Aussie Geek Podcast #025 :: Listener Tribute 01
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Welcome
- Dave’s Trip to Sydney and Meet-Up on the 10th of July! DETAILS HERE!
Tech News
- Robot Designs [via Herne]
- Big Mess O Wires [via Herne]
- Twitter: Land of Sheep [via Tom125]
- 30 Years of GUI’s [TechAndLife]
- 13 Year Old Entrepreneur [via Herne]
- Be Careful with Those Happy Snaps [via Tom125]
- Nokia Contest for Developers [via EricSeale]
- Ultimate Curved Screen [via CableTie]
- Copyright 101 [via Herne]
The Break
Promo for the PhotoNetCast
Applications
- Image Resizer Powertoy Clone [via Matt88]: Open Source image cloning software that has been re-written to include 64 bit systems
- Locale [via EricSeale]: Android application that adjusts phone settings based on location
- Object Dock [via DavidMFyfe]: Dock that mimics a Mac (somewhat) great looks and functional
- Moovida Media Player [via EricSeale]: Great looking media player with awesome options for plug ins and web based content
Geek Project
- The Wall Mounted Mac [via Herne]
Sites and Services
- ToodleDo [via DavidMFyfe]: GTD solution with more options than you could ever need
- Montastic [via TechAndLife]: Website monitoring service with good options at a good price
Feedback
- Sneeze [via CableTie] oink! oink!
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I figured that @Cait would enjoy the bit about the robots.
Re “Big Mess of Wires”; Imagine you took your computer’s microchip out and magnified it thousands of times and you’d have something that looks like the “Big Mess of Wires.” It’s basically a recreation of the thousands of connections that occur inside a microchip, except it was all done by hand… and it computes! It’s pretty freaky.
Re 13-yr old Entrepreneur; I thought this was a cool story. I have to admire this kid and the work that he’s doing… He could be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, one never knows.
Re The Wall Mounted Mac; The reason the for the candle is similar to the reasons that XBoxes get the “red ring of death”–it’s the way the video chips are mounted to the motherboard. What it boils down to is the fact that manufacturers use tiny balls of solder to make the numerous connections it needs to the logic board. During normal operation of the machine, the chip will heat up and cool down and over time this causes fatigue on these solder joints, they get brittle and then they eventually fail. What the fellow was doing with the tea candle (and later using white alcohol spirits) was gently heating up the chip to the point that those little balls of solder would re-melt and it would reconnect the logic board to the chip. Too much heat and you fry the chip, though.
Re Object Dock; I think the word you were looking for was “magnification.”
Re 30 Years of GUI’s; I had GEOS for my C64, but it never worked properly for me, I think I had an early version of it. I can’t remember what I did with the floppy for it, I had it kicking around for the longest time. I also had a Commodore Amiga2000 using Workbench 1.3, which was a bit more advanced than the once shown. I also remember playing with an Apple Lisa and Visi Calc, although not on my own machines. I also remember a geek buddy going on about OS/2 when it first came out and how it would “revolutionize” computers…
Re Sneeze; Oh yes…very amusing.
Re the song; I think I chose this song because of the instrumental expertise more than for the words of the song. If you listen to the song itself, it sounds a bit disjointed. I’d rather hear the melody on it’s own, I think.
Samsung also has a dev contest running now. Perhaps more info here: http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/
The new touch devices run S60 5th edition. Examples are the 5800 which sells like mad in china and the new flagship N97 which is a bit underpowered and should be replaced by year end.
The sexy Samsung i8910 also runs S60 5th edition.
I’m looking forward to the Nokia 5530. No HSPA or GPS but I have an E71 and a “router” app for that. Man I love wifi!
I’m a 3 device guy.
Re:Japan… You’ll find despite the oddness of 1seg and MOAP-S that NTT and Softbank run standard networks. Softbank has an excellent device selection including iPhone, HTC winmo devices and Nokia S60 devices. Spectrum is always an issue but nobody’s more screwed that Americans. Such a clusterFK.
http://mb.softbank.jp/en/products/nokia/
http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/iphone_en/
More later, I’m still drying after an hour at the gym.
oh yea. Welcome back ya tossers!
hahaha
Welcome back Cait… but you’ve lost Keith…
Ugh - didn’t realise Windows had automatic updates. As much as I have faith in the great Apple, I have it set to download but not install in MacOS X, so I can shut everything down, do a full backup, and then install the updates.
Laughed at the “real traffic with real traffic jams” comment. Shame I won’t be in Sydney then. I wonder whether the elusive and enigmatic Herne will show up?
Loved Cait’s complaint about the twitter stats. Must remember to use “absolutely shitful” as an adjective at the next opportunity!
The 30 years of GUI thing took me back (well, not 30 years - I wasn’t using computers when I was a baby), but I remember playing with my father’s windows 3.1 machine, and the only PC I own is a pentium II running windows 95! They missed out Acorn’s RISC-OS though which was very advanced in terms of its GUI at the time in the early 90’s. It only really made traction in the UK educational market though. Pictures here: http://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/
ToodleDo looks good. I’m a loyal fan of Remember the Milk as they’re aussie developers and were ahead of the game when they started. Sadly not much in the way of updates recently. I’m also playing with Things, a Mac app. Lovely interface but not sure it’s worth the $60 price tag when the trial is over.
Great show guys. Sorry I missed it.
Thanks to everyone for the great content you all submitted. It provided some really good stories for the show!
@Tom: I’ve got my Windows Updates set the same. This way I can have it download things in the background and when I’m ready to do the install (and reboot) I can initiate it manually.
Gotta say, I don’t know if there is a correlation between the new format and frequency, but with the new format it seems now this is a once a month podcast? If so I prefer the old format!
Thanks Travis… Love getting belted when we are busting our arses to get anything done.
Truth is that we can’t get synced up to record, Keith was on holidays and Cait was AWOL with a stuffed computer. I have been shitfaced busy at work… Plus life, like the fact that we have had a death in the family and various other things that generally get in the way.
So no correlation… just the old “shit happens”
Keith and I are also working on a revamp of the site as well. Buggered if I know when we are going to get that done. We have sand boxed a new version and doing some testing thanks to KD.
The only thing I can offer regular listeners is; sorry…
No worries. As I said if the frequency of the shows coincided with the new format. If the reason was due to show structure, then I preferred the old structure.
But if its all real world shit, then so be it. Get it done, heads down and plump one up when your ready. Real life has a habit of sneaking up on you like that!