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October 2004

101 posts

Fry’s Electronics

This is not a Paid Advertisement but is my personal endorsement of Fry's Electronics A co-worker of mine drove up to Fry's Electronics in Dallas Saturday. For those of you lucky enough to be within driving range of a Fry's consider yourself lucky. I visited their Austin location 3 week's ago and like that store better. But if you are

Geek News Central Podcast Production Gear

We did some bargain shopping this weekend to get some basic tools to help us produce the Geek News Central Podcast. This is the equipment I will use at home. 1. Eurorack UB802- 8 Channel Mixer (Info) 2. Microphone Stand $9.95 3. MXL Condenser Microphone 990 Series (Review) 4. iPod 5. Home Grown Pentium IV PC motheboard mounted Audio Card.

Geek News Central Podcast #7 10-31-04

Great show for you we are using some new Audio gear to improve the quality. Time to in the can 55 minutes considering the Podcast is 40 minutes this is really good. Enjoy and John Dvorak if your listening make sure you listen to this one :) GeekNewsCentral-103104.mp3 All of the music on this show is featured at Garageband.com Geeks

The Ultimate Smackdown “John Dvorak body slams Geek News Central Podcast”

I am formulating my response, but what a way to get noticed. All I can do is smile at this point. Obviously John my voice is quite unique. [John Dvorak] Update: My goal with the show was to get as much content out as possible and not spend 10 minutes wasting time talking about myself. Thus I put the content

The TV Revolution is upon us!

Cold beads of sweat are forming on the brows of Television Executives and Cable companies throughout the world, over a device that has been designed that allows those on a broadband connection to stream TV shows from a PC to anyplace in the world. A inventor by the name of Ken Schaffer has a custom PC that is streaming TV

RIAA putting the screws to another 963 File Traders

The RIAA has once again turned their lawyers loose, and are going after another 963 users of P2P networks. Does anyone have any info on what networks they are targeting or are they spreading the filth equally across the various sharing networks? What is not publicized is how many others they are targeting outside of the P2P Networks. [The Register]

Is the PDA headed for extinction?

I must admit that the PDA I bought last year was a complete waste of my hard earned dollars, I should have known better. My laptop is with me at all times and the few times it wasn't the iPAQ was in the bag with the computer. I usually use the PDA to play solitaire on airplanes. I know I

Nominate us for 2004 Best Tech Blog via Techweb.com

We did not even hear about this contest until today, and it is very late in the game for nominations. If you want to give us a plug and nominate us to compete in TechWeb's best technical Blog contest we sure would appreciate your support. [Nominate] [TechWeb]

Photo Story 3

Microsoft has released for FREE a pretty nice photo story package that several sites are raving about. They have one little catch in that they require you to load some software that you may not wanted loaded on your PC. "You have to allow them to install an anti-piracy tool on your system. It's part of their Windows Genuine Advantage

Podcasting review on The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Dawn and Drew Show along with several others are features in the article. With the ground swell growing it will not be long before we see a avalanche of articles and individuals getting famous in a hurry. I am not so sure we are going to get famous, but show 6 has netted 1300+ downloads. "Are you all really

ICANN expands Top Level Domains

ICANN approved the use of two new TLDs .post and .travel. I can sort of understand the need to limit the number of domain extensions as many companies have to rush out and purchase all of the new extensions to cover their brand... [eWeek]

Court orders new protection for people being sued by the RIAA

I am trying to get clarification if this ruling is for the entire United States or just for residents of Pennsylvania. "Pennsylvania - A district court in eastern Pennsylvania has issued an order that will force the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to better respect the privacy and due process rights of people it has accused of copyright infringement.

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