From the archive

October 2004

101 posts

Why Lawyers need a Geek on their research staff!

I think I should start advertising to do technical research for clueless lawyers when they are in over their heads. Seems the good folks at Rolex are worried about some spam e-mail's that is advertising "to good to be true deals" on Rolex watches. Their lawyers sent cease a desist letters to absolutely the wrong people. We all know you

Ringtones ringing in my head

I heard a ringtone the other day that was pretty good. Not knowing which band it came from I asked the owner of the phone what the name of the song was. I then proceeded to iTunes and bought the track. I guess this is the type of eCommerce free advertising the record companies are hoping for. I sure got

Read Geek News Central on your Favorite Online Site

Geek News Central has full RSS and ATOM feeds, thus you can read our content on a variety of sites and software packages. We encourage you to add us to your web based reading list. I have included links to add our news feed to your account at the following websites. Feedster (A Top 100 Subscribed Site) Yahoo Bloglines MyWireService

Geek News Central Podcast #6 10-27-04

Do I have a weird show for you tonight for those of you into UFO's we have a UFO surprise in this show that I hope you like. As always keep the feedback coming. We did some quick filtering for noise tonight let us know if the sound improved. GeekNewsCentral-2004-10-26.mp3 Tonight music on the show was all obtained at Garageband.com

Do not use a News Aggreator or iPodder in a Hilton Hotel

Seems Hilton Hotel chains are using a ISP service by a company called Greentree. They watch the outbound traffic of all guest connected computers. I have had intermittent problems with my connection just locking up. Turns out their monitor watches for too many concurrent connections and when a guest computer appears to be doing something it isn't supposed to it

Apple iPod Photo

Apple released the new iPod Photo with color screen and all of the capabilities of a standard iPod with the exception that users can now upload pictures into the newest model. Direct from the Apple Website: "A delight for the ears. A feast for the eyes. Though it

Why DRM is going to destroy Fair Use

You all know by know that HBO has encoded it's programing with DRM technology to restrict the recording of the data beyond the initial copy to your DVR or PC Based DVR. To get a full grip on why this is so bad and why HBO needs to be Boycotted read linked story in full. Even those of you that

Attention Music Artist

Tonight I sent out a total of 11 request to feature yours and other bands music on our Podcast. If you are checking out our site and have little or no information about the Creative Commons License I have included some additional information in the extended entry. We understand some of you may be under a recording contract with a

Some Podcasters are Killing me

Mini Rant: Their are some great Podcast out their but most of these guy and gals produce a show and then do not put any links on their site to the websites that they discuss. This is one of the top compliments we have been given in that we put links to sites we discuss. How in the world am

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