The Global Geek Podcast #043 :: Show Us Your twits
This week we crack on with the show on our own again. But that makes it no less worthwhile! Knightwise’s Intro pretty much sums it up…
“With your feedback, a lot of friendly banter, Dr evil making a house call and of course some DRM free music, this is the ultimate, heavily cafinated, completely irresistible, non-prunesafe, power-hungry, resource friendly, information stuffed Teddy bear that we call: The Global Geek Podcast Number 43… “
Don’t ask me, remember he is Belgian! That said it is worth listening to to hear him say that really fast… But yes we have a packed show as always these are the Show Notes.
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Show Notes
Welcome
- Knightwise’s Mac has skid marks
- Keep an eye out this week for an UPDATE OF THE GGP WIDGET
- Blue Dot
- Buggered Lawnmower
Technology News
- Apple leaks octo core
- Petition Supporting Webcasters
- rVibe to Launch DRM Free, Legal Music Site
- Viacom Devalues YouTube
- Google Phone Confirmed
- What is it About Twitter?
- Wiki is a Word
- Microsoft says Pirate our Stuff
- South Korea to Adopt Killer Robots… We expand our business model
Promo Spot :: Comic Review Weekly
Applications
- Windows Blinds: Now for Vista
- Vista Screensavers for XP
- Microsoft Time Zone (Windows): Puts multiple time zones in the system tray
- Windows Help (Vista): The “old” help program for Vista
- pRSS Reader (Windows Mobile): Adds RSS reading capability to your Windows Mobile Device
- jUploader (All): Open Source, Cross System Cross Service Photo Uploader for Zooomr and Flickr
- Freemeter (Windows): Application to monitor your network connection
- yBook (Windows): eBook reader and ebook downloader
- Nostalgia (Windows): Access Flickr and manage your account from your desktop
- Polyglot 3000 (Windows): Language identification before you translate it
- Crittersim (Mac): Simulation, run a virtual world on your desktop… like bacteria for your Mac [sorry for our mispronunciation on the show]
Firefox Extensions
- Drag de Go: Turbocharge Firefox’s Drag and Drop with Gestures
- FoxClocks (Thunderbird, Sunbird and Firefox): Adds time zones to your Application of choice
- Last Tab: Tweak your Alt-Tab functionality with this extension
- SiteAdvisor: Surf safer, identify safe sites and downloads
Dr Evil’s Two Minute Tip :: He doesn’t know what to call it
Sites and Services
- KissYouTube: The easiest way yet that we have found to download YouTube videos
- Ficlets: Really short stories with a networking twist
- Mytoons Launch
- ShowYourself: Build a personalized widget, the service that you use and contact details
- Autotwit: twitter on autopilot
- WordPress Plugin Directory: Directory of WordPress Plugins all in one place
- del.icio.us Tag Descriptions: Feature added to del.icio.us
- Flickr Collections Launches
- WikiCharts: The top 100 Pages on Wikipedia at any given moment
Feedback
- Heaps of comments on the Blog
- Thanks to Peter for finding the Network Diagram
- Blue Dot Members and Listeners of the Podcast link up
- Bugger all email, actually none feel free to send us some
Farewell
Featured Music
Download “Who’s On The Phone?” (mp3)
from “Might As Well Live”
by Last Days of April
Bad Taste Records
March 19th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
ohh Knightwise you really should try Twitter. I challenge you register, set up your phone get yourself 10 friends that you actually know and use it for 2 weeks and see how you go.
If you still think it is a waste of time watch do call Twittervision (http://twittermap.com/twittervision)?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
knightwise i think the song Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan did as a duet was ‘Especially for You’
March 19th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Thanx Peter ! , Believe it or not , when I turned on MTV late last night .. they where playing the videoclip ! Wicked ! My god , its gonna take forever to get the tune out of my head.
March 19th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
@Michael Notice he said nothing in that comment above about twitter?
Be prepared for an insult btw…
March 19th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
I just gave twitter a try and i was not impressed all you do is just write a couple of lines of text and that is it what is the point!
March 19th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Well Peter, I am not sure what the point is. But it does get interesting when you add some friends. Plus you can add users, they do not have to approve you. You then see what they are saying. But the good thing is that they may be say, Dave Weiner, Steve Rubel etc. It is cool to see what they are doing and saying.
I guess when you have added a few friends it does get more interesting. I’ll search for you and add you :). I am sure that Michael will do the same.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Ok i will add some more friends and see if i like it thx
March 20th, 2007 at 3:13 am
No provoking of the paladin here Dave
I’ll answer Micheals remark about TWIT when I have the time. 
( and yes , insults will fly back and forth as usual )
March 20th, 2007 at 6:13 am
wouldn’t want you to get all stressed over having to do too many things now would we Knightwise. BTW I know that Peter is watching the news TV at the moment, thanks to Twitter!
Peter make sure you have your phone set up as well then you will feel more connected.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Ok Ok ! I’ve GOT a twitter acount , stop twisting my arm !!! (www.twitter.com/users/knightwise) I hate to bore you people to death with my seamingly exiting lifestyle, but i don’t have a lot to tell. The whole cellphone twitter thing is beyond me cause its a UK number they give me. So in order to update from my cell i would need to send an international text message. If anyone has a way to twit via email (so i can do it from my treo) or via a palm os application (so i could do it from my treo) I would probalbly have more time to waste my time on twitter .
( Ps : Now that i’m trying it, don’t expect me to go all lovie-dovie on it ! )
March 20th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
The phone thing is a bit overrated imho and the cost of the SMS is prohibitive. But there are a number of programs that might help you out KW and make it just as fun.
There is of course the Firefox extension that I blogged about last week. Ignore the name - it is a button at most. AND it has been updated and is much better than on release!:
http://spatialviews.com/twitterbar
Since you use a Mac there is an app called twitterific:
http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
There is also a widget that Tim told me about and then there is the Web on your homepage!
Happy twittering Knightwise! LOL LOL LOL
Remember - be subjective mate! BTW whats the username?
March 20th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Ok I also have a twitter account. I am Kodo
feel free to add me see what boring crap i am doing when I am at home, usually playing WoW
March 20th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Hi Michael Specht I have now set up my phone so whenever one of my friends makes a post it gets text to me. But I don’t think I will post by SMS as i am just on a pay as you go phone
March 20th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Dave his username is in his post…what would you expect it to be…knightwise
March 20th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Yeah I guessed that… I did a search for it and found him. You could not miss it:
“trying out this twittershit”
Must be him!
March 20th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Ok not a good chat for twitter I guess. My point was the 8 core Macpros aren’t going to be tragetted at “the average user”. The current macpro isn’t either. For the normal user a Mac mini or iMac is totally fine.
I was listening to TWIM (This week In Media) yesterday and they were drooling over a possibility of 8 core macpro. Reason being is they work in film production and new machine will cut production time a lot and is also comparable to machines worth $20K the studios are using. This is for the high-end user and therefore the price will be what it is and it will be bought by professionals, not normal people like me and you.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
OMG Twittervision is beyond cool and addictive.. Wonder if I can use that at work, fill in at lunch time.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
OK yup I agree with you. That is in fact what I said in the show. But yes we did not really state that they are really aimed at the high end user. So you are right in that regard.
Since I know bugger all about Macs. Will these 8 core jobs do more than a very high end PC? My point being, could consumers turn to PC because of the bang for buck factor. Or are we talking pure Mac fanboys here that won’t do that under any circumstances?
March 20th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I think your gonna find more people go to macs than go the other way. When it comes to stuff like film editing I think find majority use Macs over PC no matter how high-end the PC is.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
@Tony - you get that to work for you too? Cool eh… I have not seen any twits for you yet. It took me a bit of digging to get the instructions. But here they are for everyone else (the basic version)
1. No registration so don’t look for it
2. in a twitter post update your location by entering:
L:[town or address or country or whatever here]
3: It takes the feed from the twitter mainpage. Stick around it takes a bit to see yours.
Check out twittervision here:
http://twittermap.com/twittervision
Detailed instructions here:
http://twittermap.com/maps/faq.html
March 20th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Ok you twitter maniacs, How bout helping me out in getting to appreciate this twittercrap. (i’m sorry , that was subjective) If there is anyone out there that knows (or has) a cool free client for my treo so i can twit from there (using my gprs connection) If not , does anyone know a good ICQ client for the palm os , then i can autorize my old ICQ number to use that to twit on the road. Then i’ll give you some interesting posts to read. (btw , thank you all for adding me as a friend , i cant wait to bore you to tears with the useless things i do all day).
March 20th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Godamn it’s so hard to stop watching twittervision. I think i will just stick with RSS feed. Hopefully twitter isn’t blocked at work, i need to release some stress sometimes, usually after getting off the phone with another idiot.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Knightwise according to a google search for treo and twitter and Treo IM client will work. Also try a google search for Treo IM
March 20th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
@Knightwise: twitter supports MSN, ICQ, Gtalk and Jabber. An initial search found that there is a Jabber client for Palm OS called Chatopus:
http://www.chatopus.com/
That particular client supports interoperability with MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, GaduGadu and Sametime as well as GTalk and Gizmo. That might be a better option to a network specific client. FREE - I think.
You do need a Jabber account but they are easy to get (been ages since I have set up Jabber so you are on your own. You might be able to set up your own Jabber server on the LINUX box!)
March 20th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
shit we need a forum this week!
March 20th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I believe Adium and gtalk support Jabber. Maybe iChat too but I don’t use that
March 20th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Global Geek if you would like to set up a forum at some point i can help you do that or even set up a forum for you
March 20th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
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March 20th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
@Peter thanks for the offer. There are actually forums for TPN. We don’t have a forum there at this time. We can if I ask.
OK guys: do you want a forum on the TPN forums for the Geek? There has to be a fair few of you to warrant it though so sound off if that is the case.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Damn , if anyone has a link to a good jm2e (java) version of ICQ or Googletalk you can always post it here. That way i’ll be able to surf to it with my treo, install it and have it up and running even before I get home. And then I can twit to your harts desire.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
I think Crittersim alike was also on Windows ages ago, I don’t remember the name of th game
March 21st, 2007 at 1:52 am
Are you thinking of a game called “Creatures”
March 21st, 2007 at 3:14 am
I once wore the same pare of socks for three months. When i looked inside .. It was running its own version of Crittersim .. Talk about cross platform.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:41 am
Dave, if you want a TPN forum I can set one up.
Knightwise, as Peter says you can set up your phone to receive, SMS costs can get very espensive and being over 25 my thumbs just don’t type very fast!! IM is good when it works the Twitter infastructure is just not coping with the growth.
Oh and Twittervision is like crack, in fact worse than crack as it costs you nothing!!
March 21st, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Michael as i live in the UK it is free for me to receive text messages from twitter but maybe I should stop them, I just turned my phone on and I got 19 messages from twitter.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:47 pm
anyone know a free portable twitterclient on a usb stick ? then i’ll be able to run it from my pc at work.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Knightwise stay tuned… I was saving this post but I’ll put it up tonight!
March 21st, 2007 at 8:50 pm
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March 21st, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Too bad I have W2k at work , dont workie
. No prob , will install im client on Treo as soon as I have my macbook back.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:41 pm
“ministryofsound.com”??!! are you an old raver Knightwise?
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:18 pm
heheh
I discovered ministryofsound a few years back, and loved their streaming radio ever since. They turned me on to artists like Paul van Dijk and Tiesto before the average teenager even knew who they where. I’m by far a raver but have a variety of tastes in music.
and who are you calling old !
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
of course, I meant not “old”!! apologies
by the way PortableApps includes Adium i think, if you are still after a twitter client for a usb drive - although I may be behind the times!
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
yep , but isnt adium 4 the mac ? (the portable app is so i can twit from work on w2k) but no prob , i’ll shove it on my treo and give it a buzz from there.
about the “old” thing. Do 20 push ups right now and you are forgiven.
The paladin !
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:54 pm
apologies - poetable apps comes with gaim and miranda - both run on win2k - you could even run Mac OS 7 off your usb if you wanted - bizarre!
did the push ups standing up - is that o.k?
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:56 pm
??poetable?? I am so literate!!
March 24th, 2007 at 3:30 am
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March 24th, 2007 at 4:45 am
poetable … that how they say portable in Brooklyn ?
aerial push ups are legit !
March 24th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
No they are not
March 24th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
you obviously havn’t seen my aerial push-ups mate!
March 26th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Post 50 .. Wohoo !
March 26th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Smartarse…
March 27th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Knightwise - get Twitterific for your Mac
March 28th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Don’t joke about boycotting Microsoft, you could end up getting sued: http://scientaestubique.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/will-australians-lose-their-legal-right-to-boycott-business/
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Wow, I needed to find a translator for text but I didn’t know which language it was in and then I remembered that Polyglot application and it worked like a charm. It figured out the text was Indonesian and after I translated it the post I was inquiring about was spam. Thanks for the program mention.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
If you are looking for a Treo / Palm OS application to post to Twitter, you can take a look to our new freeware, TreoTwit:
http://www.mitreo.com/treotwit_twitter_palm_os/
http://www.pdaexpertos.com/foros/viewtopic.php?t=55687
Regards,
JJ
April 7th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
By the way Knitewise, you may want to read this http://leoville.vox.com/library/post/goodbye-twitter-hello-jaiku.html as once again Leo states there is no direct affiliation between TWiT and Twitter.