Aussie Geek Podcast #015 :: Three Blokes
This week Cait could not make it but we got a ring in at the last minute with a great story to tell.
This week was the week from hell for Dave and you can hear all about it in this weeks show. As you can see our efforts to get the show shorter have failed in a big way, but we hope that you like it anyway!
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Show Notes
Welcome
Tech News
- Internet Stats for 2008
- Apple Prints Money in 2008
- Microsoft Feels the Heat
- Twitter’s New Limits
- Two Contenders for this Years Darwin Award (Transformer Pic that we mentioned)
The Break
- Story about Tim’s Brush with legal action
- The Blog Post that Started it All: Tweet Tornado - DO NOT WANT
Applications
- Comodo Registry Cleaner: Clean up that messy registry and prolong a rebuild
- Cookie Monster (sorry used the wrong name in the show): Manage cookies from all browsers in one place
- Virtual Box: Cross platform Virtual Machine
We also mentioned PhotoRec data recovery software during the show this week
Firefox Extension
- TwitterEyes: Make that tweet as short as possible
iPhone App
- Twittelator Pro: Killer app for serious twitter addicts
Sites and Services
- CopyGator: Find out who or what is using your RSS feed for good or bad
- The Best Robots of 2008: Great post full videos of the best tin cans of 2008
Feedback
Farewell
Featured Music
My Fiction
“Go” (mp3)
from “Your Tokyo”
(Sugar Rush - Sol Records)
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Hey
You guys are really pushing them out now. Unfortunately i haven’t been able to listen to the last few because I’ve only had access to dialup, but I should get back into listening to them once I’m back at uni.
Keep up the great work as always.
zygurt
Next time you guys should let Tim out of the can you stuck him in…
Re Tweet Tornado; Yeah, like we need more spam on Twitter. It’s a spam tool, man, no matter how much you sugarcoat it and claim you’re feeding your family. Spammers are the lowest form of Internet life, and those who help spammers are lower.
I wanted to leave you this link; http://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/
And say, “Go Giant Robot, Go!”
Great show again guys, even with Tim in the can! Just on registry cleaners and cookie management, and you did mention it Dave, I really think you can’t go past CCleaner. Before cleaning, it makes a registry backup first but I’ve never had to resort to restoring this. The cookie manager also allows you to selectively keep the cookies you want (under Options, Cookies).
Why cant twitter be distributed like laconi.ca and irc ?
I guess Eric it would not be twitter then eh?
Dave, true… it would be a modern messaging service rather than some web servers with APIs.
hahah!
btw - you’re probably nat’ed when connected to 3G which provides an nice layer of obscurity to people trying to root mobile.
ps - “commode cleaner” would be a great name for a windows utility!
pps - femtocells coming to many countries this year!
TweetTornado only adds followers, People have to click on the page and choose to follow someone so
there is no spam involved, only optin marketing. The only people who receive anything are the people who follow and give permission. Everyone needs to realize this is not like a typical spam tool. This is permission based optin marketing! And if twitter would quit shutting the accounts down for no good reason then the software wouldn’t have to create unlimited accounts anymore. I don’t see how this software is bad for twitter, anyone can do the same thing without software the difference is this software saves you alot of time following people.
So to all you people who think I am wrong, ask yourself this question…
If a person must willingly choose to follow me and it is also their choice to click on my link to see whatever I am offering to “help” them, Then how could this be considered spam?
P.S. thanks to the blog owner for advertising my service, I’m getting lots of new customers now.
Admin: All links to this service have been removed and the prestigious Super Douche Bag Award has been given for quite possibly the FAIL comment of the year
TweetFart said:
I don’t see how this software is bad for twitter
That is why you fail.
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Opt-in marketing / spam. You’re playing semantics. The fact is your methods are against Twitter’s terms of service. Refer to the section on “Serial Accounts” here. I suggest you take it up with Twitter not us.
However as being against the rules, it’s also against the spirit of Twitter. I’d be surprised if you found any supporters of your piece of software in the Twitter community.
That I doubt. Anyone who reads this blog and listens to the podcast is most unlikely to become a customer.
Lol, the Douche Bag (well SUPER DOUCHE now) even posted exactly the same thing on my blog over at http://www.regravity.com -
Here is my response (from my blog):