The Global Geek Podcast #068 :: mmm Beer…
This week in Technology News; Bill is de-throned, a different kind of open source, why NBC spat the dummy over iTunes and we tell you what is better than water when rehydrating.
A few applications this week, including; thumbing your windows, a great app for syncing with Flickr. Plus the featured Firefox extensions.
We have a jam packed Sites and Services segment for you this week. One that will take you back to the 90’s, a top document storage service, a way of creating quality, no fuss widgets for your blog and something to feed your frame.
All this plus the GGP Mac Lab Rat, your valued feedback and some free music to end it all. Enjoy!
The Global Geek Podcast #68 (MP3 - 47MB - 1:22:37)
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Show Notes
Welcome
Tech News
- Concerns Over Mac Firewall
- Bill gets Booted
- Gold iPhone
- Open Source Hardware
- OpenSocial
- LCD Glass Breakthrough
- HD to DVD-R Player
- NBC Explains
- Beer is Better than Water
Promo Spot - The Father Bob Show
Applications
- FizzBoost: Facebook Notifer
- ThumbWin: Minimise windows to thumbnails (Translated via Google)
- FlickrSync: Sync any directory on your local machine to Flickr
Firefox Extensions
GGP Mac Lab Rat
- Mac OS X Trojan (TidBits.com)
- Opaque Menubar
- Dock Doctor
- iVol
Sites and Services
- TinyLoad: Upload a file to a number of popular online storage options with one upload
- framechannel: Customizable RSS feeds to your digital photo frame
- VectorMagic: Convert images to Vector Art
- GifTube: Al things GIFF, download, share, embed GIFFS (NSFW)
- docstore: Store, share and embed most document formats
- SpeedDate.com: Speed dating Web2.0 style
- YourWebWidget: Create simple Flickr and YouTube Widgets for your blog
- Slideoo: Very nice horizontal Flickr Widget creation
Updates
Feedback
Farewell
Featured Music
Between The Trees
“Words” (mp3)
from “The Story and The Song”
(Bonded Records, Inc)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Buy at Napster
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November 7th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Belgians make the best Flickr Sliders ! And I want to setup a nice GGP Scamm, Me and Brie go sit on oposite sites of the speeddating thing, flirt the crap out of eachother, win the GGP Prize and split the winnings.
There .. Cheque please.
“On my side of the planet snakes get eaten by cats”
November 8th, 2007 at 11:24 am
You belgians must be big pussies then KW. Over here the bigger snakes would probably have a crack at eating cats. Killing them isnt reallyt he problem.
Where I live we have a cat to run defense for the kids. We *touch wood* have not had any brown snakes this year, but last year I actually got used to chasing them and trying or actually killing them (no guns
we live in town).
Good show guys, If i were single I would have a look at speeddate.com for the geek factor alone. Then again who can be bothered.
I agree with Tims ascertion that the beer study was flawed. Of course you are going to say you feel ok when drinking beer after running around in the sun. And more, its was obviously free beer which is the best kind.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Unbelieveable
November 08, 2007 03:00pm
Meet the SNAKE that got the cream … or the cat in this case.
Cairns resident January Clay got the shock of her life when she saw her fully-grown cat disappearing down the throat of the 3m python.
She had let the cat outside about 5.30am on Wednesday morning and when she went to check on it 30 minutes later made the gruesome discovery.
“When I came out of the house the cat’s legs were hanging out of its mouth,” she said yesterday.
Visit The Cairns Post website for the full story.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
@George : We are No pussies !
@ Tim : You have NO IDEA how disappointed I am in you for ‘dropping out’ of your Ubuntu experience over something as puny as file resizing. Ok , If you want to be a Ubuntu Purist you will want to use only the products installed in the OS. But YOU of all people must know about 40 websites that let you easily resize pictures. So no matter what OS you are on : there are always alternatives to be found on the web. As a host of the GGP you give us plenty of usefull sites and services and yett you bonk out of Ubuntu because you cannot resize pictures ? Where is the GGP attitude of saying : If it aint on the machine , its on the web. I would have been happier if you said that you flunked your ubuntu and went back to dual-boot (pussy-boot) with XP because you could not watch your hentai porn flash vids or something. But not over a file resizing issue. My god ! Even Norbert managed to figure that one out ( we have him running edubuntu at the moment) while Dr Evil and me are dabbling with Debian Edge and Ubuntu. (and we are NOT on some godforsaken Island : We are on the moon ! ) If you excuse me , i’m gonna resize some pictures now…
November 8th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Damn… KW you are gettin testy… can’t wait to see what you say about SL.
@George… chasing brown snakes… pass
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