As time goes on twitter is becoming a more useful service than just a micro blogging platform. Today I discovered that you can set reminders using “timer”.
Now timer is a user on twitter, but don’t try and start a conversation with it. I say “it” because timer is a twitter bot, a bot with a [...]

In show Number 50 Jeff sent us a MyChingo audio message. He also threw in this question with his comments about the show:
“Do you know of any Firefox plugin that works in a similar fashion to the SnagIt program used to perform and then edit screen captures?
I would love to find a Firefox plugin that [...]

First up this week, yes the show is long. BUT the good thing is that you will enjoy the reason why.
This week on the geek school pupils find a novel way of skipping school while Google make moves on RSS and the mobile phone call that broke records.
The “Holy Grail” of mobile applications finally arrives. [...]

This video will answer that precise question for you. I have seen a couple of videos like this on YouTube and other places. But they have been without a commentary or any explanation. This video however explains what the hard drive is doing as they run it through a test sequence of progressively larger disk [...]

Tim and I were talking last night about some research by comScore this week that stated that males in the 18-24 age group were more likely to download podcasts via iTunes. Not that we place much value on these type of demographics due to the fact that podcast listeners are hard enough to measure!
Our conversation [...]

I don’t know about you but I surf the net at a pretty furious rate. That means that trying to go back and find a site that I was at in the history is a bit of an ask. In fact I hate looking through the history! Plus I regularly clear my private data, making [...]

Well ok, so we didn’t EXACTLY go crazy, however now you can get us directly on your Netvibes page and listen to the latest shows as they are updated! Even before iTunes Music Store gets it (it probably shaves off about 1/2 an hour)!
All you have to do is either:
A: Search for the ‘Global Geek’ [...]

Welcome to the latest edition of The Global Geek Podcast. You may wonder about the title, suffice to say that Tim’s ISP is having the last laugh…
However, we have been able to record the show! This week in Tech News we look at how one blog was able to swipe 4 billion off Apple, discover [...]

We have talked about twittervision and just this week flickrvision on the show and on the blog before. Both these pages use a 2D representation or flat map to represent where tweets and geo-tagged flickr photos are coming from. Now 2D is cool but how about 3D?
Both twittervision and flickrvision have been released in a [...]

I have received a few emails and messages this week from a few listeners about RSS. RSS or Really Simple Syndication is a powerful tool, without RSS there is no way I could read the number of articles I do and stay in touch with tech news for the show. Because that would mean that [...]