Geek Bytes 7: 3/9/2010

9 March, 2010 (01:00) | Geek Bytes | By: Rmeister0

  • More iPad news, natch
  • Valve makes Mac gamers very happy
  • Microsoft does games integration like nobody else
  • Microsoft Courier vaporware continues
  • Ubisoft’s DRM PR nightmare
  • Is Internet access a fundamental right?
 

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Geek Bytes 6: 3/2/2010

2 March, 2010 (01:00) | Geek Bytes | By: Rmeister0

  • Alice in Wonderland and Miyazaki Madness in video
  • More magazines coming to iPad
  • No upgrades to Windows Phone 7 Series
  • Google and Microsoft fling mud at each other
  • Newspapers are dead, they just haven’t fallen down yet.
  • Apple “admits” to child labor, but not what the headlines imply.
 

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Geek Bytes 5: 2/25/2010

25 February, 2010 (01:00) | Geek Bytes | By: Rmeister0

  • Apple gets lots of good news for Steve Job’s 55th birthday
  • Yahoo gets into the Twitter game
  • EU says Google is next, mystery hacker says Intel next
  • The rickroll may finally be no more.
  • Subversion for Photoshop.
 

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Episode 47 – Censor? I Hardly Know Her!

24 February, 2010 (20:23) | Episodes | By: MikeTown

This week, the crew talks about:

Geek Peeks:

Promo: Geek Survival Guide

 

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A pop quiz

24 February, 2010 (11:16) | Uncategorized | By: Rmeister0

Guess when this was written:

 Webbed in a continental data-net that year by year draws tighter as more and still more information is fed to it, most people are apathetic, frightened, resigned to what ultimately will be a total abolition of individual privacy. A whole new reason has been invented for paranoia: it is beyond doubt – whoever you are! – that someone, somewhere, knows something about you that you wanted kept a secret…and you stand no chance of learning what it is.”

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Geek Bytes 4: 2/23/2010

22 February, 2010 (20:35) | Geek Bytes | By: Rmeister0

  • New video releases, now with more Ron Jeremy!
  • Wal-Mart buys Vudu
  • Twitterers Tweet 50 million a day
  • Applying for college? Get out the video camera
  • John Carmack gets UberGeek award
 

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Geek Bytes 3: 2/18/2010

17 February, 2010 (22:22) | Geek Bytes | By: Rmeister0

  • Toy Story 3 Game, Starcraft 2, Sucky DRM and on-line game server shutdowns
  • Metro 2033 will have more game features you can’t use yet.
  • Google allows you to delete Buzz profiles as EPIC complains to FTC
  • Please Rob Me
  • Diff utility for Photoshop files
  • Verizon will permit Skype VOIP calls on 3G
  • Facebook Zero ready for mobile web browsing, no carriers support it yet
 

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Episode 45 – Something’s Missing…

16 February, 2010 (08:47) | Episodes | By: MikeTown

Here it is Peeps, the rescued / remastered episode 45!

In this episode, we talk about the Apple iPad, and this year’s Oscar nominations.  Enjoy!

 

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Geek Bytes 2: 2/16/2010

15 February, 2010 (18:16) | Geek Bytes | By: Rmeister0

  • New video releases
  • Avatar > $2 billion. Nothing more to say.
  • Windows Phone 7 Series proves Microsoft can’t name a product.
  • Google is a buzz-kill.
  • Apple’s iBookStore a walled garden in a walled garden.
  • Fisher Price iXL
  • Computer Software Engineer Barbie
 

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Episode 46 – Blame It On The Dice

10 February, 2010 (19:45) | Episodes | By: MikeTown

Yes, this is Episode 46.  No, you’re not missing one.  Issues with 45 dictate a ton of more work, so we’re releasing it when it’s done.

So, with Mike and Melissa left to their own devices, the CONvergence 2009 random conversation generator is employed!  The result:

  • Mike’s Homebrew Projects
  • Learning to Appreciate non-Macrobrews
  • Electronic Stories
  • Mike does a bad James Kirk impression
  • Minor Health issues
  • General mayhem all around

Links referenced in this episode:

Drink: A Social History of America

Maurice LaMarche on ‘How to Talk Like William Shatner’

 

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