The Global Geek Podcast #036 :: Clippy Does Porn
Back to our usual format this week after our “How We Do It” Episode last week, we hope you enjoyed that and we are planning on some more special events this year.
This week was a fun show to record and we trust that you enjoy it. This weeks technology news sees Skype users threatened with fines and gaol terms, Microsoft causing 2.6 million users to spit the dummy and how a guy loses weight playing computer games.
We have some great free applications this week such as power toys for photo data editing and syncing files. Some fun software to “grow” a virtual world using the Internet as fertilizer.
Sites and services looks at some powerful search engines to find what you are looking for quickly. A great one ties in with one of our featured Firefox Extensions for this week.
THE GLOBAL GEEK PODCAST #036 (MP3 - 34.5MB - 1:15:22)
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Show Notes
Welcome
- Dave feeling old
- Knightwise sees double
- Weird typing
Technology News
- Skype Users Face Fines and Lawsuits
- Zero Day Again for Microsoft
- Microsoft Causes 2.6 Million Users to Spit the Dummy
- YouTube Google Video Plan
- Twentieth Century Fox Makes After Users
- Porn Industry Not So Keen on HD
- Apple Plugs It’s Bugs
- Norwegians Not Happy
- Apples User Upgrade Inequality
- Ubuntu Studio
- 2007 Open Source Catalogue
- Google Forgets Something… damn it was important I am sure of it
- Man Loses Weight
- Un-crackable Encryption
Promo Spot: The Comic Review Weekly
Applications
- Microsoft Photo Info Tool: Power toy to edit photo and image metadata
- SyncToy: Sync files across PC’s, across platforms and across networks easily
- SmartTimeSync: Sync your PDA’s time with an atomic clock
- CloneSpy: Monitor and delete duplicate files
- Recuva: Recover files accidentally deleted
- List of Common Bookmarklets, Favlets and Snippets
- Hamachi: VPN End point client : Check out The Knightcast Episode 37 for an in depth look at Hamachi
- Packet Garden: Fun application that enables you to “grow” a virtual garden on your desktop
- Open Yahtzee: The dice game in open source
Firefox Extensions
- Timer 1.01: A timer, but do you know how hard they are to find?
- Wikiseek Search Extension: Adds Wikisearch power to Wikipedia pages
Feedback
- Andy from Polar Bear Podcast via Email
- “Butters” via Skypecast
- Brie via Email
Thank you for your emails and encouragement much appreciated!
Sites and Services
- StolenID Search: Discover if your personal data or details have been stolen
- Wikiseek: Power search Wikipedia [9 "geekers" out of 10]
- Box.net Widget: Widget for MySpace and blogs to share files
- pipl: Search for people
- SpotBack: Online RSS reader
- Sizeasy: Compare online products with real world examples
- Vidmeter: One stop shop for the top 100 of viral video
- HyperComics: Comic community for artists and industry
The Global Geek Quick Quote of the Week
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Get Chicken!
- Thieves Steal GPS Units… they got caught, 2 guesses
- Get a Life
- Clippy Phone Sex
Farewell
Featured Music
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January 29th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Shouldn’t “pornado” go into Urban Dictionary rather than Wikipedia?
great show guys.
January 29th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I do my best to post legitimate spiffy technology to delicious and you pick on the one post I was so embarrassed about I took it down. HAHAHAH! Love the show. You guys rock. I think my dad will be a listener soon. btw - I never heard of clippy until your show. Keep up the good work.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
One could say they beat me to the punch. Or you could say I was not making the word up, but it IS in the urban dictionary :
…”used to describe a seemingly endless stream of pop-up windows appearing on ones computer screen while looking at pornographic websites.
Use : “I almost got busted by my boss at work for looking at porn. I had to turn off my computer off because I got swept off in a fucking pornado!”
January 29th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Shit that is funny Knightwise.
Thanks for listening Cam. Hope you liked the Wikipedia tools.
January 29th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
@Eric Now that is even funnier… Yeah we loved it. We even named the episode after it! Sorry about that. The RSS feed for del.icio.us is like email - once tagged you can’t “un-tag” it. Sure you can delete the tag and link in your del.icio.us but the feed has long indexed the tag and I have it… Haw haw haw
Thanks for your support and encouragement. We really appreciate you putting the effort in with the tags and listening to the show. Thank you.
January 30th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
@Eric, I completely understand you where very embarrassed about the clippy porn thing. I know that in reality you where actually on that site to listen to the sound clips where he says he’s into kinky clowns.
January 31st, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Knightwise love the use of PacketGarden by network admins!
February 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
thanx Mike, It was just a wacky idea. Having worked in the educational system as a sys-admin it was always pretty hard to explain these abstract things to my “board of principals”. I sure wish I had packed garden back then.
Ps : If you could turn the peer-to-peer plant into pott, I would be a planetary dealer right now. The thing is all over the place
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:33 pm
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