GNC-2008-12-23 #434 We have a winner!

December 23, 2008PodcastTodd Cochrane

We have a winner folks congrats to Matt Standley for winning the HP Magic Giveaway. I have a surprise for you at the end of the show tonight. Short show as I am in the process of fighting off a bad cold.. Enjoy!!

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Show Notes:
Chrysler Idiots!
VHS really RIP
OLED Christmas Tree
New Hubble Images
Roof Mapping by DOE
See any Rubber Ducks of Greenland
Maryland Students Playing with Fire
New Pidgin
RSS Feed for Favorite Shows
Christmas Bonus at Google not Cash
Blood from Mosquito gets man arrested
Dual Screen Laptop
Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo Test Flight
iPhone 3g Unlocked
Nanoparticles make teeth to slick for bacteria
Roundtrip with Endeavor
Paul your focus is way to narrow
Windows Live writer Review
Firefox 2 no more updates!
Extent of Checkfree.com hack exposed!
Books next on the Apple Ap store Hit List
Australia Net Filter full speed ahead
Carbonate on Mars
800 new domain name extensions?
Transition to Computer Based TV?
RIAA changes Tactics
Pressure for Windows 7 on the rise
ISS Spacewalk in Progress
Something has frozen over!
Roku to go HD
RIAA makes ISP’s be bad guys
Jupiter Moon makes an Apperance
ISP asks RIAA to pay them for Notice Deliveries

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Matt Standley Wins HP Magic Giveaway at Geek News Central

December 22, 2008InformationTodd Cochrane

HP-MAGIC We had 161,904 entries for the 8 ways we gave people to win the HP Magic Giveaway. Matt’s Winning Entry was on how he would Share the Magic was randomly picked by Random.org.

Here is the text of the email he sent to hpmagic@geeknewscentral.com on Dec 20th

“Todd If I were to win, I would give my mother and stepfather in Louisiana one of the new computers because theirs crashed and my stepdad was recently laid off from his job. I would give another one of the computers to my dad and stepmom here in Georgia because the computer they have now was bought at a refurbishment place for $150. I would give another computer, the printer, and the media connect to my fellow interns at the theater that I work at because we’re all just starting out in our careers and it’d be nice to share that with someone to help them along. I’d give Kung Fu Panda to my little brother and his friend. The only thing I would keep would be one of the the laptops, and the interns and i would share the photo pack so we could print out some headshots. Thanks so much! :-)”

Folks this is what sharing the Magic is all about! A huge number of people are going to benefit from Matt’s giving spirit.

I want to thank the thousands of people that entered to win the $6000.00 HP Magic Giveaway

24hr Podcast was a Huge Success

December 22, 2008PodcastTodd Cochrane

24hr I am still recovering from the 24hr Podcast as I type this. Being online 24hr and talking to over 30 guest during the period is enough to drain you. But I am very proud to say that we had according to ustream over 15,800 people check out the stream.

We raised well over $1500.00 for Disabled American Veteran once donations are totaled I will be sending money to www.dav.org.

We had no fewer than 100 people on the stream even at the latest hour. The video stream on ustream was solid from the tricaster to ustream for the full 24hrs. We had a few hiccups with Talkshoe but overall the event went well.

I have a pile of media to work over in the next couple of weeks and hope you will be patient as I push it out. All of the videos and media files will be put on the 24hrPodcast.com website in the order sequential order.

Big thanks to all the guest and special shoutout to Carey Holzman of ComputerAmerica.com that really helped in a big way for about 3 hours of the show as I hit the wall a couple of times.

All told I consumed 1/2 gallon of water, 1/2 gallon of iced tea and two red bulls. Needless to say I have probably drank another 1/2 gallon of water today to rehydrate.

Over 300gigs of video was recorded, 6 gigs of raw audio files. 400 new people are following me on twitter and over 1000 emails were sent in for participation in the HPMagic Giveaway over the 24hrs.

5 hardcore fans stayed with me the full 24 hours and countless others only missed by a few hours. I will cover more in Tuesdays podcast. But their is a treasure trove of material in the content.

RIAA to Cease Prosecution of File Sharers

December 21, 2008MusicMatthew Greensmith

The RIAA has decided to cease prosecution of file sharers directly, and instead force ISP’s to become the new copyright police.

The RIAA wasn’t even able to truly determine if people were sharing music, so a ginormous ISP is supposed to be able to figure it out?

I have BitTorrent loaded one one of my machines. I’ve used it to make large files of my own creation available to people who need it (most notably my work on adaptive technology) and used it to download similar materials. I’ve also used it to retrieve a working copy of software that I own but that the CD has been damaged.

Is ATT, my ISP, going to know I’m using BitTorrent legitimately, or are they going to assume that because my music library also exists on the same computer that is running BitTorrent, that I must be an illegal music file-sharer?

This isn’t helping anyone; the RIAA is just trying to find more effective means to catch people doing what may be legitimate work. It just gets scarier, doesn’t it? My BitTorrent machine is offline right now, not because of this, but because we are having new flooring put in the room where it resides. I’m debating on a complete uninstall of BitTorrent before I put that machine back on the network.

All set to Kick Off the 2nd Annual 24hr Podcast

December 20, 2008PodcastTodd Cochrane

As you can see the website has been transformed today to media central. Starting in a very few short hours. I kick of the second annual 24hr Podcast. With updated blogging post throughout the event.

Join me today for a event that will be talked about for months. Over 500 podcasters applied to be on the event. While I could not accommodate everyone we do have a open mic period for podcasters to come in and talk about their podcast.

See you in a few short hours.

Todd..

GNC-2008-12-19 #433 6 Ways to Win $6000.00 in Prizes

December 19, 2008PodcastTodd Cochrane

I have revealed 6 ways you can enter our contest to win $6000.00 in computer gear in the HP Magic Giveaway. The only way you can win is be listening to the whole show. The 24hr Podcast kicks off Saturday Morning Website will be update later today for the event!

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Show Notes:
IE is Dangerous
Kepler Spacecraft
44 Billion for Internet Infrastructure?
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Anti-Cancer
Lets buy a Shuttle
New York Google Earth Images Amazing
Motorola Freezes and Removes Benefits
First Real Flying Car
Gen X Not Watching TV
Resell MP3’s ?
Is Gmail Better?
Coast to Coast 3g Test
Special Santa Info
8 WordPress SQL Hacks
Used IT Equipment Sales Booming
100 Mindhacks
IE Patched for Critical Bug
Holes in Magnetic Cloke
Only in Japan
My Christmas Dream Item (Red)
Sony CES 2009 Packout
Keyboard Pranks
Spaceport for Virgin
T-Mobile No more Upgrade Cost
Build your own Rocking Gamer PC
RIP Macworld
Sprint 3G-4G
Google Fun Stuff
Are Bloggers Killing Big Shows
Facebook 600,000 New Users Daily
Apple iPhone Wi-Fi usage off chart
Burger King C&D
Cool Kid Cell Phone
Guilt Trip into Paying for Pirated Software
MPAA going after Websites

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24hr Podcast Participation Instructions

December 18, 2008InfoTodd Cochrane

24hr This years 24hr Podcast will largely be run the same way it was last year. There will be a live video stream from the studio here in Hawaii, and a way to Dial/Skype/Voip in and participate live.

We welcome anyone that wants to put the Streaming Video embed on their home page. Download the attached text file with the embed codes and add it to your website on Saturday Morning.

This is a Live and Interactive event so if you want to participate in the conversations taking place, and I encourage you to do so you will need to dial into the Talkshoe. The process is simple Signup for a Talkshoe.com account once you have done so. Dial the following number 724–444–7444 Call ID is 10832 followed by the Pin you were issued. A short instructional video is here.

The best way to experience this event is the video stream on one part of your screen and the live chat and discussion on another. I will have the audio from Talkshoe patched into the Ustream Video feed.

I will at times be moderating the audience. Here is the quickest way to get permanently muted during the event.

Call in from a party or public place, and have noise on your call.
Speakers on PC turned way up and causing a feedback loop.
Talking while you phone or mic is not muted to someone not on show!
Being a troll and self promoting every 2 minutes

Ways to never be muted

Use a headset

If you are a guest please be on the line 10 minutes early. Generally it takes me 2–3 minutes to switch over from segment to segment. If you do not show up we keep on moving.

Their are two sites that will have the stream by default here and at 24hrpodcast.com.

See you on Saturday!