The Global Geek Podcast #033 :: Podcasting Pirates, arrrgh!
Welcome listeners old and new to the first edition of The Global Geek Podcast for 2007! We hope that all our listeners had a great Christmas and New Year and got what they wished for. We are back into it for the year, Here are the show notes!
This week on the Geek: We make like prophets and make our predictions for 2007, Knightwise plays hardball. 284 more reasons why we use Firefox, Apple’s buggy month and everyone gets sued.
We have the first of our listener contributions this week. Find your files more easily, we tell you how in Applications. We make like pirates and we cover fragging your mates open source style!
Sites and services gets serious as we discuss censorship and new media. But we also cover some fun stuff like what to use that phone in your camera for and a great source of legal free software that would normally cost you money.
THE GLOBAL GEEK PODCAST #033 (MP3 - 34.6MB - 1:15:35)
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Show Notes
Welcome
- The Blog Header
- Dave gives in
- A listener question from your hosts
- Some cool new features for the podcast
Our Predictions for 2007
Don’t forget to vote in the poll and keep an eye on Knightwise’s big prediction for the year!
Technology News
- Internet Explorer, why, why, why… we give you another reason to switch
- Adobe PDF Scripting Flaw
- A Month of Apple Bugs goes Ahead
- Apple Sued (again…)
- OSX booting Dell Laptop, Knightwise ever the skeptic
- NSFW HTML standard
- Brazillian Cout orders YouTube Shut Down
- Saddam’s YouTube Big Hit of the Yar
- WiFi on the Highway
- Amazon’s 30 Monet Guarantee, they were not telling
- Wikipedia gets a bit of Cash, Digg gets More Cash and AllofMP3.com gets sued for more money than you could imagine.
- Digg: A Bloggers Description (not our quote, honest)
Applications
- Democracy: Internet TV to your Desktop
- Tag2Find: Tag your files to make them easier to find later
- GmobileSync: Sync Google Calendar with a Windows Mobile Device
- BitTyrant: Torrent like a Pirate (Knightwise does his best pirate impression)
- Unyte: Share applications and documents with this Skype 3.0 extra
- Foto Mosaic: Make mosaics images from your own photos
- Drive Collector: Collects all your drivers and puts them in one place for the next rebuild
- vLite: Automate windows instalations, this version does Vista
- Software for Starving Students: Everything they need on one disk, free!
- OpenArena: Free, Open Source, 1st person shooter… nothing else required
Firefox Extensions
- Googlepedia: Shows a wikipedia search result next to the Google results
- Separe: Powerful grouping tool for tabs
- URLkick: Shorten URL’s with the click of the mouse
Feedback
- Brie on the Blog
- Cam on the Blog
Thank you we appreciate your feedback
Sites and Services
- LiveLeak: Uncensored user generated video content and sharing
- CERTStation: Live aggregator of the Global Threat Level for computer security
- LetterPop: Create Newsletters online
- Give Away of the Day: Free software every day
- Imagination Cubed: Online whiteboard that you can share and export
- Hey!Watch: Online video encoder, paste the origin URL select the format of choice, download
- Cellblock: Uploading service for people that use the phone in their camera a lot
- divShare: No limits file storing and sharing
- Houndbite: Podcasting with a difference
The Global Geek Quick Quote of the Week
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- The Darwin Award for 2006
- Fire-proof Goat
- Spelling Mistakes are Bad for Travel
Farewell
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January 9th, 2007 at 10:35 am
You are only locked into iPod for music purchased though iTunes not any other music. if you rip your cd’s they are still available to be placed on other devices. The way you mentioned seemed o imply that once you moved music to iPod it was locked in to that format only which is incorrect.
There is also an unpublised rule that you can actually contact Apple and get them to reset your details and they will allow you to download your tracks again. They usually only allow this once a year though. Having said that you should back up any purchased music and I believe there is an option in preferences to backup purchased music, or at least there is in Mac version of iTunes.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
You are 100% correct. If we were not clear then we stand corrected. We were also making reference to the fact that a suit has been filed against Apple in regards to the DRM associated with iTunes purchased music. From me looking into what I would purchase the iTunes and iPod combination looked “locked in” so it was partly emotive. But I actually love the iPod and iTunes now that I am using it.
I am aware there is a back up feature, which there is in the Windows version too. However, I was unaware that you could contact Apple to download your music again. That is cool, and something that should be offered given the restraints of the DRM.
As Knightwise said in the podcast this is no worse than the DRM associated with the Zune. Which if anything is worse, as far as restrictions go.
Thanks for the comment, we appreciate your input. I am new to iPod and iTunes so I appreciate the information. I don’t think Knightwise knew about the re-download thing either, come to think of it. Thanks!
January 9th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Dave,
here is a link you maybe interested in. It is titld 8 things about iTunes you may not know. It includes the one about contacting Apple to re-download your songs.
http://revellingmadness.blogspot.com/2007/01/did-you-know-itunes.html
Yea DRM is annoying but I think for me I don’t notice it so much as I only really use my Mac or iPod for music and don’t share it so it’’s not an issue. Zune made a HUGE mistake in my opinion by placing DRM on music with no DRM if you “squirt” it to someone else. That is just wrong beyond belief. Most of music thogh is from cd’s I have ripped from cd’s I have bought over the last 20 years. I do have a few albums I have got from iTuns but wouldn’t make up 2% of stuff on my iPod.
My other comment is about Tag2find, and have to say I am baffled by the point of this program. Any competent computer user, even Windows, I would have thought would have setup some kind of download folder on their system where every download goes too so it is easy to find files that Tag2find is reportedly useful for. If it is to be used for tagging files after they are downloaded and moved elsewhere then I guess that could be useful but I still findd this a strange application.
Oh one more comment about tabs. I do use Safari by choice but there are times when I do have a lot of tabs open. This usually only happens when I go through my newsreader and then click on stories I want to read and it opens a new tab for eack link. I then go to the browser after I have finished all the feeds and catch up that way. Apart from that I see no real reason to have more than a couple of tabs open at any one time.
Only started listening to the show recently when Cam included it in the G’day World feed but enjoying it so far.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I wonder how many other listeners we have picked up from Cam doing that? It has been great! Thanks again Cam.
Tony thanks for the links and info. Plus I have a download folder but it is surprising how many ppl don’t. It also sounds like you are in Knightwise’s camp as far as tabs go. Me I am in the middle, I sometimes have about 10-15 open but mostly about 2-4.
Really glad that you are liking the show. Thanks for your feedback, it really is appreciated and we love hearing from our listeners. More the better!