The Global Geek Podcast #80 :: Encryption… like a House
Great show this week, Keith joins us and is sounding great! We also make a startling discovery about the Lab Rat this week, so keep your ears out for that one.
In tech news Asus is offering something new, the military get tough with Google and Nine Inch Nails; nails the record companies.
In the apps bag we have an old twitter client made new again, the holy grail of mail plus one to end it all and more.
Sites and services sees us visit the UN, do some drifting, searching forums in style and an awesome site to discover innner space.
That is not all on the show this week, keep listening for the Firefox extensions, the Mac Lab Rat and your feedback! The song this week is a ripper so make sure you take a listen.
The Global Geek Podcast #80 (MP3 – 26.26MB – 1:16:25)
[audio:http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/tpn_theglobalgeekpodcast_20080309_080.mp3]
Be sure to send us feedback, you can do that via email or leave us a voicemail. But if all that is too hard then a comment is tops!
Show Notes
Welcome
Technology News
- The Eee PC and XP
- Adware tops the list
- Google Banned from military Bases
- Automatic Acquire BuddyPress
- Microsoft Silverlight coming to a Phone Near You
- Fighting Stress Using Second Life
- Nine Inch Nails bypasses the Store
StopPress
Promo Spot – The Digital Photography Show
Applications
- Google Calendar Sync: 2 way syncing between GCal and Outlook
- Kruptos: Single click file encryption solution
- Thwirl: twitter client just got a whole lot better
- OpenWithView: Edit your right click context menu for opening files in specific apps
- EndItAll: Protect essential processes and kill the rest
Firefox Extensions
- Bookmarks Preview (development extension): presents bookmarks in “coverflow” style
- CookieSwap: Manage multiple profiles on a single instance of Firefox
GGP Mac Lab Rat
- iPhone SDK
Sites and Services
- UNdata: Get access to the huge UN database on country info and other stats
- Luminotes: Personalized wiki
- driftr: travel blogging and social networking, simple elegance and stylish
- VisibleBody: detailed human anatomy and physiology (Video)
- twing: search across multiple forums
- alltop: aggrigator of aggrigation…
Updates
Feedback
Farewell
- Dave’s Blog (Second Life: Rooster Rubble)
- Keith’s Blog (Second Life: Maezik Darwin)
Featured Music
Angelas Dish
“Soft November” (mp3)
from “War on Time”
(BNM Productions Pty Ltd.)
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March 11th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Haven’t heard the show yet. but eee and xp….thats old! I bought my a month or so ago, and with 4 gig storage (only one in AUstralia) XP was useless. You might be lucky to install a few programs. The ee wasn’t built for this stuff, anywya I looked around and found out how to put XP on an external harddrive. Wow is it bloody hard, and error after error! But I got it working and im loving it. 120GB external HDD which is Running XP. And the Internal storage (which has to be turned off when XP is booted, otherwise you get errors) still has the original Linux Xandros. Now only downside is you have to carry and external hdd if you want xp (Its one of the portable ones) and it reduces battery life a hell of a lot. But you still can use Xandros!
Anyway will comment after listening.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Podcast arrived.
Just a quick hello to say that FeedDemon has come through this week – it lives to fight another day on my computer.
Haven’t listened yet, leave that up to the train journey tomorrow.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
@Doug actually no the eepc and XP is not old. They will be offered pre installed with a version of XP optimised for the ee. Up until this point in time they have been offered only with LINUX pre installed.
@Matt Great News dude!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:42 am
OK! Heard the show now!
Im still not to sure how it will go with it running XP, even if it’s watered down. I think there getting out of what they planned to make it for, Price is going to go up, Will probably slightly larger and will be more powerful. I have run Second Life on mine(not to talk about how LAGGY it was on all the settings wayyy down!) and mine is only the base one. I recently saw a guy from Japan, and wow do they have cool gadgets. He had some laptop, very similar to the eee, but the screen could rotate, and it had a 100GIG HDD in it. A flash looking thing!
Will be interesting to see how long this new model takes to get Australia!
Good Show!
March 12th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Hey guys, I’m the developer of Luminotes, the personal wiki notebook mentioned in the show. Thanks very much for the coverage!
If anyone has any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact me.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:49 am
@Dan Np mate – we liked it and a pleasure to cover it.
@Doug good glad you heard the show…
Yeah this stuff is all coming out of Japan – smaller is better. It will be interesting to see if they can tweak XP enough. Like I said in the show – it might be going against what it is trying to accomplish – but then they are trying to access a bigger market, so I can see why. Time will tell.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Hey Dave
Half way through the show at the moment, but just thought I’d add a correct to the whole Nine Inch Nails Ghosts album.
The first 9 tracks are free – they originally released the “first EP”, so to speak on torrent networks. You actually are meant to go to the website where you pay your 5 dollars and then get access to their servers to download the album in its entireity. However, the servers (in the first few weeks anyway) have had difficulty keeping up with the amount of traffic to the website, so people started uploading the entire thing to the torrent sites. The most interesting thing about the music i think that Trent (the lead singer) has released the album with a Creative Commons license. So even if you don’t pay for the album at all (I did, but just downloaded from torrents afterwards) there’s no legal issues whatsoever.
You should check it out anyways, it’s not a typical Nine Inch Nails album. It’s got heavy and soft moments and is entirely instrumental, I think it sounds like a soundtrack to a movie that hasn’t been made yet. I made a bit of a blog post about it here if anyone’s interested…
March 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Hej you guys, since I can’t wait for Mr Murray to blogg about it, what microphone has he got? The reason I’m asking is that I am myself shopping around for a new mic, and the word on the street is HEIL, (No, I’m not walking the streets of Berlin back in the 1940’s at the moment). So I was wondering what marvelous piece of mic got Keiths voice sounding so good. Was it perhaps the HEIL PR40 that everyone is talking about?!
This was just a off-topic P2P-question (podcaster to podcaster), somewhat related to technology.
Great show, once again!
/ Andy
March 13th, 2008 at 1:47 am
@Andy: The blog post is coming either tonight, or tomorrow night (Canada-time of course
). But to answer your first question: It’s not a HEIL. 
March 13th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Hey guys, great show this week. It’s really nice to have Keith nice audio, makes for much better and easier listening.
Love the effort you guys put in,
Adam
P.S: The iPhone is really never going to be open, I mean, it’s made by apple. The company which charges £400-500 before you can even run OSX legally, let alone nicely.
If you really want to use the iPhone to it’s full potential, jailbreaking really is the only solution, and probably only will be.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:26 am
@Keith – please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it the case that OS X Leopard has spaces meaning virtual desktops and 10.4 doesn’t? To me that would be the only reason to switch. I use it heavily. One screen for iTunes, one for Safari, one for VMWare, one for the PDF preview. CTRL+arrows and you jump between. I cannot say anything for sure about 10.4 ’cause I started using macs with Leopard.
As for any feature of Vista that would compel me to migrate, there’s a lot. I think they have added so many to Vista that I switched to Leopard immediately. They really encourage you to migrate. Don’t you think?
As for the iPhone, I think we really need a competitor from Samsung or Nokia that would be up to the challenge. There’s not much to do apart from creating the same phone with customisable ringtones, longer battery life and lower price! I still don’t understand why I have to choose O2 UK. There are better providers.
Raf
March 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Ok didn’t hear the whole cast because I fell asleep in the middle
but Keith did sound good.
I think Dave may have mentioned about the iPhone SDK and the reason Apple want to restrict the apps that appear on it is to ensure that all apps are “safe” and not going to damage the phone. I wouldn’t be happy if I downloaded an app on my phone and it broke it somehow through a virus or had malware or a keylogger installed. it may seem restrictive but it is Apple’s rep on the line and I think they are doing the right thing.
Hmm aggrigator of aggrigation…Did you run that through a spell-checker?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:51 am
@Blogslut believe it or not but “aggrigation” and “aggrigator” shows up as spelt wrong anyway in a spell checker – so we are making this up as we go along. A real case of technology not keeping up with technology!
March 18th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Hi Keith and Dave,
Thanks for another great informative show. Just joined up for the Alpha on Seesmic. Looks cool, seems at first like YouTube meets Twitter. The UN data site looks like a great resource. You had a question on the pipe(|)for downloads. It is just another delimiter to ease data parsing.
Take care.
Get well Cait!
March 20th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Your piece about Fighting Stress in Second Life reminded me of this article I read. At the University of Dayton (Ohio) Law School, one of the professors has been using Second Life to look at dispute resolution.
http://tinyurl.com/2dxu2w
http://tinyurl.com/yp87dp
March 20th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Sorry about the ugly URLs
March 20th, 2008 at 11:58 am
It’s OK I fixed them
Thanks for the input.
It is going to be interesting to see how SL is going to be used over time. Nice find.
Not sure how dispute resolution would work – it might stop people getting physical with each other!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 am
I’ve been too freaking busy at work lately to do proper comments on the podcast… and apparently I’m a blogslut anyway.
Here’s something for you to add to the next show; “Amazon Kindle sells out in 5.5 hours.”
On the Amazon homepage;
“We had high hopes for the Kindle before it’s launch, but we didn’t expect the demand that actually materialized. We sold out in the first 5.5 hours and have been scrambling to increase our manufacturing capacity ever since. We’ve been shipping on a first-come, first-served basis, but many customers have had to wait as long as six weeks after ordering.
Source: http://www.amazon.com
The Kindle has 2067 Reviews at the time I’m writing this. 44.9% of the reviews rate it as “5 stars.” Many of the reviews are quite interesting and very in-depth. It makes me wonder if these reviews are real or fictional–they’re just too well written.
While I find the Kindle a very interesting prospect, the $400 (US) price tag leaves quite a bit to be desired for a device that is basically read-only. If I could use it to surf the web similar to an iPod touch, I might find the price point more forgiving. I mean, I can buy a basic laptop for $400 and do a lot more with it. Sure it provides free “lifetime” wireless access, but that doesn’t work here in Canada, and I wonder just how long the access will remain “free” or how long before the Kindle starts automagically downloading advertisements in the middle of your reading your latest eNovel? Also, titles are $9.99 and I can buy a paperback for less than that, so why would I want to download an eBook for the same price as a paperback? If they included the eBook with the paperback, I might be more inclined.
Anyway… Kindle; Nice idea, too expensive. Just like the iPod touch, it’s an expensive toy.
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