The Global Geek Podcast #040 :: Dave Goes Postal
We made it to 40! Thank you too all our listeners that have stayed with us and listened to us evolve. We hope that you’ll continue to enjoy the show because it is only going to get better!
This week we have some Skype news, yet another beta and minus something that Dave wants… SETI@home makes a find and unintentionally hacking WiFi, Knightwise then goes on to let everyone know where and how to log in round his place!
This show includes all the usual great stuff including free applications, one of which we are still scratching our heads over. Trillian gives us a mobile IM client and putting some dog’s ears on your web pages. What about being able to convert any widget to a Vista gadget? We have a site for you that does that as well as turning your photos into a comic book.
Here are this weeks show Notes!
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Show Notes
Welcome
- The Big 40!
- Firefox Extensions
- Must Read Blog Post
Technology News
- Odeo For Sale
- WGA Overhauled
- “Puretracks” Does Away with DRM, sort of…
- Streamburst: DRM Without the Use Restrictions
- Skype Pro Goes Live
- MySpace NZ
- ebay Conspiracy Theory
- Accidental Hacking
- Netvibes’ Cross Platform Widget Compatibility
- SETI@home Finds Something
- Wii Wide Screen… Really Wide Screen
Promo Slot - The Digital Photography Show
Applications
- Skype 3.1 Beta: This is where Dave lost it…
- LivePC: Easily run a VM on your desktop for greater security and privacy, all pre-configured
- Microsoft Virtual Machine 2007: Run several Windows versions on the same PC
- Slife (Mac): We are still scratching our heads…
- Carbon Copy Cloner (Mac): Back up your hard drive byte for byte
- iTunes Export: Export play lists you have created in iTunes to .m3u playlist files: Read get your mates Music Collection with Playlists included!
- Trillian Anywhere: Run a cross network IM client from a flash drive
- Amnesty Generator: Convert Widgets from many services into Vista Gadgets
Firefox Extensions
- The 7 Best Add-Ons for IE7
- iReader: Get a text preview of a page from the hyperlink
- Dog Ears: Simply Annotate a webpage with markers
The Time Machine :: Taking You Back Geek Style to February 24th, 1949
Sites and Services
- Wiiminder: Add tabs to the Wii browser
- TinyMap: Creat a map, edit, annotate and share with friends or keep it private
- myFeedz: Learns what you like and are interested in to deliver targeted content
- Del.icio.us Pecha Kucha: Cycles through a users last 20 del.icio.us bookmarks each for 20 seconds
- Slideroll: Create slide shows from your Flickr images for use on web pages or as a movie to download
- GoodWidgets: Widget creator for slide showing images from many services on a blog or social network page
- CrossEngine: Search across multiple engines from one place
- comeeko: Turn your picture into comics - create your own and send it to us for our “Caption This” on the blog weekly
Feedback
- Knightwise has been very very naughty
- Sonia the 70 year old Podcaster
- Nice chat with Tony on the Blog
Farewell
Featured Music
Download “Danger, Danger” (mp3)
from “The Doom Loop”
by The Original Mark Edwards
Princess Records
February 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Haven’t listened to the show yet but checking the links and Slife looks like another social networking site which dosen’t look too bad. Of course my Slife page would look boring….logged into Wow, logged out of Wow.
Was looking at the how it works page and it had a screenshot of friends fav websites and ad.doubleclick.net was in the middle. That seems very odd or people just click on anything nowadays
Look forward to listening to show on way home.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Ok listened to the show now and maybe it is like spyware/malware but I don’t think that was it’s original intent. Still with the amount of friends I don’t have using Macs it’s kinda pointless to sign up for it anyway.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
OK I’ll give you that. No I don’t think that was the intention. BUT, does it not do everything that spyware does do? The only difference is that it does it with your knowledge. If you voluntarily use it does that make it spyware? Probably not. But then that’s only what you know about. I guess what concerns us is the stuff you don’t.
There is a fine line here. I stand by what I said in the show, that there are far better ways to gather information about what people are interested in without using software that logs EVERYTHING.
So no it probably isn’t spyware, not something I would want to have on my system though
February 28th, 2007 at 12:10 am
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March 8th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
[...] This week I had a bit of fun embelishing the original image using a service that we talked about in Show Number 40 called comeeko. It really is very good and easy to use. If you were a bit more creative and had great fun photo’s to work with you really could create some awesome comic strips. There are heaps of options and features that make them look great. I even matched the colour from right here on the blog for the border. Clever eh? But while you are here, humour us and yourselves and drop a caption in the comments, what is this guy thinking? Don’t worry this is just for fun here on the blog. We figure this is a visual thing so we think this is the best place for it. [...]