Podcasting What Geeks Really Want To Hear

Windows 7 to have 20 editions

Haha - pretty funny.

I like Pirated Edition. ;-)

This wiki page describes an easy process (still in alpha and invite-only) in which to install Boxee, an open source media player, on an Apple TV.  With it, you can watch many more media formats than Apple TV currently supports - mainly DivX and Xvid files (which should be supported but aren’t).  This “hack” would effectively make the Apple TV into a much more generic network-attached media box, which is something I’ve been wanting for a long, long, time.

Hello all,

I’m just playing around with my new iPod touch (including the spell correction feature while I type). It’s quite the little unit.

I do have a few bitches, though.

1) I bought a brand new iPod touch, but it didn’t come with the latest firmware. You gave to shell out an extra $10 to get the “apps” feature. I actually called Apple and bitched, but all I got was a support specialist who agreed with me.

2) Once you do upgrade, the apps are awesome (including the free WordPress plugin I’m using right now). However, there are big problems with the apps. They take forever to install and make iPod backups horribly slow (like HOURS long)

3) The apps crash often - usually locking up the iPod. I guess it’s still a bit more beta than I was hoping.

All in all, I’m very happy with it though. The “Remote” app is awesome. Also the “SimpleMedia” app let’s you stream from your computer to the iPod - VERY cool! There are a ton if other cool, fun, and useful FREE apps - and the number is growing everyday.

— Nem

After reading the new campaign that Microsoft launched, they are such tricky champs, Oh my! They persuaded me, I’m installing Windows Vista Now… NOT!

http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/

I mean, could you refute the lack of excitement these ‘test subjects’ showed. After all they didn’t even touch the workstation for what I could see, and the whole test was more of a presentation or non-hands-on demo. If you add a rattling noise or a cricket at any point when they’re made aware it is Vista what they’re experiencing, it could not have been more appropriate.

In any case, I think they should think about naming their experiments and the outcome carefully. Or some may say “The Mojave Experiment was a success, it feels arid, not much too see or feel there, Vista will leave you feeling like you’re… in a desert.

And I am not alone with this sentiment of failure, read this post at Microsoft Watch: Why the Mojave Experiment Fails

Check out VirtualBox from Sun.

Of course, being a Solaris junkie, I’m excited. This has been out for awhile, but it hasn’t received much press. I’m installing Windows right now on my Solaris machine at work. So far, so good. I don’t care if it’s going to be all that slow, it’ll save me time from dual-booting in the long run. Plus, I can install the various Linux distros I need to work with as well. Very nice!

Oh, yeah, and its free.

Web apps are really coming into their own these days, the most recent example I’ve seen being 280 Slides. It’s a web-based app that is a clone of looks a lot like Apple’s Keynote. One of the principal innovations is in the implementation:

The most amazing thing about this is happening under the hood: the developer wrote a library that abstracts browser rendering engines using Canvas, SVG and Flash (on a per-need basis) into a unified language – Objective J which is – as the name suggests – a mapping from Objective C to JavaScript.

Neat.

We had an audio problem, but we did get a new episode recorded last night! I’ll be editing it as quickly as I can to get it out to everybody!

Forget about all that 3x vs 32x data over-write crap to make sure your data is deleted. Get one of these.

The best feature… an emergency hand pump allowing for operation when the power is cut to your building and the ninjas are about to get your drives. :)

Does the Web 2.0 benefit only the tech elite?

Gawker.com: Does Web 2.0 Benefit Only the Tech Elite?

Original article

This was interesting in that the blogger points out that we’re so quick to adopt new technologies and new ways to use the Internet, ie Web 2.0, that we’ve caused issues with consuming the tools we have that more tools get invented to handle the new tools. Maybe we should figure out how to fully utilize the tools we have rather than getting invested in creating yet another tool…maybe I’m just old fashioned and think getting a job done well, rather than finding a new job when life gets tough, has some merit.

In other news:

Apple Air vs. Lenovo ThinkPad X300

Finally, someone uses Apple’s advertising against them, to their advantage…

Hello all,
Thesis defense is completed (successfully)! I still have paper edits to do, but we’ll be starting up the podcast again shortly. I hope we still have a few fans who have stuck with us. :)