With bells whistles and fan-fair here is The Global Geek Podcast for this week! We have a great show this week and had a hard time cutting items as it was all good. So what you get here is the cream off the top of tech news, new applications and brand new sites and services to make your day and make life that little bit easier for you. As well as some diversion stuff which should be fun. So what are you waiting for?

The Global Geek Podcast #022 (MP3 - 27MB - 59:03)

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Show Notes

AmigaOS Screenshot

We Annouce this Weeks Winner of the “+1000 Competition” or the “Millennium Bomb”

This Competition is sponsored by Exploit Prevention Labs and Socket Shield.

SocketShield is the world’s first dedicated zero-day exploit blocker, prevention from drive-by downloads and zero-day threats. Working at the socket level SocketShield provides immediate protection from new exploit threats that are discovered.

Exploit Prevention Labs are a strategic partner of Australian Distributor Secure Tec. The Global Geek Podcast is proud to be associated with Exploit Prevention Labs and we thank them for their support of the podcasting revolution.

If you want to be in the running to win stuff:

Send us your ideas for how you think we might increase our listeners by 1000.

• Enter as many times as you like
• Enteries accepted via email, the Blog in the comments or via Odeo (green button).
• Your entry MUST contain a valid email address - this is so that we can send you your prize. Nothing more than that we assure you.

If you can’t think of anything then just send us something witty or encouraging and let us know what we are doing right, or wrong for that matter!

News

• Fiber Data Speed Record Broken, in a big way!
• McAfee has a dummy spit at Microsoft… who better to have it at?
• CNET in Second Life
• R.I.P Audioblogger
• Day Aggainst DRM
• The Future of YouTube, is there one?
• Firefox is flawed or is it?
• Meebo Grows
• WordPress Podcast

Hobo Radio Promo

• Mouse Heat Map: where has your mouse been?
• AJAX Yahoo! Mail: Firefox Extension
• ResizR 0.1: Firefox Extension
• Lyrics Plugin: for Windows Media PLayer and WinAmp (Windows)
• Mojopac: Take your PC anywhere, like magic!
• Perian: Swiss Army Knife of Codecs (Mac)

Feedback

• The Flame War!
• Konrad via IM
• Late Email from Brie

We thank everyone for their feedback

• Videoronk: Search and download online video
• Writeboard: Collaborative documents online, easily
• PollDaddy: New Poll creation service for your blog or webpage
• Pocket: Bookmarks in the cloud
• DiggFiltr: Create a custom Digg Feed in seconds
• Netvibes Version 2.0 Released: One of the best start pages online
• PhishTank: Know your Phishing Sites and submit ones you are not sure about
• Zenfolio: Online photo storage with a touch of class
• Yotophoto: Search for Pictures based on colour, we like the name… say it with a bad Japanese accent

Get Chicken!

• Haemorroid cream is not for your face
• Police track down criminals with “boob-shots” - mug-shots for plastic surgeons

Featured Music

Glide

Dave London

Yes Mate Recordings

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8-Track

Terra Naomi

Del Zorro Recordings

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• Buy at eMusic

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