Aussie Geek Podcast

Welcome listeners to the AGP #35! Bit of a lag on this one between recording and posting. Dave is having a few issues with Work/Life balance…

But all that aside, here it is! We have some exciting news at the start of the show as well. Knightwise is off somewhere… doing unquestionable things to cows… well that’s our line until we hear different.

Keith is also AWOL this episode, but we figure he has a note and is excused. If you want to know why, take a listen to the AGP 35!

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Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

• John Stewart Has a shot at Apple Video is Here
• How Much Online Artists Really Make
• Choosing BOINC Projects
• World Community Grid
• Mainland China Service Availability for Google
• iPhone Soccer
• Mobile STOP Option for Aussies
• The “Other” Mobile OS’s

The Break

• Herne’s eBook Rant

Applications

• Ninite

Firefox “Hack” to put Facebook Chat in Your Sidebar Full Instructions Here

Sites and Services

• Free Documentaries: Watch free documentaries online anytime
• DealExtreme: Buy direct from China and save a bucket load
• Cell Size and Scale: Interesting flash thingy
• WizardRSS: Turn those blasted partial feeds into full ones

iPhone App

• ItWasYou written by @Tremers
• Hipstamatic: Funky old retro camera… for those that can remember Video Here

Feedback

Farewell

• Write us a review in iTunes
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• Join the AGP Forum
• Remember the delicious tag is #aussiegeeks
• Follow us on twitter

Featured Artist

Jordan Reyne (aka Adrienne Deezul in Second Life)

Track: Letters Home

Album: Passenger (2005)

You will need to head over to Jordan’s website to pick up the track and album for free but donations are warmly welcome!

This track is not podsafe but used with permission from Jordan Reyne, many thanks. You can also catch live music from Jordan Reyne in Second Life at Idle Rogue, if your interested please look up Cait and see can point you in the right direction. [Update from Cait: SLURL added - come and see Jordan live in SL, or if you're not on the grid, just buy all her albums!)

Listeners! That was just to get your attention.

Today we were planning to record a show - a Listener Contribution show, but we had to pull the plug. On taking a look at the feed for the tag #aussiegeeks in delicious we found that there was not enough to throw a show together. So rather than try and wing it we have decided to give everyone a week to go out and tag your news, reviews, sites, apps and absolutely anything else you think we should have a chat about.

I know it has been a while since a listener show so we understand that it might not be at the front of everyone’s mind. So I thought you might need a memory jolt.

Many thanks to the few items that were tagged, please keep it up. Be great to have too much content to sift through!!

So head over to delicious and use the tag: aussiegeeks

If your looking for an awesome sharing plugin for Firefox be sure to check out Shareaholic

It makes tagging stuff in delicious a piece of cake. Not only that it supports many, many other sites and services and browsers. Well worth the look. I have been using it for ages now and can’t live without it. Shareaholic is also regularly updated and can be customized to suit your needs.

Thanks in advance guys! Keep it rolling in.

Dave is back! Plus we have a full panel and then some. Find out how Knightwise has weathered the induced nuclear winter and much more. It is really great to be back after the forced break, nothing any of us had any control over.

This show we also welcome Kyle from Geek Tragedy Podcast to inject some personal experience into the iPad mayhem. We are really looking forward to the evolving landscape regarding the pointy end of the issues that the iPad ha brought forward, like eBooks! This is only the beginning.

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Show Notes

Welcome

Tech News

Part One: A chat with Kyle and crew

Part Two

• Office 2010 RTM (quiet “woot”)
• Grammar Update welcome to 2010 AP
• Google Cloud Print
• Indexing twitter - Use this Example to Get You Started: Android
• Google’s Follow Finder
• Library of Congress to archive your tweets
• Official twitter figures
• Twitter acquires tweetie
• Wordpress Boffins Announce VaultPress
• I bet we can make you wish you lived in Hong Kong

Feedback

Many Thanks to Our Email Contributors; Michael and David

Farewell

• Write us a review in iTunes
• Follow us on twitter
• Join the AGP Forum
• Remember the delicious tag is #aussiegeeks
• Follow us on twitter

Featured Music

We Were Promised Jetpacks
“Ships With Holes Will Sink” (mp3)
from “These Four Walls”
(Fat Cat Records)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
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More On This Album

Welcome to another episode of the AGP. We would also extend a very warm welcome to listeners joining us from GEEKDAD. Great to be a part of that awesome list of geeks!

This show sees us short a few hosts and an unfriendly Skype. But we are plugging on to bring you the usual does of sites services and apps.

Sorry about the delay in editing, Dave had a few medical complications

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Show Notes

Welcome

Sites and Services

• Advertt: no not an ad service but an online dictionary combining the search of multiple sites
• Flame: Create some great flame art using a very clever online service, one aptly named
• EasyPrompter: A teleprompter for the masses, including a portable version
• Chatrulette and TinyChat Next: Meet random people for web chat, kinda creepy
• YouTube Speed History: Get your stats on how you perform with online video from YouTube
• Video Game History Timeline: The history of video games in a timeline format
• Fav4.org: Super simple start page with your choice of 4 places to go, geek shortcuts
• PDFmyURL: Turn a web page into a PDF Download to read anywhere
• twitcritics: Get simple movie reviews with data scraped from twitter, lazy web at it’s best

Promo Spot: Podcasters’ Emporium

Applications

• Start-Q: Customize applications at start up every which way
• PDFBinder: Bundle PDF’s into one file (remember all those web pages you saved?)
• SpeakerShare: .exe file that makes it possible to stream audio from one PC to the other

iPhone App Review: PhotoShop iTunes Link

Late Entry: The Nethernet is back - previously reviewed as pmog

Feedback

• Talking Shop Downunder

Farewell

• IRC Network: freenode.net put irc.freenode.net into your client
• IRC Channel: #binarybar
• You can join with a client or try out the Web Version Here

• Write us a review in iTunes
• Follow us on twitter
• Join the AGP Forum
• Remember the delicious tag is #aussiegeeks
• Follow us on twitter

Featured Music

Ride Your Bike
“The Connection” (mp3)
from “The Connection”
(Deep Elm)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at Amazon MP3
More On This Album