Aussie Geek Podcast #008 :: Revenge
I had a great time editing the show this week. Recording the first show in the new office with my usual audio-up was awesome. What was even better was getting my own back.
For those that turn off at the start of the song, bad move. If you did not know we have a weekly bloopers segment. A tradition started by Keith and one that I am happy to continue, with pleasure…
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Show Notes
Welcome
Tech News
- Windows 7 slated for 2009
- Is that a Projector in your Pocket?
- WPA Busted (sort of)
- Street View Easter Egg
- Elections and Politics
- The Great Firewall of Oz
- Firefox Market Share
- Yahoo! Live is Dead
- Flickr Milestone
- iPhone Lock as Good as a plastic Bag
The Break
Applications
- Noteable: Software notebook replacement for those bits of paper
- Gmail Back Up: Does what it says but with a handy trick up it’s sleeve
- LastSharp: Download streaming music from Last.FM
- iSquint: Video conversion app for OS X — Convert videos to smaller, more compatible sizes
Firefox Extensions
- Juice: Highlight terms on a page and have this powerful sidebar app trawl for content from all over the web. Add videos to play later or images to save for reference. Do searches, discover deep links within content.
- The China Channel: Mimics what it is like to surf the net in China
Geek Project
Sites and Services
- Tabbloid: Wrap up your favourite feeds into a PDF for printing and reading
- Dynamic Periodic Table: Hard to describe but awesome (our pick)
Feedback
Farewell
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Featured Music
We are featuring a band for the next few weeks called Lizards from Afar. The first track we have form them is called Giant Robot. We thank “Sir Pent” for an into and an bit about the inspiration for the track. We would also thank the Lizards for their contribution to the show!
How could we say no to a band of self described Geek musicians!
Check out the Lizards from Afar:
- Get their Music from ReverbNation
- We are the Lizards from Afar Website
- Lizrads on MySpace
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Thanks guys!
I am waiting for a regular segment of the show called ‘A word from the Herne’.
Silly Raf, it’s “A learn from the Herne.”
Maybe… “Good luck from a Canuck”?
Or perhaps “A rant from my pa…” Hrm… No.
That song sounded much better in my head…
A couple points I should make;
I am not fixated on KD… I just needed another syllable in the song and the first thing that popped into my head was “great.”
And regarding the “crazy Belgian,” it’s not actually his own car.
I felt I should come clean.
I also have to admit that I was chuckling in my cube and people were beginning to wonder about me, but that’s not new.
I just have to mention that Scott Kelby, THE Scott Kelby who runs the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is blogging about Scott Sherman and Michael Stein’s new ‘cast on his blog. Scott was their first guest on the new show. Scott Kelby has appeared a couple of times on the DPS, and now he’s plugging the new Digital Photography Life ‘cast.
http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/2254#comments
Just had to say… Scott Kelby gets serious numbers of eyes on his pages.
Hey guys!
Haven’t listened to the show but thank god things are starting to get back to normal!
Great to see Cait back in form as well!
One small thing though, iSquint is a dead product, it will still work under leopard now, but its no longer being developed so its been dropped back to freeware.
It was a part of the software tree from Techspansion
“VisualHub, AudialHub, and iSquint have been discontinued.”
Check the link, its dead, but not all is lost, VisualHub and iSquint have both been resurrected in the form of FilmRedux and PunyVid. And both are OpenSource!
Both of them are in very early stages, but the alpha builds are already as powerful as their paid counterparts, and will be even more so once they are released.
The greatest loss in all this is AudialHub, it is fantastic for audio conversion.
Hopefully there will be another opensource revelation that replaces it!
Haven’t listened yet… you’re putting them out faster than I can listen now!
The iPod is primed and I’ll listen later in the week. Can’t wait! 
Dave (and the rest of the crew),
Thanks again for giving us another spin. Sorry for the bad choice of phrasing over on our blog. You guys obviously do one of the more “professionally produced” podcasts I’ve heard.
Keep in mind that I am just the stupid drummer and have little understanding of the production end. Hence my poor comment.
You guys have treated us well and I was an ass.
Sorry,
Sir Pent
Don’t sweat it Sir Pent. These guys appreciate your honesty though I am sure.
@Herne thanks again mate - as long as you did not get fired
Glad you were chuckling…
Seems that the bloopers are becoming quite a hit. Even the Lizards liked them. Let me know if they are too long and I can make them shorter, I just loved putting them together. Funny as hell - I am still laughing listening to them. I love this shit.
Thanks Tim for the clarification - Blame Keith for the link… plausable deniability.
Glad that we are choking up peoples iPods
We are yet to get any complaints about the length of the show - that still cracks me up, we should be. But every time we threaten to shorten it we get protests… Love your work everyone. Keep it coming!
I still feel bad. What I wrote was not the point I was trying to present or the thing I was trying to question. In retrospect, it was worded in an accusatory fashion which I didn’t really mean.
On a positive note, I think the other guys have learned something from the conversation it generated.
I, on the other hand, will continue to be an ass. I hope you understand…it’s just my way.
@Tim: I completely forgot to mention the dev status of iSquint… couldn’t find my notes at the time and was going from memory. It is available from some locales, I did have a link for a d/l source for iSquint and I’ll try to get that posted shortly.
@Sir Pent: That’s OK, Sir Pent, I have a colleague that’s a drummer and I often joke with him that all that banging has affected his cogitative abilities… to which he generally replies, “Oh yeah, F— you!”
Come to think of it I think there are four or five people at work who play an instrument in one band or another and I know for a fact that at least one of them does vocals… Maybe I should get them together into an office band? Hrm…
@Dave: No worries, Mate. It amuses me to amuse others. I’ve even had a couple people tell me via Twitter that I should do a comment in EVERY show… But I don’t think the pod-o-sphere is ready for that!
Re the length of the show: I don’t have any problem with it! I love the long shows when I’m banging away on my keyboard at work. As long as you’re having no bandwidth issues, I don’t see why you can’t keep them to around 90 minutes.
If only I could be more amusing in a smaller amount of time!
From memory 112, one of the few countries that it doesn’t work on is Canada:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number
It’s pretty cool, manufacturers make their phones to work/dial 112 without a SIM card and locked. Even better even if your carrier has no signal where you dial your phone will jump and get ANY signal it can and hook into it (good for non telstra users).
Keep up the good work.
great to hear dave back to his normal quality, also to have cait back is fantactic.
Typeing this from my new iPod touch haveing just listen to 008 loved the disclamer at the start of the bloopers. Keep up the good work
Frank
Great show again - Dave is back in full technicolour (or whatever the audio equivalent is) and Cait was there. Only KW missing or the Aussie Geeks would have been all present and correct. But we did have the Herne though, so that was good. Don’t worry about the length of the podcasts… I’m not trying to suck up here, but I could listen for hours.
PS - It was me with the old laptop on my fridge for a quick bit of email while my toast is cooking on the way out of the house in the mornings.
PPS - I’ve left a third iTunes review… the first two didn’t work or weren’t moderated for some reason. I wasn’t that rude.
Dave et al:
going to just type out a big blast here and not edit so apologies
The electoral process is a bit confusing. Its essentially a two-party system. They have primaries and from each party you have different candidates running for president. (the democratic primary and the republican primary) elections for these are run in each state each state has their own election (starting in Jan 2008 so the leadup is quite a long time -hence campaign weary) and whoever wins those primaries wins the nomination by votes (each state has a number of delegate votes) and in the conventions is where they choose the nominee (for each party).
So now fast forward to this summer - we know the nominees, and at this point is usually where the nominees select running mates. And from there it heats up (on an already campaign weary nation -esp since Hillary fought Obama to the bitter end) and on election night:
Everyone in the country votes including Guam (though they have no electoral votes) Each state has a winner and that winner wins that state’s electoral votes. (except Maine and Nebraska, where the votes are divvied up by congressional district) but anyway for example I live in Tennessee, and I voted for Obama, Tennessee had 400,000+ more votes for McCain than Obama, and so Tennessee’s 11 electoral votes went to McCain. TN is a “red state”
Here is where key states win and lose the election. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, etc etc. You have given red and given blue states like California will always go Blue - 54 electoral votes (or whatever I forgot its over 50) and so those key states are important for the Repubs to win in order to win.
You have situations in which people (Al Gore) win the popular vote but lose the election - due to the electoral votes.
Can you think of how different a place the world would be if Al Gore had won!? no war in Iraq! wow!
Anyway thats the short answer LOL!
-Chris
Hi Guys
Finally listened to the show. Enjoyed it as usual. Got a good laugh at daughs choice of language towards Sen Iodiotroy.
And hernes message, well what can be said!
Aha ! Keith was wrong !
There is another way to import all of your gmail messages into another account. Very easy. Take your OLD email account and enable POP3 for ALL messages , Next time the account gets accessed via pop3 , you can retrieve all the mails.
Next , go to your NEW email account to the pop3 plugin, this enables you tot pop3 ANOTHER account and pull the mails into gmail. So enter the credentials of your OLD email account and all the mails get pulled into the new account. It takes some time (it took 3 days for my 3 year old gmail box to be transfered to my new one) but it takes place behind your back so you dont even have to be logged on.
Tadaa !
Smart arse
Hey folks,
Just listened to the show and after playing about with the dynamic periodic table, I wondered if you’d ever run across the University of Nottingham’s Periodic Table of Videos.
http://www.periodicvideos.com/
great use of YouTube and a brilliant resource.
OMG : I just heard the Herne and his song. I nearly shit myself laughing in the car
“He thinks he’s a star” . Never had me mentioned in a song before. I LOVED it !
Btw : Since i figured out a way to transfer Gmail Emails .. cait now owes me money !
Knightwise: note the disclaimer at the start of the bloopers - same applies to you
@Rob welcome to the blog - been a while since we have had a comment from you. Thanks for the tip, I am about to check it out.