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Podcast Nation is coming very soon. The website is http://podcastnation.blogspot.com
Old episodes of The Geekcast are coming back! Thanks to OurMedia.org, I am uploading all the old episodes of this show. Episodes 1-12 are currently back online and can be accessed on the websites. Also shows 29-31 are live as well, to satisfy everyone out there who wants to hear all of the Leo Laporte interview.
Do those ‘get things for free’ websites really work? Lets find out. If you would like to help, go here: http://www.macminis4free.com/default.aspx?r=182564 and sign up for a free trial. If I get 9 completions, I can “get a free mac mini”. Lets see if this works, and I will report on the progress on future editions of the Geekcast. Anyone who helps can have their choice of a GMail or Yahoo 360 invitation.
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Tech news:
Teen slain for his iPod. Two teenagers were under arrest Sunday on suspicion of killing another teen for his iPod portable music player, police said. An Apple iPod portable music player created a rift among teens ending in murder. The boys were facing charges of murder, robbery and weapons possession in the death of 15-year-old Christopher Rose, police said. Rose and three friends were harassed by a group of young men Saturday evening in Brooklyn, police said. Members of the group demanded Rose’s iPod and stabbed him twice in the chest when he resisted. The group fled, taking Rose’s iPod and a backpack, police said. Police also have reported a wave of iPod robberies on city subways, saying in April that 50 iPods had been stolen this year, compared to none over the same period last year.
Apple approaching 500 million songs. The music fan who purchases the 500 millionth song will receive 10 iPod,any model, a gold 10,000-song gift card for the music store, 10 additional 50-song gift cards to go with those iPods, and a trip to see Coldplay on its current tour, with front-row seats and “back-stage” passes.
Amazon.com is turning 10. Soon after Amazon.com Inc. debuted 10 years ago, Jeff Bezos and his handful of employees spent late summer nights packing books in a tiny warehouse, scrambling to ship a growing gush of orders. Today, the man who has grown accustomed to being hailed the king of Internet commerce runs a global powerhouse that did nearly $7 billion in sales last year, dealing in everything from banjo cases to wild boar baby back ribs.
Windows ‘Time to live’ shortens. The speed with which PC’s can become infected if not properly protected, will take 12 minutes according to London-based security company, Sophos. They have detected 7,944 new viruses in the first half of 2005, a 59% increase over the same time span last year.”
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How To: Introduction to RSS
RSS is all the rage right now, especially with the ever-growing popularity of podcasting. But what is RSS? How do you use it and what are the advantages?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a way to syndicate your website content so people can read it in a RSS reader, which can be convenient for them. The specification was adapted from Dave Winer’s Scripting News and Netscape’s RSS 0.91 and is maintained by an advisory board at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
RSS is a feed generated by the constantly changing content of websites like C|net, Slashdot, Digg, and many others. You can ‘subscribe’ to the feed and that in-turn adds it to your RSS reader. This makes for an easy way to read many websites at one time.
For an interesting list of things you can do with RSS check out http://timyang.com/wiki/doku.php?id=lists:thingsyoucandowithrss
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Audio Segment: Mac switch parody
Audio from http://www.happynowhere.net parody of the old Apple ‘switch’ commercials. This is a classic bit.
****Please note some of the audio is not work-safe due to one or two curse words.
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