14 Sep
Posted by: Michael in: Wacky Geeks PodCast
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Apple - New iPod touches a nerve
iPod Touch - Gallery
iTunes - iTunes ‘Genius’ feature is pure genius
New Zune - Microsoft Tries To Upstage Apple
Zune 2 - Features
Microsoft - Seinfeld’s First Microsoft Commercial: Not Funny
Alternate Ending
2nd Commercial
Apple - iPod Touch Commercial
Apple - iPod Nano Commercial
Apple - $200 off the iphone after 2 months of being released
RIAA - Suing and winning
NBC, USA - Pull video from iTunes
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Leo Laporte wants Podcasts to be renamed to Netcasts
Sony issues global li-ion battery recall - Sony has finally bitten the bullet and issued a worldwide recall of all Sony-manufactured lithium-ion batteries used in notebook computers.
Lenovo & IBM issue battery recall
So does Toshiba
Laptop fire at LAX involving a IBM laptop
October 3rd Declared “Day Against DRM” Defeating [...]
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Dell recalls 4 million laptop batteries
Apple Recalls 1.8 million batteries
Sony says they aren’t affected by battery recalls
This video shows otherwise
iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM Cracked - luaine writes with an Engadget article claiming the cracking of iTunes v6 FairPlay? DRM. From the article: “[A] new app called QTFairUse6? looks like it can now be used (with [...]
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Microsoft wants access to your private information - Microsoft and other tech companies are currently pushing bills in various U.S. states that would allow them and others complete access to all data on a private computer and to all Internet traffic in and out of it in the name of providing better privacy.
For Sale - [...]
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Apple, Jabra agree on wireless iPod transceiver - Taiwanese newspaper China Times reports that prominent wireless headset maker Jabra has reached an agreement with Apple Computer to develop a new Bluetooth wireless attachment for the iPod. The attachment will be a transceiver, capable of transmitting data & music back and forth with other devices, such [...]
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Podcasting Killed the Radio Star - Podcasting will soon break out of the “pod” and onto the public airwaves.
Google GDrive is not a rumor - An interesting article by Greg Lindon points to some slide comments from Google’s Analyst Day Power Point presentation last week. The presentation was removed from Google’s website but the text [...]
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:: Interviews : Digging Distributed Journalism: Digg.com - It used to be that the visionaries sat down and predicted the next revolution before it happened. That’s old school. Now, the revolution happens as the visionaries are dreaming it up. Take for example distributed journalism, the phrase coined by Dan Gillmor. As media visionary [...]
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Music labels losing sales over DRM - It’s not news that consumers hate DRM, especially the kind that keeps Little Johnny from ripping that Velvet Revolver disc to his iPod on Christmas morning. What is interesting, though, is how little the major record labels care. As reported a few weeks back, Thomas Hesse, President of [...]
19 Nov
Posted by: Michael in: Wacky Geeks PodCast
Code Name: Episode 1c Password Security – We are sorry that the show is so short but this show is the second take of the show. I used Audacity to record the show and it crashed in the middle of recording, so I tried to us the recovery tools and that failed. So we just [...]
Nintendo sails, Microsoft trails, Sony ails.
“May the joyful sound of music always be a part of your holidays.” Indeed. Too bad we are still required to pay copyright fees if we want to sing Christmas carols.