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Phillip Zannini from MacPhilly Almost Live will be doing a podcast with me soon. More info to come.
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Tech news:
Michael Dell told Fortune magazine that he would be interested in becoming a switcher himself if the opportunity ever came up. “If Apple decides to open the Mac OS to others, we would be happy to offer it to our customers,” Dell wrote in an e-mail.
It’s a hypothetical reply to be sure, but Dell does relish the operating system diversity that his company provides. Dell ships its PCs exclusively with Microsoft Windows but does offer Red Hat Linux as well as Novell’s Suse Linux and NetWare in servers and some systems.
In a marketing tactic used primarily by spyware and adware companies, Google has begun bundling its Google Toolbar and Desktop Search software with the popular WinZip archive utility. The move comes as Google begins to expand its bundling effort with a number of leading software applications. WinZip quietly updated its download executable last week, which now weighs in at close to 4MB with the added Google tools. Users are given the opportunity to opt out of installing the Google software on the first WinZip setup screen; by default the tools are installed.
vSkype adds video and sharing to your Skype experience. Getting started is simple. Just connect a camera, download our free vSkype plug-in, and invite up to 200 buddies to a video call – even if they don’t have a camera. But wait, there’s more! You can also share anything you see on your screen, even your entire desktop! Whether you use Skype for business or to connect with family and friends, now you can show a presentation, work on a spreadsheet, or share photos of your weekend fun while seeing everyone on the call!
Apple Computer’s share of the flash-based digital music player market in the US has declined in recent weeks as lackluster sales of iPod shuffles are also threatening to drive down flash memory prices by as much as 40 percent. Weaker than expected sales of the shuffles has market sources wondering what Samsung Electronics will do with the large proportion of NAND flash chips it has allotted for Apple, according to DigiTimes. The overseas publication, which keeps a close eye on Apple’s Taiwanese component suppliers and manufacturing partners, cites unnamed sources who say sales of the digital music player are not justifying the supply forecasts for NAND flash that Apple has secured from Samsung
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How To: Put your popup blocker to the test
It seems that everyone these days uses a popup blocker or has a browser that has one built-in. Well now you can test your popups with popuptest.com
http://www.popuptest.com
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Ask A Geek:
This segment will return in a future edition of the Geekcast.
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Great wallpapers can be found at http://www.webshots.com
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