While we are doing the video thing, Google today released the collaborative Gmail video. On YouTube of course.
They made the call for submissions and got over 1100 videos from 65 countries.
There is a Google Maps Mash-up of the countries where videos were sent in from. There were even two from Australia! Anyway the video is [...]

Loved this when I saw it. The video speaks for itself. But I have been wondering what people have been doing with their old CRT’s as we all get onto the LCD bandwagon.
One idea I had was to lay your hands on a few more old screens and make the fence bigger, maybe the house? [...]

AutoPatcher is one of the best sites known to man, for Windows users anyway. The site enabled you to download cumulative Windows Updates as a bundle. What does that mean? Probably easier with an example:
Without AutoPatcher:
You decide that today is a great day to rebuild your PC. You install Windows, go to Windows Update and [...]

Apple sent out some invitations to selected media today (no we are not on their list). The invitations are to a “Special Event” dated for the 5th of September 2007, to introduce a swag of new digital media “offerings” according to AppleInsider.
The invites are digital and this is all the info I have and since [...]

This week on the show we talked about Cory Doctorow as Michael attended the event. This is just a quick post to let you know that Cait; listener and long time supporter of The GGP also attended the event and covered it on her blog.
Please check out Cait’s coverage and video of the debate. Although [...]

Here is this weeks GGP! This is show number 60 and we have a special guest so please jump on board and celebrate with us. This weeks show is a longish one, nothing I could do about that because it is all really, really good and I could not cut it. Trust me it will [...]

I was expecting this after stories this last week about Facebook’s plans to introduce contextual advertising was rumoured all over the blogOsphere. But this little dirty trick I was not expecting. It seems Facebook has shown it’s cards.
The advertising is here and it ain’t pretty. No it is not on the sidebar, no it is [...]

Yeah so we had the Hollywood Computing Story now how about this list of Computer Sayings… A lot of them you might have seen before but there are some that are quite amusing and made me laugh so I decided to share them with you.
A couple that I found amusing:
“At the source of every error [...]

Here is my take on why Skype failed last week…
9:00am PST: IT noob spills coffee on server
9:01am PST: IT noob “OH SHIT”
9:05am PST: Millions of Skype clients shut down…
9:10am PST: Company director “OH SHIT”
9:15am PST: Rest of the IT team to IT noob “man you are getting fired for this”
9:30am PST: Skype Tech Guys on [...]

Ever wanted to know what was on the direct opposite side of the world to where you are right now? Me too. There is a name for this, in geography the antipodes of any place is the place on earth opposite where you are if joined by a straight line. Now you can grab the [...]