This week, the crew talks about their geek plans for 2010.

Links:

• Project 365
• The Twin Cities Develpoer’s Guild
• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
• The Adventures of Indiana Jim

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Here it is, our annual look at what we think are the winners and losers of 2009, along with a brief nod to the late Douglas Adams.

See you all next year!

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This episode, the crew talks about:

• Movie, video and game releases
• Sony Reader goes ePub December 11
• Barnes and Noble Nook units starting to ship
• Apple buys Lala
• Dell creates new division for mobile phones and portable devices
• Google Chrome beta for Mac and Linux released
• Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights for the uber-wealthy in 2011 (Waiting for regulatory approvals and building spaceport in New Mexico.)
• FCC admits CableCard failed. Why? Since 2004, only 14 3rd party devices available, and generally are a pain to setup.
• Apple does it again: new MacPro has 2TB hard drive option for $350, get ‘em from NewEgg for < $200
• Verizon raised early termination fees up to $350 in some bases, FCC now asking them about it and how customers are notified about it
• Comcast of Borg wants to buy NBC Universal in deal with GE, will own 51%. FCC, FTC, Justice Dept staff see another 2 years guaranteed jobs.
• Handbrake updated, supposedly faster compression with smaller file

Promo played: Geek Radio Daily

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This week, the crew talks about:

• Video releases
• Game releases
• Rumor, WalMart selling Magnavox profile 1.1 BD player on Black Friday for $78, Sony & Samsung profile 2 models for $148
• But Roku delivers more smackdown: rolling out update adding new content channels Pandora, Facebook Photos, Revision3, Mediafly, TWiT, blip.tv, Flickr, FrameChannel, Motionbox and MobileTribe.
• Rogue Amoeba publically leaves iPhone App store over frustration with approval process (follows Justin Williams after Google Voice rejection). Devs went back to Mac development where speed bumps to sales don’t exist.
• Public betas for Office 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 are now public and on MSDN/Technet.
• Woops! Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (all versions) have a flaw in SMB File Sharing. Attack can cause target computer to lock up. No patch yet available.
• Woops! Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 have a remote code execution vulnerability. IE 8 is not affected. Time to update if you haven’t already.
• Microsoft publically released SDK for Surface, $10,000 table not included
• Windows 8 rumored for release in 2012. 3 years, no duh. Perhaps they’ll make it this time.
• Square Trade annual laptop repair survey: Asus had fewest repairs in 2 and 3 years, followed by Toshiba and Sony. Apple came fourth. HP was dead last, just after Gateway/Acer. HP failure rate over 3 years: 25%. Netbooks more likely to fail by 20%. (link)
• More Drobo: Drobo S adds a fifth drive bay and can withstand 2 drive failures, adds eSATA support. $799 with no drives.
• Makes sense: Sergey Brin says Android and Chrome OS will likely converge over time. Don’t suppose you could…plan that or show a road map?
• AdMob claims that 75% of web traffic on web sites comes from iPhone and Android.
• Large Hadron Collider operations, “We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!”, and we’re still here to talk about it.
• Anniversary of Origin of the Species and Lucy.
• Opinion: Apple can’t have it both ways
• Geek Peeks:
  • Richard: Left 4 Dead 2
  • Mike: Mandelbulb (link)

Promo: The Leviathan Chronicles

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This episode, Mike and Paul talk about:

• In case you haven’t heard yet, There’s Water On The Moon! (link)
• NASA trying a radical, unorthodox manoever to get the Spirit rover unstuck from the patch of sand it’s in: Backing up (link)
• What Happens When You Bring a 22-Year-Old Mac to the Genius Bar? (link)
• Oh yeah, YouTube went to 1080p video (link)
• I’ll believe it when I see it – The reality of flying cars (link)
• Mike’s Geek Peek: The Feynman lectures on Project Tuva (link)

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This week, the crew talks about:

• Video Releases
• Game Releases
• News Shout outs:
  • Paranormal Activity spiked to #1 box office this past weekend.
  • Fortunately, Saw VI opened at #2
  • You gotta be kidding: Wal-Mart will do their own ‘Geek Squad’ styled home installation service.
  • Amazon will bring Kindle reading app to Windows and OS X
  • Andy Ihnatko sez Apple tablet could do digital comic books, and talks about Longbox (link)
  • Apple BootCamp does not support Windows 7 yet, Apple says by end of year
  • Apple’s Phil Shiller sez you can go shopping now: holiday product lineup is set.
  • WTF? Burger King in Japan selling a Windows 7 Whopper with seven slabs of beef(!) thankfully one week only.
  • Microsoft first quarter numbers: revenue down 14%, but still beat expectations, still made $3.5 billion. XBox 360 & Zune division doubled profit on same revenue.
  • Director of Programming for XBox Live says no Blu-Ray drive for XBox, Ballmer says future is on-demand, not physical media. Damn it.
  • Microsoft was going to sponsor entire episode of Family Guy, but not anymore.
  • The free ride’s over: News Corp executives keep saying that Hulu’s ad-supported model isn’t working, may start charging as soon as 2010.
  • PlayStation 3 to get NetFlix streaming sometime in November. Users must have a special blu-ray disc that uses BD-Live to stream content.
  • Champions Online will be free to download and play from Oct 30 – Nov 2.
  • GameFly (rent by mail service) now has iPhone app to manage your account and queue.
  • Now your iPhone is Doomed – John Carmack of id Software claims “Doom Classic” submitted to App store.
  • Someone is finally trying it! Microsoft Store in Scottsdale AZ has kiosks to burn games in-store (link)
  • Roger Daltrey claims The Who is joining the Rock Band Wagon.
  • Ars Technica seize: B&N Nook runs on top of Android.
  • Google Wave is still in “dev preview”, and already they’re talking about an “App Store” for extensions to the service. WTF?
  • Fasten your seat belts. FCC drafting net neutrality rules; McCain proposing “Internet Freedom Act of 2009″ specifically to prevent the FCC from implementing them.
• Cool thing of the week:
  • VScan – ultrasound scanner with the form factor of a clamshell phone. (link)

Promos Played:

• 7th Son: Descent
• The Geologic Podcast

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Okay, these are gonna be some lazy show notes, as I’m here at work – MT

This week, the crew talks about:

• Video releases
• Game releases
• Movies
• Apple’s new kit
• Computing news
• Tech news
• Gaming news
• Science! news

Promos played:

• 7th Son: Descent
• Movie Mantras

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Oh noes! The Fools! You get a shorter Geek Life this week, as Mike and Paul left me on my own…so you get 15 minutes of me talking to myself. And you.

Some highlights:

• Toys ‘r Us has buy 2 get 1 free deal until October 17. (link)
• New Toy Story 3 trailer is up! (link)
• The Big Download tells you What PC Gamers Need to Know about Windows 7. (link)
• The cloud fails…again…and lessons learned
• But crappy passwords are also still a problem. Lessons learned. (link)
• Software Patents are Rotten Story #4,826,021

Our usual post production tools weren’t available to me, so…enjoy anyway.

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In this episode, the crew talks about:

• Videos!
• Movies!
• Games!
• News Shoutouts
• Microsoft retail stores – Are we comparing them to the wrong thing?
• Intel’s app store for Moblin is up (link)
• iRex DR 800SG ebook reader
• Courier: What is it? (link)
• It’s Official: Morons ruin it for the rest of us. (link)

Promo: Sessions With Slau

Also, in case you need a reference for the title: You can check out the video.

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This week, Richard talks about:

• Video Releases
• Microsoft XBox Rebate
• This is a game changer
• Google’s changing the browser game. Again (link)
• Microsoft Office for Mac changes
• BeOS Lives! (link)
• Apple gives Grand Central Dispatch to open source
• Intel launches development program for Netbooks
• AMD to release AM3 6-core processors next year, but compatible with AM3 and AM2+ motherboards.
• Days of not using anti-virus on Windows are over.
• MySpace adds sync with Twitter

Note: For some reason, the web player below is playing Episode 26, even though it’s not supposed to.  I’m looking into it.  In the mean time, iTunes, the RSS feed and the ‘Download’ link all work the way they’re supposed to, and *clicking on the post title, so only this post is displayed* will get the web player to behave properly.

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