The fast pace of modern Western life doesn’t lend itself to a healthy lifestyle and many of us struggle to keep on top of the weight and exercise regularly, including myself. Careverge can help as a one-stop health and well-being site that brings together fitness, health and support in one place. Careverge’s Henry de Phillips talks to Jamie Davies of the MedicCast and the Nursing Show about what the site can offer.

Careverge’s approach is to create a social networking environment to encourage good health behaviours rather than to simply sell a product or a plan. The site brings networking, gaming and recommendations together so that within only a few moments of starting to use the site, the individual is given personalised suggestions on reading and possible activities. The focus of Careverge is to encourage people to health through fun while providing quality health information and support to reach their goals.

Careverge is free to use for consumers.

Interview by Jamie Davies of the MedicCast and the Nursing Show.

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If you travel a lot for business or go to a lot of conferences the one thing that you are sure to collect are business cards. Everyone you meet will hand you one. The question is what to do with it. You stick it in the back of a wallet or maybe a coat pocket and then forget about it. At home you may have a draw or box that you throw them in. Telling yourself that you will add them your address book as soon as you have time, however that time never seems to come. The problem is how to get the information easily and accurately into your address book. If you have an iPhone 3s or above then the app CardMunch maybe the answer you looking for.

The way CardMunch works is you open up the app on your iPhone line the card up between the four corners on the screen and tap on the screen to take a picture. That picture is then sent to actual humans working through the mechanical turk system who read the information and sends it back to you. At that point you have the option to accept or reject it. If you accept it, it will be added to your CardMunch data base. You can keep it in your CardMunch data base or transfer it to your Apple address book. If you choose to keep it within your data base it will sync with an online account. If you loose your phone you will still have access to the information, which you can then sync it back to your new phone.

CardMunch was $2.99 in the App store and then 25¢ per card after the first ten cards. Then in January 2011 CardMunch was purchased by Linkedin. Now both the app and the service are now free. You can also send request to connect through Linkedin directly from a card on the application. CardMunch is only available for the iPhone The better the picture you take the more accurate the information you get back, which is why the app only works with iPhone 3s and above. If you have a lot of business card and use Linkedin then I recommend trying CardMunch.

LeCroy showed off their high tech tools that only an engineer could love with their new USB 3.0 Protocol Analyzer which allows the engineer to view, analyze, and troubleshoot USB 2.0 and 3.0 devices and device drivers. The analyzer starts at $5,000 but this type of device is really the only thing that allows you to figure out what is happening with your USB device or device driver program.

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Before she retired, my Mom used to be a nurse. She typically would always keep around a few current medical books describing diseases and other books listing prescription drugs and their uses. While these sorts of books can make for rather dry reading, they can also be extremely interesting to thumb through from time to time. They can be particularly useful if you need to look something up.

The need to have printed reference books such as these has been rapidly fading over the past few years. A useful and interesting smartphone app to have installed on your Android phone is called “iTriage.” It contains an extensive list of medical symptoms, diseases, and treatments along with the ability to help find medical treatments and practitioners.

The iTriage app contains an extensive list of diseases and their related symptoms and treatment. Coming at it from the other direction, iTriage also contains an extensive list of symptoms and causes.

Mom may find herself wanting a smartphone.

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People today especially those in business, want information as fast as they can get it, the closer to real time the better. The problem is that more information does not equal more knowledge. People often make the mistake of thinking they have too react to the information as fast as they get it. They often do not take the time to separate what is important from what is not. Many people especially those in business expect immediate answers to questions. If those answers are not available immediately, they become angry and frustrated.

My husband works for a traditional manufacturing company. His company doesn’t make the parts, it makes the material that makes the parts. The core of what his company does hasn’t changed in a hundred years. They melt material and create blocks, tubes, and pipes out of it to be used by someone else. What has changed is the amount and speed of the information that is available to management. This has led to the problem of managers wanting and expecting information at all times whenever they call. They spend their days in front of their computers, watching the numbers go by them. If your department numbers don’t match what is on their screen, then you are the one who gets yelled at. Those departments who are good at manipulating the computer system have a distinct advantage over those who are not. For example one department has their computer system set to show any product that they are working on out of their department and on to the next as soon as they are finished with it. In the computer it looks like the next department has the product, even though it maybe 30 miles away from them sitting in a yard. Any problem with that product is also moved to the next department, even though they haven’t taken possession of the item.

It would be nice if this story was unique to the company my husband works for, but I suspect it is not. This is clearly a case where the technology is way ahead of those who are using it. I believe it may take a new generation that grows up with real time information to understand how to properly use it. What do you think, do you have similar problems at the company you work for and have you found a solution for it.

The Science Museum, London, is celebrating a century of science and as part of the festivities, it asked visitors to vote for the scientific discovery or invention that most “changed the future”.  The ten objects it put forward were:

1. Apollo 10 Capsule
2. DNA Double Helix
3. Electric Telegraph
4. Model T Ford
5. Penicillin
6. Pilot ACE Computer
7. Steam Engine
8. Stephenson’s Rocket
9. V2 Rocket Engine
10. X-ray Machine

And the winner was……the X-ray Machine, beating penicillin and the DNA double helix into 2^nd and 3^rd place respectively.  The discovery of X-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen started a new era of medical diagnosis allowing medics to see inside living people without relying on surgery.  Today, the descendants of these first X-ray machines can almost measure what we think.

Amazingly, the particular X-ray machine shown was developed at home in under a year by Russell Reynolds while he was still at school.  He was assisted by his father, a general practitioner, and another inventor William Crookes.

Although some doctors were quick to pick up on the new invention it wasn’t until the 1920s that X-ray machines were widely used in medicine.

Making The Modern World is a complementary web site containing over a hundred scientific discoveries which helped shape civilisation.  Worth a browse.

What inventions today will have such an impact when we look back from 2109?

As this is my first post to Geek News Central, perhaps I might introduce myself.  My name is Andrew Palmer, and Todd’s asked me to come on-board as one of the new contributors to the website.  I’m delighted to be here and I hope to share some of my thoughts about the world around us.

To give you a bit of background about myself, I live in Belfast in the UK and I work as an ICT project manager in a public sector health and social care organisation.   Think hospitals and health centres.

Prior to that, I worked in the private sector for a number of IT consultancies and software houses.  To up my geek credentials, I coded for many years in C and C++ on Sun Solaris Unix developing power systems analysis software.  Seriously hardcore.

Coming from the other side of the pond, I also hope to bring a British and European perspective to an often US-centric world.  Sometimes the ripples from the US reach here in different and unexpected ways.

Currently, I run OpenSuSE 11.1 Linux at home and Ms Vista at work.  Home is pretty well kitted out with IP devices, including web cams, internet radios, NAS devices, a media server and a proper firewall against the Internet (SmoothWall Express).

Outside of IT, I have a range of interests including motorsport, scuba diving and cinema: I’ll try and bring whatever elements of those that I can to the GNC.

Of course, I will be adhering to Todd’s high standards of disclosure and you can assume that unless stated otherwise, all products or services mentioned will have been purchased or obtained by myself without privilege.

Be seeing you.

Andrew

I’ve been seeing this more and more. You have to upgrade a product – a home (free) edition or something. You press the link and it sends you to a page that talks about upgrading. In fact, everything this page screams is “We don’t have the free version, you must buy an upgrade to continue”.

But if you scan the page, you see on the bottom in small print “No thanks. Register the Free version”.

Another case in point: I was searching for Drivers for a friends computer. I got to the companies webpage and selected what I thought was the driver. Instead, it shuttled me to download a program that would then collect information on my PC and find the right drivers.

It was not malware, but more of Bloatware. And that program wasn’t afraid to do the same thing – ask to install more Bloatware.

This practice is on the verge of misleading. You have to really scan pages to make sure you are selecting the right option.

Case in point #2: There is a great website out there that helps webmasters. We won’t get into the name, because this is not a witch hunt. I will say that when you purchase something on their site, you are taken to a page that looks like you have to press an “OK” button. However, this button is not to OK the purchase, but to add additional services. By scanning down the page, you find the “No thanks – Continue” option stuffed in the bottom part of the page.

In advertising creation, you learn a little trick. When an eye hits an ad, they instinctively start in the middle and work clockwise around the ad. Therefore, you put your “Hook” in the middle and the other items on the sides, including the name of the product.

What these sites have done is made the ad, but then put the “No thanks” in a spot where upon first glance, the eye will miss.

I just bought my ticket for Blogworld / New Media Expo. I used a discount site to purchase the plane ticket and hotel. After making the initial purchase, I was inundated with options I should look at. I suppose it’s so the discount site can offer lower fares. Once again, I had to carefully scan for the “No Thanks” option, although those other buttons looked like they were part of the processing.

Recently, people have been finding extra charges on their credit cards. They went to an online shopping site and chose the great deal of the day. They then pressed a button that looked legitimate to sign up for monthly deals (or something like that). Of course, those deals came with a price.

I really think that the FTC needs to start recognizing these little nuances in websites. It would be like if you went to the grocery store and the clerk started asking “Should I also add in a gallon of milk?” even if you didn’t grab milk.

As for this upgrade – I understand you need to make money off the product, but being sneaky about doing it is only going to make me go somewhere else. Put the “No thanks” in a more visible area. The consumer will buy your product if they don’t feel they are getting swindled.

There are many great things that Google has come out with in the last couple years. I have been all for what they accomplished, even if I don’t use everything. But the last couple ideas haven’t been warmly accepted by the IT populous.We’ll take a look at a few of the ideas, Good, bad and indifferent.

The Good

We’ll start with the one thing that Google has been doing right for years: Search. I remember when it came on the scene – I was pretty much torn between Metacrawler and Dogpile; I was never a Yahoo or MSN search user. Google just seemed to fit better. The later additions like images and news helped out a lot. Add to it the fact the default search on Firefox was Google. Even when i used IE I would switch it over.

Bing is a nice alternative nowadays, although I like the Google vs. Bing site. They do have to think of another name. google-vs-bing is a bit long and if you forget to put in dashes, you will not be on that site.

Gmail: I switched to Gmail a few years ago. I didn’t like the fact that Yahoo was holding my email hostage – even if it was a free service. Hotmail is no different; if I don’t pay the yearly fee, I don’t get to download my mail.

Gmail let me control my mail the way I wanted. It had some great features to connect with others and I really wanted my mail to come through in Thunderbird. Now with the iPhone, it just seems best to stay in the cloud, although i still download to TB for another way to archive.

Toolbar: I have to admit, I haven’t used the toolbar since the newer versions of browsers had the search feature added on the top. Why add another layer? It might just slow down the experience and clutter the screen.

I remember using the highlight tool a lot. Now with Firefox, I just use the highlight add-on. Works pretty well, especially if you are using webpages for reference – highlight the key points.

Maps: This has grown immensely in the last few years. It’s even changed the way I search maps. Satellite view, street view, even hybrid maps have enhanced my use.

I remember when first found out the map could be moved by click-dragging or re-sized by scrolling. I think I played with those features for hours. And yes, I tried to find my house when the Satellite feature first came out.

Labs: This was an impressive feature. No closed beta testing – the ability to put something out in public without giving to everyone. I could then use the “soon to be” features at my discretion.

Analytics: What can I say? I need help with my websites. Being able to have someone help me understand where problems lie is key. Having it come from the place that pretty much wrote the rules on how search is done is even better.

The Bad

SideWiki: Google’s recent choice of SideWiki is not a good one. It takes away from a website. As an administrator, I want comments on my site to be on my site. I don’t have sidewiki setup and I don’t want to confuse people as to where they comment on.

I also don’t like sites that steal my comments. Digg is a good example. While I don’t like Facebook or Twitter stealing comments for tweets, it does promote my brand a lot better with replies on posts.

Chrome Frame: As an IT professional, I hate this idea. It would be like having the Ford dealer put in Ford parts into your Chevy. Once they were done, they cannot really guarantee it’s not going to fail.

If  your company runs IE6 for some reason at this point, they may have legitimate reasons to keep it that way. It’s not that a company doesn’t want you to have the latest version of software. It’s all about how it works with the other programs you have to use.

The Dead Pool: Jaiku, Video, Notebook and Dodgeball were all parts of Google that didn’t work out. However, they sometimes did enhance other areas with the technologies within. Notebook helped with Docs, for example.

Indifferent

Docs: I use Google Docs, but only for simple items. Documents I have to share that are not sensitive, for example. There is a lot of functionality in Office and OpenOffice that Google Docs hasn’t even touched. There are even some quirks in Docs that make it tougher to switch over.

Reader: I guess I just haven’t gotten the gist of this idea yet. I’ve used feed aggregation before, but sometimes I like to “Hunt” for news. When I used newsgator, I found that I was going back to the same items time and time again.

Blogger: I used Blogger when it first came over to Google. I remember that year I decided to give up meat for 40 days (a personal choice, although I did it during the same time as “Lent”). I used Blogger for my personal journal. And yes – this was before “Supersize Me” came out.

I like to control my own brand, though. Therefore, I moved off the platform. I also wasn’t serious about my Blogger profile. It ended up being pushed to the wayside and forgotten until it was removed by the system. I won’t get that data back.

Feedburner: There are a lot of people who live and breathe by this item. I personally don’t use it, although I do have my site up on Feedburner. You never know where a lead will come from.

YouTube: This was a great item, but then they put too many restrictions on the site. I don’t like being told what I can or can’t say or promote. Nonetheless, I know that being on YouTube is a powerful marketing tool. Therefore, certain items go on YouTube, like promoting a new show or item.

Chrome: The browser is an interesting one. It’s got a lot of great features, but as an IT pro, I cannot recommend it for business. It’s like I said with Frame – You may have to control the environment. Chrome doesn’t always give you choices on updates.

Book Search: Of course this is new to a lot of people. I still like the feel of a paperback while I sit in bed just before I fall asleep. I think there are a lot of people out there that are just like me, too. Digital books haven’t really found the happy medium yet – But when that someone comes out with the way to read a book online that is more inviting than the paper copy, the proverbial pendulum will swing.

There are a lot more products out there. It really is interesting how many pots Google has their hands in. It may someday get them in trouble with the FTC or EU, but for now, there are some great free alternatives to items you need to use.

The Pirate Bay is looking for a safe haven and they think the only place that can be done is in a country that they control. In what can only be described as a interesting proposition the notorious Torrent site Pirate Bay is asking for donations to acquire the now infamous Sealand. Sealand is a man made island in international waters off the British coastline. The Sealand story itself is quite bizarre but even more bizarre is Pirates Bay desire to acquire it. Read more at Arstechnica.com

Last year I stayed a extra day in Vegas to just chill out and have done the same this year. The bags are packed and mission control is shut down here in the room. I have a 500 gig hard drive that has 475 gigs of video on it all collected on the show floor at CES that I will need to work through.

When I get back to Honolulu I will start cranking up the encoding machine and will be releasing a pile of video interviews with companies that I thought were innovative. The best part is that 90% of these interviews will be with companies you have likely never heard of along with some interviews from large Fortune 500 companies on products that I found to be real cool.

The value in the getting these out will not be the short tail instant reporting but the long tail exposure these companies will get over the next year. So while I do not have a production staff of 30 I am pretty proud of what has been collected and now will come the task of getting it all pushed out.

Todd…

I have been sifting through a lot of sites and not quite finding what I need, what I am looking for is a high performance external drive to use with my MacBook Pro the current external I am using I am not happy with the performance. If you have a suggestion on a high performance external drive drop me a line. geeknews@gmail.com

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas may you enjoy your time with family and friends and I hope Santa Clause brought you all some cool tech toys.  Todd…

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas may you enjoy your time with family and friends and I hope Santa Clause brought you all some cool tech toys.  Todd…

It seems some Bloggers love to air their own dirty laundry on their blogs. For those that are gossip mongers I am sure that type of material really gets the juices flowing. I must admit that I love industry gossip. But the type of gossip I am looking for is not usually associated with  a deal gone bad or someone getting fired.

Here is some advice, when you have a business deal go bad close the door talk about it, learn from it and move on. When you fire someone do it in private and if a public statement has to be made, be as gracious as possible and leave the dirt off the net. If someone calls looking for a reference then you can say your piece otherwise when I and many others look to do business with you we will likely avoid ya like the plague because loose cannons can cost companies and projects millions of dollars.

One of the companies that has been on my Web Based Evil Empire list has been PayPerPost, yesterday they took the first step to getting off the list. They are now going to require full disclosure on paid blog postings.

They still have one step to go though to get fully off my list. They need to eliminate the option that advertiser require the post be positive. I think any company that is willing to allow a group of bloggers write about their product publicly for pay, should also be willing to take the good with the bad.

Here is one thing I will be doing when I see a blog post for a product or service that falls in the tech category that is a PayPerPost blog post. I am going to do my own unbiased review and see how it compares with the PayPerPost postings. If enough people do this, then PayPerPost and the associated bloggers who inflate posts will be shamed when they cross the line. [TechCrunch.com]

Google has released a new beta of their popular toolbar. It has a couple of new features that allow you to view documents you review online with Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

What’s nice is that you could then save those documents for easy access later.As the net keeps evolving it is small enhancements that can make life a lot more productive. [Google Blog]

It’s nice to know that when people are being deceitful and writing articles on the web and not disclosing that they are getting paid to Blog that there are ramifications to those actions.

If bloggers continue to work for PayPerPost and do not disclose that they are getting paid to blog I hope indeed that Google does strip them of page rank. Thats poetic justice for bloggers that deceive readers. [Jason Calacanis] 

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I saw a couple of post this weekend that talks about the Google Base ads Google is running for Podcasts and went over and checked out what they have cooking.

Being that they do not allow MP3 files to be attached and also considering that Google Base entries are made inactive after 30 days I am not sure what they have planned. For Giggles I posted yesterdays Tech Podcast Round Table, The latest Brrycast and my personal show up on Google Base and we will see if those post grow and legs. I had to link the media as they do not allow uploads of MP3 media. With the 15 meg limit on media anyway it will be pretty tough.

Round Table, Brrycast, Latest GNCP

This year I have been taking inventory of all the stuff I am going to have to hump at CES and I am trying to figure out a way to minimize my load. My HD Video Camera is on the small side in regards to size but it still has a shotgun microphone and a wireless received mounted on it along with an arm for a light I am debating if I should take a mono-pod or a regular tripod. The weight is about the same. Knowing how crowded it is I am leaning towards a mono pod.

For audio interviews I will have a Marantz PMD-660 running in a single microphone configuration. I will have some of those long and narrow reporters notebooks those really proved essential last year as they can go in a back pocket. My thoughts were that I would buy one of those Photographers vest to stash all the batteries, tapes and essentials. Including stashing the audio recorder. I really don’t want to have to carry a camera bag but I don’t think I will want to just have the camcorder hanging on my arm all day.

I have a nice Kata bag now and I see they have some little trolleys that you can use. This would allow me to roll the camera around pull it when needed to just keep from killing myself. If you have any ideas on how to minimize the wear and tear would love to here it.

NASA was able to get the ISS in a higher altitude after a malfunction last week, setting the stage for the ISS to be in the correct orbit for the Space Shuttle arrival. [SpaceToday]

Someone with obviously way to much time on their hands put together what I would consider the most comprehensive mathematical probability post on how Google determines a website page rank. If your good at math and want to spend some time going over the article be prepared with a couple of cans of RedBull as the author gets pretty deep in his examination of Google Pagerank. [www.ams.org]

I have been watching the evolution of commercial satellite pictures for a while and the quality keeps improving At the same time I wonder how much of that data is being used by those that wish to inflict bodily harm upon others.The question to be asked is how much further these companies are going to go in increasing the resolution.

I can only imagine that various governments of the world are worried about it as well. Are these commercial satellite companies aiding the enemy? Is there not oversight from the respective governments in the countries that these companies operate in.

Today I was surprised to find out that there is now ways for people to commercially access newly updated images that have been shot and indexed. I love Google Maps and the satellite function but I wonder if those cool services are not going to come back and haunt us one day. [miravi.eo.esa.int]

Received a e-mail tonight that Jamie and Shaula are the winners of the copies of Dragon Naturally Speaking e-mails sent off to both of them. Thanks for everyones participation.

Want to track the number of views of Videos you upload to YouTube try [TubeMogul].

I am not sure what the deal is with the Gillmor Gang but here you have Steve now apparently withholding a portion of the last show and now according to Calacanis he is not going to release the final show.

But it appears that someone else was recording the show as well and it appears that it will be released as a Bootleg copy. I am sure this will be a interesting listen thats for sure.

The only thing I can think of is that they are going to be some thing said about people in the space that probably better be left unsaid but I am just guessing. We will see when the bootleg copy is put on the street. I bet that one gets a lot of listens. One thing for sure we will not have to listen to it cut up into all of those ridiculous segments. [Jason Calacanis]

Seeing the buzz around this I am pretty sure that the rumors are true then indeed this is a pretty amazing turn of events. The question to be asked is what’s next Jason? I know that he is doing a podcast over on Podtech and that makes me wonder if he is going to get more heavily involved in that space or will he try something else.

But regardless what he does, whether it be a new startup, lead another company or just take some time off I am sure that he will continue to be a major force in the new media online space. [TechCrunch]