The Global Geek Podcast #047 :: twittercast
This week we tried something a bit different and that is reflected in the show. We decided to twitercast the show during recording.
Now here is the show that you watched unfold on twitter, want to know what we might have said about your tweets? Then download the show and take a listen!
This week we cover some news from some big players like Google, eBay and Microsoft. We also take a look at the networked communities response to the Virgina Tech shootings. Plus something fun to do with your wandering granny.
Also get your weekly dose of free applications such as a Note Pad on Wiki steroids and a transcoder for your iPod. Check out whats hot in new Sites and Services like stalking your friends with RSS and the killer RSS app for your mobile phone!
The Global Geek Podcast #047 (MP3 - 42.6 MB - 1:14:31)
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Show Notes
Welcome
- twittercasting
- What happened last show
- Dave blows something else up and gets new gear
- Tim’s phone gets clean
Technology News
- Google Acquires Double Click
- Google Publishes XP Serials
- eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
- Did Web 2.0 get the Jump on the Virginia Tech Shootings?
- Have we seen the End of the Browser Wars?
- Swivel Adds Flickr
- Internet Radio Stations Might be Doomed :: Act on it - Save Net Radio
- Tag Your Granny
Promo Spot - Gday World
Applications
- Thunderbird 2.0: Killer email app just got better
- GCalDeamon: Open source tool to sync Google Calendar with your desktop and apps
- iTheatre Project (Mac): Media center for your Mac
- WikidPad: Note Pad Wiki style
- TubeSock 2.0 (Mac): Download, convert and stuff your iPod with online video
- Free iPod Converter for Free (Windows): Convert any popular video format ready for your iPod
Tim’s Mini Promo :: Not very PC at all
Firefox Extensions
- Better Gmail 0.3: Add extra functionality to Gmail easily with a GUI interface
- FullerScreen: A really, really full screen
Dr Evil :: The Geek Serial Worth Listening to
Sites and Services
- Scrapblog Goes Desktop
- Wiredness: Online photo editing tool that is feature rich and powerful
- iStalkr: Make your “Digital Life Stream” and add a social element
- StuffSafe: Keep an online repository of your stuff, then burn your house down
- ((Litefeeds)): This could be the killer feed reader for your phone, Java goodness for all (except Tim)
- Dwarf URL: Make long URL’s shorter and then add stats
- The Cloud Appreciation Society: Appreciate clouds inside
Feedback
- Tony on the Blog
- Dicky on the Blog
- James Via Email
- Matt from Brisbane via twitter: Check out Matt’s Photography Project on his Blog
Farewell
Featured Music
Download “Washing Us Away” (mp3)
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April 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 am
Great tip for Better Gmail guys! Thanks!
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:20 am
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April 23rd, 2007 at 5:36 pm
BTW the person who gave you the link for the free windows XP serial thx to Belarc Advisor and Google was not dickydolittle it was me
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Peter
We worship the keyboard you type from ! Great user contrib content ! One of the best links in the show !
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Like Knightwise, add my humble apologies. Primarily my stuff up and we will do a correction in the next show with full credit.
Sorry…
Heck KW if that’s the worst that goes wrong this week we are laughing!
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Damn Dave , how many times did i tell you not to surft porn when you are doing the show.. Now look what happened.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Ha geeks I don’t think the new licensing fees for Internet radio will affect last.fm because it is based in the UK.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I thought that Timmy was the porn addict?
last.FM affected… well maybe maybe not, while these issues may well affect only the US at this point in time, the companies that looking for the cash are US but they have global interests. You may well have a point. However, I would not hold your breath. The game is long from over and I think that this is the tip of the iceberg as far as associated problems with the law failing to keep up with technology. As we have seen countless times before demonstrated the Internet has an uncanny knack of ignoring geographic, cultural and political borders - I would expect this is exactly the same.
April 24th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Another great show. I just finished my first pass. I think the way you want to use istalkr is the way I use Jaiku. Only problem with Jaiku is that it misses many of the rss updates. I’ve been looking for something to glue all my feeds together and I really think Jaiku is it, for me. And hey, they’re Suomi which is good. They’ll have a good relationship with Nokia, eventually. maybe.
ps - bittorent clients on phones rock, when you have wifi.
btw - forcing people to stream indy music is probably a good thing. oh and i think there are stations that will broadcast streams so at least some people can eventually be defined as an old style radio station.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
I’ve been using Belarc for a couple of years since a recommendation from Buzz Bruggeman at Activewords. I email my Belarc report to myself on a regular basis. It’s really helpful when your main hard drive dies and you want to remember all of those small-but-handy applications you can’t remember the name of. In the event of a major crash, I can go into Gmail to find my most recent report. Saved my ass recently under those exact circumstances.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Of course the footage from Cho sent to NBC should be used. We need to understand the motivations and mindset of people like this, not be shielded from them. More information is better than less information. All censorship is a form of control.
April 24th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Cam, great to see you had a listen to the show.
I am sure that Belarc may well be useful. It sounds like you use it the way that it might be supposed to be used. I would question the fact that there has to be some way that enables users to easily post the report publicly. Either these individuals are stupid or the program is flawed in design. There should be a mechanism that prevents easy publishing to the web. Admittedly there are about 900 odd instances of this that Google reports, if the user numbers are significant then this may well be a small portion - which may be the quotient “stupid people” for this app. Usually these individuals are so stupid that no programing or social engineering can save them.
I agree censorship is control. But sometimes there is a curious morbid curiosity that is not healthy. Reporting as news is another thing. You have to question this morbid curiosity that individuals have for the sake of just seeing. Sort of like seeing a dead body. I speak from experience that sometimes seeing these types of images is haunting and I wish I had never seen it.
I do agree though that so long as the tapes and pictures were presented in a way that was non glorifying for the purpose of news IS a healthy thing. While I think that I wish I had not seen some things I would like to know that I had the choice to view them rather than some do-gooder somewhere who decided that I could not. Just because they thought I did not need to.
Like Knightwise, he wants the choice to look at porn. He doesn’t have to but he wants to retain the right to choose.
April 25th, 2007 at 12:59 am
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April 26th, 2007 at 3:16 am
Listened to this last night while watching the cricket. Good as always but this week I don’t have a whole lot to add. I did look at iTheatre and looks like a good idea but I think I am going oto end up getting an Apple TV and using variious online tools to convert my divx, xvid and other files to Apple TV format.
April 26th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Hi Guys, another great podcast, finally caught up on tuesday after being busy with work and not travelling by myself which means I cant listen.
I recall a comment about AVG versus AVAST. Not being able to resist, i removed AVG and installed AVAST. Not sure if I entirely agree with AVAST being better perse, but i must admit not having to click ok after every update is a good thing.
Cheers
April 26th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
@Tony - If we find any tools that might help we will feature them on the show!
@George - well I can say this about avast! - not only does it protect you against viruses, it has built in everything- mail scanning, P2P network protection, networked computer protection, IM protection, Web Shield - no more drive-by virus attacks, along with system protection in the usual way. Plus this is one of the only free scanners that you can do a “on boot scan”. As you may know a lot of viruses are “resident” you can’t get rid of a resident program - that is running. On boot scan does. Nice
There are not many antivirus that offer such features.
The other thing is that antivirus software isn’t the type of thing that you want to find out which is better… at least not by failing at any rate. Within the first 5 minutes that I had it installed it saved my arse once with email scanning… sold for me!
Having said that as a basic antivirus AVG is good but avast is vastly better. But you have to be happy with what you use… only yourself to blame then
April 27th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Dave
Yes, now that i have looked at it, it does offer a lot more. Either way im going to keep it on my PC.
Was in Cairns the other week and headed up to Atherton for work. Not a bad place really, at least it rains compared to here in SE QLD.
Cheers
April 28th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Dave,
Check VisualHub on the Mac at least for encoding video to various formats including AppleTV.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:30 am
@George - wise move
@Tony - thanks mate will do