Massive week for all of us, so we made an exeutive decision to take it easy. This is a very casual Global Geek Podcast but far from boring.

Please let us know what you thought of the casual, take it easy show this week as we enjoyed the show and would like to know what you guys thought

 

 GGP #89 [86:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Show Notes

Welcome

• Where’s Keith?
• Cait feel like crap
• Dave gears up for the new job

General

• Extension Update
• Car Rego, geek style
• New Toys
• Dell
• Vista
• IMAP (damnit)
• Gmail and IMAP: IMAP Behavior Chart

The Micro Blogging War

• identi.ca: Open Source twitter platform
• Dave’s FriendFeed
• Cait’s FriendFeed
• If Keith has one it should go here
• 62% of Dial up users like it slow and don’t know what they are missing
• Firefox Record
• California Mobile Fine

Community Service Announcment

• Fake Identity Creator

GGP Mac Lab Rat

• iGTD: Get things done on your Mac
• Project Track: Project management tool for developers and others
• Menu-Eclipse: Hide your menu bar (click on Software then MenuEclipse)

Updates

Feedback

Farewell

• Dave’s Tumblr Blog
• Rooster’s Rail
• Cait’s Blog
• Keith’s Blog

Featured Music

ABC
“The Very First Time” (mp3)
from “Traffic”
(Borough Music)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
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Welcome to the GGP for another week. Wow life just seems to be getting busier and busier but doing our best to bring you a show once again.

Great show this week and we had a ton of feedback. Special thanks this week to The Herne and Eric for their MyChingo messages, listen in for that and more on the GGP number 88. And yes Firefox is fuzzy – let us know what your experience of Firefox 3 is…

 

 GGP #088 [109:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

• Bye Bill
• ICANN Makes Some TLD Changes
• Firefox 3
• Mac and Malware
• Microsoft XP
• Justin.tv Nabs Thief
• AP Makes their Own Copyright Laws
• WTF?

Promo Spot – The Wii Show

Applications

• Portable Start Menu: A start menu for your portable apps USB Drive
• Types: Change file associations easily in XP and Vista
• Web Forum Reader: A central application for reading and posting to forums
• Firefox 3 Portable: Firefox on the Go
• Timekeeper: Customize the system clock

Firefox Extensions

• Hide Unvisited: Deletes visited sites from awesomebar indexing on deletion of your private data
• Weave *experiemental*: Synchronize all your Firefox data between computers and instances of Firefox

GGP Mac Lab Rat

• Tofu: Split text into columns for easy reading
• Disk Aid: Turn your iPod into a portable drive across platforms

Sites and Services

• When is Good: Set up a convienient meeting time – simplist solution yet
• Acronym Finder: Find out what that acronym stands for
• TinyPaste: Tiny URL’s for text
• Wirewize: Get that home media set up humming with the right cables in the right spots for the best results
• fasteagle: Quickly look up the best that web has to offer
• Wordle: Create some stunning tag clouds
• LaunchSplash: Custom splash screens for the up and coming launch of your site
• HelloQuizzy: Take tests – time waster, but cool

Feedback

• Link to Eric’s find of a Second Life client for mobiles

Farewell

• Dave’s Tumblr Blog
• Cait’s Blog
• Keith’s Blog

Featured Music

The Lodger
“The Good Old Days” (mp3)
from “Life Is Sweet”
(Slumberland)

Buy at Napster
More On This Album