linux and using it as an Email Client with Calendar and Social Media.
Watch NowLet’s End 2020! But Don’t Forget Year-End Cryptocurrency Tax Planning! Most revenue services are well aware of cryptocurrencies and have plenty of tools to ensure everybody pays their taxes. This week Robert Koenig presents some simple tools that you can use to calculate your taxes and avoid future problems.
Watch NowMerry Christmas! Let's learn how to create a Christmas tree animation to share with our friends and loved ones using Scratch.
Watch NowGod takes lying seriously because of the damage it can do. This week we visit Acts 5 for the story of Annanias and Saphira: The couple who lied to Peter and immediately died. Let us seek after an honest tongue.
Watch NowGraphic Designer Christa Wells returns and Robbie puts Photoshop up against the GiMP as they both use their respective software to slice the web site Christa mocked up on last week's show.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa continue coding the web site and teach us how to add specifically-sized top margins to our site and place our logo and menu elements using CSS floats.
Watch NowRobbie interviews Loudon Owen, the chairman at i4i and discusses the US Supreme Court lawsuit against Microsoft and what it means for patent holders. Robbie and Christa continue their series on web site development, and we learn how to center text using CSS, and place image elements by both HTML and CSS.
Watch NowThe menu is ready to go and Robbie and Christa get moving into the actual site layout and begin implementing the woodgrain area.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa battle a failing broadcast server, but entertain you none the less as they integrate the Google Font API into the web site.
Watch NowRobbie teaches us how to reduce the filesize of our polaroid PNG file, and then gets started coding the site itself. We learn the very basics of what our site will need for CSS, and start coding the layout itself.
Watch NowRobbie fixes the z-index issue from last week, and finishes off the main layout of the site as he and Christa continue the Web Development series.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa continue coding their new web site by placing the Polaroid photograph and beginning the placement of the submenu below the woodgrain. Learn about absolute positioning in CSS and how to use margins to position an element within a container.
Watch NowRobbie adds Lorem Ipsum placeholder text and some padding to the site layout. Several viewer questions are answered this episode, and two more viewers win 100 points for wearing a cardigan.
Watch NowWe've all heard the buzzwords "cryptocurrency" and "Bitcoin" but what is it, how hard or expensive is it to start mining, and are we too late? Let's learn together as we explore the basics of mining our own cryptocurrency.
Watch NowRobbie fixes the footer of the web site and slices the HTML file out into PHP includes. A handful of viewer questions are answered and new chances to obtain Viewer Points are introduced.
Watch NowRobbie finishes off the web development series with Search Engine Optimization, and offers a free online tool for Search Engine Submission.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates the free OpenShot video editing software, which brings non-linear editing, 3D titles and effects to Linux.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa take a look at scaling video to fill the frame in OpenShot Video Editor, and offer a couple viable alternatives to Ubuntu's default Unity desktop.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa go through a handful of viewer questions, and say hello to viewers from all over the world.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa begin our new series taking a look at an assortment of Linux distributions, starting with PCLinuxOS 2011.6 with KDE.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa take a look at Zorin OS 5 Free, an exceptional Linux distribution, especially for users wanting to migrate from Windows or Mac to Linux.
Watch NowRobbie Ferguson sits down for a little one-on-one with the viewers, answering a wide assortment and large number of viewer questions. He also demonstrates the upcoming new version of the Category5 TV mobile site using an iPad.
Watch NowRobbie Ferguson visits with Silver Beach Developments' Gerry Kowalski to discuss their involvement in getting technologies such as high-speed Internet and zoned heating/cooling systems into Haliburton, Ontario. Hillary Rumball reviews the incredible Liquid Image MX video camera mask, and gets muddy doing it.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa take a look at the CyberPower GreenPower UPS, an economical battery backup with higher-end features such as a full LCD display, better-than-average surge protection, a $500,000 Connected Equipment Guarantee, and cost saving, environmentally friendly features. A large assortment of viewer questions this week as well.
Watch NowRobbie Ferguson is joined in studio by Christa Wells, Eric Kidd, Carrie Webb and Jodi Krangle to look back at 200 episodes of Category5 TV.
Watch NowRobbie introduces CrunchBang Linux, a hacker-esque distro based on Debian and featuring the ultra-fast OpenBox window manager.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa announce your chance to win a year supply of Eco Alkalines batteries, and offer a couple Pogoplug devices to give away. Many viewer questions are addressed. Lag on the streaming server unfortunately placed an unexpected delay on features, so viewer interaction was restricted, but a make-good episode will take place next week.
Watch NowRobbie Ferguson and Hillary Rumball demonstrate how to create a magazine cover using the free GNU Image Manipulation Program. The new Category5 Space Fish needs a name and you could win up to 300 viewer points.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa introduce a fun way to test if the lag issue is a [ahem] thing of the past by giving 25 viewer points to every user. Space Fish gets his name, and is happy to finally have an identity and purpose in life. Robbie demonstrates how the free "wine" utility can be used on Linux to run popular "Windows Only" applications directly and natively on Linux.
Watch NowRobbie Ferguson and Christy Burton (Van Noort) demonstrate a web-based Photoshop alternative that lets you edit images directly in your browser window with a professional image editor. Lionel Lalonde from Eco Alkalines joins the on-air team to award a year supply of eco-friendly batteries to a lucky viewer. Also, looking at a GUI front-end for lshw, a Linux tool that shows you detailed information about your computer hardware.
Watch NowRobbie Ferguson and Christa Wells demonstrate how to use YouTube's new video editing feature to enhance the quality of your videos, practically instantly. Rachel Xu joins the Category5.TV Team and presents news from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
Watch NowTo kick off Season 5, Robbie and Hillary show how to install Ubuntu 11.10 Linux on your computer.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary demonstrate how you can create a stop-motion movie using free software and a webcam in Linux.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric show you how to obtain, install and use Glipper, an excellent clipboard enhancement for Gnome.
Watch NowRobbie Ferguson and Eric Kidd demonstrate an easy way to make LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) load instantly on your computer, effectively improving the perceived speed of your computer.
Watch NowRobbie and Rachel compare notes between Photoshop and the GNU Image Manipulation Program in a battle of epic proportions.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa (Spock and Paper Bag Princess) answer a slew of viewer questions in this special Viewer Question Extravaganza.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric chat with Eran Farajun from Asigra Inc. about Cloud backups and how "the cloud" relates to businesses and end users.
Watch NowRobbie and Rachel talk to Marc Ruel about technology to help the home office.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary show you how to make Ubuntu 11.10 look more like the old-style Ubuntu with a Gnome 3 running with a Gnome 2.x-looking layout and theme.
Watch NowLinux Mint 12 RC gives us a glimpse into the upcoming "Lisa" release of Linux Mint. Robbie and Christa also give away prizes to our draw winner as well as on Click Race.
Watch NowSharron-Ann Reynolds from iamaSMARTkid.org joins Robbie and Hillary to discuss how technology has changed the bully and created the cyber bully. Important information for parents, and young people alike.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric show you the difference between four different grades of consumer video camera, and explain what each is capable of.
Watch NowRobbie and Rachel demonstrate how to make your Internet service faster by using different DNS servers than those supplied by your Internet Service Provider. And best of all, it's a free upgrade, and you can change it at any time if you're not satisfied.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric demonstrate how to use Compiz to spice up the default Debian installation, allowing for a very fast and customizable Linux desktop.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa show you how to setup Qimo as a session so when your young children login to your computer they are presented with a "made for kids" desktop experience.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary show you how to use the free GNU Image Manipulation Program to remove and replace the background in a photograph to make a Christmas photo usable throughout the year.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa introduce you to a Python script which lets you tile the windows on your Linux desktop, helping you organize your running applications and improve ergonomics.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa answer a ton of viewer questions and have a great time doing so, and then show you how to record and produce your own screencast tutorials on Linux using an assortment of free tools.
Watch NowLooking for a Linux distro that's easy to learn for Windows users? Robbie and Shelly chat with Artyom Zorin, co-founder of The Zorin Group, creators of Zorin OS. Version 11 beta has been released, and we'll talk a bit about the history of the OS, and where it's headed.
Watch NowThis week's show brings an eclectic mix of topics. We'll look at LED bulb replacements for traditional Halogen G9 bulbs, a cheaper alternative to the Fitbit for losing weight, and how to use the GIMP to make Jeff's kid fly.
Watch NowMinecraft is an insanely popular game in which you mine and refine resources in order to craft items to build structures. It inspires creativity and ingenuity, and is fun for all ages. Let's look at Minetest: one of the most complete Minecraft alternatives. It's free and open source. Featuring special guest MangleFox70 from #ThePixelShadow.
Watch NowRobbie has finally lost it! It's time to turn this Raspberry Pi into a Linux web server once and for all. Join Shelly Desilva and Robbie Ferguson for a fun hour in the Linux terminal.
Watch NowIt's 2016, yet we're all still using dumb bulbs! Now that Ilumi has released their A19 and BR30 LED light bulbs, it's time to upgrade and get in on the smart bulb bandwagon! Check out this incredible app-driven innovation that brings light to life.
Watch NowWe'll take a look at the very first steps to setting up Raspbian Jessie Lite on your Raspberry Pi micro computer, including making sure Raspbian gives you access to the entire MicroSD card, not just the default 1.3GB.
Watch NowOur weekly GIMP Tips series continues as Robbie demonstrates an exercise to help you learn some of the basic tools needed to create perspectives and horizons in the GIMP. Our main feature had to be delayed due to technical difficulties.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric take a look at a handful of the awesome flashlights in the Freeplay product catalogue. Never change a light bulb or battery again!
Watch NowRobbie and Rachel demonstrate how to create a simple desktop wallpaper for your Linux machine.
Watch NowLet's use a Raspberry Pi 2 to build a retro gaming console with the ability to play games from every console from the Atari 2600 to the N64 and even Sony Playstation.
Watch NowRemember when games were about storytelling? One More Story Games offers a platform to bring back choose-your-own-adventure style story-driven gameplay in a modern spin of e-book meets video game. CEO Jean Leggett joins us to discuss the platform.
Watch NowThis week we get our hands on Happy Goggles from McDonald's Sweden: a Happy Meal box that turns into a set of VR Goggles. We'll also look at a creepy, yet strangely attractive lady robot, and the latest telephone service offerings from netTALK, including their new 4G cellular service.
Watch NowThis week we look at Bluetooth devices. From a slightly oversized coin device that lets you find your keys, pet, or anything else you can stick it to, to a couple pairs of astonishingly good quality wireless headphones.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary demonstrate an amazing piece of technology for ergonomic or accessible use which allows you to control your computer's mouse by simply moving your head.
Watch NowViewers who caught Episode 430 and learned to download YouTube videos on Linux have been asking us how to download them on Windows, so this is your show! We also cover in-field audio recording, and have some great news stories this week.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric show you how to control your computer with an iDevice and freely available VNC software.
Watch NowRobbie and Rachel demonstrate how to create a headless virtualization platform using free software, and test the Microsoft Lifecam Studio 1080p webcam in Telestream Wirecast.
Watch NowUbuntu Mate's first LTS releases in 2 days and we welcome Martin Wimpress, creator of the popular distro, to discuss what Ubuntu Mate means to both novice and experienced Linux users.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary demonstrate how to setup service monitoring using the free Uptime Robot service, allowing you to see when your web site, server or service is up or down.
Watch NowThis week we look at a nice little flash drive from Kingston/ESET that not only protects all the files stored in its 256-bit encrypted vault from unauthorized access, but also protects the vault from malware and virus infection.
Watch NowLinux can breathe new life into ageing computer hardware, and this week we give it a try on an old Compaq 6510b laptop which came with Windows Vista Basic.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa demonstrate the GNU Image Manipulation Program and LibreOffice as viable alternatives to their expensive counterparts, available for Windows, Linux or Mac computers.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric demonstrate DJL, a Linux alternative to Valve's "Steam" software to make video game installation a breeze on Linux.
Watch NowRobbie and Rachel teach you how to create a PHP array and use foreach() to loop through the array and output images to the browser window.
Watch NowThis week we welcome Emir Aboulhosn, CEO and Founder of Otono, the company behind ZIP SIM. Imagine a cellular service that you can activate anonymously at any time, use for a set amount of time with unlimited service, and then discard. Security through anonymity is the best way to use a cell phone when traveling. We'll also unlock our Netgear MBR1516 Turbo Hub to allow us to use any provider's service on our Bell-locked LTE modem.
Watch NowWe're learning to program web applications on Category5 TV, and this week Robbie and Hillary take you through a while() statement in PHP to count up from zero.
Watch NowRobbie and Erika take you for the first-ever on-air tour of the Category5 TV studio, and introduce you to the powerful broadcast software Telestream Wirecast.
Watch NowThis week we fire back up the old Laptop we installed Ubuntu Mate on, but this time we test it with a Kingston HyperX Savage SSD in place of the stock 5400RPM hard drive. The results? Nothing short of astonishing.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric work through a slew of viewer questions, give away a copy of Telestream Wirecast and announce our Earth Day giveaway contest. Eric also plays a live set of original songs.
Watch NowIndustry is changing, and our guest this week believes 3D printing technology is going to help shape the future. Author of "3D Printing Will Rock The World" John Hornick, discusses the technology, the progress, the patents and the inevitable change to come.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric attack a full inbox with the first ever "Overdrive" edition of Viewer Question Extravaganza, answering a non-stop array of your questions.
Watch NowDave Jevans, VP of Mobile Security at Proofpoint joins Robbie and Jeff to discuss the state of the Android and iOS marketplaces and how malicious code is finding its way into even seemingly legitimate applications.
Watch NowHave you ever been working on a system over SSH and then lost your connection? It can be a tough situation to recover from, especially if you were in the midst of a large I/O intensive task. Robbie demonstrates a Linux tool that resolves this potential issue by allowing you to re-connect to any number of terminal sessions and pick up where you left off.
Watch NowLet's learn a little about Linux's LVM in preparation for LVM Snapshot backups. With LVM Snapshots, we can run a full backup of a running system without having to take any of the running services offline.
Watch NowLet's get back into our 20 Weeks of GIMP Tips series with Tip #14: An introduction to Layer Masks and in particular how to use them to cut a background around complex objects such as loose hair. We'll also tackle a handful of comments and questions sent to us by our YouTube subscribers, covering everything from LVM on external drives to switching your Wine installation from win64 to win32.
Watch NowNow that we've installed Linux with Logical Volume Management and learned to reduce the size of the Logical Volume, let's take the opposite approach and add another hard drive to the LVM, thereby giving ourselves more space.
Watch NowStream all your movies, home videos, television shows and music to all your devices with Plex Media Server. We'll show you how to install it on a Raspberry Pi 3 micro computer, giving you a powerful little Plex Media Server for a fraction of the price of a similarly-spec'd dedicated system.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary look at the iFrogz BOOST Near-Field Audio speaker and answer a slew of viewer questions.
Watch NowRobbie and Rachel show you how to download all your Instagram pictures so you can close your account, or just to back them up.
Watch NowNelson Hudes joins us to unbox the Star Trek: TOS Bluetooth Communicator, and we have a couple of impressive and affordable FPV drones to unveil which were sent to us for our upcoming show, The Drone Zone. You won't believe what $100 can get you these days.
Watch NowNow that we know how to create a Linux LVM, resize our LVM and create LVM snapshots, let's back up our system with the rdiff-backup tool.
Watch NowLearn to craft your own network cables and wire your home or office, saving a lot of money. We'll also have a look at Jeff's toes (sorry!), show you how to turn any audio device into a Bluetooth-connected player, and fix the backup script we built last week.
Watch NowRobbie and Erika take a look at Ubuntu 12.04, the latest long term support release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.
Watch NowWordPress, Action Cameras, Plex vs. plexmediaserver, rdiff-backup and BitTorrent: your questions rule the show this week as Robbie tackles a full mailbag.
Watch NowFrom scanners in Linux to Plex, from drones for government to which sci-fi shows are hot right now. You never know what our viewers will say... and you never know how we'll react.
Watch NowHave you ever been skeptical of the magicJack? Robbie is. So he set out to do a little myth-busting and gets to the bottom of whether we can really save $1000 on our phone bill. Per year.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric show you how to install GIMP 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.04, and introduce you to an assortment of the new features.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary go a little over-time with a realtime installation of the Thermaltake Water 2.0 liquid cooling system in place of a stock CPU fan.
Watch NowRobbie opens up his online web development toolkit and shows you what's inside, and how to use some of the tools.
Watch NowUsing web-based software, hardware and even your SmartMeter to reduce your power consumption and save money.
Watch NowLooking at the AIOS HD Media Center, which provides full HD video, music, BitTorrent client and more in a device that is commonly available for under $100.
Watch NowOnce every 50 years, we entirely drop format, dress up like characters from a TV show, and drink beer that only a nerd would buy. THIS is our Star Trek 50th Anniversary Edition of Category5 Technology TV!
Watch NowLearn to use a copy-and-paste javascript to automatically save your PasswordBox password list to a CSV file ready to be imported into another password manager--before it's too late.
Watch NowSeason 10 kicks off with a 360 VR Video experience! Featuring Robbie Ferguson, Jeff Weston, Sasha Dirmeitis, Shelly Desilva, Erika Lalonde, Christa Wells and Lionel Lalonde. Take a look around Studio D and let's recap some of the great times we've had in the first 9 years of broadcasting Category5 Technology TV.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary take on your viewer questions and unbox the Thermaltake Water 2.0 Liquid Cooling System.
Watch NowThe modern classroom consists of robots, drones and 3D printers, and Elad Inbar, CEO of RobotLAB is at the forefront of the latest tech. Join us as we discuss the past, present and future of robotics in education. We've also got your viewer questions, and your weekly dose of tech news.
Watch NowNagios lets you keep a close eye on your network assets. Computers, web sites, services, disk space, and more. NEMS brings Nagios to the Raspberry Pi 3 micro computer making it more economical, energy efficient, and super easy to deploy... not to mention much easier to use.
Watch NowThis week we look at the DJI Osmo 4K video camera, which comes complete with a 3-Axis gimbal, giving you silky smooth home movies, or fantastic run-and-gun video for your production.
Watch NowThis week we learn how to turn spherical 360 video into usable equirectangular video, and how to stitch the videos from two 360 cameras together to provide a full 360x360 viewing experience.
Watch NowWhether you've accidentally deleted photos from your camera or have a corrupted filesystem on a camera card, learn to recover your precious photos with free software.
Watch NowBlock unwanted website traffic from bad bots and open proxies using the powerful BlockScript program on your web server.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric demonstrate the iRetroPhone attachment for iPhone/Android/BlackBerry devices to give your smartphone a real retro feel.
Watch NowThere's not much you can do if a company you trust your confidential information with is hacked. Join Robert Capps of NuData Security to discuss what companies can do to protect the data entrusted to them.
Watch NowIf you're like Robbie, you may not have a DVD/BluRay player connected to your TVs, but have connected devices that allow you to play video files through software such as Plex. This week we'll show you how to import your video DVDs into MP4 files so you can watch your owned DVDs once again on next-gen devices such as Roku and Amazon Fire TV.
Watch NowThis week Sasha and Robbie mount six actioncams on a multi-camera rig and take them to the waterfront in Barrie, Ontario to shoot some footage. You'll get a 1:1 comparison showing the quality of each camera to help you determine the best camera for your needs.
Watch NowEver wonder if a 4K Actioncam can function as a live video source in Telestream Wirecast? We'll put 6 4K Actioncams head-to-head and determine the winner.
Watch NowProtect your data with a different strong password for each service and easily retrieve those passwords using the encrypted KeePassX software.
Watch NowA new app for iDevices lets you transmit and receive photos, web links, text and more via digital "bird songs" which sound a little like R2D2. We'll see how it works.
Watch NowIntroducing Sasha Dirmeitis and controlling the computer using head movement and a cheap webcam.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa take a look into the Web Developers' Toolkit to see how to compress an image to save bandwidth and improve your site's response time.
Watch NowThere are so many great uses for a low profile monitor: studio, boardroom, concert hall, church, kitchen... to name a few. We'll show you an awesome stand to upgrade your standard computer monitor to let it lay down at a very low angle. We'll also look at the Nest Learning Thermostat and see how it uses technology to save you a lot of cash.
Watch NowThis week Henry Baillie Brown joins Sasha and Robbie to talk about Raspberry Pi as a development and hands-on education platform, compressing PNG images by up to 80%, the Face Swap Live app and GIMP.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa demonstrate Backupify, an online service to backup your Google services such as Gmail and Calendar, plus Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and more.
Watch NowPhishing scams have always tried to look like the services they're mimicking in order to trick users into providing login information, credit card numbers, and other confidential data. In 2017, they're getting frighteningly realistic and the scams are more sophisticated than ever. Learn how to recognize and protect these advanced phishing scams that even tech-savvy users are falling for.
Watch NowRobbie and Bekah resolve the 2-part series they began on Episode 307: converting a real, physical system into a virtual machine using free software.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary talk to John Cabrera, creator of H+ The Digital Series about the show, and the direction media is going with online-only programming.
Watch NowThis week Robbie and Sasha dress in Starfleet attire in honor of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Bluetooth Combadge. We'll also test Altec Lansing's claim that the Mini H2O is truly waterproof (not just splash resistant). It's a Bluetooth gadget extravaganza... with a Star Trek twist!
Watch NowRobbie and Christa go through the mail bag and offer answers to a wide variety of viewer questions; from how we use Skype for interviews to obtaining a web design template.
Watch NowRobbie kicks off our series about self-publishing with a look at how to use free software to publish a novel or short story using Cafepress.
Watch NowWhen Jeff's young child dropped their PlayStation 3 from 6-feet, he wisely decided to have it looked at before trying to boot it up again. Don't risk it even if it boots: we'll show you how to use ddrescue first to not only create an image of your hard drive, but also to see if there are errors with it.
Watch NowSpiderman, Spidergirl and Anti-Malware Man talk about recognizing phishing scams and how to protect ourselves in this frightening connected world.
Watch NowThis week our theme is space. We'll unbox a beautiful alloy model of NCC-1701-D, and travel back in time to create a space scene using the free GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric speak with Bodgan Oros from Romania about the powerful Endpoint Protector security appliance which protects businesses from data theft and accidental leakage.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa demonstrate FocusWriter, a free piece of software to help you avoid distractions such as social media or instant messengers while you write your novel.
Watch NowThis week we again welcome Robert Capps from NuData Security to discuss the technological and educational gap currently experienced by not only consumers, but by the companies they use.
Watch NowNew York Times best-selling author Douglas Preston joins us this week to discuss how he and his archaeological team used LIDAR technology to discover the location of the Lost City of the Monkey God, and the adventure they had confirming those findings on foot.
Watch NowWe dive into the mailbag this week and answer your questions. Now that we've learned to image our hard drive to a file or other drive, it's time to learn what the next step is if ddrescue shows errors: the SMART report, which tells us if the drive is thought to be failing.
Watch NowCreating a professional looking cartoon-style presentation is now possible on a tight budget (even free) thanks to PowToon. See how it works on this week's show.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa have a look at the new Level 10 M Gaming Mouse from Thermaltake, which might be the coolest computer mouse ever designed.
Watch NowIn what we can only describe as "the worst episode ever," Robbie proves he's human and experiences the same technical problems as everyone else. We'd planned to show you how to expand a RetroPie, but instead waited and waited and fought against a SD card that turned out to be a bad card! Still, we had some good troubleshooting, so if you can see past the technical problems, great! If not, tune in again next time when we retry the same feature... with a Kingston SD card.
Watch NowWe've had a lot of fun over the past 500 weeks! We've welcomed great guests on the show and shared some exciting technologies! This week we'll take a look back at a few standouts, including the first appearance of Jeff, Sasha and Henry, as we celebrate 500 Episodes of Category5 Technology TV.
Watch NowHaving built a RetroPie gaming system on Episode 442, it's time to expand its storage adding 128 GB more space for your retro gaming ROMs! Rather than simply replacing the existing storage, we'll instead add additional storage and make the two cards work together.
Watch NowSasha booked the week off this week, so Henry and Robbie took to getting started on our Maker Series. This week we'll dive into what gear you'll need in your kit to get started, and how you can use a multimeter to understand the electrical resistance of conductive material (which helps us understand what resistors actually do).
Watch NowThis week, the co-hosts become the hosts as for the first time in 498 weeks Robbie Ferguson does not host or op the live show. Check out an exceptional electronic maker starter kit with Henry, learn all about the hosts' real life phobias and favorites, and jump into the news with Sasha.
Watch NowNelson Hudes joins us via Skype Video and a call on the phone to demonstrate the call quality of both the Star Trek TNG and TOS Bluetooth communicators.
Watch NowCreate live snapshots of your Linux system without using any notable resources, allowing for backups of running virtual machines and other in-use files. Hot Copy works much like Windows' Volume Shadow Copy.
Watch NowRobbie and Sasha speak with Tania Goffredo from Brother Canada about the brand new, innovative Business Smart line of printers from Brother, and what they mean for small business owners.
Watch NowRobbie and Erika play air guitar and give away a slew of amazing prizes to viewers who cast ballots over the past week.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric are joined by special guest Gerold Setz, developer of the Block Disposable Email Addresses API. Learn to block DEA subscriptions from your PHP script.
Watch NowHenry's taking us on a ride to music creation this week as we learn to use a free cloud-based music production system that lets you craft your own beats visually for free.
Watch NowLet's review some of the great feedback we've received from our community, and see how GIMP 2.9.5 can be installed on Ubuntu Linux to fix the one thing that kept Robbie from dropping Adobe Photoshop: blurry scaling.
Watch NowRobbie and Sasha give Valve's Steam video game delivery system a try on Linux, and answer an assortment of viewer questions.
Watch NowA hands-on test of the Rikomagic MK802 IIIS Mini PC and demonstration of how to set it up.
Watch NowGetting started with Twitter and Facebook doesn't have to be overwhelming, and you can even amalgamate the two (along with other social platforms) into one interface.
Watch NowThis week we check out a handy device that shows you exactly how much your appliances are costing you on your electrical bill, and tackle some amazing viewer questions about reading for the blind, creating a proxy in Linux and resizing images for WordPress.
Watch NowSasha, Robbie and Jeff pick up where they left off last week as Jeff recovers from his luksDump breakdown. Learn to setup your encrypted drive on Linux in such a way that you don't need a password to mount it on your trusted machine(s).
Watch NowAs Robbie sets out to teach us how to encrypt a storage device in the Linux terminal, Jeff loses all control and can't stop laughing at the command line. We talk about robots, DIY arcade games and what's changed with WannaCry over the past week.
Watch NowUsing AndroVM to create an OpenGL accelerated Android 4.1 virtual machine, compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux hosts.
Watch NowRobbie is joined by Abigail are her fiance Kyle as they design and create a working photo booth for the upcoming wedding for around $200.
Watch NowThis week we had the privilege of unveiling Kingston's new DataTraveler Ultimate GT 2TB USB flash drive. Yes, you read that right: 2TB in your pocket. This massive evolution in flash media capacity forces us to reminisce about our first flash drives and how far they've come.
Watch NowWe've all dreamed of a video player that's so simple your kids could hook it up and use it. This week we'll show you one that plugs into any TV and lets you play videos, slideshows and even music directly from a USB drive or SD card.
Watch NowAre you a Gnome 2 or Compiz fan? Not a big fan of Unity or Gnome 3? We have the distro for you. It's called Point Linux, and on this episode we officially announce the release and talk to its developer.
Watch NowAs we continue to experiment with the newly stable Debian Stretch, we'll compare the out-of-box new user experience of Cinnamon, LXDE, Gnome and KDE.
Watch NowJoin contestants Carrie Webb, Sasha Rickman, Jeff Weston and Hillary Rumball as they compete under the watchful eye of our host, Robbie Ferguson. It's our 10th Anniversary, and through our four-round game we'll get a look back at Category5 in a way we've never done before.
Watch NowWhen Robbie's away, the co-hosts come out to play. There is a lot of tech news submitted to the newsroom for each show and some stories don't make the cut. This week Jeff and Sasha discuss those extra stories so you know exactly what is happening in the world of tech. Whether it's the death of Adobe Flash, Europe banning diesel and gas vehicle sales or companies microchipping their employees, we cover it all this week.
Watch NowHexachords has developed an AI to compose music, and their CEO Richard Portelli joins us to discuss how their Orb Composer is about to take the industry by storm. We also cover the latest tech news and answer viewer questions about Netflix on Debian and why Linux should look like Windows.
Watch NowUsing the free GNU Image Manipulation Program to add a very quick depth-of-field effect to your photos to give them a "high end" look.
Watch NowR0bb13 and cHr157a hack the Twitter homepage to demonstrate how easy it is for hackers to create phishing sites to gather steal personal information. The same lesson applies to your online banking, and more.
Watch NowLet's continue to learn Linux Logical Volume Management with perhaps one of the most exciting features of LVM: Snapshots. We'll teach you what it does, how it does it, and how you can utilize LVM Snapshots for your own on-the-fly backups ala Hotcopy or Volume Shadow Copy.
Watch NowThe computer seems to be running great, and Sasha will tackle installing the OS this week after Robbie does a few finishing touches behind the scenes. Sasha, Jeff and Robbie also have the latest in tech news, including some info about the WPA2 KRACK exploit.
Watch NowWelcome to Season 11! This week Robbie shares about his Windows 10 woes, a new award Category5 just received as one of Feedspot's Top 100 Tech YouTube Channels, and Sasha installs the motherboard in her gaming PC before tackling the new Newsroom.
Watch NowRobbie, Sasha and Jeff connect the power cables to the gaming rig and finally perform the test we've all been waiting for: Will it light up, or blow up?
Watch NowThanks to a dedicated team of Star Trek: The Next Generation fans, Robbie's childhood fantasy of touring the Enterprise is now a reality. Join us for our Halloween special as we take Sasha's new gaming rig for a spin and run Stage 9 in EPIC mode.
Watch NowProtect your web site, your reputation, and your site visitors by determining if your site can be easily compromised by hackers. Looking at Lynis and StopTheHacker.
Watch NowIs it possible to save some money and use a DSLR as an HD video source for Telestream Wirecast? Robbie and Sasha set out to find out on this episode of Category5 TV.
Watch NowLet's crack open the box of goodies and take a look at a guitar pedal that can be configured to do pretty much anything you want it to. We'll learn how to turn it into a camera switcher with Telestream Wirecast. We'll also look at Jabees' new Lifestyles lamp that has an assortment exciting and unexpected tech features.
Watch NowThe Raspberry Pi has us excited about maker electronics, but its specs are outdated. This week we'll look at the ODROID XU4Q - an 8-core monster of a SBC with 2 GB RAM, USB 3.0 and gigabit Ethernet. Plus, we'll put it in the killer CloudShell2 case that provides a 2-drive RAID backplane in a stunning DIY NAS unit or home/smb server.
Watch NowCarrie Webb takes us on a trip back in time over the history of Category5 Technology TV as we celebrate our 300th episode.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary take a look at an old laptop Robbie found while sorting through the old computer wasteland... complete with one of the earliest versions of Linux Robbie ever used.
Watch NowCan't use NEST because your A/C isn't hard-wired? No problem! If your air conditioner unit uses a remote control, Sensibo Air can make it into a smart A/C quickly and easily, complete with a mobile app that lets you control it from anywhere in the world. We'll unbox it and get started with the setup, plus we've got an assortment of viewer comments and questions.
Watch NowAs we move further down the list of things you'll want to add to yours, we take a look at our favorite wireless earbuds and a plastic welder that Robbie feels should be in everyone's stocking (especially the makers on your list).
Watch NowLooking at the newest improvements by Rikomagic on their MiniPC line of products, and answering an assortment of your Viewer Questions.
Watch NowLearn to build an image from scratch that features text which looks like it is illuminated from behind, casting a nice subtle shadow on the floor in front. Creating perspective the easy way with free software.
Watch NowLearn to convert your running operating system into a virtual machine using free tools. Creating an image of the physical machine and installing it to a virtual machine.
Watch NowAuphonic is a very important part of the Category5 production workflow, and adds that finishing touch to our audio. We'll show you how to make your podcast, YouTube channel or home movies sound so much better - on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Watch NowWith all the tech gizmos and gadgets that are going to find their way under the tree this year, the Cat5 crew wants you to be ready - with batteries, and innovative ways to charge your devices.
Watch NowWe've looked at usage analyzers for Windows and the Linux GUI, but this week we'll show you an NCurses terminal application for Linux that lets you quickly and easily hone in on large files or folders that are hogging your hard drive space.
Watch NowRobbie and Christa take a look at a piece of free software (Windows, Linux) that is making it easier for you to make attractive slideshows from your photographs.
Watch NowWe've looked at Plex on Linux and Raspberry Pi, but it's time to look at how to setup Plex Media Server on a Windows machine. We'll also show you how to install our channel, give away another video game and cover your top tech news stories of the week.
Watch NowHappy New Year! This week we chat about some of the most techie gifts that found their way under our trees, some of our favorite shows on TV, and a life hack-worthy method of recording exceptional audio for your videos for under $5.
Watch NowLinspire is back with all the greatness, but none of the controversy! Check out how PC/OpenSystems LLC obtained the rights (and source code) to improve and re-release the classic desktop Linux. We'll also talk to Jeff about the hackers who compromized his computer, and Sasha's got the latest tech news.
Watch NowGet yourself ready for another Viewer Question Extravaganza! This is where we dig into the mailbag and answer as many of your questions as we can within the course of the show. We'll tackle everything from determining the running filesystem on Linux to a more in-depth look at a 1080p video player we reviewed on Episode 515! It's a fun ride, here we go!
Watch NowOn what could be called a Viewer Question Extravaganza 2.0, Robbie and Sasha answer yet more questions from our wonderful viewers. From a simple hack to force your Windows or Linux computer to recognize hostnames to the ideal music player, and more.
Watch NowIn our quest to find the BEST Linux distro for everyday use, Linux Mint is really standing out. We're doing away with the requirement of being able to run DaVinci Resolve, since that looks like it would require a hardware upgrade. Instead, we'll be seeking out the best Linux distro and dual-booting to do editing on Windows using Cyberlink PowerDirector.
Watch NowLearn to send handy little popup windows to both Linux and Windows computers (from computers of the same OS) on your LAN.
Watch NowThe 2013 "Vacation Episode", Robbie tackles the mailbag on his own and answers a plethora of excellent viewer questions and shares your comments.
Watch NowOn Episode 513 we failed to demonstrate how to get Category5 working on Kodi thanks to an incompatibility. That's been fixed, so this week we'll tackle Kodi again; a fantastic media center application that supports the Category5 TV Network. Learn where to obtain our channel and how to install and use it. We'll also learn to create social media avatars using the GIMP.
Watch NowInstalling PClinuxOS and how to use Flash to stream MP3 files.
Watch NowDon Duncan joins us from NuData Security to discuss Open Banking and how the bank system in Canada is evolving to this API-driven back-end.
Watch NowAdd cool (and also useful) desktop widgets and system monitors to your Point Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) system.
Watch NowA large assortment of questions following Episode 311 lead to a followup episode where Robbie answers viewer doubts about the full 1080p nature of the Rikomagic MK602.
Watch NowLearn to write bash scripts in Linux which support multitasking asynchronous execution, and running PHP scripts from the terminal.
Watch NowElon knows when the Johnny Cab will arrive, North Korea is spying using Linux, Wireless charging is about to get good, US Prisoners are out of jail early thanks to a software bug, Routers are being used to attack WordPress sites.
Watch NowRobbie and Hillary speak with Dave Shacochis from SAVVIS (now CenturyLink Technology Solutions) about their recent partnership with VMWare and what it means to users of their services.
Watch NowRobbie and Bekah fire up both a Raspberry Pi 3 and a Hardkernel Odroid XU4Q to see how each of these SBCs handle various tasks. From image editing to mining cryptocurrency, which mini computer will perform the best?
Watch NowRun Windows XP and PCLinuxOS simultaneously, placing each on a 3D cube face for a quick and beautiful transition between operating systems.
Watch NowAlmost two years have passed since we last showed how to setup Plex Media Server on a Raspberry Pi 3, and a lot has changed in that time - including Debian/Raspbian upgrading to Stretch. So it is high time for us to show the process again since some of the steps have changed. Not only that, but we'll share with you our latest Raspberry Pi image, PlexPi, which gets you up and running with Plex on a Raspberry Pi 3 in just a few minutes.
Watch NowImproving the perceived speed of your Internet may be as simple as choosing a faster DNS server. DNS Jumper helps you determine the fastest DNS server for your network.
Watch NowOn our cosplay special, Robbie and Sasha reveal a feature-packed backup tool from Idera: the same people who brought us Linux HotCopy.
Watch NowAdam Kujawa from Malwarebytes joins us to discuss what is possibly the most devastating computer virus of recent years, and how we can protect ourselves from it.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates how to get Planet Calypso working on old hardware. Hillary Rumball returns to the show in the role of News Correspondent, directly from school. We take more qualifiers for the upcoming draw for the Brother MFC-J615W all-in-one printer.
Watch NowGetting started with Panoramic Photography. Windows 7 on an SSD. Moving Program Files in Windows 7. Type of drives to purchase for a home RAID setup. Pronouncing words properly with the help of online tools. AMD to phase out the ATI brand. Launch Category5 Technology TV on your smartphone using a QR code. Toshiba recalls around 41,000 notebook computers. Ubuntu 10.10 is now available in beta.
Watch NowSee Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon in full effect for the first time: how games run on this cutting edge operating system and how well it detects new hardware.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates how to create a mosaic image: one big image comprised of thousands of tiny images, using free software on Linux.
Watch NowRobbie starts the development of a PHP tool to read all MIDI files from a folder and play them.
Watch NowRobbie covered a lot of interesting Pogoplug-related questions, such as how to mount the Pogoplug as a drive in Linux and Windows, and what cool ways you could use Pogoplug to protect and share your data. Our main feature is all about DD-WRT--from selecting which router to buy based on the type of DD-WRT firmware you wish to use, to actually installing and running the firmware.
Watch NowDuring this episode, we look at how to crop images in The GNU Image Manipulation Program. In particular, we focus on Hugin-generated panoramas, but the method transcends the demonstration. We also talk about setting up shared folders on the Pogoplug, and how to mount CD/DVD ISO images using a handy GUI application on Linux.
Watch NowAs a followup to Episode 102 (233 weeks ago), Robbie's sons (6 and 3) review how to create a font from our own handwriting. Welcoming Kelsey Jensen to the team.
Watch NowLearn a simple technique that will enhance any color photograph using the free graphic editing software, The GiMP. We're also pushing our Canadian viewers to get their ballots in for a brand new Brother MFC-J615W all-in-one printer, answer a lot of viewer questions, and welcome back rdstreets following his open heart surgery.
Watch NowThe Halloween Special: Lieutenant Commander Robbie Ferguson joins Left Wing player Eric Kidd to talk about the free multi-track audio studio software, Jokosher. A brief talk about the disposable mentality of our society and how retailers are trying to force it on us. Answering a slew of viewer questions.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates Miro Internet TV - a great tool for Mac, Windows or Linux that lets you obtain and watch the top quality Internet TV shows. Also, a tour of the new Category5.TV web site is provided, along with a cool web-based tool that sorts your text lists for you.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates how to install VirtualBox 4.0 on Linux, and also shows a cool Gnome Applet called Hamster, which allows you to track your time on Linux.
Watch NowHillary joined Robbie and Eric in studio, and we learn to create professional sounding drum beats on Linux using the free Hydrogen step sequencer. A lot of viewer questions were asked and answered, giving us a plethora of topics for Episode 173.
Watch NowSetup your own WordPress blog and get blogging with your own web site URL provided for free from WordPress.
Watch NowMarc Ruel joins us from Brother Canada to help us understand how we can keep ourselves organized in our home or small business office. Qualifying users to win a Brother MFC-J615W printer. Scanning and printing directly to the iPad / iPod Touch / iPhone or Android device. Seagate hard drives and firmware updates. Reloading the menu items on your Gnome Linux application menu without having to reboot. Profanity delay on the cheap for radio. Will Linux users be excited, or upset about BBC Radio's new HD audio? Online tracking companies and advertisers are using Facebook apps to mine user data for their purposes. Oracle confirms their plans to continue development of the free OpenOffice.org Suite. Ubuntu Linux provides touch-screen features similar to the iPad.
Watch NowCreating panoramic images using free software and a standard digital camera. Making scanners work using Vuescan. Extending a WiFi signal from one building to the next. Installing software on Linux. Win some Nanodots. Automattic Transfers Trademark to WordPress Foundation. WiFi is soon to get a lot easier for Linux users as Broadcom announces they are going open source with their latest drivers. Google Instant is being rolled out, making web searching even easier for novice users. Super Mario Bros. celebrated its 25th birthday yesterday.
Watch NowAn in-depth look at live streaming, along with representatives from Telestream (the makers of Wirecast 4), Filippa Hasselstrom and Christine Porter. Robbie and Hillary host an informative, practical discussion about how live video streaming on the Internet is revolutionizing media and video content delivery.
Watch NowDeploying a Turnkey Linux server in a fraction of the time of a traditional server installation.
Watch NowData security and keeping your private information safe when disposing of or selling your computer. Increasing the size of a VirtualBox harddrive. nVIDIA GeForce vs. Quadro. Shares in Research in Motion dropped today following yesterday's announcement of their iPad alternative, the PlayBook. Browser Sync Service Xmarks to Shut Down. Dr. Mark Wright is using his position as city councilor to fight the good fight on behalf for Open Source software in Bristol City, UK. Twitter's latest exploit redirected users to offensive web sites. Gallium has introduced its DirectX 10/11 implementation for Linux.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates a simple technique to creating glossy web buttons from any photo using the free GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Watch NowThe 2-hour anniversary special, featuring Robbie Ferguson, Eric Kidd, Carrie Webb, Christy Burton, Hillary Rumball, Bekah Ferguson, John Van Noort, Tali Ferguson and Zech Ferguson. A lot of random conversations and catching up with old friends of the show.
Watch NowSetting up your very own Twitter account. RAID0 vs. RAID1. BlackBerry backups. Software suggestions when imaging your hard drive to a new device. Jot wins some Nanodots. Attendees at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference have voted to abolish Adobe's PDF standard. The FAA plans to offer grants for Spaceports. Google is resorting to old-school tactics to make the Internet faster: image compression. Planet Calypso is stepping things up for online gamers with new hovercrafts, motorboats, and a secure in-game voice chat system.
Watch NowRobbie's wife had the baby, and Robbie has been working hard to take care of his family. In a surprise that the show was even able to go live, Robbie, Eric and Hillary pull a show together just for fun. In the course of the show, Robbie demonstrates how new Planet Calypso players can join the Category5 TV Viewers Society in the game to participate in events together.
Watch NowRobbie uses the free Clonezilla tool to create a full backup of your entire hard drive.
Watch NowRobbie is joined by graphic designer Christa Wells to begin the series about Web Site Development. In this first part of the series, Christa demonstrates the creativity required to create the design of a professional looking web site.
Watch NowLearn to create photo-realistic style space scenes using the free GIMP image editing software for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Watch NowRobbie uses the free Clonezilla tool to restore a full backup of your entire hard drive, bringing your computer back to its previous state, including the drive's data and files.
Watch NowThere are a few webcams that claim to be 1080p, and we put two of the main ones head-to-head in a broadcast battle. The winner is an obvious one.
Watch NowBuilding a Debian server with node.js and etherpad-lite to allow realtime collaborative writing and editing of text.
Watch NowThe mailbag is full, and you control the show. We launch the Merch Store and answer questions about Linux on servers and laptops, vishing, bash script memory leaks, WYSIWYG web site editing on Linux, getting a job, the coldest day of the year and a new Linux flavor to replace Windows XP.
Watch NowInstalling Ubuntu 10.10 in a Virtual Machine using VirtualBox. Software to rip DVDs. Google invents a car that drives itself. 200 hackers took out Spain's Copyright Protection web site in a pro-BitTorrent campaign. Apple has been ordered to pay $200 million. Pogoplug Pro is now available.
Watch NowRobbie explains what some of the on-the-box features mean when comparison shopping for good surge protection, and then compares eight different devices from a variety of price points to help us understand how to choose the best protection for the price.
Watch NowRobbie and Kelsey discuss what you need to know about Heartbleed, and answer a slew of viewer questions. Also announcing our Earth Day contest: win a year supply of Eco Alkalines batteries.
Watch NowRobbie and Erika take a look at the latest version of this exciting stunt racing video game, which is absolutely free for both Windows and Linux.
Watch NowUpgrade your iPhone 5/5S to include 22 tools with an incredible, lightweight and slim multi-tool protective case, perfect for biking or outdoor adventures. We always have our phones with us, so make it an all-in-one tool!
Watch NowYou don't necessarily need a $13,000 tea machine to make the perfect cup of tea! We also answer a wide assortment of viewer questions from viewers around the world.
Watch NowGet to know two of the people behind CDNJS: Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis. Their service allows web developers to build faster web sites, and it's free.
Watch NowLast week we learned to build a PlexPi Media Server. This week, we'll learn to use it. With our movies, TV shows, music and home videos on a USB flash drive, we'll create our library and begin streaming to all our devices.
Watch NowRobbie and Sasha speak with Security Engineer, Francois Proulx from PasswordBox about the intricacies of how the platform works, and how the PasswordBox team works to protect our passwords through their secure service.
Watch NowThe viewer questions have been coming in at full force, so we've bumped our features back and dedicated an entire show to your viewer questions. Topics ranging from VirtualBox to making Facebook not burn your retinas at night.
Watch NowRobbie and Eric dive into a massive mailbag, discuss pronunciation and generally goof around for a time that's funner than an extra hour in the ball pit.
Watch NowPromote your product, web site, blog, or brand by sharing graphical memes that catch people's eye in their social media timelines.
Watch NowUsing Turnkey Linux to deploy an instant messenger service that you control, powered exclusively by Linux and other free software.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates how to use VLC to stream a live video stream (a webcam in our demo) over RTSP using nothing more than VLC on Linux.
Watch NowRobbie visits Neiman Machinery in Newmarket, Ontario to observe the unboxing of a freighter full of Geka IronWorker machines from Spain. An assortment of viewer questions are also answered.
Watch NowAs we celebrate Pi Day -- or Pi Week as we'd rather call it -- let's look back on some of the exciting projects we have done featuring the Raspberry Pi micro-computer. There are so many things you can do with it, and we'll just scratch the surface.
Watch NowWordPress has a bad rap for security because users simply don't know how to firm up the security. So we show you four easy-to-use plugins to add to WordPress which protect your blog from hackers, spammers, and other bad people (or bots).
Watch NowThis week we look at a toy that is designed specifically to encourage young girls to get excited about science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Watch NowRobbie and Sasha play games, run trains, and make ASCII cows tell jokes, but then sit down for a movie and an episode of Category5 TV made entirely of ASCII characters.
Watch NowRobbie and Kelsey take you through the steps of updating a self-maintained WordPress blog, and what that's important.
Watch NowHillary and Robbie pack up Studio C and get everything ready to move to Studio D, and show you the work it took to get there. Journey with us through a renovation that will take Category5 to the next level in its new studio space for Season 8.
Watch NowFor those who draw like three year olds but love a good physics puzzle, Numpty Physics is for you! For some nostalgia, Robbie and Sasha take a look at a genuine View-Master, complete with slides from the 1940s.
Watch NowThis week we tackle a plethora of topics: from the #DeleteFacebook movement and what you should know about what Facebook knows about you, to unboxing a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and thinking on World Backup Day.
Watch NowXENTAVO founder and CEO and all-round cryptofinance expert Robert Koenig joins the Cat5 team to explain (in terms we understand) what the blockchain is, how cryptocurrency generates money, and what the financial future holds.
Watch NowOn this jam-packed episode, we compare the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ to the original Pi 3 and even the Pi 2. Then, we'll look at a cordless digital microscope that zooms up to 600x and lets you record 1080p video.
Watch NowThe GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a feature-packed image editor that is absolutely free. Let's look at some very basic usage to get you started: rotate, crop, resize and save an image.
Watch NowUsing the free GNU Image Manipulation Program to add a sunny blue sky to a photo taken on a dreary day.
Watch NowOn our Season 8 opener, Robbie, Erika, and Sasha take their digital photography to the next level with a DSLR, a Linux machine, and the incredible Darktable software.
Watch NowRobbie begins a multi-part lesson on how to create a basic photo gallery using PHP and an assortment of images. Through this series we'll learn how HTML and PHP interact with one another.
Watch NowRobbie and Bailey boot up the Windows 10 tech preview DVD and install the OS with only a few issues out the gate. Microsoft skips over Windows 9 and brings back the start menu in their upcoming OS.
Watch NowRobbie, Christa and Sasha tackle the mailbag and answer viewer questions. We also announce our December giveaway.
Watch NowFrom Roku to hijack viruses, open source software for business to securely wiping an SSD hard drive with Linux, the Viewer Question Extravaganza is our chance to answer as many viewer questions as we can in the course of a single show.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates how to build your own eCommerce store using freely available software. The applications used and the skills learned transcend to clothing stores, software stores, magazine shops, merchandise stores, arts and crafts, or whatever it is you want to sell.
Watch Now[A very old] Robbie takes you through how to build a contact form using PHP on our 2014 Halloween special.
Watch NowOur PHP photo gallery is coming together with clean HTML and FancyBox 2 lightboxes.
Watch NowWith the release of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ as well as RetroPie 4.4, it's time to look at DIY retro gaming again! We'll assemble the ultimate stylish retro gaming machine (a throwback to the NES) and give Mario Kart 64 a try to see if the new Pi with the new distro will outperform the retro gaming systems of just a few years ago.
Watch NowRobbie uses the free GNU Image Manipulation Program to cut people out of a picture and place them on a new background.
Watch NowCould it be that 3D printers have finally made their way mainstream? Poieo wants to make it happen with a kid-safe, family-friendly 3D printer available for well under $1,000.
Watch NowEver want to display current or upcoming events on your web site, based on the contents of your Google Calendar? We'll show you how to load the calendar into a PHP array so you can output it and stylize it however you like.
Watch NowRobbie and Kelsey tackle several viewer questions that have arrived lately, and Sasha covers some interesting news story, including a piece of technology that helps blind people see.
Watch NowRobbie and Sasha crack into a mailbag full of not just questions, but comments and suggestions. We also review the unlocking of the Samsung phone, and finish activating the Pay As You Go service.
Watch NowLeading up to our Google+ Hangout, Robbie, Kelsey and Sasha welcome Carrie Webb to Studio D and premiere the new show from Category5 TV, "Try It. Buy It."
Watch NowMarch 31 is World Backup Day, so we talk about what makes a backup a backup, and how you can ensure your files are protected through redundant data storage and free software (Duplicati).
Watch NowRobbie reveals the new #Slides application from PowToon in a comprehensive interview with PowToon's founder Ilya Spitalnik. Take your presentations to the next level with this free service.
Watch NowRobbie demonstrates the new "Wirecast Cam" app that allows broadcasters to use any number of iOS 8 devices to work as live camera sources for Telestream Wirecast.
Watch NowA digital time capsule left for your loved ones after you've gone. Hillary speaks with Kelly Lassaline, the founder of Memories of Me.
Watch NowRobbie and Sasha pull up YouTube and read through some of the most recent comments on our YouTube channels.
Watch NowIn this, the final installment of the series, Robbie further explains the parallax effect, working with a couple more pictures, and shows how you can create some really interesting and fun transitions for your final slideshow.
Watch NowSasha sets out to create a stamp to save her time when waitressing. Some GIMP tricks are exploited to create a good stamp using the Staples Business Depot service. We also talk a fair bit about autonomous vehicles, with conversations sparked by Sasha's news stories.
Watch NowLearn to create an incredible "video-like" slideshow from still photographs. In Part 2 we finish off the image layers and add the enhanced parallaxing "Ken Burns" animation effect, giving added depth to our slideshow clip.
Watch NowRobbie converts a SIM to a MicroSIM for free, and unlocks a Samsung Galaxy Core LTE (which he got for free!) for just $20. And to boot, he gets phone service for a little more than $6 per month.
Watch NowLearn to create an incredible "video-like" slideshow from still photographs, starting with editing our images to enable the creation of a pseudo-parallax effect to give a real sense of depth when we move our photos around.
Watch NowHow to fix annoying (upside down) PDF files, installing and using a script on GIMP to "tear" portions of your image with a single button press, computer backups, backups for WordPress, Knoppix menu items, microphone control from the Linux terminal and Robbie looks like a participant from BBC One's MasterChef Season 11.
Watch NowIn celebration of 400 weeks of Category5 Technology TV, Robbie hosted a Backyard BBQ Bash, slow smoking burgers and ribs over charcoal and apple wood. Catch up with the crew and find out what keeps them coming back week after week.
Watch NowRobbie shows us how a PHP Function can be used not only to save redundant input in your PHP code, but also to do something intelligent. In our live example, we write a code to detect whether an array has just one or multiple items, and output verbiage to suit.
Watch NowGoogle made a major change to their search results on mobile devices: sites that are not mobile-friendly will not show up. We'll discuss why they made this bold move, and what web designers have to do about it.
Watch NowWhat happens when a Viewer Question Extravaganza turns into three detailed and informative answers? Episode 394 happens! Join us as we tackle a question about Linux installers, what lib-notify is, and how to use $_GET in PHP.
Watch NowOur viewer, alphaomega, wanted to know how to move a WordPress site, so we'll show you! Whether you have administrator access or not, we'll take two different approaches to this surprisingly easy task. Also, Dennis Kelley visited Penguicon in Michigan and had a chat with Jason Kridner about the BeagleBone Black.
Watch NowRobbie, Jeff and Sasha are joined by special guest Jonathan Bahai from eXeBlock to discuss what the Blockchain can do for the world other than crytpocurrency. You may be wondering how it could get any better than this, and to that we'll just tell you that Jonathan is coming to us from roughly 40 feet underground in a nuclear bunker.
Watch NowSTEM education is getting exciting as more and more products come out that really make learning fun! OhBot is one such device: it provides kids of all ages a robot and the tools they need to program it to interact. Let's look at the basics of how it works and perform a few simple tasks as we learn to code through OhBot.
Watch NowLearn to create along with Robbie and Sasha as we endeavor to branch out into electronics tutorials using Arduino! In preparation for our coming Wirecast camera switching controller build, we'll simply make a light flash.
Watch NowAs 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.
Watch NowJon Panozzo from Lime Technology joins us to discuss unRAID 6. Now much more than a NAS, unRAID 6 offers full virtualization and Docker apps on your unRAID system, allowing you to utilize the power of your system more than any other NAS.
Watch NowWe'll use a great tool to offer an interactive visual representation of the space usage on our hard drive, making it easy to pinpoint space wasters and destroy them. Works in Linux (via wine) and Windows (natively).
Watch NowLet's save some trees with e-paper and focus our eyes on a $200 PTZ webcam. This week we'll review a couple of great (and affordable) products that are readily available on Amazon and other online shops.
Watch NowWe recap Saturday's event at Studio D for Deaf Access, and opening the mailbag we get through a number of viewer questions, many of which end up being about cameras.
Watch NowThis year's Cottage Special is a mad test of the power of LTE Internet service as Robbie presents not one, not two, but FOUR product review segments! Charge your phone using solar power, a look at the SJCAM SJ4000 WiFI ActionCam, a cheap binaural audio mic rig and a quadcopter you can crash hundreds of times and it'll keep on flying. Don't miss this fun-filled show from the heart of the Haliburton forest.
Watch NowWe've got a nice assortment of products to review this week: from an Android TV stick with really good WiFi and USB 3, to a sleeping mask that has built-in stereo earphones. We'll also talk about NEMS Linux, and a web service that lets you send self-destructing messages for free.
Watch NowHenry's back! And together with Robbie and Sasha, he'll check out a great (and simple) device that lets you restart your modem and router when the Internet goes down, even if you're nowhere near home! Let's all catch up and have a great time!
Watch NowDavid Lucatch, CEO of Yappn.com joins us to discuss their realtime translation service, making e-commerce, social media and customer support truly universal and breaking down the language barriers between 67 world languages.
Watch Now560 weeks is a great track record. And to keep the record going, we were here. However, our studio (and much of our city) are without power. Our UPS batteries are depleted, and there's no possible way to go live as we do every single week. But we're here. And we want to say hi in spite of our inability to broadcast the regular show. See you all next week!
Watch NowHenry Baillie-Brown (Air Support Aerial Photography) stops by Studio D to discuss video drones, how the technology is evolving, and how this change in technology has allowed companies like his to rise up and enhance industries such as extreme sports and real estate tours.
Watch NowRobbie and Kelsey set out to replicate a similar visual effect to an artistic picture sent to us by a viewer--but we'll do it using nothing but free software.
Watch NowOur viewers have supplied us with a plethora of questions and some great comments, with topics like: NFS vs SMB/CIFS, Installing unRAID using Linux, Weather Forecast for Space, Free E-Book Each Day, Is it MB or Emby vs. Plex? and Choosing a UPS Battery backup.
Watch NowThis week we show you how to download videos from YouTube as both HD video files and MP3 audio. It's week 4 of GIMP Tips and we'll make a new photo look like it's 100 years old.
Watch NowWe unveil the up and coming James Donkey 007 mouse: a sleek, high-end gaming (or graphic design) mouse with adjustable a 8400DPI resolution laser, high-quality switches, and a modular design that lets you change the configuration of the mouse with 54 different combinations.
Watch NowRobbie removes the hard drive from a broken laptop and turns it into a USB 3.0/eSATA external hard drive with a simple, affordable enclosure. Learn some of the basics of the internal components of your laptop computer, and how to remove, replace or reuse the built-in hard drive.
Watch NowWe're building a music server that fits in your pocket. Robbie and Sasha kick off our 3-part Raspberry Pi Music Server series with a Pi 2 kit that gets us started with the build.
Watch NowUsing the free GNU Image Manipulation Program we'll learn to remove simple objects (such as a stop sign) from a picture quickly and easily.
Watch NowWe all know it's important to drink water, but many of us know we also don't drink enough of it. Now, an innovative little device turns any water bottle or glass into a "smart" device by reminding you to take a drink.
Watch NowNeed a case for your Raspberry Pi? What about printing one on your home printer and cutting it out of cardboard? We'll also continue our GIMP Tips series, learning to crop, round edges and add a drop shadow to a picture.
Watch NowJeff, Robbie and Sasha take a look at a great new set of earbuds from Jabees that offer some of the coolest hearing amplification features we've seen in a stylish Bluetooth headset package. We'll also take e-paper to the next level with one that saves PDF files wirelessly to your phone.
Watch NowIn this double feature episode, we speak with James Avery, CEO of Adzerk about the current state of online ads and how we can make them suck less, plus Jason Mainella joins us from TeenyDrones to show off his line (both current and future) of multirotor quads, including a racing drone and a camera drone that fits in your shirt pocket.
Watch NowWe 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.
Watch NowRobbie and Erika introduce our series on Google Analytics, and how to use it to track web site visitors and generate helpful reports. This data can be used to show you where you're going wrong (or right) with your web site, and help you focus who your web site reaches and cater to your vistors better.
Watch NowOne of the worst things that can happen to a sysadmin is losing or forgetting their root password. The feeling of powerlessness alone can cause feelings of extreme confusion. Robbie will show you an easy way to recover your root account even if you can't remember the password.
Watch NowThanks to our local music shop, we've got wireless mics this week! We've also launched another way for our viewers to interact, and thanks to our amazing community, we've figured out why our Ubuntu deployment was giving us nothing but a blue screen on Windows 10.
Watch NowA viewer puts Robbie in his place with his GIMP tutorials for beginners. Jeff, Robbie and Sasha put the PowerLocus headphones to the test and set out to find out which file formats the SD card reader supports. We'll also look at the Stream Deck, which is perhaps the best-ever programmable hotkey board.
Watch NowShizu Yamagucci joins us once again to discuss how the organizational and de-cluttering methods made famous by Marie Kondo can apply to our digital lives. From closet space to our computer desktop, learning to be more organized and only keep those things that make you feel good can be life altering.
Watch NowAn Atomos Ninja Flame will soon replace our failed recording drive, so let's get into the box and have a look at this delicious 4k field recorder. We're also getting things rolling on Raspberry Pi-based GPIO programming, so let's kick things off with the world's simplest project: turning on and off an LED.
Watch NowWe've been putting together a Raspberry Pi-powered music server, and this week Sasha wraps up the series as she goes on site to install the device and set up the network share and initial playlist.
Watch NowWe're down one mic, and that means down one host. One of our viewers thought of a great way to support the show and sent us a little something that brightened our day. Robbie wants to rid himself of Windows on his laptop once and for all, and is asking the community for help.
Watch NowUsing the free Volumio operating system, we'll turn a Raspberry Pi 2 into a feature-rich music server complete with NAS and USB access to files for our music library, playlist capabilities and a sleek interface which can be accessed from your computer, smartphone or tablet.
Watch NowNobody does network asset monitoring as well as Nagios, and NEMS Linux brings a fully-configured Nagios server to your Raspberry Pi. Robbie and Bekah check out the latest release of the Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server for Raspberry Pi 3.
Watch NowWhen it comes to sound quality, the more you pay, generally the better the sound. This week though, we look for good sounding gear that comes with a cheaper price tag. From a set of Bluetooth 4.2-EDR headphones to a pair of studio monitor-style speakers, Jeff and Robbie will put them to the test... along with the help of a mannequin head equipped with a binaural recorder.
Watch NowThis week we welcome back Robert Capps from NuData security to discuss the recent data breach at Timehop, and how biometrics and behavioral analytics can help protect user data. We'll also unbox a shiny new Rock64 SBC with 4 GB RAM, and of course, cover the week's tech news stories as well.
Watch NowOn our Halloween special, the severed heads of Robbie and Sasha will take you through the setup of MainWP, a freely available open source plugin for WordPress that lets you administer multiple WordPress web sites from one dashboard. Also learn some fun chroma key tricks in Telestream Wirecast.
Watch NowAmidst some great comments from our viewers, Robbie and Sasha warn of a very real threat to your data: fake SD cards being sold on sites like Amazon and Ebay. Sometimes when something appears too good to be true, it's just not worth the risk.
Watch NowWe kick off our '20 Weeks of GIMP Tips' series with an easy-to-achieve way of changing the color of any bright object. We'll use cars in our example, and show you how the GIMP can be used to achieve this realistic effect in just seconds. We'll also share the inside scoop on what the closure of PasswordBox means to its users.
Watch NowLet's dive into some intermediate-level PHP code to tap into freely available API's to help us find longitude and latitude for either an IP address or physical address, allowing us to put a pin on a map at a user's location.
Watch NowIntroducing Jeff Weston, our newest on air personality. Check out a great little Bluetooth barcode scanner that will turn your computer, smartphone or tablet into a wireless Point of Sale or inventory system.
Watch NowGet started in drone flight with some great suggestions from the Category5 team! The sub-$100 option we look at this week features a 720p video camera and flies like a dream.
Watch NowMicrosoft has been working with the open source community to bring Ubuntu Linux to Windows 10, and we'll see how easy it is to get up and going in what unintentionally became part 1 of a 2-part series. We've also got some sad news for Star Trek fans with regards to the Stage 9 VR project, but let's do something about it.
Watch NowThis week Robbie and Sasha unbox the Pine A64-LTS single-board computer and get an early look at the brand new version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.10.4 - a free alternative to Photoshop. And Sasha bought a car!
Watch NowWhen Marty, Doc Brown and Jennifer travel to the future in the 1989 movie Back to the Future II, they land on October 21, 2015. Let's review the technology and trends of 2015 as depicted in the movie, and discuss which were bang on correct, and which were way off.
Watch NowArch Linux is notoriously difficult for novice Linux users to install, but Antergos (based on Arch) provides an easy start in the world of Arch Linux by making installation a breeze--and it's a joy to use as a day-to-day distro.
Watch NowTo prepare for some of the exciting upcoming builds we have planned, we need to learn to solder. This week we look at the most basic project: replacing a plug on a pair of headphones. On GIMP Tips, we learn to use the Levels Tool to fix over/underexposed images.
Watch NowWe have a new Internet connection this week at Studio D, and are finally free of LTE. Let's talk about how Artificial Intelligence is about to pwn humans, and a sad announcement about a new SBC that we're all really excited about -- but wait, there's hope!
Watch NowWe look at a really great power unit for the Pi micro computer, and setup the initial server tools needed to get our Apache web server running on Raspberry Pi. We'll also prepare an external USB hard drive to use for data reads/writes to reduce the access to the MicroSD card. Also, on Week 2 of GIMP Tips, we'll learn to setup keyboard shortcuts.
Watch NowThere are some wonderful free alternatives available for commercial software, and LibreOffice is exactly that. But the interface isn't quite the same as Microsoft Office, and it can be a bit unfamiliar to users who are accustomed to the commercial counterpart. This week, we'll learn to make LibreOffice look and feel pretty similar to Microsoft's product, and who knows: you may just save some money.
Watch NowTaking a look at the Epson WorkForce ET-4550 EcoTank Wi-Fi enabled printer: a feature-packed all-in-one that does away with ink cartridges and instead allows you to refill ink reservoirs as needed. We'll also set it up on Linux over Wi-Fi to show that while Linux isn't listed on the box, the ET-4550 works great.
Watch NowThis week's show is controlled by you - our viewers! Topics such as installing common Windows fonts on Linux, where to download retro game ROMs from, and many more.
Watch NowShizu Yamaguchi joins Robbie and Sasha this week, and everyone's dressed up for Halloween! We'll step outside the box with our review of a cheap condenser microphone off Amazon, and unbox the six-core NanoPi M4 single board computer.
Watch NowWe've talked about fake MicroSD cards, but this week we actually have one to test on Linux. Is it really the best deal on Amazon? Or a complete scam? We'll also take a peek at Linux Mint 19 and have a visit from our Crypto Correspondent, Robert Koenig.
Watch NowMarshMan drove 8 hours to join us this week! We'll look at a cheap way to repurpose an old computer PSU, as well as the ODROID-GO - a GameBoy-like handheld that lets you play all the classics - and you get to build it yourself.
Watch NowResetting a modem is not the same thing as rebooting a modem, as Sasha learned this week. Let's also unbox a Raspberry Pi 3 A+, a lighting rig to improve your product photographs on the cheap, and discuss the evolution of technology with Google Monocle.
Watch NowOur opinions of AI have been formed by mainstream media, but that stops now. This week we speak with New York Times best-selling author, Martin Ford about Artificial Intelligence. In his new book, Ford records the conversations he has had with the very people developing artificial intelligence. We'll chat about what's exciting, what's scary, and what's to come from machine learning.
Watch NowWe continue our series of single board computer benchmarks, and this week we put the ODROID XU4Q and the NanoPi M4 up against one another, along with the results from last week's battle between the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, PINE64 A64-LTS, Rock64 and RockPro64.
Watch NowMost of us have some old laptop or desktop computers kicking around. They seem useless because their OS is out of date, and the hardware isn't powerful enough to run the latest and greatest software. Enter CloudReady: a Chromium OS distribution that is built to run on your old (or new!) PC gear, and is free for personal use.
Watch NowWe've finally got our hands on a RockPro64, and it's an incredible looking little single-board computer: 6 cores, 4 GB RAM and a PCIe slot. We've also got some great viewer comments that spark some interesting discussions.
Watch NowThis week, Robbie, Sasha and Jeff look at a new (came out a couple months back) Rock64 single board computer from Pine64. We've installed Ayufan's Ubuntu 18.04 with LXDE, and we'll see if it's usable ... yet.
Watch NowWe're joined by Kingston Technology Sr. Technology Manager Cameron Crandall to talk about their new enterprise drives -- the DC500 -- and learn how Kingston is innovating in the data center, helping businesses to extend the useful life of existing hardware, improve overall performance and at the same time reduce the cost of operation.
Watch NowA great photo can be ruined by incorrect exposure or white balance. This week we'll show you how to correct some of the most common mistakes, such as backlighting or incorrect white balance using GIMP. Plus, as an added bonus, Robbie will provide a few quick tips that will help you get better photos from your DSLR camera even without retouching them.
Watch NowTaking a risk on a refurbished smartphone proved disastrous for Robbie, so this time he took a different approach as a budget-minded phone shopper and picked up a Xiaomi Pocophone F1. We'll get into the box this week on Category5 TV and take the low-cost phone for a spin. Sasha also updates us on her mixed-environment word processing woes at work, and we have your week's top tech news.
Watch NowThe problem with encrypted flash drives has always been the software needed to be installed in order to operate it. This week we look at a device that eliminates that issue by using a keypad to decrypt the data, making it extremely easy to use and perfect for your purse or pocket.
Watch NowOur BitTorrent Seed Server on an ODROID-HC1 has been upgraded to let us access it through our network as a password-protected NAS. We'll also open up a dead Ethernet switch and see if it's worth fixing, and take a look at a decent Star Trek: The Next Generation tricorder replica that's currently selling on Amazon.
Watch NowThe Bald Nerd, CloudReady's official unofficial spokeswoman and the Ginja Ninja take a look at the Wyze Cam lineup, which makes smart home surveillance ultra-affordable. We'll also learn how to turn 4K video footage into multiple camera shots in CyberLink PowerDirector, and the results are mind blowing.
Watch NowIt was such an honor to have Lukasz Erecinski from PINE64 join us for an interview where he revealed the exciting new product line from PINE64, including a "Pro" version of their popular Pinebook SOC laptop, and the world's first open source IP camera. We'll also take the RockPro64 for a spin just to see what kind of performance we can likely expect out of the Pinebook Pro.
Watch NowHappy new year! This week we'll look back briefly on some of the fondest memories our hosts have of 2018, followed by a tutorial on how to rip episodic DVDs using the free Handbrake software on Windows 10.
Watch NowBetween the Google Home Mini and the latest Amazon Echo Dot, the price and promoted features are pretty similar. This week, we'll try to figure out which one is the best virtual assistant by putting the two smart home devices head-to-head.
Watch NowWe all love a good benchmark comparison, but what's been unclear up till now is how SBCs of varying price points compare once you factor in their cost. Does the Rock64 beat the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ even though it costs more? We'll set out to find out on this week's show.
Watch NowJeff takes a look at a new Android TV box that uses the Amlogic S905X2 SoC. It's zippy, and can handle 4k 60p and HDR. Robbie will show you how to fix the interface in GIMP should you accidentally close a window or otherwise confuse things, and Sasha has our top tech stories for the week.
Watch NowIt's time to upgrade Robbie's wife's smartphone, but her MicroSIM won't fit in the new phone's NanoSIM port. We could buy a new SIM and port everything over, but that takes time and effort. Let's instead use a punch tool which costs roughly the same price as buying a new SIM, and convert our card. We'll also learn to correct the white balance of a photo that has no white using the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Watch NowWith March Break in full swing, our two resident dads are looking for ways to keep their kids safe online. Enter Pi-Hole: a free DNS server program that turns any single board computer into a sophisticated DNS filtering service. It's built to block ads, which in turn improves your Internet speed. But using third-party lists, you can also use Pi-Hole to optionally block sites that serve up pornography.
Watch NowWe unboxed the 1080p Pinebook on Episode 611. Now, after 1 week of usage, let's talk about our first impressions with the $99 Linux laptop from PINE64. We'll look at the good and bad, and provide context and possible use cases for this innovative SBC-powered notebook.
Watch NowOur live broadcast API tells whether Category5 TV is live on the air or not. This week, we'll create a simple circuit and code that will automatically turn on an LED light bulb whenever Category5 TV signs on. The fundamentals learned will help get makers started with Raspberry Pi GPIO programming in a fun and simple way. We'll also test Google Docs vs. MS Office Online Word and see how well each opens documents we created in LibreOffice Writer.
Watch NowAs Robbie, Sasha and Jeff take the week off to celebrate Christmas with their families, let's circle back to our Christmas special from 2012 when Category5 alumni of years gone by joined Robbie and Sasha for a very special night of amateur Christmas caroling.
Watch NowThis week, Robbie and Sasha take a look at how the Wyze Cams work. They're the world's most affordable smart surveillance camera, and we'll give them a try. Then, let's open up an ODROID C2 single board computer. It's been around for a while, but it's still an awesome board in high demand. We also have what could be the best ODROID C2 case ever.
Watch NowIn his quest to become capable of performing his own electronics repair, Robbie has come a long way with his soldering abilities. This week, we'll tear down the dead network switch and see if it can be fixed for around $3.
Watch NowLearn to include() PHP files within other PHP files in order to reduce redundant coding and make it easier to share functions across your whole codebase.
Watch NowThe ODROID HC1 is a 2.5-inch SSD enclosure that features a built-in 8-core SBC with 2 GB RAM and gigabit Ethernet. Since it runs Debian Linux (among others), there is really no limit to what you can create. For our first project out of the box, we'll setup the SSD to auto-mount on boot, and turn the unit into a self-contained BitTorrent seed server with a browser-based interface.
Watch NowSuffering from a vicious relapse of RSI Ulnar Nerve Entrapment, Robbie has been fighting pain when using a computer mouse, so he set out to replace it with his face only to find it doesn't work on modern Linux out of the box. Let's fix that and turn our webcam into a surprisingly accurate mouse controller.
Watch NowLearn all about what's new in hearing assistance technology: from a wireless mic you can hand to a speaker to an app for your Apple Watch that controls your environment, Frank Skubski (Beltone Canada) returns to talk about what's new to help those experiencing hearing loss.
Watch NowBo Lechnowsky, the founder of one of the world's most well-respected Single Board Computer stores, joins the Category5 team to discuss how far SBCs have come, how he and his company are currently using the tiny supercomputers, and how these pocket-sized (and some bite-sized) computers are revolutionizing the enterprise data center.
Watch NowThe team that brought us Stage 9, the virtual version of the USS Enterprise, have now announced the coming release of The Orville: Interactive Fan Experience. That's right, having been shut down by CBS for creating a realistic virtual replica of NCC-1701-D, the team is now moving on to the newest show rocking Trek fandom: The Orville. Robbie will speak with Project Lead, Dan Govier about the upcoming release.
Watch NowWe love unboxings, and we love product reviews. It's a great chance for us to show you what's up and coming (a 13-inch Raspberry Pi touch screen case) or what's been around a while but could benefit from a video review to really show you how it looks (water effect party lamp). We'll tackle these, plus some swag sent to the unofficial official spokeswoman of CloudReady.
Watch NowThe Pinebook is groundbreaking. A truly functional $99 Linux laptop with a 1080p IPS screen, WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. But its low price tag and innovative nature lead to some very real caveats for some users. Let's see how our tech-savvy bald nerd reacts to what, with a little patience, could be an excellent little portable writing or coding tool.
Watch NowThis week we'll get into the box of an ASUS Tinker Board 2GB and S, checking out a Raspberry Pi-sized single board computer that packs twice as much RAM and a whole lot more processor power. We'll also check in with our first-ever Maker of The Month, who created a photo frame that only shows pictures of his niece and nephew thanks to AI-powered facial recognition.
Watch NowThis week on Category5: Robbie, we'll talk about how the new Star Trek about Captain Picard is actually called Star Trek: Picard, and how uncreative that is. We'll also learn to make Google Docs, Sheets and Slides available even when no Internet connection is available, and how NewYes has improved their e-paper tablets in the past year.
Watch NowARM is revolutionizing the server room, and this week we'll learn to turn a small, sub-$100 single board ARM computer into a fully-capable web server. Whether hosting web sites for the public to access, or just a home server to let your family and friends access your recent vacation photos, the ODROID-N2 makes a fabulous LAMP server that won't generate heat, use a lot of electricity, or generate any ambient noise. We'll also talk about Google's recent service outages, and how the move to the cloud is affecting businesses.
Watch Now600 weeks ago, Robbie started up Category5 TV. A lot has changed around here since then, and a lot has changed in tech. Let's look at some of the top ways technology has changed in the last 600 weeks. We'll also take a peek at the brand new ODROID-N2 Single-Board Computer.
Watch NowSasha lets us know how things are going with her new $30 dashcam, Robbie gives some solid ransomware advice, we look at a new version of a video capture device that records 1080p video from your game console without the need of a computer, and we kill off some of the bugs that have been buzzing around Henry's head.
Watch NowExperience the Apollo 11 mission through the very software used to place mankind on the moon -- on a Raspberry Pi or in your web browser! Henry will take us through the basics of liftoff. We'll also look at the Wyze Sense door sensors and motion sensor, and an improved version of the pocket-sized e-paper tablet we looked at a year ago.
Watch NowJoin Robbie, Jeff and Henry as they take a tour of The Orville with the free fan-made video game. We'll also look at some outstanding ideas for the PINE64 Clusterboard and some waterproof LED puck lights ideal.
Watch NowWe don't want to use the word "cheap" since this dash cam actually packs an impressive list of features for $30. The team will get into the box, install and test this 1080p device, and let you judge for yourself if this is on par with Jeff's $200 dash cam.
Watch NowRemember when a desktop computer took up a large space under your desk? Now, you can get a reasonable user experience in something that fits in your pocket. This is not a Raspberry Pi 4. This is better! It's the brand new, up-and-coming Khadas VIM3.
Watch NowRobbie, Sasha and Henry are joined by FreeDOS founder, Jim Hall to discuss the DOS-compatible operating system that celebrated 25 years this week. In keeping with our retro theme, we'll also look at a Mario clone that takes the classic Nintendo game into a 99-player battle royale.
Watch NowRobbie, Jeff and Henry look at the KKSB 7-Inch case stand for Raspberry Pi, and look at the Grow Selection tool in GIMP, demonstrating how it can be used to create borders of dynamic objects such as people or text. We'll also hear about Robbie's chainsaw on a stick and how Jeff and his family are taking to the Amazon Echo Dot.
Watch NowDid you know Robbie and Jeff met when they worked at a radio station, and Jeff later sang on one of Robbie's CDs for his band? Not only will we reminisce about the past, but we'll also plan for the future with a RAID-capable USB 3.1 Rev 2 enclosure for M.2 drives. We also have a nifty USB tester that will tell us how many amps our Raspberry Pi is actually consuming.
Watch NowImagine stock images of models who aren't really people. We're not judging: we actually mean AI-generated fake people who can be used as stock images! We'll show you how to get your hands on 100,000 such images for your project. We'll also take a look at a USB temperature sensor that lets you measure the ambient or surface temperature, providing JSON output so you can program it to do whatever you like.
Watch NowWe've all heard that the Raspberry Pi 4 gets hot, and that when it does, it throttles. While surprisingly we couldn't get it to throttle in our quick test, we were certainly able to get some heat. But we'll add a case from Eleduino that reduces the temperature by at least 20 degrees C and looks good while doing it.
Watch NowSick of stu-stu-stuttering video and slow file transfers on WiFi? Edgewater Wireless CEO, Andrew Skafel joins us to speak on how their revolutionary new WiFi technology is about to shake up the wireless industry. We'll also fire up the flux capacitor and show you how to go back in time in the Debian Linux repositories.
Watch NowAnoosheh Oskouian, CEO of Ship and Shore Environmental Inc., joins us to talk about how her company is making a difference now, and for future generations by greatly reducing the air pollution generated by factories of all sizes. We'll also check out a new and exciting way to check the weather in your Linux terminal, and of course, Sasha has the latest tech news.
Watch NowHaving held our first Kickstarter Zoom group chat earlier that night, this is the followup conversation as the first one didn't record (supremely exclusive)! We're getting everything packed up, and it's coming along. We'll show you the difference in the size of Studio E, and talk about our insurance.
Watch NowWe often hear the question: Why do hackers hack? A lot of times, the answer is simple... it's for the money. But in the case of TheCanadianHacker, he wants to warn people about the exploits that exist on their network before some other hacker uses it with malicious purposes in mind.
Watch NowRobbie's solo again this week, and it's a great opportunity to geek out in the Linux terminal! So let's learn to trace vector paths on raster images and create a doorbell system that performs any action as soon as your staff approach the building. We'll do all this from within the Linux terminal.
Watch NowWith a little soldering, we're prototyping a thermal imaging scanner which allows us to visualize thermal data. We'll be using it to see how various cases and coolers affect the thermal footprint of various single board computers, but the options are endless. With this device, you can see heat.
Watch NowHappy new year 2020! Robbie has come up with a novel goal for the new year: To educate himself about his health. The hope is to use this information to achieve weight loss and better long-term health, without ever having to really focus on the mundane and often unachievable specific goal of weight loss. And what's more, his budget is just $100. Sasha also presents a device that is meant to help you sleep better and control cravings.
Watch NowIn light of the winter storm, the team has the week off - but Robbie was already at the studio when it was called, so he's got this! Time to get started on our custom NAS solution, and Robbie will get into the Linux terminal, how to work with external drives, and how to use--and understand--mount points.
Watch NowWe polled the community and it's been decided: USB 3.1 Rev 2 for our external storage. We'll share a bit more about the decision and what's to come. We also have an Amazon Fire 7 Tablet and determine if you can get standard apps like YouTube or Chrome installed - and if you can use Google Play to do it.
Watch NowIt's hard to believe, but Unreal Tournament GOTY is 20 years old. It holds a special place for Category5 since it was UT LAN parties where Robbie and Jeff got to know one another all those years ago. We'll also look at the Amazon Echo Flex - a brand new version of the popular Alexa smart home device that plugs directly into a wall socket and features USB modules to expand functionality of your smart home.
Watch NowOur viewer community came together to contribute toward a needed broadcast system replacement. With the added help of Kingston Technology, Gigabyte and NVIDIA, we're ready to build our shiny new i9 9900k PC to use for live broadcasting and editing the show for release. We can't thank you enough for pitching in! This week, we'll go through the build together.
Watch NowHenry joins Robbie and Sasha to take a look at an assortment of Single Board Computers we'll be benchmarking in the next couple weeks. We'll also look at why Sasha's work computer went nutty after an update, and fix the stupid "Tablet Mode" by telling it to never turn on again.
Watch NowWe pulled out the old dummy head again, because what better way is there to review a set of Bluetooth headphones? We've got the Bluedio T-Monitors, which are a budget set of wireless headphones that feel and sound great. Sasha is having trouble with Discord and Jeff is getting a lot of botspam.
Watch NowThis week, Tom Costantino (Co-Producer) and Brooke Noska (VFX Producer / Co-VFX Supervisor) from The Orville chat with us about the tech they use behind the scenes to make their TV magic, and how the evolution of technology has impacted the way sci-fi is produced.
Watch NowTired of your Raspberry Pi frying SD cards? Want your Pi-based server to keep running in a power outage or when unplugged? We'll look at what is perhaps the ultimate smart UPS for Raspberry Pi to solve these issues. And since we're soldering headers for the GPIO, we may as well learn a quick trick to make your soldering just a bit easier.
Watch NowEnjoying our music and videos depends a lot on finding the right set of headphones, but it's not always easy to know from an online shop which is going to be best suited for us. The Category5 team compare 5 sets of Bluetooth headphones and discuss their opinions of each to help you get an idea for which may be the one for you, or the person on your list.
Watch NowDan Khasis, CEO of one of the world's biggest logistics software companies, Route4Me, joins us to discuss the technology that drives an industry that we don't always think about since it tends to happen behind the scenes: supply chain and fulfillment. We'll also look at an immensely powerful portable USB charger and a way to enjoy your Keurig without all the guilt about environmental impact.
Watch NowBy now, we've all heard of Amie DD's Tesla hack: she implanted her car's RFID chip in her arm. Category5 cuts deeper to find out just what makes Amie DD tick. Discover along with us that she's much more than just green hair and tattoos: Amie's a thoughtful and creative maker with the tools and skills to bring her visions to life. Whether cosplay, circuit design or 3D printing, she's always pushing tech and innovating new ways to use it, while simultaneously doing her part to help young women interested in pursuing careers in tech.
Watch NowCategory5 is back and broadcasting from its new studio, but who could have predicted a global pandemic occurring during our downtime as we prepared to move? Robbie is joined by Tom Costantino (Co-Producer, The Orville), Brandon Fayette (VFX Supervisor, The Orville), Sasha Rickman (Co-Host, Category5 Technology TV), Bo Lechnowsky (Founder/Owner, ameriDroid) and Amie DD (Contestant, LEGO Masters) to discuss how COVID-19 is affecting each differently. We're also joined by our socially distant news team featuring Jeff Weston, Henry Baillie-Brown and Robert Koenig to cover the week's top tech stories and the status of blockchain jobs.
Watch NowRobbie's digging through boxes before the show to ensure we can broadcast from our new studio. We'll chat about how things are progressing with our new space. We'll also get a look at setting up port forwarding rules in MikroTik routers, and Bekah returns with the news stories we're following this week.
Watch NowRocco (BigDaddyLinux) pointed the Linux Spotlight at Robbie this week, and we've got a short preview. Robbie will show us what it takes to get an operating system "installed" on a Pinebook Pro SD card, and why you might want to, and we'll also get a beginner's rundown of how to use GitHub. Bekah's here with the latest tech news, and Robert returns for more cryptocurrency market news.
Watch NowThe first batch of Pinebook Pro ANSI (US Keyboard Layout) Linux laptops has shipped. At just $200 and coming with Debian Linux pre-installed, we really want to get a close look at this groundbreaking daily driver of a laptop from Pine64.
Watch NowPHP isn't limited to web services: Robbie will show you how to run your PHP scripts as command line apps on Linux. We'll also discuss the difficult decision between connectivity and future speed when looking at external storage, and how a VLAN could help protect Sasha's privacy on a shared Internet connection.
Watch NowWe may not think twice about buying a can of compressed air to clean our computers, electronics and camera lenses, but John W. Scherer has a better solution; environmentally, safety-wise, and even quality-wise. We'll also chat about what the on-air team uses instead of Windows 10 on their own personal computers.
Watch NowJeff shares a USB charger that lets us charge up to 6 phones at a time, Robbie's got a cool Linux application that runs web sites as if they're apps, and Sasha's got the week's tech news.
Watch NowRobbie visited Raf Bivar at ESET Canada's head office in Toronto to discuss the current threat landscape, and what businesses need to know to protect their data in 2020. We'll also check in on Robbie's weight loss progress as he uses tech to guide his food decisions.
Watch NowThe Category5 Community Coffee Break is more than 64 episodes in since the pandemic hit, and it's a great place to come together with other community members and hang out, sharing about the tech (and other things) that occupy your time. Robbie also takes a crack at replacing the decrepit cooling system in his Lenovo ThinkPad, but finds the headers have changed and he'll need to pick it up another week... once he's unpacked his soldering tools. Bekah's here with the week's news, and Robert's filling us in on the state of the cryptocurrency market.
Watch NowRobbie wanted a clock for The Bridge that not only offered more functionality, but also looked super cool. So, he began development of a program to be that clock. Will a Raspberry Pi suffice? Robbie and Jeff catch up about how things are going around here, and discuss a nightmare scenario where Microsoft breaks Outlook around the world and Twitter gets hacked. In other words, Wednesday. Bekah's got the news, and Robert's here to share the latest Crypto Corner.
Watch NowRobbie and Jeff sit down for a chat about how the pandemic has forced the Internet infrastructure to change rapidly, and what we can expect. Plus Robbie shares how he's learning to 3D print even without a 3D printer, and the guys offer an easy-to-grasp explanation of what 2FA is, and why it's important. Bekah has our week's tech news stories, and Robert is here to help us learn to research the various cryptocurrencies in the market.
Watch NowAfter three false starts, Robbie and Jeff decided it wasn't meant to be. But they made it to the studio in spite of the technical difficulties amidst our pandemic-time growing pains. So a quick hello, and then it's straight to the news.
Watch NowAs Robbie works hard toward getting Studio E fully operational, ameriDroid's 3D printer came in handy and provided a novel solution to get cables from one room to the other. We also give away a gift card and chat about a dangerous app idea. Bekah's here with the news, and Robert will help us make wise crypto investment decisions.
Watch NowFor the first time, we open our MikroTik router series up to viewers for questions and comments. Robbie also addresses a couple of the major issues affecting the latest run of Pinebook Pro laptops, and shows a web service that provides a fun yet functional typewriter simulation. Bekah's here for the news, and Robert joins us with Crypto Corner.
Watch NowAs "lucky" Season 13 comes to a close, Robbie takes us through installing Debian 11 (Bullseye) on a Pinebook Pro. We've also got our hands on a die-cast 10-inch model of The Orville ship, which is available now at comic book stores and online. Robbie will get into the box and take a look at this stunning set piece. Robert has cryptocurrency news and explains impermanent loss, and Bekah's here with the news stories we're following.
Watch NowRobbie's been doing a lot of work in the production room, and the servers are really noisy! So we'll set out to reduce the noise by replacing a fan in our backup drive. After that, listening to music is much more enjoyable, so we'll look at a fun way to tune in to radio stations from around the world. Bekah's got the top stories in our newsroom, and Robert's here to talk about Bitcoin halving.
Watch NowThis week we knock out the next three segments of our MikroTik router series. Robbie will show you how to update your router firmware, set a static IP address in your DHCP server, and configure a custom DNS server such as a Pi-hole as your network default. We've also got a viewer question about failed microSD cards, Bekah's here with the week's tech news, and Robert has the latest cryptocurrency news over in the Crypto Corner.
Watch NowRobbie gets things rolling in our MikroTik router series by starting at the beginning: Bridging our modem and setting up MikroTik as a new gateway for our network. Bekah is on the newsdesk, Robert has a great list of recommended cryptocurrency podcasts and YouTube channels, and we'll learn a little more about where things are at for Category5 following our move.
Watch NowAs Robbie continues to work hard to establish a functioning studio space during a pandemic, he'll broadcast from The Bridge--our production studio--this week. We'll discuss MikroTik routers as he introduces our upcoming series on configuring these powerful yet inexpensive SOHO routers that pack all the enterprise features at 1/10th of the price. Bekah takes over the news desk this week, and Robert shares the latest Crypto Corner.
Watch NowIt's time to put "lucky" Season 13 behind us and kick of Season 14. But we'll freshen things up with a new theme song remix, improved audio on our mics, and more camera angles. Bekah's here with the top news stories this week, and Robert's got the Crypto Corner to tell us what's up with the cryptocurrency market.
Watch NowIn a surprise turn of events, our landlord is re-claiming our rental space and has demanded we vacate effective at the end of the month. We never saw this coming, and it has caught us unprepared. We need your help.
Watch NowJeff Weston returns to us this week! In our first-ever "Crew Conversations" special, Jeff and Robbie are put head-to-head to share two topics each that interest them. Jeff speaks about Chromebooks and Minecraft on Raspberry Pi, where Robbie talks about his dream of 3D printing technology and a homemade pan/tilt Raspberry Pi HQ Camera. We've also got Bekah on the news desk with the latest tech stories, plus Robert in the Crypto Corner.
Watch NowOn this week's show, Robbie teaches us how to setup a guest WiFi connection on our MikroTik router that cannot access our internal network resources, such as network shares or smart devices. Plus, Bekah's here with the tech news stories we're following this week.
Watch NowThis week, Robbie sets out to assemble a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM in an Argon ONE case, which proves to be a gorgeous SBC-powered computer. But he'll also dig into the Argon ONE code and find out what makes it tick. Bekah's here with the latest news stories, and Robert's got the Crypto Corner.
Watch NowWhether you're hoping to give yourself extra privacy while moving about the web, trying to access services that aren't available in your area, or if your IP address is blocked by the provider, a proxy is every nerd's go-to. But using a free proxy can be unreliable ... or even dangerous. That is, unless you run it yourself. This week Robbie will teach us how to create our own Linux-based proxy server in "the cloud" absolutely free. Jeff shares his vision for creating his own PCB circuit boards, and both Bekah and Robert are here to keep us up to date on what's going on this week.
Watch NowJenn and Carrie are on another road trip adventure and have traveled to Kentucky to visit the Ark Encounter--a life-sized replica of Noah's Ark which is setup as a museum--and this week they share what they've learned by touring Noah's Ark.
Watch NowRobbie and Jeff get an early look at 3D printing with the Ender-3 V2. Robbie assembles it, and shows off some of his early prints. As this is our last episode before Halloween, we'll also dive into some spooky features: Robbie turns Jeff into a Zombie using AI, Bekah writes a spooky ghost story based on true events, and Robbie and Jeff take a tour of The [haunted] Orville. Bekah is here with the news, and Robert is over in the Crypto Corner.
Watch NowHenry shows us how he uses his quadcopter to take hundreds of pictures of real-world buildings, which he then stitches together to create 3D objects. Those can then be imported into Unreal Engine or Blender, or even printed on a 3D printer. Robbie will demonstrate the latter. Bekah's also here with the news, and Robert presents an overview of Ethereum 2.0.
Watch NowRobbie has finally pulled the filled-to-the-brim spinning hard drives from our data server and replaced them with enterprise SSDs. Does it make a difference? We'll chat with Mark Noland from Kingston to help us understand our benchmark results. Jeff, Bekah and Robert are all here too!
Watch Now2020 has been a heck of a year. Let's just take a deep breath as a community, and spend some time together, reminiscing about the changes around here, and where things are at as we plan to hit the ground running in 2021. Robbie and Jeff sit in our festive Studio E in front of the warm glow of the green screen, and welcome comments and questions from our Discord and IRC chat rooms. Merry Christmas, all, and here's to 2021 being a better year for all.
Watch NowRobbie and Jeff set out to answer the question of whether a Raspberry Pi SBC can host a powerful Minecraft Server, and the results are astounding! With Robbie's installer, a Raspberry Pi 4 is configured as a game server, and they'll put it to the test by having their kids join (8 players total). Join us to learn how to setup the server and see how the Minecraft server can perform.
Watch NowAs an old school Vic 20 fanboi, Robbie's given to liking the new Raspberry Pi 400. After all, it's a full computer inside a keyboard, just like the old days of Commodore and Amiga. But this time, it's got 4 GB RAM and a 1.8 GHz clock speed. Let's get a look at the device, and stick the new Ubuntu 20.10 on there to see how it plays video. We'll also look at a new Google Assistant feature that makes it easy to search for a song, with no app to install. Bekah's here with the news, and Robert's watching Bitcoin as it travels to the moon.
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