The Global Geek Podcast #038 :: Clippy Does Japan!
This week we look at what might be behind Steve Job’s statements about DRM, why you may not be able to cross the street and listen to your iPod in New York.
Also spam filtering gets divine intervention. We find the “anti-bork” remedy for the iTunes – Vista incompatibility issue, how to make yourself truly invisible on the Internet and an application that might be the holy grail of two way syncing for iCal and Google Calendar.
Sites and services means visiting useful and interesting pages that we have found including an online text editor to type in peace with no distractions and the “phone book” of Web2.0. Sadly Clippy does indeed turn Japanese… Oh and there is a Dave special at the end, so keep listening!
THE GLOBAL GEEK PODCAST #038 (MP3 – 36.8MB – 1:04:17)
[audio:http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/tpn_theglobalgeekpodcast_20070209_038.mp3]
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Show Notes
Welcome
- The roof update
- About last week
- MyChingo Trial
- The Global Geek Podcast Widget
- del.icio.us tagging
- What’s with the news?
Technology News
- Apple supports the death of DRM
- iTunes and Vista don’t play nice
- Cross the street at your peril
- Last.fm and Warner deal
- Encryption and law enforcement
- Firefox Pop-up Vulnerability
- iPhone competitor
- US Army sued
- French students get open source software
- Domain wargames
- God has had too much spam and makes a point
- Novel writing
- Web2.0 Video journey
- More Clippy Crap from Eric
Promo Slot – The Father Bob Show
Applications
- iTunes Repair Tool: Fix what Vista busted
- iConcertCal: Plugin for iTunes, find out when the bands are coming to town
- Smart2go: Nokia’s Navigation Client Released
- RocketDock: Apple like dock for Windows
- iPodDisk (Mac): Copy songs form your
friendsiPod to your Mac - Spanning Sync beta (Mac): Two way sync between iCal and Google Calendar
- Anonym.OS LiveCD: Protect your privacy and security with this LiveCD
- Parallels Desktop for Mac RC2 (Mac): The latest release candidate to run windows on a Mac
- Off By One: Super small, super lite browser for “impaired” systems
- Adium 1.0 (Mac): Multi – Network IM client
Firefox Extensions
- Mail Redirect (Thunderbird): “forward” email without changing the original
- Amazing Web Paqe Emailer: Send an entire web page with one click, even does protected pages
- Auto Copy: Highlight text – copied – cool
- Copy Plain Text: Strip formatting on copy, great for bloggers and page editing
- Stop Autoplay: I hate it, you hate it, we all hate it, now you can stop it
The Time Machine (New!)
Sites and Services
- LiveCD List: One Stop Shop for every live CD you could want
- Streamload Media Max: 25GB of storage for free
- Go2Web20: The complete list of Web2.0 Services
- Writer: Web based distraction free writing interface
- KeepVault: Back up that media centre PC
- Zolved: Get answers to common technical problems and some great services to fix a PC remotely
Feedback
- Zack via the Blog
- Lauren from Wize via Email
Get Chicken!
Farewell
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February 13th, 2007 at 8:34 am
A couple of things. First up I was going to make a smart arse comment to reply to Knightwise who said not too, but I forgot what the topics was on
Second, on the Web 2.0 listeners might also like to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w which is a intro to Web 2.0 if they are a little unsure about what it all is.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Mike, have you thought about upgrading your short term memory with this ? http://www.cclplc.co.uk/images/news_views/pen_paper_right_col.jpg
?
February 13th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Safari allows you to email webpages already as a default, but I am unsure if it will mail secure pages.
Nice show
February 13th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Knightwise stop insulting our listeners… First the jet thing now this…
Michael, stop inciting the Paladin to violence. Thanks for the video link!
Tony thanks for listening and we are glad you enjoyed the show.
February 13th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Good old Geeks
Im the unlucky owner of a brand new laptop with vista premium pre-installed, thanks for the tip about I-tunes breaking under vista.
Its slower then my grandmum starting up since it takes forever to load programs and thats on 2 gig of ram.
but there is also good news about it since i got it 24 hours ago it only crashed 3 times on me. So im really impressed.
good thing its the company PC and i only need to use the bloody thing when im on the road wich isn’t all that much.
Love the show but knightwise should work on his own podcast a bit more, its long overdue.
keep up the good work loved the admin password crack.
my wife works for the goverment and oh boy do those guys fuck up a PC.
PS knightwise, next time ur in Hasselt, drinks are on me
greets
Kenwood
February 13th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Glad to hear that you are the owner of a brand new laptop, sorry to hear it is loaded with Vista.
BTW, I think I can safely speak for Knightwise here, he decided to update The Knightcast less frequently. He is enjoying doing the geek and wants to devote more time to it. However, you might see a podcast from time to time. Knightwise I am sure will add to this.
Hey KW where are those roof pics you said you would post?
Thanks for listening to the show!
February 14th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Now Knightwise I would but I listen to you natter on with Dave while in peak hour traffic and don’t particularly want to crash into the cars in front. TPN has already been involved (?) in on car accident in New York, http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/04/21/gday-world-111/. Yeah and listen to dave stop insulting your listeners, we might get violent.
BTW you should be careful driving a watching videos at the same time.
February 14th, 2007 at 6:34 am
Bart : I’ll take you up on that invitation. I know the Knightcast is long overdue, but there is are only so many hours in the day (and getting Dave-my-aussie-stalker off my back eats up quite a few of those) (Kidding). I hope you enjoy the GGP ! ( Its a miracle you even got here using Vista
)
Michael : Don’t insult me with your futile threats of revolt and violence. Beware the power of the Paladin whose tongue is sharper then his sword.
I of course hope you stay safe in traffic , but your favorite means of transportation seldom put you in harms way …
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/DieZuspitzungDesKaltenKrieges_kinderwagen/index.jpg
ps : If you think watching tv while driving is dangerous, try building a scale model of the HMS ENTERPRISE behind the wheel
February 14th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Dave : My roof pics are coming , but the darn thing has crawled up on top of my house and the sun always hides away when I get home to take some pictures.
February 14th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Knightwise yes you are correct that I am chauffeured around but you must of place the wrong link in your comment, here are the correct ones
http://www.westwindlimo.com/images/navinterior.jpg
http://www.westwindlimo.com/images/chauffeur.jpg
As for revolt, nah that’s too hard and would get in the way of BBQs, beer and watching some sport
February 14th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
i didn’t get here using vista lol i used my home PC… im crazy, not stupid knightwise.
Good luck with the roof and i’m trying to get rid of your stalker but my aussie man went into the wrong house and robbed his neighbours, it was to be expected really, never trust and aussie to do a belgian’s work.
Crashes are up to 7 now and vista doesn’t like both my UsB sticks, nor does it seem to bother with my SD card. why doesn’t mac OS X run on acer pc’s
(
oh and btw who is that idiot that puts commecials about wrestling inbetween your podcast.
I don’ t mind advertising but please please please make it about something that is interesing at least… i don’ t know, Porn, girls, porn, IT, porn, clippy… and maybe even Porn
you get the drift… but the only time i have use for combat sports is when im wrestling with vista.
February 14th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
@ bart baus: Where the heck are you getting the podcast. So far we have only run ads for shows on TPN! Can’t remember putting any in about wrestling… Karate yes but no wrestling.
The only way that could happen is if some other site is scraping our content and adding it into the audio file. If that is the case I need to know about it, they are violating copyright.
Or you are joking. In which case, I have no idea what ad you are talking about
February 14th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Dave , before you have a paranoia-attack (you have obviously forgotten to take your meds again) I think that for Bart Karate and Wrestling are all the same. Naked sweaty men engaged in Combat !
February 14th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Ok well that would be me that put that in. OK I get it you don’t want the Karate promo in the podcast… np
Trust you to get it KW … “sweaty men indeed”
February 15th, 2007 at 7:48 am
i wouldn’t mind ladies mud wrestling however. anyway dave take it easy i get the podcast as its supposed to be. i would however like to appologize for the misunderstanding, im only belgian u know… and we all know how wierd they can be.
February 15th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
PS : Michael… And do you and Zsa Zsa Gabor have a lot of fun in that limo ?
February 16th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Mate I would have more style than that