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The Geekcast #48

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Tech news:

iPod shuffle appears at Shopping.com Apple has been rumored to be introducing new products in France within a few weeks. The beans have already been spilled, as shopping.com has a 4-gigabyte iPod shuffle already on their website. Sporting product number 25150107, the player already has four reviews. A price is not known or displayed.

DVDShrink is no more. The much-talked about utility for backing up your DVD’s is now gone. DVDShrink, was a favorite program of many people out there and was featured on a few episodes of The Geekcast. No reason was given as to why the website was taken down, but other sites have sprung up to mirror the final version that was released.

Call For Help returns to American TV. Leo Laporte announced on thisweekintech.com that G4 has purchased the show for air in the US. The posting goes on to say “it’s really more like the Screen Savers of old than Call for Help used to be, especially now that Kevin Rose has agreed to appear on the show twice a week. We’ll get Patrick up to Toronto, too, I promise.” Starting August 29, Call For Help will be on G4 weekdays at 11a Eastern/8a Pacific and weekends at 6 and 7a Eastern.

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Interview: This is part one of two with my interview with Amber Macarthur and Mike Lazazzera of CommandN. To learn more, check out http://www.CommandN.tv

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How To:

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Ask A Geek:

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Hack:

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The geek’s view:

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