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Geekazine is a Weekly Podcast, a 5 minute show, Live video, and many articles. We highlight and talk about technology and how it affects you. Truely for the Geek in all of us.
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Day in Tech History Dec 23 – Santa Found via Google Earth
2008 – Santa Claus is spotted on Google Earth. Of course the story of St. Nicholas is an interesting one that doesn’t really involve religion. But now we know where he resides, thanks to Google! Brought to you by Mozy.com. Free 2 GB back...
Podcast Ep 118 – Jam Packed Show Before the Holidays!
Hey guys. We have a lot to cover, including Ugly Sweater Parties – I was on AllthingsGeek – 12 Days to CES we want to know what YOU want to see! Need a new Laptop – 2010 predictions – Broke my HP Data Vault – Hosting n...
5 Tech Things Ep 18 – From the New Geek Bar
This is the first show from the new set called the “Geek Bar”. I’ll be adding more to it as we go – Check out the Geek Bar post for more info. Bing on iPhone Yahoo is loosing out to Bing and Google Toyota Hybrid – Two y...
Podcast Ep 117 – AT&T is Killing my Charter Connection!
AT&T Internet is killing my service and I’m not on AT&T. 24 hour podcast was awesome. 19 Days to CES, we have some great interviews lined up. New Format changes, Basement Geek Bar going well and new Server up and running. Try GoToAssis...
5 Tech Things Ep 18 – La La
I thought it would be a cool idea to do the 5 Tech things outside. After all, there was 17 inches of snow and 5 degrees – not to mention the studio is being re-done. Unfortunately, the mic battery was going and all I g– wa- stat-c for 15 ...
Day in Tech History December 11 – The Concorde
1967 – The Concorde was a British and French venture. It wa the first supersonic airliner. Brought to you by GoDaddy.com - 10% off Hosting with Pod150 – Domains at $7.49 With Podname150 Please add to your favorite aggregator. RSS Feed – i...
Podcast Ep 116 – A Day of Snow, the Truck is back and a sad situation in town
Snow? Where?!? A very sad ending to a very bad week – The Truck looks good, but… – Visual changes and the Video Bar – Win $20. Audible.com – 14 day Gold membership – www.audiblepodcast.com/geekazine 1 month subsc...
Bing! Bang! Bust! In Real Time
The New York TImes reports that Google’s real time search beats out all the others: The new type of results are well-integrated, unobtrusive, diverse in contents and formatted simply. It appears to be a job very well done. It’s hard to be...
Podcast Ep 115 – Podcast Madness Winner
Car is in the shop – Madison Tweetup – 24 hour Podcast – uStream Changes – Podcast Madness – I’m in a book. Audible.com – 14 day Gold membership – www.audiblepodcast.com/geekazine 1 month subscription...
Do We Need Whiter Teeth and a Flatter Stomach That Bad? Why You Might Not Want to Click.
AdBlade Ads I have seen these ads for a while on websites. Some are on the side panels, others are pop ups (like this one). Selecting the ad will take you to a website that looks like it’s someone’s personal blog. But the real question is...
DITH Nov 27 – Dreamcast Launches
Brought to you by GoDaddy.com - 10% off Hosting with Pod150 – Domains at $7.49 With Podname150 Please add to your favorite aggregator. RSS Feed – iTunes – Stitcher – TechPodcasts Sega launches Dreamcast in Japan Google Maps Terrain V...
Podcast Ep 114 – Smoking by my Macbook
Zombie car is still waiting for fixin. CES lookin good and we might have a great opportunity. Drupal site is started – looking good. Dec 2nd Tweetup in Madison area. Audible.com – 14 day Gold membership – www.audiblepodcast.com/g...
5 Tech Things – Ep 16 – The Cats are iphone bound
Sponsor: Brought to you by Audible.com get a 14 day gold membership by going to www.audiblepodcast.com/geekazine Web Warfare NSA and Windows 7 Always been working together Big security risks Take down old websites. Google OS Get rid of the Opera...
DITH Nov 18 – Calvin and Hobbes is Syndicated
1894 – The first Sunday Comics section is printed by the New York World 1985 – 91 years later, Bill Watterson syndicates a comic about a boy and his stuffed Tiger. Calvin and Hobbes will bring laughter to millions for the next ten years. ...
Podcast Ep113 – No Whoppers at Burger King?
Still waiting for the car to get fixed. Cable internet woes this week as I tell you what happened. A lot of video coming out and the switch to Blip.tv. Burger King with no Whoppers! Podcast Madness investors. 48 more days to CES! Audible.com –...
DITH Nov 17 – Jerry Yang Steps down
2008 – After battle upon battle between Microsoft, Google and shareholders (including Carl Icahn), Jerry Yang finally announced to all he was stepping down. The previous days, Yahoo had hit it’s lowest share price, $8. With that, the fail...
Cloud(y) Horizons
I have not concealed my skepticism about “cloud computing.” I see only two reason for sticking my data out there somewhere in the care of who knows who, except for off-site backups and collaborative projects. (For anyone who has investe...
DITH Nov 13 – Google buys YouTube
2006 – In February 2005, 3 former Paypal employees start a website that lets you upload and share your video. YouTube brought a new idea of putting your creations on the internet. However, it cost a lot of money to run. Therefore, Google steppe...
5 Tech Things – Ep 15 – The Clowns are Attacking
Still having some issues, but this week we had an additional issue – the home connection decided to become problematic. I could download, but couldn’t upload files. Therefore, I went to a bar to finish the upload. Yes, I did. Brought to y...
Bing! Bang! Bust! Alpha!
Microsoft is teaming Bing! up with Wolfram Alpha, according to the BBC. Wolfram Alpha aims to answer questions directly, rather than display a list of links like a search engine. The “computational knowledge engine” is the brainchild o...
DITH Nov 11 – Sony suspends CD copy protection
2005 – In an effort to curb piracy, record companies began putting copy protection on the CD’s themselves. The electronic marking would cause CD’s to error out if they tried to copy. Unfortunately this idea was riddled with proble...
Podcast Ep 112 – 11-11-09 – I hit a Deer, but the show must go on
This week, it’s Me vs. a Deer – $4077 bullet involved. Also, the talk about CES is ramping up. More sponsors, more people. Revamp of the sidebar – adding more ways to get the show. iPhone reset. Newest Podcast Madness – Arti...
5 Tech Things – Apple vs. Hulu – Me vs. a Deer
Brought to you by Audible.com – audiblepodcast.com/geekazine for a 14 day Gold membership - New HP DataVault - 1 week on Win 7 Now Faster than I can get . Internet will not cause isolation Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community surve...
DITH Nov 5 – Microsoft Monopoly findings
1999 – It was 10 years ago that we saw Microsoft go through the Department of Justice over monopoly issues. US district Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a 207 page Findings of fact on this day. In it, he ruled that Microsoft did have a mono...
Podcast Ep 111 – I remembered what I was going to say
OK, so this show ran long and I was getting ready to say something about Hulu, but then BAM! totally forgot about it. That never happened before during a show. I was going to talk about my thoughts with Hulu and their pay service. But that will have ...
5 Tech Things – Ep 13 – The bunnies attack on this Halloween
This week we talk about Blogworld and the switch of networks. New Sponsor – 14 Day Gold membership from Audible Windows 7 Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala Droid Motorola – Google Focus on beating Razr sales first Verizon needs to keep mouth...
Podcast Ep 110 – The Best Podcast to Date
Why this will be my best Podcast to date… Videos are coming out like yummy cake donuts. Fatburger. Congrats to Wendy on the Thrill around the World. Windows 7 is sitting on side taunting me. Take the Raw Voice listener survey Audible.com R...
Podcast Ep 109 – Last day in Vegas
Closing Blogworld New Media Expo – Why there was no video – National Listener Survey – Living in HD issues. New Sponsor Day in Tech History Audible.com – 14 day Gold membership – www.audiblepodcast.com/geekazine Try Go...
Bing! Bang! Bust! The Plateau
Reteurs reports that both Twitter and Bing! plateaued in September. What growth Bing! has continues to be at the expense of Yahoo, rather than of Google. According to the Guardian, Twitter growth has stalled before, only to recover the next month. ...
Podcast Ep 108 – Packing for Vegas and Blogworld New Media Expo
So I thought it was a short show, but my small rant about getting business cards might have changed that. You should hear what happened when I took my business over to Fedex office. I also got my Google Wave invite this week. Try GoToAssist free for...
