This is the last installment of The Global Geek Podcast for the year! Don’t worry we will be back next year after a one week break to help us recharge and refresh. Plus spend some time with our families.

This however, is the invasion of the Elves Edition and Christmas Show, from Knightwise and Dave Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year.

This week Skype has worms, Google goes to space, flash chips with err “bumps”. While in Applications there is an app that will close everything and one that does everything at the click of a button, yet others that might be small but carry a big punch. Sites and services covers what you need and how to host a meeting online. Everything you need to know about how to make a total Elf of Yourself! That is just a summary, have a listen for all this and a heap more.

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Show Notes

Welcome

• Christmas
• The Easter Egg
• The Elf
• Knightwise and his wife make a video… not what you are thinking
• Maybe a new segment in the New Year?

Technology News

• Skype Worm at Large
• New Skype Pricing Structure
• The iPhone is Here!
• Singular to Offer MySpace Mobile Service
• Google Phone
• Top Google Search Terms for 2006
• Google Goes to Space
• Intel Roadmap
• Brace for Apollo
• Spontaneous PC Combustion
• Safe Laptop Batteries at Last
• A Month of Apple Bugs
• Microsoft Settles over Counterfeit Disk Manufacture
• Perez Hilton Hit Up for Copyright
• YouTube Takes a Bow
• The Citizen of the Year Is…
• Changes to PayPerPost
• Digg Revamp Now with Podcasting! (psssst… You can Digg us Here.)
• Ask X the New User Interface from Ask.com
• BBC offers Legal Torrent Downloads
• The Wii Does Opera

TPN Promo - Hobo Radio

Applications

• Top 10 Animations for Google Earth
• Pocket Tunes: Powerful Media PLayer for Mobile Devices
• Soundflavour: Mix Your iPod Tunes into Playlists According to their “flavour”
• VLC: The “Swiss Army Knife” of Media Players (Open Source)
• SmartClose: One Click to Close all Running Applications
• Tiny Apps: Small Footprint but it is all you Need
• OnClick Software: Encrypt, Delete (permanently) and Hash with One Click of the Mouse
• Vista Start Menu Emulator: Scratch Head Now
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta

Firefox Extensions

• PermaTabs: Opens Set Tabs on Start Up and Keeps them that Way
• Download Status Bar: Monitor and Manage Downloads from a bar Rather than a Pop-up
• Firefox Show Case: Display Tab Thumbs in a Single Tab or Sidebar
• Fireflix: Sidebar Extension to Upload, Manage, and Search Flickr
• rssPlaypen: Drag and Drop RSS links to Play
• Yoonoo (IE Also Supported): Social Sharing of Bookmarks (similar to StumbleUpon)
• Random Message: Cats Walk Quickly on a Hot Tin Roof…
• Tinseltown: A Christmas Theme for Firefox

Feedback

• Rich via Email
• Brie via the Blog

Thank you for your feedback and comments, are much appreciated and we are happy that you are a part of our community!

Sites and Services

• Fauxto: Powerful Online Photo Editing
• Vibe Journal: Blog utilizing multi-media with a simple Drag and Drag Interface
• Jamglue: Mix and Share Music
• The Linux Equivalent Project
• Quanticast: Great Statistics and Demographics for Your Website
• Weather Bonk: Weather Google Maps Mash-up Plus Weather Cams Built in
• TimeToMeet: Plan a Meeting with a Group with a Minimum of Fuss
• Yugma: Web Conferencing Tool, Share Desktop Views and Presentations and More
• kdice: Online Game Based on Risk
• Elf Yourself: Ok, last week I made a mockery of Knightwise and this week I said that I would do the Elf thing so here it is… Dave the Elf, Oh and I just happened to have a photo of Knightwise laying around… Haw Haw Haw!

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Farewell

Dave’s Blog

Knightwise’s Blog

Featured Music

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