Inside CNET Labs podcast

Inside CNET Labs 21: What's in a name?

Dong's advice to Vietnamese coming to America? Keep your names people! Let us Americans deal with all that tonal stuff.

Then Dong nerds out over the range and throughput of the Belkin N+ Wireless Router. I think I hear wedding bells.

After that, we discuss the big news of the week. You can probably guess what that is. You've been warned.

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Inside CNET Labs 20: Your queen is just a pawn with some fancy moves

We announce our first contest. This is not a joke. This is a real contest here. Listen to the podcast to find out details...If we pick you as a winner, you win a 1TB NAS server from Seagate/Maxtor. Check it out.

We also give you a behind-the-scenes look at the review and testing process here at CNET--from working with vendors to being harassed by them.

Also, Dong loves the Western Digital WDTV, and we get to hear all about it. Finally, we talk games and movies about games, and the dirty "P" word comes up. again. … Read more

Inside CNET Labs 19: Dong needs a bucket

In this episode, we pack a lot of content into a relatively small amount of time.

First off, Eric has his nerd cred questioned because of a Warcraft comment made in a previous episode, and Dong discusses making love, not Warcraft.

Serious business then as Dong presents another PSA: how to be on the lookout for fake antivirus software.

Then, can being left-handed be equated with being gay? Not usually, but Dong finds a way to connect them. Then, getting drunk. Dong tells a "scary" Halloween story about puking in a bucket.

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Inside CNET Labs 18: Anyway...

This week we get started with a very heartwarming and inspiring tale of Dong and and his little sisters as they traversed miles and miles to reach slave mines in Vietnam 27 years ago.

Then we learn a bit about monitor panel technology and why your monitor vendor doesn't want you to know what kind of panel is in your display.

Here's a very useful site for figuring out what time of panel is in your display.

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Inside CNET Labs 17: Terrorize this!

First up, Dong is a little concerned that Eric may be a terrorist. He soon discovers, though, that everyone is a terrorist.

Then, LED vs. CCFL LCD backlights. Which makes your eyes bleed less? Find out!

Could our love affair with the iPhone 3G be over? Possibly. Then why do we still own one? It's a complicated answer that we tackle.

Finally, we tell some stories about our early WoW days. Enjoy the fun!

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Inside CNET Labs 16: 'Starcraft' was the bridge

This week, Eric and Dong discuss why they're so stretched, and it has everything to do with the cold-blooded qualities of Jasmine France, Donald Bell, and Lieutenant Barkley Robert Vamosi.

Tired of that annoying firewall that bogs down your system and won't let you play Crysis higher than 60fps? Dong has some insight into why you may not need it.

Also, Dong recounts his first days at CNET and why Starcraft looked so stupid to him.

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Inside CNET Labs 15: Still ballin'

Dong Ngo feels he's still ballin'. Tupac feels differently.

Just as fair warning, Dong and I were feeling really punchy when we recorded this episode and we got a bit carried away with the imaginary story contained herein. It was all in good fun, of course. Anyway, we just wanted to make you guys aware of that.

Back it up! The hard drive that is. Dong has a PSA about the importance of backing up your information.

Then, which is worse? A complete lie or a half truth? We tell the real story about Justin Yu's first trip to the SF Labs.

You'd never guess it, but Dong is one of the biggest Tupac fans I know. Seriously. It's no surprise, then, that he has always been ballin', will always be ballin', and in fact is still ballin'. Well, not really but he tells a story of a friend who, at the behest of his wife, is no longer ballin'.

Finally, we do a little politicking about politics...again.

Inside CNET Labs 14: Frank and Earnest

Dong recaps his NY trip and his newfound adoration of Dan Ackerman--and it's not even spring yet. WTF?

Eric talks a bit about sexy graphics card testing and Dong bores us all with hard drive tests. Also, we discuss nerds (or geeks), girlfriends, and the ties that bind them.

Also, a shout out to all three or four of our female fans! Enjoys! To subscribe to this podcast, visit us at our main page and click the link on the right.

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Inside CNET Labs 13: 'Their limitation is way overstretched'

Finally! Inside CNET Labs has come back to New York!

Well, half of us at least. This week, Dong and I team up with most of CNET's N.Y. Labs crew. Or maybe more accurately, the N.Y. Labs crew and I team up on Dong.

Either way, it's an episode that begins as an exercise in immature inappropriateness, but I think we redeem ourselves as human beings by the end. At least I hope.

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Inside CNET Labs 12.5: And the installation is freeeeee...

Is it the size of your TV that matters or the quality of its picture? Dong and I discuss TV size and quality, both in the euphemistic sense and the literal. Yes, this is part two of my increasingly tumultuous TV story. Unfortunately for me, there will be a part three.

We also delve, quite deeply, into that dirty "P" word again since Dong cannot keep his head out of the gutter when discussing a certain "hockey mom."

Finally, Dong tells a story of mistaken identity, sort of. And, the installation is free.

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