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April 2005

163 posts

Blame Canada for Taxing Your iTunes

"While Canadians have battled against an iPod tariff for more than a year, now comes news that Canada's copyright collectives are seeking a tariff on iTunes as well. Professor Michael Geist (who last week dismantled music industry claims about peer-to-peer) reports that one collective is demanding an incredible 25% of the gross revenue of music download services as well as

Geek News Central #57 2005-04-19

This was a tough one folks running on very little sleep. I had a very late night last night and got started very late tonight. If you have not participated in the survey please do so here. GNC-2005-04-19.mp3 GNC-2005-04-19.wma GNC-2005-04-19.ogg GNC-2005-04-19.torrent [ADV 8:48 www.msmobiles.com] Please Visit the Tech Podcasts Network Intel WiMAX Adobe Buys Macromedia! Apple Final Cut Studio Pro!

Make Magazine has a Podcast and Phillip Torrone is back!

Well I am glad to see Phillip is back in the podcasting business. If he does one too often some of are going to loose some listeners :) If you all did not hear my raving review of Make Magazine you have to trust me on this one. This is the Geek Magazine of the year. You will not throw

Apple Unveils Final Cut Studio

Steve Jobs called 2005, "The Year of HD Video Editing" With the arrival of Final Cut Studio, announced Sunday at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, he is holding true to his word. The editing suite consists of Final Cut Pro 5, Motion 2 (a real-time design engine), Soundtrack Pro, and DVD Studio Pro 4. Thats a

Call for Editors looking for a Extreme Windows User

Do you have what it takes to talk about the best things Windows has to offer. Are you ready to help launch this site into our new phase of development. We are looking for hardcore Windows users to help contribute content here at Geek News Central. Drop me a e-mail if your interested and include a link to a site

Hello from iVeronica

Hello to all you wonderful Geeks! Todd has given me the opportunity to contribute to Geek News Central, and I'll be mainly posting about the latest Apple/Mac news. I'm also going to try and convince Todd to get a little more use out of that Mac Mini of his! A little about me: * I am diehard MacGeek, and prone

Do you keep your passwords in a document file on your computer?

First of all if you answered that question as yes then you need to smack yourself with a baseball bat. If you have them in an encrypted file don't tell me it's the password protection on a word document! Better yet are you carrying your passwords on a piece of paper in your wallet. I bet about 50% of you

Need some bandwidth borrow it from the neighbors WiFi

If you have not secured your Wifi you probably will after reading this. For what it's worth I am so cautious about my Wifi it is on a timed switch. I know that I am only gong to be home and have programmed it accordingly. It's secure but I still shut it off when not in use. [Robert Cringley]

Seagate has 120 Gig Drive for Laptops

Oh that is just music to my ears, until I look at the specifications for it. Love the size hate the speed. The question is now how fast can I get one and will my laptops bios like it. I have always banged my head against the wall when it comes to laptop hard-drive capacities. A few years ago I

Adobe to Acquire Macromedia

According to a press release on both Adobe and Macromedia's websites a deal has been struck for $3.4 billion dollars. My questions are, “What’s going to happen to Dreamweaver? Will it turn into a GoLive? Will the Macromedia Suite just disappear? Will Adobe just grab Flash and kill the rest?From the release: The combination of Adobe and Macromedia will provide

Science is decoding the Classical Holy Grail

So what do you do with 400,000 scraps of Papyrus that has ancient wittings on them that have up until recently been un-readable. Those of you that a history buffs are going to want to read this. [The Independent]

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