The Global Geek Podcast #061 :: The Vanishing Timmy
This week in tech HP makes big moves in Oz, Storage just took a huge leap and China’s police got creative.
We have our usual bag of applications our pick in one very inventive WordPress plug-in in addition to a CD recovery tool for those times when your valued back-up is a coaster and reading feeds Facebook style. Plus a mammoth week for Firefox extensions.
We have another slideshow service in Sites and Services but this time with new tricks, a web site that lets you pretend you have an Apple TV and a web based photo editing application that is the best we have seen to date.
All that and more such as the Mac Lab Rat Update, your valued feedback on this weeks installment of the GGP!
The Global Geek Podcast #061 (MP3 - 42.68MB - 1:14:33)
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Welcome
Technology News
- Blogger Visitors Beware
- HP to Sell Linux in Oz
- Hulu, whoops
- Ubuntu 8.04 Gets it’s Name
- New Storage to Blow Everything Else Away
- Vista SP1 Beta
- Digg Launches New Look
- China do Clippy Police for the Web
Promo Spot :: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Applications
- Douchbag: WordPress Plug-in, check out the link for the plugin in full swing!
- SpaceLift: Export your MySpace Profile to Facebook (do yourself a favour)
- NewsFriends (By NewsGator for Facebook): Read feeds in Facebook
- CD Recovery Toolbox: Rescue files from a damaged or corrupted disk
Firefox Extensions
- Snap Links: Open multiple links from a single page in separate tabs
- Shareaholic: Post bookmarks to multiple social networks
- Feedmarklet: Create a feed from any web page, now working!
- TinyURL Creator: Create and manage Tiny URL’s
- Box.net Bookmarks Synchronizer: Back-up and syncronize your bookmarks with Box.net
GGP Mac Lab Rat :: Keith Murray
Sites and Services
- wikirage: see the most frequently updated wkipedia pages
- MyPlick: Slideshow service that will take just about anything you can throw at it
- Reddit Media: Features media rich content from Reddit
- not Apple TV: Emulates an Apple TV, and very well
- videohybrid: source and watch popular movies and TV shows… 5… 4… 3… and counting
- FotoFlexor: Powerful image editing services based on flash
Feedback
Farewell
- Dave’s Blog
- Keith’s Blog
- Tim’s Blog :: www.thenextbigthing.com
Featured Music
“Loads of Love” (mp3)
from “In The Still Of The Night”
by Grant Stewart
(Sharp Nine Records)
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Retrograde
“Complicated” (mp3)
from “Retrograde”
(Adagio Music Inc)
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September 4th, 2007 at 8:32 am
I’ve been looking for something like Snaplinks for ages! Another great find lads!
September 5th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Hey, Guys, another great show. Still a little hard for American Me to GET all the words, what with the Aussie accents. - Of course, I DO understand “fracking”, when I hear that!
Music great lately! And, I have to go back to your site a couple times to check out all the links I liked from the podcast. There’s just so much good content. Kudos on the good work of seamlessly putting the whole show together, Dave.
September 5th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Yep,another great show guys, I agree with Bree,lots of good stuff to click on, and yes our accent can get a little getting use to.
as for language…I’m guessing the “c” word you refuse to speak is Canberra…eh?
September 5th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Oh, I didn’t think that people were having trouble understanding us! Damn sorry guys… not much I can do about it though
Thanks Brie for the encouragement
BTW guys that’s the idea of the show notes! I am trying to set up a database here of great apps. I put in the descriptive terms so that they are searchable. I know I came and search for stuff all the time. I hope that it is working out well for everyone.
September 5th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Dave good idea with the database of apps, excellent in fact.
Dont be too worried about the understanding issue, when I go to the USA and talk to my friends from Texas, Nebraska or Iowa, heck or even Kentucky, I need to slow down and try to speak clearly.
They say something about me having an accent and using strange words. bah.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Good show yet again. This time, I have offered my feedback through the means of a mychingo. I figured you haven’t had one in awhile but I don’t think you’ll be able to play it on the air. Too many S words lol
September 5th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Top stuff Jeff - thanks heaps. Nope, I can use that! Thanks heaps. Valued feedback mate.
Next up thanks to Hugh! Who also made the effort to MyChingo us with some great comments as well. That is great two voicemails in one week. Top effort crew!
September 5th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
I actually got the term FRACK from the series of battlestar galactica, where it was used as a collonial alterantive for the F* word. The funny thing is, that it is now stuck in my vocabulary and I use it pretty often. I mean you HAVE to swear once in a while. Where is the color in life if you don’t. Don’t swear just to be rude. But don’t refrain from it if you need to maike a point.
Frack me !
September 5th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Btw : If you can’t stand the F* word its possibly because you aren’t doing it enough
….
… Runs away laughing and hides ! …….
September 6th, 2007 at 2:38 am
great show guys. Tim do not give up on web 2.0. You got some great sites and appz this week.
@ Tim I am also a Farscape fan
September 6th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I’m with KW, dosen’t everyone recognise Frak from BSG. We are all supposed geeks here but if you don’t watch BSG you may need to turn in your geek license.
I did have stuff to say from start of the show but buggered if I know what it was now. The song was something decent for a change
So Dave you left a job in nice warm sunny Nth Qld to move to cool hippy Lismore in the middle of nowhere where you have no job and spend your days riding a lawn mower. Sounds a great life decision there mate
September 7th, 2007 at 3:29 am
If you listen to what Dave does all day it sounds like he’s retired.. or was that word retarded ? … hmmm.. Damn English … (oops ? can I swear here ?) Frack !
@ggpBot : You are on my side .. I programmed you well then !
September 7th, 2007 at 6:59 am
What a load of feldercarp…….
September 7th, 2007 at 11:20 am
What a load of feldercarp
September 7th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Isn’t it ‘Fendergarb’ ? I’ll look it up in a centon as soon as I have some Ferlon.
Centon (second)
Ferlon ( off-time, Leave)
Fendergarb : Bullshit.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Good show guys.
I soon look forward to listening to you on a iPod touch, which will be a big jump up from a PSP.
Giving up web 2.0 - Good luck!!!
Good content on at the moment, thats for sure…!
Oh and who was it that had the Wii? Are they any good? I just won one…haha:D
Kepp it up!
September 8th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I just heard Knightwise moonlighting on the Miketechshow podcast. He sounded like he was calling from Moon Base Alpha, the line was so crackly…
September 8th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I know. I try to infiltrate and take over all major tech show podcasts .. But i just don’t have a big enough pipe ..
… Not a peep from you George !
September 8th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Thanks for all the comments this week guys! Top stuff.
George, nice one - short and sweet. Just like you.
Knightwise, thanks for messing with our heads.
GGPbot: goto10
Thanks guys for all the effort and we got some emails this week as well. Woot.
Blog has been very quiet this week as Tim and I have been working on websites, but not our own. So thanks for keeping us entertained.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
lol, ill keep my comment to myself.
@Dave - nothing short and sweet about me.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Btw : I seldom have complaints about the show but i must say : I hate the Jazz music. Its either too “intense” or its too loud compared to the voice volume. But the combination of both is a pain in the earcanal.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Hi Guys
Finally listened to the show.
Re the 1 tb drives.
I frequently overload DVD discsmostly with backups however I did once manage (in around 2005) to fill a 1 tb HDD (lacie) with met data. Potentially the ability to back up a whole project onto 1 CD would remove the need for a box of 6 or so DVDs turning up on my desk from time to time.
Cheers