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GNC-2012-01-27 #737 Shame on Hawaii Legislature!

Posted by geeknews at 12:44 AM on January 27, 2012

Going to be implementing some Studio upgrades in the next couple of weeks should be fun. I go after a couple of my state legislatures pretty hard tonight on two idiotic bills that they introduced. Also hope I was not to punchy on the last show notes. I am feeling much better by the way and although the voice is not a 100% I feel a 100% better.

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Investigating Google New Privacy Policy?
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FBI wants to index Social Sites!
Google Privacy Policy and Business / Gov’t!
Google the Drug Dealer.
Samsung Profits.
Apple TV 1.4 Million more units sold.
Netflix + 800 Devices = Wow
Happy B-Day Firefox.
Spectrum Wars.
Symantech Warning.
Traffic Spike on File Lockers.
1 In Jail – 2 on Bail.
FBI Sued?
Twitter Censors!
Mackie iPad Mixer.
Super Wi-Fi!
Google Earth Update!
TechMeme.com Update
Data Storage at Google!
P2P Victory!
Space Water.
Progress Departs ISS.
Our Home!
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My kind of Charger.
Press Freedom Ranking.
Railroad Crossing Controls Safe.
Xbox 720 Rumors.
Polish ACTA Protest.
Xbox Gold Discount.
UK Signs ACTA.
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GNC-2012-01-02 #734 Happy New Year

Posted by geeknews at 12:12 AM on January 3, 2012

Happy New Years everyone. I am really pumped up for an exciting 2012. Have you made your New Year Resolution? I made a few now the goal is to try and keep them. Several real nice support staff donations came in, thank you for your support. Lot’s of tech tonight.

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Awesome US Map.
CES App for Android.
PostSecret Pulls App.
Spanish SOPA Worse.
No Surfing in Belarus.
Apple Media Event.
An Apple TV Jailbroke running iOS Apps.
European Super Volcano?
Lyn Mac Photo Manager.
WordPress plugin makes your site Torrent Tracker.
InSync.
Ohio Fracking Halted.
Nuclear Option.
Second Moons of Earths.
Pharma Wars.
1-4 Meteor Shower.
Chrome @ 20%.
Verizon backs down.
Sir Jonathan Ive.
Commodore 64 @ 30.
ASUS under Pressure.
Course Kit gets 5 Million.
Google Election Site.
Your Kidding.
Change for a million please.
Verizon Unlimited Data.
Steve Jobs Action Figure (Weird).
New Years Ball.
Kindle Free option not Good.
Nest Real World Review.
LG TV Details.
Stanford Apple Archives.
WP7 Phone Unlocker Pulled.
Two in Orbit around Moon.
LightSquared gets Reprieve.
iDevices in 2012.
12 Smartgrid Startups.
Favorite Apps.
Split a Bill App.

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GNC-2011-12-15 #729 Task Saturation @ 195%

Posted by geeknews at 1:35 AM on December 16, 2011

Things have been busy here in a good way. I have been pulling some 19 hour days. Hopefully by Sunday things are going to cool off just a bit and I can enjoy the holidays. I hope you will stay tuned in through the Christmas break as I will be cranking out shows throughout the holiday period. We introduce a new sponsor to the show tonight details below… I talk about GoDaddy.com coming on board as out CES 2012 Official Media Sponsor and the Special Offer!

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iPad2 Power Discovery!
IE6 to Be Auto updated to Extinction
Cell Phone Ban?
Comet 1 – Sun 0
Google TV Thoughts.
Solar Panel Breakthrough.
Google Drive Patent.
UMG has to Answer up to Judge.
Apple TV Update.
Slingplayer for Google TV.
Roku iPhone Remote.
Dell kills Netbooks.
Harpoon a Comet.
NASA Space Taxi Service.
SpaceX ready for ISS Docking.
P2P fines in Finland.
Wiley goes after P2P Users.
Save Space with the Tea Pot (Gizmo)
Facebook Logs Everything!
CEA Update.
Pogoplug Version 4.
Amazing Scams.
Lawyer to Lobbyist = Payoff.
Intel goes to Battle Stations.
Higs Boson?
Black Hole to get Fed!
Supernova Captured.
LG Launching Wireless HDMI.
P2P by French President?
CarrierIQ and FTC meet.
Visa Breach.
Million Kindles a Week.
Elitist.
Blogging Platform Reliability.
No More Apps.
Data Center Facts.
Skiers Heads Up!

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GNC-2011-10-13 #713 Yahoo Scam!

Posted by geeknews at 1:58 AM on October 14, 2011

Yahoo gets caught up in a you scratch my back and I will scratch yours deal with TechCrunch, when will they ever learn. Lots of content to share tonight as always and some important announcements at the beginning. If show notes are a mess blame Langley and Tom as I was chatting with them in the chat room while doing the show notes.

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Ice Cream Sandwich Arrives at Google.
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Steve Jobs Tribute.
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Woz First in Line.
A great Woz Interview.
Apple Stores Slammed.
iOS 5 Issues.
iPhone 4s Tear Down.
Internet Privacy Hearings.
Apple TV Update.
Sony Security.
iCloud Movie Server.
4G Providers to be held to Task.
PhotoStream in iCloud.
Hulu Not For Sale.
Google Earnings Call.
Sprint iPhone 4S Unlocking?
Rim RIP?
RIM Apology.
FCC Questions AT&T!
BitTorrent in Devices Scorned.
Legal Pass on Copyright Infringement.
IE9 Mobile.
Roku $49.00
Pay TV Disruption?
ARM Wins.
Getty Trademark Infringement?
Brazilian Media Says Save Us.
ACTA Viability Questioned.
ReShipping Scam.
Facebook says your data Intellectual Property.
Verisign changes Mind.
Soyuz Rocket Safe.
Google Android Translator.
Drinking the Koolaid.
LightSquared Demo’s Fix.
Stuxnet changes Industry.
Gmail Mail Deleted.
Netflix missing the mark?
Windows 7 Market Share.
Linking Google+ and YouTube.
Yahoo looses their minds.
Extra Time Off.
Macbook Pro Refresh.
Wills in Passwords.
Mobile Data Doubles.
24 Billion Devices.
MeFeedia new App.
KickStarter hits a Million People.
Ice Cream Sandwich
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News Stand iOS 5 Hack.
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$49 Roku Might Be the Golden Ticket for Cord Cutters

Posted by Jeffrey Powers at 8:17 AM on October 11, 2011
Roku LT

Roku LT

This morning, Roku announced a $49 model of their popular Over the Top TV solution. The Roku LT is a very slimmed down version of the box. It does up to 720p video (which most content providers are creating content for), and while you cannot play Angry Birds or have a USB and Ethernet port (it’s a WiFi device, too) like the $99 model, it does have all the other functionality of this popular internet appliance.

Roku has been growing, adding many new channels including EPiX, which has been convincing people to cut the cord, as GigaOM discusses. Roku also added HBO Go – which is a On Demand service offered by HBO. You still need to order a cable package to get the OTT channel.

There are other great channels on Roku that do not require a cable connection, such as the TechPodcasts channel and Blubrry. You also have the Netflix, HuluPlus, Revision3, KoldKast, Glenn Beck, NHL, Fox News and many other channels.

The LT also undercuts the Apple TV by $50. Roku was already the lowest priced box, with a $59 and $79 version of the box. But this new magic price point turns the OTT box into a “great gift”. With the holidays fast approaching, this might be the hot item.

So with this news, will you finally be purchasing a Roku? Let us know!

GNC #701 Back to Business

Posted by geeknews at 1:29 AM on September 2, 2011

Back to business on show 701. I am excited about our Saturday Morning Tech we will have a number of our bloggers on to talk tech, so be sure to join me Saturday morning at 9am PST.

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Sicko Goes to Jail.
LoJack to get Sued?
Buzz Out Loud scales back.
Lion Enhanced Apps.
Final Cut Studio Back on Sale?
FT says no way to Apple Extortion.
Linux Kernel Server Hacked.
Conflict of Interest?
Tweet Button Value?
Netflix looses Starz – Netflix Yawns.
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BlogFrog for OhanaNews.com?
Waffle House Hurricane Factor?
Hubble Time Lapse Movies.
Hotfile has to give up Users.
BitTorrent TV?
Will an Apple TV Happen?
Cool RC Plane Video.
China Hackers Revealed.
Parallels 7 for Lion.
Google Calendar Time Zone Mayhem.
Ford Evos
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Tom Tom GPS Update.
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Nexus S in Space?
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GNC-2011-03-11 #654 Tsunami Inbound!

Posted by geeknews at 1:39 AM on March 11, 2011

The massive earthquake hits Japan just as I start my show, we are under a Tsunami Warning here in Hawaii with first strike due at 3am local. Based on what has happened in Japan it could be bad. The Ohana watching the show live were feeding me information, kinda weird to talk about a live event in which I knew most of you would be listening post show. Needless to say lots of tech to talk about tonight as well.

Note: My home is 1000 feet above sea level we are safe.

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Drupal
Jobs digging on Samsung.
Clearwire Class Action Suit.
Planet Protection Officer.
Apple Purchase Policy.
AOL Fires 900.
NYT Editors call us Pirates.
Instapaper 3.0
iPhone App Identifies Bills.
Rover Model.
New Way of Watching TV.
Hide Search Results.
Brain CFL Light.
Customized Figurine.
Disk Storage History.
SuperMoon Joke.
Star Shockwave.
Solar Flare.
Aliens will comes as Machines.
Voyager up to new Tricks!
Near Earth Asteroid.
Mercury Images.
Limewire Settles?
Pirate Roundup.
P2P Uploader Arrested.
iPad Garageband Review.
Flat Scissors.
Sleep Phase Alarm.
See through Hard Drive.
Sheen Using Social Media to make Cash!
Apple TV Live Programming.
Branded Entertainment Spending.
Sand Prices Drop.
New Zealand Interactive Disaster Map.
Ink for all my Friends.
Clearwire CEO Quits.
FCC to Arrest Cell Phone Jammers.
ISS is Complete?
Sony 3G Camera.
Control-Alt-Delete Origin.
New Fuel Advances.
VMware App.
Winamp for Android.
iOS 4.3 Sync Issues?
Motorola Xoom Mod.

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Tech Serendipity

Posted by tomwiles at 8:07 PM on October 19, 2010

Sometimes things no one ever thought of simply seem to come together. Services and devices end up being used to do things the individual inventors and designers couldn’t have imagined.

For some time now, I’ve been thinking about attaching one of the new Mac Minis to one of my TV’s and utilizing it as a home theater PC as well as an over-the-air DVR to record high definition digital broadcasts from the local TV stations. A late Sunday afternoon trip to my local Best Buy and a Mac Mini was mine.

I sat the Mac Mini up with Eye TV and a USB HD tuner attached to my outdoor antenna. Depending on how I have the antenna rotated, I can receive upwards of 17 or more HD and digital broadcast channels. Of course, keep in mind that the Mini is on my home network, so I’ve got complete remote access in a number of different ways.

The Eye TV 3.4.1 software has easy iPhone/iPod/iPad/Apple TV file conversion, so I’m easily able to convert the files to the format of my choice.

A thought popped into my head. What if I converted the files to the iPhone format and put them into my Dropbox? I also have the Dropbox app for Android installed on my Sprint HTC Evo phone. Since I have an 8 gigabyte SD card installed with the possibility of going all the way up to a 32 gigabyte card if I wish, could I synch the exported iPhone files from my Dropbox on the computer to Dropbox on my phone?

To my surprise, I don’t even have to synch the exported iPhone videos to my phone – once they are synched to the Dropbox server, all I have to do is open the file from Dropbox on my phone and the file immediately starts streaming. If I’ve got a decent 3G Sprint cell signal, the video plays perfectly without a glitch.

So, I’m taking multiple different technologies, and using them in a way no single inventor or designer ever envisioned. I can record local TV programming from home, export it as an iPhone format file into my Dropbox folder, and stream the files to my phone. Pretty phenomenal stuff if you ask me.

For sure, there are other ways to accomplish the same end result, particularly if one has adequate bandwidth. For situations where bandwidth is limited and more variable, this solution works surprisingly well.

GNC-2010-10-18 #619 BlogWorld Recovery Show

Posted by geeknews at 7:55 PM on October 18, 2010

I am still recovering from Vegas and BlogWorld. A lot was accomplished in the 5 days I was in Vegas. I share some of that along with a pile of tech news and information. Two shows from Texas and then back to Honolulu for two shows.

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Verizon Data Plans.
Who has the most expensive cell service.
Hypermac Cease and Desist.
Kylo Media Center Browser.
Convert Videos for Apple TV.
Apple iPad Ad Dominance.
Torrent Sites down due to DOS attack.
Sirius XM Sat Launched.
Hubble catches Asteroid Collision.
Ozzie Quits.
Apple TV 250k units sold.
Apple has a few more Announcements.
Paul on BlogWorld.
Super User Collusion.
Verizon iPhone Update.
Wall Street Journal Fear Mongering.
iPV4 IP’s almost out.
Cool Band Promo with iPhones.
Courteous Thief.
NASA Admin heads to China.
Space Station Life.
Zombie Sat still Rogue.
1 Billion Year old Aliens.
Android Google Voice Updated.
Android Sat App.
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GNC-2010-10-12 #618 Headed to Vegas for BlogWorld

Posted by geeknews at 1:15 AM on October 12, 2010

The Tricaster Studio is headed for a new home at SDRNews.com and I expect the Tricaster TCXD 850 to be delivered in the near future. With my upcoming road trip, I will be remote most of the time anyway so small impact. I head out to Vegas tonight on the Red Eye and will be their through Monday morning. Make sure you come to my session on Saturday at 12:15pm

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Google TV ships in 12 days.
Space Ship Makes first Flight.
Windows Phone 7 handset comparisons.
Windows Phone 7 Apps
Windows App Hub.
Windows Phone 7 Live.
New PogoPlug
Coffee or WiFi.
Re-Transmission Wars.
Apple TV Faults.
Vacations and how we don’t take them.
Three Strikes not so fast.
Comcast 2000 HotSpots.
President signs his Space Vision Budget.
Duck Asteroid Passing.
New ISS Supply Bus almost Ready.
NASA Lays of 800!
Google Car on the Roll.
Yahoo App allows 3g Video Chat.
GM Volt not so Green After All.
Crucial SSD gets Small.
Is that a computer in your Pocket?
Amazing Light Show.
Weight Loss Software App.
FCC Chairman we need more Spectrum!
Japanese Social Loners?
It’s all about who you know!
Apple Trademark “gag”
Apps more Popular than TV?
You Have 10 Seconds!
Journalist Shift to New Media.
Apple smacks the Chinese.
Super Microphone don’t smack your lips.

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