Podcasting What Geeks Really Want To Hear

Episode 37 URLs & Notes (MP3) (AAC)

• Smackbook Update
  • ThinkPad using motion sensors
  • MacBook lightsaber
  • Karma-improved SmackBook
  • Keyboard/Backlight pulsing to iTunes
• GPS Enabled Camera
• Wireless for Canon Digital SLR cameras – $1000! (ouch)
• Google Likely To Buy Another Online Office App
  • Thumbstacks – Web Based Presentations
• Bill Gates Leaving Microsoft
  • Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft role
  • Bill Gates’ e-mail to employees
  • Bill Gates to leave Microsoft in 2008
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• It’s unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux
  • Microsoft Windows Embedded
  • Joshua Wright (bio)
• Alkyproject.com
• Leopard Screenshot hoax
  • “leaked” Leopard screenshots
  • OS X Leopard screenshots, actual screenshots
  • OS X Leopard screenshots, the jig is up…
• Some Free E-Books
  • Solaris to Linux Migration: A Guide for System Administrators
  • 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
  • $200 Billion Broadband Scandal (ebook)
    • Federal Excise Tax removed after 108 years
• FCC approves new Internet phone taxes
• MSN/VoIP Calling
  • Cool Uniden MSN Messenger phone that lets you make VoIP calls
  • Best Buy carries the MSN Messenger cordless phone for $99
  • Adium (Mac)
  • SkypeOut Free in the US (to US numbers)
    Asterisk PBX
• Miglia TVMicro USB TV – Review, Specs, Prices
• Want a 2.4Ghz spectrum analyzer? $100
• MONSTER laptops — think 20″ screen with dual video cards…
  Osborne Portable Computer
• Hiding images in audio (Spectrogram/Sonogram)
  Coagula

NetCraft article quite interesting.

NetCraft is reporting that they have a 6 way tie for most reliable hosting provider for May with 4 of them being hosted on FreeBSD. To round out the top 6 was two Linux-based hosting providers.

Interestingly, if you dig into the stats further, out of the top 50 they measure, there were only 7 FreeBSD hosters total, with the large majority being Linux.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/usb- … -children/

MSDN blog post on how to make Windows Notepad do something funky…

It really works…or doesn’t work, depending on how you look at it…