December 2007 Archives

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DIY Diamond Thermal Compound
Is what this site is doing Legal

Show Notes:
More Leopard Issues
Marc Orchant
Marc Orchant blog post
Geothermal Easier to get to?
PayPhones RIP
Fame and Money Online not that easy!
Dinasour Mummy Found
Quicktime Vulnerability in Wild
QuickTime Flaw and Second Life
DiggFilter!
MP3 Format Gaining Speed
$999.00 Complete DNA Test
Cheap 2 Port HDMI Switch
Matt Cutts on PayPerPost
Apple Concept Flashlight
Yes the Audience is Online and you can reach them!
LiveJounal Sale Article 1
LiveJournal Sale Article 2
LiveJournal Sale Article 3
Who clicks on Ads Articles Slam Some Women
PayPal Store Widget
IRC Spy Engine DeadPool
Truth in Advertising on Magazine Subscription Inserts
Shuttle ready to go to ISS
Astronauts at the Cape
Young Girls win prestigious Science Contest
FCC wants to Cap Cable Growth
MP3 Blogs Fly Under RIAA radar

Gems I Found:
Cover Up?
Missing for 5 Years just shows up?
Cheapest Family in America
Comcast and TimeWarner not playing in 700mhz Auction
RIAA Copyright Angle Rejected

Join us for the Christmas Round Table on TechPodcasts.com this Saturday. Looking for a camerman for CES let me know if you are Interested.

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Couch Surfing in Maui
Very Cool Bendable Lights
Mike's Site www.newscastlive.com/
MPAA Software Violation

Show Notes:
Asa Smacks IE8 Team
MRI Lie Detector
Open Wifi must Spy
Facebook Messages complete in Email :)
New State of Matter
Extended Warranties Poll
Microsoft XP and OLPC Laptops
Chinese Lunar Images a Fake?
Nikon D3 Pictures!
Third Party SMS & MMS for iPhone
Ring Bell when you get a Hit :(
Gamespot Debacle
Technorati RIP?
Understanding OpenID
Google Shared items in Google Reader
Amazon Kindle some think Fraud
Apple New Products
AT&T pulls a fast one!
SmugMug Video & Picture Sizes
Facebook Stealing Employees
Patch Tuesday has 7 total patches with 3 Critical
Shuttle Launch Delayed
Google Charts
Big Telco wants to Spy on You
Netflix in Trouble with USPS
Website Editor Bounty on Name of Writer
Nielsen Copyright Police
MPAA wants ISP to spy on your Usage
Copyright Penalties go way Up!
Facebook Founder tries to Apologize for Beacon
17 Year Old working for NASA

Gems I Found:
Water Usage
Best Frozen Pizza
The Police know a lot about You
Rent or Buy Some say Rent

I have made the announcement on when I will do the 24 hour Marathon show. Set your calendar it will be Dec 21st

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Radio QRM Podcast
Kodak Easyshare 5300
Dell Color Laser 3110cn
Five Tips to avoid Printing Pitfals
Choosing a compact Inkjet Printer
RSS via Notepad
On the Media
Remember Pearl Harbor
Firestore
Kadoink's phonecast lines

Show Notes:
Nokia and OGG
Busted for Pirating
Photoshop Contest and Winners
Voip on iPod Touch
FCC 210,000 Towers need Generators
Canadian DMCA
NASA Night Shinning Clouds
Wiimots
ArtiGo Mini PC Kit
Some OLPC Shipping
Workaround for Zune 3 Play Rule
Sony OLED unboxing and Breakdown
Amazing Looking HTPC
Voyager 2 #1
Voyager 2 #2
Hidden MP3 Player/Recorder
Dubai Life
Whats a Blog?
Watching Online
Buzz on Marc
Future Safe Archives
Naughty Company Western Digital
Linked in going more Social?
NYT Readership
Media Player Users Beware
Transistor turns 60!!!
NAV 11 for Leopard
UK Wind Turbines
ISP inserting messages on Google Pages
Singing Songs for Charity told to pay up by PRS

Gems I Found:
Lake Mead

I give away three cool products more info in the show notes. Congrats to the winners more prizes to give away through the end of the year!

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Special Give Away on the Show tonight. Big thanks to the sponsor Energizer and Pandora’s new message boards for providing the three Energi to Go portable power for iPod

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Trojan.Bayrob Virus
Symantec
Termination Shock
Good Science Discussion
xPCgear Official Site
iCarta Stereo Dock

Show Notes:
Kindle Swindle
Artic Sea Ice
ISP Privacy
iPhone Video Editing
Google Analytics Updates
MySQL Performance Tips
DivX Pro Free
Bad Astronomy
Drowsy Drivers
Auto-Playlist on Zune
Battleship Mtron
10 Worst Products
Apple Cinema Display New Model Coming
World's data in iPod by 2020?
Kindle DRM Hacked
Bill Gates Snow Globe gotta have one
FeedDemon RC4
Movable Type goes Open Source
Politicans push Google on Privacy
Apple Top Podcasts
Blognation War Continues
10 Worst Gadgets of 2007
DMCA on the Radar
NASA to study of moon Interior
Shuttle Tanking Text
Talkshoe Mention of our 24 Live Podcast
CES Bloggers
Website Liability
Google Solar Power Report

Gems I Found:
Mark Cuban on Taxes
Tatoo
Natural Selection
Shower Floss

Big ramp up for the 24hr show lots of details of the event and I hope that you will join me live for the event. Particpate be heard and lets have a lot of fun.

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Good Podcast Device

Show Notes:
Parallels Upgrade
Telecomm Bill Pulled for now!
YouTube Bubbles
Mileage Running
RIAA versus Grandma
Bye Bye Old Light Bulbs
Hands on with Open Office
Cool Business Cards
Ohio Cracks down on Voting Machines
Ice Chunks that will Kill you
Ice on the Move
Next Gen cool GPS Nav System
Fun with Sprint
SanDisk Photo Album
Digg want's 300 Million
Windows Genuine Advantage making some look like Theives
Vista makes biggest disappointment List
Facebook PHP Tutorial
Good Web design
Surviving the 2008 Recession
Bloglines new Features
Google Knol?
ISS Spacewalk
Deep Impact New Comet Tasking
Super Massive Black Hole shooting Radiation
Do you use PayWall Services?
Microsoft on Ebay

Special Edition of the Geek News Central Podcast recorded during the 24hr Podcast. All the regular great coverage plus the live components which were a lot of fun.

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Interesting Trekkie Podcast
For those of you with Ink Issues with Printers
CSS Selector Test
IE Passes Acid2 Test
Airline Travel Resource
Microsoft vs Google over Office

Show Notes:
Mark Cuban Facebook Strategy
Doug Kaye on real Time Web
Congress finally to equal playing field in Radio
23 iTunes add on's
OLPC Unboxing
Real Blue Man
Deep Impact new mission approved
Compaq and HP Bricking Bug
Stupid guy gets what he deserves
Unix Admin Pleads Guilty on Power Grid Sabotage
Nokia N96 in the wild
Micorchip can detect Tumors
A really good WiFi picture frame
IE8 and Browser Wars
Kent Nichols Ask a Ninja Blog
Digg is DOA
Steal my Content and Pictures Please
Think Secret and the Apple Gestapo
S3 as a end user product
Bet Winner NYT versus Weblogs
FCC Votes to Relax Ownership Rules

Cool Things I found
Six reasons to slow down eating
Fuel Economy and big Cars
Tires with Microchip Sensors
Don't like shoes in the house?

This is the last show of 2007 what an amazing year and you all have been an amazing audience. I look forward to a even more exciting 2008!

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24hrPodcast.com
New PodcasterNews.com Design
Solar Free Loader
Someone is Confused

Show Notes:
Success and Motivation
Companies to Watch
Beam me down some Power Scotty
Moon is Younger that we thought!
Google gets in Hot Water with Reader
3rd Party Apps Install Info for iPhone and iPod Touch
Five things you will Love about Firefox Three
Looking back at 2007
TV to Loose 28% of Audience?
$40K to Fill iPod
Web 2.0 Effects Instructions
Why no Free Audio Hosting?
Walmart Kills Video Download Business
Don't be mad at Call Center Software
Windows Home Server Bug Corrupting Data
Brits torching traffic Cameras
HDMI Switch
Apple and Fox Team Up for Movies
Ten Twitter Lessons
Short URL's
36 Startup Tips
Music Download Wars
Progress at ISS
Clearwire PC Modems
Shuttle Repair will result in Delay

Cool Things I found
Taste of Summer

Video teaser in preparation for the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. I hope you will help me spread the word on the forthcoming coverage of the event.

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