From the archive

June 2005

131 posts

Air Conditioning Innovation of the Year

You can build anything with some junk you find laying around that is what my Grandfather tells me. After seeing what length some very cool innovators went to for a little cool air. You just have to love the spirit behind this. [Not your Mom's A/C Unit]

Trade Broadcast Flag for Fair Use?

Honestly folks a Congressman Boucher actually suggested Trading Broadcast Flag for getting some of Fair Use rights back. What is sad is that he is typically on our side. I am of the opinion that it is just time to route around all of the groups that are itching to take control of all of the content you consume in

Skype taking a bite out of real company phone bills

Seeing that I have started a company this year and we are trying to make sure this ones stays in th black from the start, everyone is using Skype as much as possible. Chantal has a Skype Account with Voice mail I have a Skype In Number along with Voice Mail and I spend a lot of hours on Skype

People’s Choice Podcast Awards Nominations are Open!

Nominations are open for the People's Choice Podcast Awards. A lot of work has been put forth to get the site ready and foot work by Chantal to try and secure sponsors. Their are still sponsor spots available. Contact podcastawards@gmail.com for info. Please support those companies that have sponsored the awards and visit the sites of those that have donated

Copy Protected CD’s are Worthless

What is it going to take to get the music recoding and production industry to wake up. After all how many people actually listen to an actual CD these days. My 99 disk CD player was sold at a garage sale several years ago, and the only thing I play now is music from the file server in my office

Free Music and Video’s for AOL customers

Do I smell desperation is AOL so desperate to retain customers that they are now going to give away all the music and video's it's customers can consume.. Lets think about it this way I subscribe to AOL and I tear up all kinds of bandwidth downloading music and videos 24/7 do they really think they can make money on

Yahoo buys dialpad!

Rumors last leek led to speculation that Skype was being purchased by Yahoo, today it was announced that Yahoo purchased dialpad a relative unknown VOIP service. I am hopeful that Skype will not be purchased by Yahoo. Considering all of the quality employee's they have sucked out of Redmond recently the rumor last week did not make sense. [Yahoo]

Geek News Central Podcast #73 2005-06-14

We have a great promotion for show 75, 2 listeners a man, and a woman will get free podcast hosting for 1 year including domain registration and setup of your website so it is Podcast ready. You have to send a e-mail to geek@geeknewscentral.com and tell me what kind of podcast you want to create and what your show is

Scientist find earthlike Planet!

If you call a planet that is a toasty 400F earthlike, and only 13 light years away, I guess it's not to far off as far as Space Travel goes. To bad we did not have the Enterprise all fired up we could zip over their in a hurry and take a look. Better yet isn't it about some Aliens

PodcastAwards.com nominations start June 15th!

The 2005 People's Choice Podcast Awards, nominations start on June 15th it's going to be a wild ride. Site is already seeing 20,000 unique page impressions a day. [PodcastAwards.com]

DirectTV breaks some TiVo’s

Unlike computers when DirectTV wants to upgrade your box they just force the download on ya and install it automatically. Apparently their last update broke some TiVo's and the conspiracies are flying. [Wired]

IE key developer will be speaking at Gnomedex

Unless Dean Hachamovitch is coming to tell us how Podcasting is integrated into IE at Gnomedex, I think the speculation that Microsoft will be announcing how they have seen the light on Podcast and will have a product ready for us next week is probably not going to happen. But what does the addition of this keynote speaker mean. Could

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